Blender Character Creation: Modelling

Welcome to the first episode in a series on creating a simple character in Blender. (blender.org)
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Download reference images:
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Download blender file:
www.blendswap.c...
If you're struggling with this tutorial, try this series instead: • Blender Character Crea...
FAQ:
Q: My background images won't show up after dragging them in.
A: Ensure that your view is properly aligned (press 1 on numpad to set view from front). You also need to be in orthographic (as opposed to perspective) view. You can toggle between ortho and perspective with 5 on the numpad. If, for whatever reason, simply dragging the images in does not work for you, you can also add them manually by pressing 'n' to open the properties panel, navigating to the 'Background Images' section near the bottom, and pressing "Add Image".
Q: Pressing the numbers only changes frame/layer.
A: You need to press the numbers on the numpad (as opposed to the top row of numbers). If your keyboard does not have a numpad, go into preferences and in the input tab check 'emulate numpad'.

[@SebastianLague]

If you're struggling to add the reference images or change views, please read the FAQ in the description.

[@nerdypotion1560]

too fast

[@rtxdude9951]

iam not able to dowload the front view image.. can u help me out?

[@cntfoolmebuddy]

Sebastian Lague What computer are you using?

[@maxostlund9334]

How did you make the reference image

[@maxostlund9334]

twin gamerz try Y axis or Z axis as the half you have is on the x axis... (Right screen)

[@mathieuwilson2985]

Hey! To anyone having trouble here you should really listen to this video 10 seconds at a time and follow EACH step carefully...hit the pause button often! He goes fast but covers A LOT of useful things within minutes...you'll be mad at the beginning when failing easy tasks such as selecting things... but don't give up... try things yourself, experiement, then come back to the video. This is a VERY good tutorial... the guy really knows how to teach... thanks a lot ! Math

[@dannehsg978]

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[@ThatControlUser]

Math at the end lol

[@teecontravo9633]

I've had exactly 3 hours of blender experience before looking at this tutorial. It's great, definitely fast paced but that's what the pause button is for. However, even with my extremely limited experience I've been able to follow along slowly but surely. Thanks for the video!

[@TheFelipeST]

20 min and better than 2 semester in college... :/ Thank you!

[@EltonJohnSander]

+Felipe Schoffen I know that feel.

[@C3PowerEnergy]

+Felipe Schoffen Hahaha

[@MrCriticalSix]

20 minutes and its gonna take me 20 hours to do it even while looking at the video... be back to update you on that tomorrow lol

[@niranjan36x]

Waiting for you man hahaha

[@rashidrumman871]

+Herbert Smith done yet? xD

[@NotAnIlluminatiSpy]

Every 6 months or so, I get it into my head that I'm gonna make some shit in blender. I download it, install it take one look at the UI and think "I'ma need to get me some tutorials". So I watch some guy talk for 6 years about this Button, or press up down left right A start together for something and get super bored and decide to "learn by doing" this step in my blender phase lasts for about 30 mins when I try to make something from scratch, using only a picture in my mind. It always looks like shit, I mean...of course it looks like shit only a lunatic would expect AAA quality modelling right off the mark. Unfortunately, I am a lunatic and I expect this. Anyhoo, fast forward...um...4 years or so and 5 minutes into this video and I've made an actual person, mostly...no head yet but...It's recognizable as a person. You could look at it and think "huh, that's a humanoid body without a head" which is the farthest I have ever gotten in the world of 3d modelling. So...Thanks, I guess I should watch the remaining 18 minutes of video...

[@thegreentiger7759]

i love this style of writing. keep going buddy

[@Tutterzoid]

Ja, I have also been battling on and off with Blender for years, and finally this week I also have something that looks like a humanoid body(no boots or hands yet), thanks to Sebastian Lague showing what keys he is pressing during the video :)

[@donovanvasquez5807]

JUST DO IT!

[@donovanvasquez5807]

I lost my computer and everything on it about a year ago and so i forgot a ton of keys and what not. I feel the pain but I remember being at your stage back then and i feel a small bit of it now. honestly just do it. my first animations werent great but they are really fun and cringe worthy to go back and watch. Just keep it up buddy!

[@prof.torcoolguy7060]

This is like the second time I've tried it, and the first I've gotten anywhere. I have a 70-frame test of a camera zooming in on a cube.

[@Simon_Laserna]

Hard to compare this to the other tutorials I have seen on Blender. You show quick workflows with key commands shown on screen and you call them out. It is so far beyond most tutorials. You keep me engaged! Fantastic!

