Blender: Modeling a Simple Watch

[@moody3359]

Thankyou for this tutorial! its far better explained than some of the bigger channels covering 3d on blender! appreciate it!

[@zerobio]

Sure thing, my pleasure.

[@IronLordFitness]

That video is just plain perfect! Thank you!

[@zerobio]

Hey I'm so glad to hear that. Thanks for the feedback.

[@Paul_nutfrom80s]

you saved my project thank you. I wanted a linkage band not a simple leather strap & thanks to you sharing I have it with minimal over head

[@zerobio]

Hey I'm so glad! Thanks for letting me know :)

[@mirjalalmammadov2082]

Nice work and as usual very useful tutorial, thanks a lot.

[@zerobio]

Thank you, Iran

[@anghaiphung6243]

Hi zerobio, I don't get what you did at 32:26. How can you move the pivot point to the bottom center of the text? Sorry English is not my native language.

[@zerobio]

I believe the pivot point is at the bottom of text by default when you create the text. You can centre the text or justify it in the text panel on the right side. I think you have to scroll down in that panel a bit to find it. Look for something that shows 3 positions for justifying text...left, centre and right. Hope you can solve it.

[@moody3359]

how did you do the "find" command at 11:22 ?

[@zerobio]

If I understand you, I had the end piece selected and wanted to focus in on that so I pressed the period key.

[@moody3359]

@@zerobio ok thanks!

[@zerobio]

@@moody3359 No problem.

[@LDMTX6]

When I use the eyedropper to conform it to the circle curve it places the watch band way outside of the circle for some reason.

[@zerobio]

Yes that will happen. Make sure you apply rotation and scale to the watch object (Ctrl-A and select that). Make sure the transform tool is set to the object. Try to select different axes in the curve modifier (x, y, z, -x, -y, -z) as sometimes one works where the other doesn't. Then use the transform tool to move the object closer to the curve (try move in x, y or z). Once the object is close to the curve and is curving the way you want, you can always set the transform tool back to the 3d cursor and keep moving the object. If all fails, please try again, using a test object (arrayed) and with curve modifier. Keep trying until you find a method that works for you. Sometimes I go into edit mode (now the objects are in a straight line again with the single arrayed object selected) and I rotate it in the x or y and then back into object mode and it follows the curve better. Try that too.

[@LDMTX6]

Got it. Thanks!

[@zerobio]

Did it work for you? Good luck.

[@LDMTX6]

zerobio yes it worked! Thanks for making such great tutorials.

[@zerobio]

Hey I'm so glad. Remember in the future that it will often be a bit weird, just keep trying those things. And you're welcome for the tutorials :)

[@RiveroMartin]

Very good!! // Muy bueno!

[@ABMultimediaDesigner]

Im back to using Blender dude, hope to follow some of your good stuff soon

[@zerobio]

Hey that's great! I'm pretty busy with my daughter and internet is not always good to upload out here in the country but I will try to work on more videos. Hope you find something on my channel that you are interested in modeling. Good luck!

[@Mrdarkknight991]

remarkable, is this available somewhere in obj file for daz studio...? I like to try it on G3f or G8F

[@zerobio]

Thank you very much. Sorry this object is not available as an OBJ. I don't have the file anymore but hopefully you could model something similar and use it.

[@ZigCade]

Wow, amazing!

[@zerobio]

Hey thanks!

[@tomri6909]

im not even done with this video and ive learned a number of things, transform orientations, Scaling to 0, the curve modifier, spin, edge split and probably more soon, thanks

[@tomri6909]

and mirror objects

[@zerobio]

Fantastic! I'm so glad to hear that. Keep it going and hope you'll try some of my other revent tutorials. Good luck!

[@myxsys]

Very nice approach to modelling

[@zerobio]

Thank you very much, Michael.

[@myxsys]

You should post this to Blendernation.com

[@zerobio]

Michael Wanyoike cool. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@andrewkvasov2064]

Elliott you are the best teacher !!! I like your modeling technique! You have not been in for 3 weeks. How are you doing? (I use Google translate)

[@zerobio]

Andrew, thank you very much! I have been very busy with my one year old daughter so very little time (or energy) for modeling. But all is fine here and I hope to do more soon. I appreciate your interest. Take care.

