Beginner Exercises | Part 12 | Hard Surface Modelling 7 | Blender 2.8

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Easy and simple beginner exercises to help you understand the different ways of modelling shapes in blender and any other 3d modelling programme. These exercises are designed to build up your skills progressively and slowly get tougher each time until you have more advanced blender skills. this time focusing on cutting out shapes and refilling. also looking at mean crease and support loops
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[@sdrawkcabdaernacuoy]

I'd like to think I'm no longer a beginner, but I consistently learn new things by watching your beginner videos. I've never thought to restrict an axis while snapping to a vertex. That is so useful! Thanks!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks

[@igloo5804]

Thank you for all the hard work you're putting into these videos, a lot of people would be clueless on a lot of things if it weren't for them.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks

[@Fludd-Stop]

I'll be real, I struggled a lot with this particular one, but I'm honestly grateful I did because even though this one is supposed to be a "step back" from the last one, I'm really happy you revisited a lot of the techniques in the earlier tutorials because I still have trouble wrapping my head around them. 3D modelling is proving to be extremely, extremely tough for me as a beginner, but I'm constantly learning and improving my understanding of topology with each of these tutorials! Thank you!!

[@nasaeyong]

I can't appreciate your course enough, your teaching style is the best

[@richeeze]

The snapping to vertexes & stuff is really usefull, thanks Grant! ;)

[@MikoAsuke]

Honestly, I HAVE LEARNED A LOT, even from just creating random things like in the tutorial. I have been following the series since last week, and there are small/minor things that I never knew were possible to do that has a big impact in modelling. My goal is to create game assets, especially weapons, and this series is giving me the basics without leaving me confused. I have tried other beginner series, but this one's my favourite!

[@Murraythis]

All this time I've been moving the 3d cursor as a reference, could have easily just snapped by vertex! Great videos, thank you so much for the time you've put into them.

[@LadMes]

The last one was easy for me because of the homework you gave us in part 9. I've made cut in bishop the same way. It took me some time to figure out (without any hints), but this was definitely worth it to spend time on that task. Many thanks to you.

[@antonmelnyk3740]

Quick and helpful tutorials. Learned a lot from watching your videos.

[@grabbitt]

Glad you like them!

[@victorcaach2360]

Jaja, justo cuando pensé que estaba por terminar la serie, aparece un nuevo video, es de las pocas veces que me da gusto tener mas por hacer. Como siempre agradezco el esfuerzo, Grant.

[@grabbitt]

Gracias por tus amables palabras

[@barryhindmarsh4007]

At 15:00 for the extrusion in the back, I used a slightly different method. I deleted the end face then extruded the top ones down, deleted the new extra un-needed face. Scaled in the Z to 0 then added some new control edges along the sides.

[@blender3dcreate347]

Thank you so much for this series, Grant.

[@grabbitt]

My pleasure!

[@pruntyportraits]

Great exercise and very well explained. I learned so much, especially growing my understanding of proximity loops. This was challenging to my skill level but I pushed on and hopefully leveled up. Thanks!

[@waleed6354]

thanx sir..learnt a lot from you..learning from you atleast made me able to apply for a job...love you

[@giorgion9116]

Thank you Grant for sharing your experience in hard surface! Mastering creases is very important theme for me.

[@grabbitt]

My pleasure!

[@multiengineer9199]

It's not only helpful but superb too. Thanks

[@exploring2351]

I am very thankful to you for making this series, very thanking,

[@chrisp.401]

14:50 you can add proximity loops externally and use Extrude Manifold on the inside, then align them on Z axis, move down, and merge the sides of proximity loops with the falloff. Quite neat.

[@Urza26]

I just learned a really useful trick that replicates the manifold extrusion or what Grant here did with the second exercise. What you do is put snap on vertex. Then enable auto merge under the options at the workplace settings tab (wrench icon on the right). Then just extrude onto the place you want. Just remember to delete the faces inside the mesh afterwards! I find it easiest to just selectively hide some faces to "get to" the faces hiding in the mesh.

[@helziephoton]

Love this series thank you so much 🙂

[@eight008]

The Grand Grant! Thank you!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@CBSuper]

Brilliant series! Cheers!

[@m0nologger]

quick note about using bevel instead of inset: if you set the bevel profile to 1, the angle itself will stay at 90° while adding new supporting loops around it.

[@grabbitt]

good point

[@gabrielalmeida8853]

Amazing content, man! You are the best!

[@grabbitt]

I appreciate that!