[@jeffreystephens2658]

Guys, this is not a beginner tutorial. It's an intermediate tutorial, which means it assumes that you're familiar with how to use Blender. If you're having trouble following this, you might want to try some of the simpler tutorials.

[@droptheat5643]

I tried this a couple of times already . Third time trying and the model is looking better each time . Thanks

[@dantchernov4532]

+UGH Practice makes perfect remember this is technically art and art doesnt just come.

[@realSkarm]

Make games, can confirm this is how it works. Just bash your head into a keyboard and in ten minutes you have a smashing hit.

[@HiredGunGames]

This is a pretty good tutorial. I have a few critiques I hope you don't mind. Not trolling or anything I just want to make sure your viewers know some extra advice. For characters it's advised to keep all polygons the same amount of space apart and try to keep the polygons equal on all sides, this prevents texture distortion. Also if you used mirrored uv space make sure you bake your models from a high resolution to a low resolution as this gets rid of pesky seams from normal maps. Also any object that isn't being manipulated by bones for animation such as accessories like weapons or articles of clothing like a hat or sword should use object space normal maps, and not the usual tangent spaced, as this will increase performance in your game and cut back on real time normal lighting manipulation. I see you are creating a toon style character though. For these types of characters it's best to get the most from your uv maps. So you want to make uv islands bigger depending on what part of the character that's mostly seen. Like the face, and head area as well as the shirt and pants. I would make those islands the biggest. Awesome tutorial. Thumbs up. C:

[@SebastianLague]

Cool, thanks for sharing your wisdom :)

[@torikenyon]

WHOA WHOA WHOA I didnt understand a word you said. UV? Maps? Object space? Tangent space? ??????????

[@HiredGunGames]

Torsopher - these are terms you have to become familiar with. If you look these terms up and put tutorial at the end of them you will learn them

[@eweeparker]

Yeah, one other thing that I tend to do when making low poly chars is to start from a limb using a cylinder with 6 or 8 vertices to keep the "roundness" of the body as a starting point. I like the cube method as well, but the perspective view adjustments can require more experience and aren't as systematic from a non-artistic user's view. You can achieve a decent effect without any perspective view tweaking. The ortho 1 and 3 + references are plenty and the shape is great.

[@YOWKhemardi]

Sebastian Lague Wonderful tutorial and if I may? instead of snapping two points, Alt+M merges two points. It makes for a much faster workflow :)

[@misosoup5ever]

For those using Blender 2.8, the properties menu section where you set the background images doesn't pop out when pressing N. The options he was using is now in Object Data Properties. In default layout, that section is in the lower right hand side and has a tab with a triangle and a tiny circle inside a square. The options are laid out differently too, but with a little experimenting you can arrange the pictures like he did. Next, there's a checkbox that tells blender to emulate a number pad if you're using a laptop in EDIT > PREFERENCES and going into the INPUT tab. If you check that box, you can follow how he changes orthographic perspectives using the number keys above QWERTY. The "Remove Doubles" command is now Merge Vertices > By Distance. Note: I'm using Mac, so there might be a variation between the OS's.

[@paalgumpen9918]

Love the people who criticise the creator for taking the time to share knowledge. For my beginner-intermediate level this was a perfect tutorial, very concise and easy to follow as long as i paused the vid between steps. If it weren't I'd just find another one. Thank you Sebastian!

[@nicstulting3144]

I wanted to say thank you. A few years ago, I studied your video to learn basic modeling. I really appreciated your tutorial. Thank you for creating it.

[@googissoftware]

Remove doubles (vertices) in 6:38 for blender 2.8 has changed: instead of clicking W for the specials menu, select all vertices (A) and then M (merge by ...) then select 'by distance'

[@wishingwell2014]

If just M doesn't work, try clicking alt-M www.katsbits.com/codex/merge/

[@habeshaentertainment1925]

tysm

[@saje5821]

Thank you a bunch for this tutorial and the tutorials that will follow! As a beginner, it is a bit difficult and it's easy to miss something, but after fixing my mistakes and retrying, I think I've got it down! I want to work with 3D Modeling when I grow up and this is great for that!

[@SebastianLague]

+Saje You're welcome, keep up the hard work!

[@saje5821]

Sebastian Lague Oh, actually fixed my own problem. My head was too tall.

