Blender Secrets - Easy Propeller (Updated!)

Let’s make a propellor in a few easy steps. Along the way you’ll learn about transform orientations and rotation methods.
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[@kosdum4749]

Sometimes it feels like magic, how easy this looks.

[@donmega5202]

The real magic comes when you yourself start coming up with techniques and alternatives to create even more expansive and complex ideas. There are tons of ways to make a propeller blade, though most alleviate towards radial array because arrays are instances. If you edit the original object, it affects all objects after so you only need to focus on one blade and all of its details as everything in the array copies it. Pretty neat.

[@ekeretteekpo3004]

It is magic! 😅

[@mipe7755]

I think that topology studies are a great source of endless tutorial ideas. I could watch them endlessly ;)

[@kyronking2975]

its like you reading my mind , i just created a propeller yesterday an i was think man the has to be a easier way , thank you for this i just re did it an its way better .

[@rodrigoceccatodefreitas1656]

I was about to comment exactly this!

[@olgayampolskiy7367]

I learned from one propeller more than in several tutorials! Thank you!!!

[@lootgodamn5721]

I DIDN"T THINK IT"D BE THIS EASY

[@dokidoki7]

Finding this channel is such a blessing to me. Thankyou!!💖

[@gavindownes2213]

quick and simple. LOVE IT !

[@pandurangansatish2973]

Wow ! This way of explaining is very good and easy to learn . Thanks , pl make all your videos this way.

[@SuperComicAnimation]

Thanks, can't believe how easy you make it.

[@alirezaakhavi9943]

amazing! thank you very much for all your incredible creative and smart videos!!! :)

[@santiagoluib3]

Nice tip thanks. Just a note though, real propeller blades are angled from the roots and slowly twist at a shallow angle towards the tip. That's because they revolve slowly near the center and faster towards the tip ;)

[@BlenderSecrets]

It’s a Dutch propeller, they turn the other direction. 😉 No but seriously, to fix it: select and hide the cylinder part, select the root of the propellers instead of the tip and rotate from there. Then unhide.

[@VerrixD]

Work with transform pivot and orientation is awesome :)

[@nekif820]

Damn. So quick. Best channel 👌👌👌

[@JSaretin]

Thank you, this is really amazing

[@toddspeck9415]

That was so cool. Thank you so much.

[@MikeMike-wc8on]

Oh thank you! You solved some questions i've had ))

[@Egozavrasia]

Great tutorial! 😎

[@danielbetu]

Really great!! Thank you very much!!!

[@Matthi508]

really cool secrets ! like it

[@polarissteel]

just perfect . keep it up bro 😍😍

[@Lexdros]

LITERALLY SO GOOD

[@kkojha]

good work done!

[@allcaps3584]

Wow! short, simple and to the point right from the word go. Not beginning with history of propellers, history of blender and unnecessarily stretching the video to 20 minutes. Love this content! Easy to follow.

[@radiocage]

No 30 second intro followed by a pimp of their merch, no begging for followers or patreon supporters from a room lit by RGB with a minifridge full of gamer juice, no entire minute of advertising awful earbuds. Best channel on KZbin.

[@allcaps3584]

@@radiocage Exactly!

[@Dhruv1223]

quick tip for rotation: Right Click right rotation box (x,y or z) Add Driver In Driver Editor under Scripting put in frame Now It will start spinning real fast. Just divide by whatever number till you get the result you like Your fan is spinning :) (This was such a pain in the ass to do in 3ds Max)

[@Kahr64]

Decided I needed to learn how to make a propeller... Figured it was gonna be complicated... Jeez, a couple things I wasn't familiar with, but easy enough to figure out. And WHAM, beautiful propeller. Thank you!:)

[@vladisslavss]

Amazing! ✨

[@smilgu]

Thank you very much!

[@centradude493]

Broee you're genius!!

[@sheikhfhamid9744]

How dare you making Blender THIS easy & simple!! XD

[@santhoshmg2319]

Thank you for your video

[@markokovacevic3225]

Thank you! This is awesome! For me, 2 out of 3 propellers rotate the same way, and the 3rd does it's own thing. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

[@JesseCotto]

Really like the fact that it does seem like a breeze.

[@LongGia-hp2si]

amazing

[@hpept]

I didn't even flinch. Liked immediately!

[@Awakenbeing]

amazing!!!

[@HassanSiddique777]

Awesome 👌

[@user-yn8tz3lh2j]

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 this is amazing 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@davinor5384]

Good job

[@DVI--D77]

Great thanks

[@DrEndMan]

I spent 3 hours yesterday trying to make a propeller and today this popped up in my recommended so either it’s a coincidence or my phone is spying on me, but thanks I still have a few planes I need to make and now it can be easier

[@pile333]

Sometimes I fell like we all are doing the same stuff. Excellent tut as usual.

[@matejivi]

smooth

[@dronedna6819]

Nice !

[@reality990]

Good!

[@HolidayMaker]

Cool!

[@musicpet]

Just wow.

[@leirtac12]

Cool stuff! Thanks. Just curious, does this actually make aerodynamically correct propellers?

[@awonekidamine9138]

I fucking love these short lessons

[@breadsucksatwaterloo7286]

anyone else having the issue where it doesnt rotate the whole blade only the end for the proportional rotation

[@smitprajapati521]

All videos are so good, but i have problem with camera tracking in portrait mode, please make video on this...

[@joshscott7401]

thanks for the tutorial. In the future, please don't crop out the tops of the dropdown menus, so we know where you're clicking.