[@junyoungmin545]

It’s just CRAZYEEE!! Helped me soooo much!👍

[@Hud_Adnan]

Great series from a great instructor 🌷

[@grabbitt]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@carodan1]

Nice tutorial. So important to understand how various topologies influence the final outcome of a model. One thing I think would be useful in these vids is to start to consider the final intent or use of models with respect to how they're made - is it for use within Blender or export to a game engine etc. Do techniques like mean crease export to other platforms etc? Maybe a topic for a future video.

[@grabbitt]

yes i may well go into that

[@wesselgeldenhuys6103]

Nice little home with a swimming pool infront @12:20

[@anthony.brault]

This was super helpful, thank you!

[@jonathanwalsh1206]

I'm digging using loops as structure rather than sharpening edges

I just finished the last exercice 2 days ago… thank you….

[@simoncodrington]

Awesome video mate, cheers for the lessons :)

[@grabbitt]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@zadokallen7640]

Amazing work!

[@AdnanKhan-yk6yi]

You are amazing 😍😍😍😍.....

[@minot0_]

Ooey new level

[@antonshakhovnin]

I used a cilinder to cut out this shape in last part using boolean modifier, and spent an hour afterwards trying to restore decent topology... Well, now i know how to do it faster XD

[@stoopidbastid6420]

Good day sir. Great tutorials and i thank you. Can you do one for procedural metallics? I saw the one with the knife. The model was very nice. You may have already. Im still trying to catch up. Thanks again.

[@bryneshotit]

Thank you for your awesome videos

[@grabbitt]

Glad you like them!

[@emiliianesterovych3196]

Thank you!

[@acemax5248]

Hi, Thank you for your grate tutorials, I'm getting more confident in modeling doing this "Get Good" series, thanks again. I have a question, I'm trying do the exercises in blender 3.0 and in 8:20 you deleted the faces and extrude some edges to create the model, but now in version 3.0 of blender we have a tool called "extrude manifold" which will help us in these situations, is that right?

[@grabbitt]

I can't remember that well. But there are often lots of ways to do these things👍

[@monas1510]

When you did the F,F,F instead of selecting 2 edges and F... I felt like I finally managed to scratch my back just right...

[@AM-yk5yd]

Had some strange issue with smoothing in current version blender. it looked like blender doesn't always recalcs smoothing: there were times when I had autosmooth one, then I removed its modifier, chose flat smooth, chose auto smooth again, and shading changed(I slid verticies around). Also I had strange pinching at "igloo's" rear. It went away when I extruded plane a little back, so subd had a place to scatter vertices around or something.

[@ahmedhisham484]

@15:25 why did you dissolve the edge when you could fill it just fine?

[@grabbitt]

Can't remember🙂

[@RemyDrijkoningen]

Hi Grant, I wondered when you export a model (for example in FBX) is the "edge crease" data something that gets exported as well and usually well understood in other 3d software/engine? Or does it need to be baked in some ways into a resulting "standard" mesh before export, and how?

[@grabbitt]

It would have to bake it so it's not efficient for games

[@chrisclay9704]

hi grant, really enjoying this series. Just one thing, when you say quads, do you mean shapes that are obviously 4 sided or all shapes that are 4 sided. i.e. is it ok to have a triangle that has a cheeky 4th vertex in there or does it need to look like a square or trapezium

[@grabbitt]

see my video on quads tris and ngons but basically yes its ok

[@parallax3808]

great!

[@Outmind01]

I have to admit that this was a tough one. The main "problem" I'm having with these tutorials is that there's more than one way to do it. If I do it differently than you and get a similar result I have to frequently come back and copy your work for the next shape since the topology doesn't align. Then there's the "why couldn't I think of that?" mindset that can sometimes become a drag... That being said, the exercises are helpful and you get to learn something with each step. The second to last one was the toughest, but doing it gave me the tools to finish the last one without getting stuck and watching the solution, so your teaching methods must be working! Here's the shape: i.imgur.com/6bywLZ8.png

[@grabbitt]

Nice

[@JacobKinsley]

Can you make a vertex group for creasing so you an easily select them if you want to change the crease later or because it's "vertex" group does it not work on "edge" crease and mess up the selection?

[@grabbitt]

Bevel modifier with crease

[@warrior5009]

Sir I am not able to understand the topology, I saw many tutorials but couldn't be exact, please can u make a video on this topic?

[@grabbitt]

Yes eventually

[@HUNrobar]

check out these articles elementza.com/how-to-understand-topology-in-3d-modeling/ topologyguides.com/ also I can recommend Arrimus 3D's channel if you want to study topology more in depth :)

[@gremlinton9815]

what's the point of proximity loops? they have the same purpose as mean crease but they also add unnecessary geometry, no? so unless you want that extra geometry, it's better to use mean crease. or am I missing something?