[@echoispro40]

had used blender for very basic stuff before, not real experience. followed the video from start to finish very slowly, the whole processed taking about 2-3 hours however i feel much much more confident with blender and this taught be the basics of using the software, the fast pace being perfect for me to allow me to pause and work at my own pace. thank you (:

[@TechieChuks]

This is the best detailed video on blender characters modelling and rigging with referenced image that I have watched so far.....it's so detailed and every step taken were shown.....thanks alot for this... Now I am happy I started learning blender

[@300PIVOTMASTER]

This video should be flagged for "too amazing tutorial" XD

[@masterdelrap]

i find this tutorial more straightforward an easier than the other stupid ones that give us hard pictures

[@noahgraves65]

Don't be discouraged guys. There are curves that you hit and take off with the software. The cube, then simple buildings, then simple meshes like tables and chairs, then more complex ones like these, and after a little experience with modifiers, you take off. You're in the game with the rest of us.

[@collophonium]

high density of shortcuts and hotkeys ....well done, one of the best tutorials out there....!

[@joshuanorman2]

Don't even try and tell me this isn't professor Layton

[@arthank1263]

And lil Sebastian grew up to be a god, writing compute shaders and literally making the earth spin 'round. Also, ants. I had such a hard time with modeling my dwarf in blender before this. Now it's trivial. I can never thank you enought! That patreon sub is comming soon, buddy, I just need to pass the last interview for a job :))

[@martinnolte]

hope you've passed the interview : )

[@JK-pp2xl]

Sebastian, This is a great starter tutorial series for beginners. I really appreciate you taking the time and effort. I watch this series every time I make a new model, and it seems I learn a new trick every time. Its helped bridge the gap going from beginner to novice level videos. I find Blender insanely difficult, but its amazing the progress I've made in the past 6 weeks thanks to videos like this(rare to find a true gem).

[@Kasuyaki007]

from zero knowledge to creating a whole human, you are my hero

[@filmoklm]

It's the first Blender Tut that i really watch, but damn, how much i learned ! thank's you man !

[@masterdelrap]

i hope this tutorial is easier than the other ones that they pick real hard images

[@ThatGuyDownInThe]

I wish I could thank you 1 million times over. I swear to God when I start making money I will support you so so so so so so so so so so much. This just changed my life. THANK YOU MAN

[@adamishmaelmiller5521]

Out of all the tuts, this is the one that doesn't hurt my head.

[@helo2803]

I always think that I'm going to make some sick models in blender but I never do.

[@displayaankendov3859]

lmao same i try then i just mess up everything

[@tjmixmasta]

It's so worth it, my friend. I just started, using Sebastian's tutorials and Blender Guru's beginner's course; both have gotten me way further along than I've ever gotten on my own.

[@kayambilampulamasaka739]

That’s necessary frustration. The easier way fight that, if you find it distracting your progress, is to keep creating the okay or crappy models. I one day it will be hard for you to create crappy models even if you tried. Coz once you get it, you will really get it.

[@joshiwu0420]

we need a thirty minute tutorial on the first 2 minutes of your video.

[@doigbdoo5104]

Agreed

[@HackingIsDope]

Watch blender guru tutorial series, it's for beginners😂😂

[@raiderross9056]

If you knew what you are doing it is really helpful

[@drblueddad]

1 hour tutorial for each second

[@noahkeighley3648]

@@raiderross9056 calm down, ppl learn at different rates

[@ziemba94]

seriously your tutorials are one of the best on the internet man, keep on doing those blender tutorials!

[@rdawo6408]

... I always come back to thank you 💓 ... I learnt from you I was just at guru for geometry nodes and I remembered how I got to learn blender and it was all you so thank you .. I still have to resee your videos because I always face problems with the armature foot 😂😂😂😂 b/c one day I decided that I don't need to follow you tutorial and do it by myself 😂😂😂 ... same for walk cycle Thank you sooo much

[@3dgamerman]

this is a great tutorial, I learned so many different kinds of techniques, and I got more confident in manipulating the vertices.

[@huntskopf123]

Omg I did it! :O After three days of retrying I finally got through the whole video and have my own little cowboy fella. Lets move on to texturing....

[@talkingpanda7046]

Single most helpful blender tutorial for basic character creation. Thank You so much for all of your tutorials.

[@alexlangrock4225]

This is the perfect Blender tutorial series for noobs like me. Thank you sir

[@henniedevilliers7570]

What a pleasant clear voice, tone and excellent tutorials; a scarcity among the speech impaired tutors. Will donate...soon... promise!