[@MarcusDamon]

Can you please help me. I am making an ironman armoned advanture watch and i am having real troubles in it so please help me

[@TheBlackHawk]

How I can add different material and quit the orange colour?

[@zerobio]

In shading options (press N To bring up the menu), uncheck matcap. That will remove the orange colour and show any default material. You can leave on ambient occlusion if you like.

[@krishnanpillai4982]

How do you apply the cube to the circle by using the curve modifier*

[@zerobio]

Make the cube, keep it thin and reasonably small. Make sure the circle is a curve and not a mesh. Apply a curve modifier to the cube and choose the circle as the object . Add an array modifier to the cube and increase the count to make more cubes. You may have to move the cube (and the arrayed pieces) in the x, y or a axis to get it to follow the curve. Sometimes it seems like it's not working but all you have to do is move the cube closer to the curve or up or down to get it to follow the path. If it still doesn't work, start again just with cube and circular curve and try again. If you still can't get it to work, let me know and I can make a short video showing just that part for you. Good luck and just remember to start again, even on a new layer with just a curve and cube with array on it and curve modifier on it.

[@zerobio]

Hope you get it to work.

[@sanaomer2828]

Good content man keep it up 👍🏻

[@zerobio]

Thanks and will do my best to keep it going.

[@thetrinitysolution9631]

How did you get that blueish color for your interface?

[@zerobio]

That is a Blender theme called Science Lab and it is selectable from user preferences. Hope you can find it if that's what you like.

[@thetrinitysolution9631]

Yes, I found it under 'Presets.' Thank you, sir!@@zerobio

[@zerobio]

@@thetrinitysolution9631 Great!

[@anshbhilare9565]

wow!zerobio replies to everyone's comments! Thats so epic! Also,epic tut btw

[@zerobio]

I really try to. I figure if you take your time to comment on my video, I owe you a reply. And thanks for the compliment on the video.

[@anshbhilare9565]

@@zerobio damn man, you are really amazing!

[@zerobio]

@@anshbhilare9565 takes one to know one ;)

[@anshbhilare9565]

@@zerobio hey hey, 1 question, once you are free, will you try to make a tutorial series on how to make some organic models like shoes,etc? I am good at hardstuface, but I am really bad at organic stuff,thanks

[@zerobio]

@@anshbhilare9565 same here! Well, we will see if I can do anything like that but for the moment, I have two challenges coming up so it might be a little while. The next Blender Challenge is "Health/Medical", in case you are interested.

[@kenshi959]

Hello, realy cool video The only thing I didn't realize was you pressed the 7:29 ?

[@zerobio]

At 7:29, I rotated the curve in the x axis so I pressed R X 90 (rotate X 90 degrees). Hope that was what you meant.

[@kenshi959]

zerobio, thank you very much. Is it I mean So, you look and in Russia thanks, for the video lesson, very informative

[@zerobio]

That's great! Thanks for writing from Russia. I am in Canada. Nice to hear from you there and good luck!

[@kenshi959]

zerobio can i ask a question? What are you working on, is your work more closely related to modeling?

[@zerobio]

Kenshi, I am not working on anything in particular. As you look around my channel, you will notice that I am mostly a musician and not so much a Blender artist. However, since my daughter is only just over one year old now and is quite a bundle of energy, I don't really have time for music anymore and only the odd couple of hours to work on Blender. So I just do it for fun when I can. My previous job was as a high school science teacher so I have tons of video tutorials about teaching science on my channel. I was never a graphic or 3D artist, obviously LOL. Thanks for asking.

[@febarevo3716]

thanks for video!

[@zerobio]

You're welcome!

[@rayzakyan4008]

Still useful tutorial in Dec, 2024 :)

[@zerobio]

@@rayzakyan4008 I'm so glad. I e done a new watch mode recently if you want to search my channel for it.

[@HundaolFekadu]

why hit the keyboards like that, lol

[@bsnmurthy8571]

thank you sir nice one

[@zerobio]

You're welcome. thanks for watching

[@moody3359]

while making this watch i created a centre piece on the face of the watch which looks impossible to make unless 3D printing was used, All it took was one wrong bevel command and i have this crazy shape 😂😂

[@zerobio]

Nice! A lucky accident :)

[@leona8469]

thanks

[@zerobio]

Sure thing, my pleasure.