[@grabbitt]

keep working and trying htem it makes sense eventually

[@robert-brydson-1]

difference between extrude > scale , Vs inset ?

[@grabbitt]

None

[@termited0]

Hey, Grant, thanks for the cool excercises. Inset before extruding was the most helpful. But I have something mixed up in my head about creases. I used to use them all the time, but now I switched to proximity loops because I heard that either creases don't export well to other 3d programs or are not accepted on sites where you can sell your models. Is this correct?

[@grabbitt]

i dont fully know but i would not use them for that reason

[@termited0]

@@grabbitt I did a bit of research and found out that creases don't export to other 3d modelling programs such as 3dsmax and maya when exporting in FBX and Alembic. I still don't know if it's a big deal. I also noticed that you don't use a shortcut for creasing which is Shift+E. Hope that helps.

[@Urza26]

@@termited0 Thanks. Good to know

[@RayStudio95]

Manage to follow along. The last one, making hole, well i stuck there. I watch how you make and oh... I completely forgot about the edge fill. Dont know what's wrong with me being soo forgetful. I mean... I use Blender everyday for the challenges on Discord.

[@grabbitt]

glad to hear its helping :)

[@Outmind01]

Haven't watched the vid yet as I have some catching up to do, but my God, the intro pic looks like this is going to be lvl 7 on steroids...

[@jonathanwalsh1206]

Tough one.

[@JacobKinsley]

Snapping is so useful I just wish there was a pie menu for it...

[@HUNrobar]

not exactly a pie menu but comes close: CTRL+SHIFT+TAB :) And of course you don't have to activate snapping, just hold CTRL anytime you want snapping, very convenient

[@darrell9294]

anyone having issues extruding faces while subdivision modifier is applied in blender 2.91? as soon as i try to extrude faces they automatically inset and it looks terrible and alters my mesh. I have to delete my subdivision modifier, extrude faces and then re apply modifier. PITA

[@grabbitt]

That's actually how it works

[@Munazzartareen]

Most of the time i use proximity loops to sharpen the edges, so now do i need to use mean crease more often? I am confused

[@grabbitt]

it depends on the situation. if mean crease works use it but if it causes problems you may have to use proximity loops

[@Munazzartareen]

@@grabbitt ok great thank you!

[@trturki252]

cool vid

[@dracoscreations5764]

do you know how i can connect 2 different mixamo animations into one seamless animation? Im really confused and cant find any other videos helping me

[@grabbitt]

its fairly tough but i may do a tutorial at some point

[@dracoscreations5764]

@@grabbitt Thanks for considering

[@apollo12002]

I noticed you used the word Pole a few times, what is that?

[@grabbitt]

bets to look it up as its hard to explain

[@yannick3554]

I really like your videos and think this format/series is particularly helpful. Thank you very much for your hard work. Just an FYI: The pinching/topology issues aren't really a support loop or creasing issue. The problem is that your topology doesn't really establish the curvature that you want in your final result. You need more geometry to define your curvature but you'll can get a cleaner result. The following video shows something that might not be quite the same but it's a similar concept: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYqTfYaOdtZ_kJI Also you're not marking "a mean crease" (I know this is a bit nit-picky). After all the creases aren't being rude to us ;) You're creasing the edges but the field in the property-panel displays and changes the mean (i.e. the average) crease value of the selected edges.

[@grabbitt]

Indeed. What would be the correct term that beginners would still understand?

[@ktkt3762]

I'm 3rd yay

[@Сма_йлик]

)😊😊

[@paulamay7195]

Hello Grand Rabbit , my name is Paul You would be so kind as to send me the blender 2.80 file. To install on my computer if you can do it, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@paulamay7195]

sorry blender 2.80 version

[@grabbitt]

do you mean blender 2.8 the programme?

[@paulamay7195]

Grant Abbitt yes the program

[@Urza26]

I think they have some of both the old versions and the new beta versions on the official blender site.

[@adamplechaty]

I get that you save on polygons, but it seems to me like the crease method is absolutely useless in production environment. Sure, if you want to stay in Blender and render there, creasing works great, but when you need to bake you high poly for example, or export it to a different programme, creases get you nowhere, right? Thanks again for these series, so great to just polish up my skills.

[@psion9110]

You wrong. It is not blender specific tool. You cant do good game models without crease.

[@ahmeteminerdogan9266]

Using loops is killing your gains.

[@amaliavladislav3176]

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