[@SebastianLague]

Thank you!

[@syntaxterror9479]

You go a bit fast for a tutorial video but otherwise this is amazing. Thanks!

[@johncarlocagas]

There's always the speed options.

[@daniel8607]

sssssooooooo nnnnoooooowwwww wwwweeeeerrrrrreeeee mmmmmoooooddddddeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllliiiiiiiiinnnnnnngggggg

[@johncarlocagas]

***** If 0.5 is too slow, there's always the youtube extensions. I use the Video Speed Controller in Chrome and it works like charm. There's always a solution to every problem. Whining about something instead of trying to find a way to get around it is not a good thing, especially for an aspiring 3D artist.

[@ani.dimitrova]

plus you see which keys he pushes.. I paused and replayed and it works.. try it

[@VideoMenu]

In college ASL we had to watch VHS videos. But we didn't get to control it. We had to sign in to the library, select a computer and the clerk would put the video in from where they were. We sat down and had to endure 40 minute videos that had only 20 minutes of content... musical interludes, scenic cut-aways and text chapter changes. It was EXCRUCIATING. The pitfall was that if you were lulled into boredom, you might miss something when they started talking again--and there was no control to rewind. At least with speed, you're mentally on the ball and you're right there on the go. With YT you can control by pause or replay. The uploader puts up what the uploader puts up (because it was best for his comfort level of teaching.) If you're slow, then get acquainted with PAUSE and SCRUB (the slider). If it's too slow, learn to use the speed functions.

[@gameraxel4388]

This has been on the top of my feed when I open the app for 3 days now. Fine, fine I'll watch it!

[@Riceballer3D]

This id the tutorial that got me started on my 3D career, thank you for making it!

[@martismartiis813]

i don't need to pay for a tutorial with blender when there's this video

[@MrCole62195]

Oh... Wow. This is intimidating.. Is there a "blender, for dummies" kind of guide? I'd really like to get into it, but it feels impossible just jumping right into it, and not really knowing how to learn

[@aikou2886]

Mrbuck Don't worry dude, try to model with simplier programs such as Techne (when you can work perfectly with Techne and jump to Blender it may feel a bit strange, but is part of it, in fact is like learning a new languaje, start with something simplier and then add more complexity until you completely domine it.) I would like to say this is pretty simple, but like I said I have previous experience (and I need to familiarize a bit with the contorls and environment), if you decide to follow my suggestion of using Techne first start with simple minecraft-like things, if not then draw simple things to make 3D on Blender later, by simple things I mean things like.... Magnemite from pokemon maybe, basic shapes. Well I hope you can advance and learn quickly regardless of the method you chose, good luck.

[@MrCole62195]

Ikuto Aikou Arevalo thanks for the advice and the vote of confidence. I'll be checking out techne in the next few minutes

[@aikou2886]

Mrbuck Your very welcome, remember: everytime you learn something new things might seem dificult, but it'll get easier as long as you don't give up, patience is the key /

[@rho702]

Mrbuck Try out Fuse character creator. It's free on Steam, and you can export the models.

[@LordQuadros]

Mrbuck There's a good series of basic modeling tutorials and educational videos on Blender at gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html A lot of it is very simple, basic stuff to help you find your legs with the program, but I've found going through it all helps immensely. One thing to keep in mind, though, is the guy used an older version of Blender when making these, so for a couple things, you may have to search around for solutions. Not enough to be super problematic, though.

[@rdawo6408]

Hello, I just want to say .. my goal with blender was character modeling and your videos (this series) is the reason I can use blender now .... Thank you!

[@magmaslasher7604]

Whoa. I had no idea how this was done before, and just 3 minutes in I've learned so much.

[@omnigeek]

I see all these complaints about how this guy moves through the video to fast... upset because he doesn't slowly explain everything, like what buttons to click.... so my question to those people is this.... Why the hell are you trying to learn how to model a characters when you don't even know the basic controls of how blender works..... The teacher is not the problem, the student is

[@lyinsroar9637]

i kinda agree this is very geared towards more experienced learners. not a good place to start if you're absolutely new to blender much less 3d modelling by itself

[@SirSnowman]

because it is called "shortcut" for a reason! If you understand, what the program does - then you can uses shortcuts.

[@varcogopal4157]

+Sebastian Lague Might I ask, how did u make the reference images? Like, how did u make the images in such a way, that the nose in the side view, is in the same place as the nose in the front view? I've been using GIMP, and making a front view image, then a side view image. But, when i go to start modeling, the parts of the image, like the eyes and nose, are in different places. So, how do you make the images all properly fit, and correspond to each other?? Thanks!

[@SebastianLague]

+varco gopal I drew a light pencil grid on my page so that when I was drawing I could make sure that all the main features lined up.

[@varcogopal4157]

Sebastian Lague thanks!

[@vincenthawthorne9360]

+Sebastian Lague I need your help with something.

[@technorazor976]

+Skailla Telling him what you need help with might help you get a response.

[@yashkaushik6116]

use ruled sheets lmao

[@janmadle4243]

Really thanks a lot! I have watched like 50 videos on blender, 3ds max, maya even 4D cinema and this one is surely the best. You get to the point, work fast yet explain the more complex things. Not like other videos "now left click to select vertex..."

[@verdeice53]

I prefer the way you teach, strait and to the point. Sure its fast, but if you pay attention to to video the instructions are clear and do not need to be waited on. Finally, after many years of wanting to make something of my 2d work into 3d I am succeeding. Ill post it here to show you just how good a job you did teaching a random kid like me.

[@SpaghettioH]

"See if i can't get rid of this.... strange buldge" Oh my god.... I just spit my orange juice everywhere

[@youcefchemesel-eddine5447]

If they ever asked me why i'm improving that fast i'd tell that i've got the best teacher

[@ZouhairSerrar]

The best tutorial creator on KZbin, thank you so much Sebastian.

[@Atomhaz]

This is an amazing series. I've probably watched it 3 times. Love your stuff.

[@seshadrisekharchatterjee8237]

Hi could not find the reference image.the zip folder is empty.

[@jutalinzhu921]

A question to ask: When modeling the character, such as extrude the neck or scaling some parts, there will always be a gap between left part and right part because of the mirror. How can I fill that gap? I don't want to have two necks when scaling it.

[@SebastianLague]

You need to have clipping enabled in the mirror settings so that the central vertices cannot become separated.

[@jutalinzhu921]

Sebastian Lague Thanks a lot! Didn't realize that part

[@ShayaDank]

Thank you Sebastian for making this tutorial that is quick, I find most other tutorials slow even when they are sped up x2. Your tutorial is just the right speed, I've began to make a model after watching your video once. I did have to pause the video a few times to write down the controls to do certain things, now with the controls, my character is coming together. Most other modeling tutorials are so simple, they over complicate things; trying to make everything perfect. Great tutorial for beginner models or low poly models!! :)

[@kevinwang7601]

Once you get a hang of the key strokes the process goes a lot faster. I watched a simple tutorial before this and it help

[@astienback]

The best tuto for newbies around. Thanks for your pedagogy, it's definitely helpful and efficient.

[@EGeorgev]

Not really. He's talking too fast without explaing shit. Speaking in shortcuts won't teach you anything. So not really for noobs, but more like ppl who know how Blender works already, but don't know how to get into character modeling.

[@ProfiresKnight]

He talks just fast enough for people like me. If you don't know blender then you shouldn't be watching this. You should familiarize yourself with blender before trying to create a character.

[@EGeorgev]

FiresKnight already did with a different youtuber that is an actual teacher, and you can clearly see the difference between him and this guy. I'd watch this guy for entertainment, you know like that show "How it's made" on TV, but not really for learning anything.

[@astienback]

What kind of game are you playing? Give the name of your "teacher" or his youtube channel! If you're that honest you should have given more PRECISE references! You ought to know that credibility is based on precision not on "I know someone who knows someone...". Tutos will always suffer from critics well-founded or not they could be. It would be fair to not wrap them in rumors. IMHO this tuto remains one of the best around and YES, you've got to have a minimal experience of Blender controls. And YES again, don't be that naive to think that as a newbie you can JUMP directly to an ambitious animation... with Blender whatsoever... don't be that naive. The less naive you are the fairer your opinions will be.

[@EGeorgev]

astienback the man I'm talking about that teaches everything Blender- from 3d modeling to animation is Darrin Lile, a man who has actually done this for a living. Now he puts awesome videos on youtube for free! Look, I'm not hating on this guy here. He has a killer accent and is very entertaining to watch. And you are right that you gotta have a basic knowledge of Blender before going in- that applies for both tutorial creators actually, but- the thing is- I feel this one requires a bit more than that. You see, I didn't go in here with zero knowledge of how blender works and all, but I still got lost midway through, because he is speaking in shortcuts and very fast. Maybe I'm just siow and everybody else learns just fine, but I feel the other guy does a better job at teaching.

[@masterdelrap]

i am learning thanks this is awesome

[@m0ther_bra1ned12]

You make it look so easy. I've had to watch this over and over.

[@shotelle2638]

I spent about 5 hours doing what he does/ pausing/ doing/ pausing. After these 5 hours i wanted to know on what minute of video I am and it was 10th minute XDDDDD Take a lot of time but i feel kinda confident about creating a basic character. Nice!

[@masterdelrap]

dam it the pictures wont go in blender why??

[@brantleygilmore9er]

same

[@Adomeee]

after you add them in press 5

[@MrPatpuc]

2 years late i know, but make sure backgrounds images is ticked. Press 'N' to bring up the menu, then scroll down and tick background images.\ Hopefully this helps future readers. Press 5 to go into orthographic mode aswell

[@mangoleeallan]

this guys probably dead by now :c

[@TheRockhound119]

ya, front image for me can't even be opened by other programs.

[@Alzzarla]

23 minutes took me around 7 hours, lol. Even if I made more details, that is some skill difference right there xD

[@57thorns]

Sound reasonable. I need to get my computer in order so I can start the project of following these videos. Should keep me occupied for at least a few weeks.

[@CrazyRiverOtter]

I'm taking notes so I need to pause this a lot, but this is actually a really good tutorial so far, as it teaches the basics without assuming you already know everything.

[@piegaming6112]

me and some friends of mine are working on a game, but none of us have any major experience with 3d modeling. this video was a huge help i think. thanks.

[@100thominhaz1]

I made everything you did but my model looked like a cockroach with cancer ;-;

[@SebastianLague]

Haha that's too bad. Best advice I can give is to try it again. It will go a bit better each time I promise :)

[@100thominhaz1]

Ok :)

[@100thominhaz1]

It's looking way better now, it's working :D

[@planetdook3431]

but what exactly does that look like?

[@tactical_slime4608]

You should see mine. Mine looks like a super overweight person with tumors and creepy long stiff rectangle arms

[@masterdelrap]

how do u go to orthographic mode????ok i clicked view perspective went to orthographic mode now i put picture inside the program and nothing happens?

[@masterdelrap]

1omgitskara i did it thanks now i have to learn to fill in the picture lol

[@masterdelrap]

1omgitskara dude i am having a headache feeling in the image with the square to create thebody lol u have any advice in filling in the face

[@masterdelrap]

1omgitskara i learned to use unity 3d perfect and created my own game now i have to create the characters models and thats it good to post my game!!

[@masterdelrap]

1omgitskara u got skype?

[@masterdelrap]

anyone wana join my drawing group for blender

[@Kemii]

I’ve been practicing 3D modeling for 3 days now but by far this is the easiest one to follow and he does it so quickly compared to others too! Can’t wait to try this out on my computer tomorrow

[@mono4171]

this is the best tut so far. for someone who knows what "a 3D" is, a veteran from another program who just needs a quick demo of the hotkeys. thanks! people saying this needs to be slower... its already 23 minutes. plenty of 2 hour tutorials out there... just sayin

[@JFkingW]

Awesome Tutorial! When will you release the other parts? Will there be a Part where you explain how to import the model to Unity and what kind of rig to use(like humanoid/generic...)?

[@SebastianLague]

Next part should be done soon (tomorrow, maybe the day after at the latest). That's a cool suggestion, thanks! I guess there will have to be a part six ;)

[@JFkingW]

Sebastian Lague Cool, Thank you! :D

[@FreddyHollensen]

Sebastian Lague Blender and how it relates to unity, that, combined with a theme of ''low poly/simple'' game creation... is a winning blender tutorial series.

[@rodentlover100]

***** Unreal Engine cost money, not as many people want to spend money and risk not making anything, better to get started with Unity and work your way up.

[@rodentlover100]

***** I didn't know that, but I still think Unity is a better starting point and it has no royalties.

[@yishizpek527]

slower tempo would be better, since this is for beginner's usage

[@SPUNGEAYYY]

Yi Shiz Pek Yeah...

[@breakthewastedspace]

Goku AKA Kakarot Goku, i have found you

[@SPUNGEAYYY]

Trainer_Poke :D

[@QuadroMan1]

Yi Shiz Pek Just pause when you need to, that's what I've been doing and I'm following along just fine.

[@alexlangrock4225]

Just pause the video a bunch. That's what I did.

[@stevenbjerke2825]

This is easily the best tutorial I have followed on character creation! I just was able to create a human model in a couple of hours after following this! Seriously thanks for taking the time to make this Video!

[@Rubbn89]

This is just what i was looking for! I love how you do things fast and explain while doing things. A lot of tutorials are made in slow-motion and take forever to get results. You helped me alot to get started quickly, thanks for the vid!

[@thane1326]

Did he model this after Carl from The Walking Dead?

[@snappiepappie9899]

that's what I thought

[@JayAnAm]

LOL... yeah

[@annwynbeneaththewaves]

CARL! What are you doing in this video its the god damn apocalypse

[@mr.mysteriousyt6118]

Jay AnAm hey i know you from Twitter suh dude

[@ReggiesRevenge]

Due to recent circumstances... this comment is insensitive

[@oprahwinfreyuntapd4811]

I'm at the 1:30 mark and I'm already about to fucking explode

[@gordonmctague4225]

I watched this video about a year ago and was totaly baffeled at what you were doing but after starting to learn how to use Blender a few months ago it is a hole lot clearer to me now, I'm still nowhere up o this standered at the moment but I know what your talking about... keep up the great work it is realy helpfull to us newbies. I'm going to draw my own dude by hand and scan it in and give it a go... Thanks for all the little tips thay help a lot.

[@ragethesage7564]

Thank you so much for this series of tutorials. I was fluent with Blender over a decade ago and these videos have helped catch me up to the more recent builds. Cheers

[@AbhimanyuAryan]

sebastian can i use this in unreal engine?

[@fex1445]

Yes

[@JayAnAm]

You can export every blender model to fbx and import it to UE4

[@AbhimanyuAryan]

Yes I know that now :)

[@AbhimanyuAryan]

Old question

[@JayAnAm]

Abhimanyu Aryan alright

[@ak-loz]

This is kind of REALLY difficult to follow.

[@sallymae9653]

+Poohbi e Yup. I just watched Maunel Graphics tut instead a bit easier to follow

[@Johnny-wt5uf]

+Poohbi e This is really very basic and you should be able to do this on your own after watching it.

[@ak-loz]

Johnny Fortner Not for me, I found a nice tutorial on the blender website and was able to learn from that.

[@ak-loz]

+Poohbi e POV: someone who has used blender 1 time before watching this tutorial.

[@Johnny-wt5uf]

well then don't complain about character creation being too complicated when you don't even know the software yet. This is basic box modeling, and its the same in almost all software, blender being the exception for ease of use. Blender has way more tools and utilities making production much faster for designers. Coming from someone whos been doing graphic design for 15 years. You should be able to do this without reference images and without the tutorial, its simple extrusions. If you can't move vertices around in the shape of a human, maybe graphic design isn't for you.

[@pajokamikaze]

Dude, you saved me! I want to make models for a game (for Unity) but i didn't do anything because i didn't know Blender, i saw a lot of tutorials and when i see part 1, 2, 3 etc, i just get depressed because i watched a lot of tutorials for everything and i'm sick of them now, how to make games, music, DYI stuff etc, and i didn't opet Blender maybe even a year, and thus, neither Unity, but i found your video today, you explain things so simple and calm, you're great, so thank you :) And you got one more subscriber now ^^

[@StelianB]

+KazeRv Any progress?

[@eugene-d]

Just a little hint. Don't create faces one by one (like from 13:40 on). Instead, select opposite edges/loops and press W (specials menu) and choose Bridge Edge Loops. Voila! You have all faces created (edge # has to be equal). Otherwise thanks for a great tut! My fav style: good pace, details balance, etc. Perfect for those who have some experience with Blender but are noobs in organic modelling :-) Good luck!

[@harangerish7588]

Thanks for the tutorial!

[@tygerwaters]

When I drag it in nothing apears

[@SebastianLague]

Tyger Ratcliffe Have you read the FAQ in the description?

[@tygerwaters]

Sebastian Lague ...

[@tygerwaters]

Tyger Ratcliffe You didn't see anything...

[@zackfrost7568]

Tyger Ratcliffe press 5 on the numpad you need ortho

[@georgecorvo8991]

Zack ZEmmer i don't have anumpad how do i change the key /

[@seesharpist]

@8:26 "zabgabgabgab" -basically my brain the whole video. Fantastic tutorial, just moves very quickly if you don't know the shortcuts by heart. Thanks for this!

[@TheMonstyer]

I gotta say. I never really got used to blender. I'm an 3ds Max 2008 guy. I really found your tutorial more useful than most of the others. I wanted something simple to get into my game engine so I can work on vertex skinning and well, you showed me how to kinda get back into 3d modeling with some basic functions. Thank you for be very understandable too :)

[@Snackies]

woah, erm, could you add closed captions/text tutorial? you're going a bit too fast for people to follow

[@leftyspodcast.3921]

TIP: Turn down the speed of the video

[@Snackies]

+Your Regular Gamer it makes it too funny to hear i just rapidly pause the guy sounds stoned/high if it's slowed

[@BigLad405]

I'm trying to do this, i have spent about half an hour on this, and i haven't even went past the 2 minute mark. I am stuck on trying to cut the cube in half. FFFFUUUUUUUUUUCKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SebastianLague]

+GamingGapiche Perhaps try my new character creation series. It's a fair bit easier.

[@BigLad405]

Ok Thanks.

[@songersoft]

GameingGapiche, I spend so much time trying to learn and follow along. You're not alone in sinking an enormous amount of time into these kind of tasks. One solution might be to dual monitors if that's a possibility. One for our instructor Sebastian Lague and another monitor for Unity projects.

[@BigLad405]

That might help. Thanks.

[@gokunorris5351]

Yo me and you both like seriously i was like why wont the cube turn It just kept folding for me.

[@jamiehollidaymcginnis9683]

I've always struggled to get the proper shape from the start. This technique works extremely well for me. Thank you for the great info!

[@bryncristie5602]

This guy is underrated, he’s really good

[@TURBONERD]

Holy shit slow down

[@HelmutKohlrabi]

Double tapping g enters edge slide too iirc

[@Drstrange3000]

+Helmut Kohl Love you!!

[@DXBLE]

I really appreciate the keys you added on screen, really helpful and a good tutorial for a beginner like me!

[@djpeknuk]

Great tutorial, there is no universal way to making tutorials for everyone, I see that in comments, but this is really simple to pause tutorial while watching, by pressing Atl+Tab and space, that way I can take as many time as I need to understand, remember and learn. There is no way that you can predict how many time I need for that. Sometimes I even think that tutorials like this will replace school education ;) Cheers.

[@bobturner2312]

No one: Keys: BAGABAAAGABAG

[@alexandrusarion8381]

when you speak so fast and move so fast it is hard for a beginner to understand what you mean or doing. Which I think the video is meant for begginers. Just talk a bit slower and a bit bit more detailed and you will get more views 2.

[@serendipitygaming6785]

I am gonna swear... This is the fucking best tutorial i have ever seen... now let me explain Most tutorials are long, even more frightening and intimidating... You always have to rely on them to guide your every move... and when you are done, YES you sit with some amazing work if you manage to complete it... How ever if i asked you to remake it without help? Not a chance. This? Its basic, Simple, Amazing you get the feeling that when you complete this and If i ask you to remake it, you can remake it... Because its just so simple. And thats EXACTLY how i want tutorials to be... Just easy enough that you can sit with a feeling of actually accomplish something and Learn... Not to make some "Amazing work" that you didnt do on your own. Great job!

[@herobtw7709]

Just thought I would drop a message to say thank you for the time you put into these. Im sure without your vids I would have given up a few hours into starting modelling.

[@overallg]

Way to fast for a tutorial - I gave up.

[@JustinX1X]

change speed of video to 0.5

[@DrkdragonNetwork]

i give up.

[@SebastianLague]

+Drk-dragon Network Why don't you give my newer character creation series a try? It's a fair bit easier :)

[@DrkdragonNetwork]

mk

[@alteebclips7612]

can you provide a link to that series.

[@TheFamousCacti]

Not difficult at all helped me so much i actually tried and put some effort into following your tutorials unlike some others and learned a lot even by trying and failing then trying again and again im following as many tutorials as i can but i always find myself coming back to yours because it was so good! Thank you!

[@walldoffstudios]

watched this and created my first ever character in blender, didn't look as good as yours but I already feel comfortable using it on my own just from watching this video a couple of times, insanely good tutorial!