[@RC-Heli835]

I tried this on a 2 blade wooden prop. Those have very little material removed from the center. I almost believe it would be best to use a cube on a 2 blade wood prop. Can you try one sir?

[@rubengarzi7986]

WOWWWW I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE BRIDGE OPTIONS. I STURUGGLE TRYING TO MAKE MY OWN TYPOLOGY TO FIX IT. im drunk so idek if it’s typology but the vertices I would have to do by hand when I could just use the bridge

[@alexeypraprin]

Did somebody try to make this that simple in Maya?)))) I so miss INSET feature and this cool extrude tool)

[@vrosi1963]

is this the same for 2.8 ?

[@cornpop1631]

My cylinder is expanding when i try to resize the Inset along the Y axis at 0:22. Can anyone tell me how do I prevent my cylinder from expanding?

[@audytor111]

👍👍👍

[@drumboarder1]

0:25 would shift, extrude along normal not be quicker/easier?

[@Mocorn]

Perhaps but then you would have to set transform axis and individual point anyway for the rotation part afterwards.

[@thegwolf]

I think I'm missing something. At 0:13 I supposed to bridge faces but the provided image in the .pdf book or the video file doesn't show which menu we use to get to the bridge faces option. (I've been trying to replicate this step for the past 30 minutes now with heavy google and youtube use, which makes me feel like I'll never be able to use blender on my own xD )

[@sneakpeekreviews4510]

Right click.

[@darknessringo5989]

At 0:25 you forgot show the shortcut, BUT it's perfect tutorial

[@priyeshrana]

Which laptop will you suggest some one who is starting with 3d? Budget is approx. $2000-2300 USD.?

[@BlenderSecrets]

I don’t really know, sorry! But that seems like a very nice budget for a laptop, I think I’ve never spent that much on one. Make sure it has a decent enough graphics card, I guess. And RAM. Can’t have enough RAM.

[@neverpure20]

Whats the mean crease?

[@BlenderSecrets]

Mean crease is a method to “sharpen” edges without support loops. Select an edge, press Shift+E and move the mouse or press 1 on the numpad to set it to maximum sharpness.

[@michaelbishop8189]

I'm using 3.2 and don't have "Bridge Faces". Is this an add on?

[@chengsaeteurn3815]

Edge -> Bridge Edge Loops

[@dancemaster69xx77]

it work on the fist time but when i try to subdivide the second time the center part also get smooth, anyone know why.

[@dancemaster69xx77]

got it cause the mean crease part

[@slimetunersis5373]

followed this tutorial to a tee then as soon as it came to rotating the ends of the propellers only one of them rotated the correct way, the other 2 rotated on a completely different axis, i don't understand what's happened

[@-PhilGibson]

rotation isnt working properly for me. each blade rotates but as one, meaning each whole individual blade rotates as one instead of it actually curving. also the mean crease part is rotating too. i thought that having a mean crease value of 1 means it wont budge?

[@-PhilGibson]

anyone else encountering the same issue. scroll ur mouse wheel until you see the ring appear.

[@devformation]

OMG

[@komkumarkumar4451]

How about continue animation of this propeller

[@paulcg7566]

Easy make some keyframes by rotating 45 degrees on y axis

[@komkumarkumar4451]

@@paulcg7566 sir how to do 50 rotation

[@Tramwithacam]

​@@komkumarkumar4451 Personally I would set a key frame for 0 in the y axis (or what ever axis your propeller is on) and then at the end of the time line set a key frame and type in the Y rotation box 360x50 (or 18,000) and set the key frame. Some of the value boxes in blender can actually do math so this can be helpful when you aren't quite sure on the exact number needed but you know you want something to spin a set amount of times.

[@BlenderSecrets]

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[@Invisibletoday]

Im stuck on 0:12 what did you do to get this menu up to bridge the selection? I've replayed it countless times

[@BlenderSecrets]

Right-click

[@Invisibletoday]

@@BlenderSecrets Thank you i figured that out but im stuck again at 0:18 when I inset it scales down the individual faces not 2 at the same time if you know what i mean?

[@BlenderSecrets]

@@Invisibletoday You can toggle whether it insets the individual faces or the selection by pressing i, so press i twice in your case.

[@user-yq8cp4om8m]

Книгу постоянно покупать нужно при загрузке на новое устройство??????

[@XuChunVideo]

i spend the whole night trying to create a C47 propeller, and finically just got shit,,,,,, thanks for so easy doing

[@Mr.YETI.Cinematic]

Tell me only this one ,what motivates you from begging and still keeps you going?

[@clickbaitcentral12345]

PLEASE FULL SCREEN NEXT TIME

[@kelasanakindonesia5364]

Do you Udemy Tutorial?

[@BlenderSecrets]

Hey, this is my product: store.blendersecrets.org/l/IxofeY I don't have anything on Udemy, no.

[@ringzero3260]

me: *struggles for 1.5 hours* Blender Secrets: "give me 1 minute"

[@jamesriley5057]

did it flied

[@Javedskyknight]

Yeah. without a full-screen display I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, so unfortunately this tutorial doesnt help me 😞

[@nirmansarkar]

May I ask, how do you even figure it out that it can be done this way? Is there any method to reverse engineer the thought process? :)

[@jani25654]

Experience, and knowledge of the tools, i know it sounds cheesy, but that is literally it. I as a 2 year blender user recently compared myself to a person who started like 2 months ago, and when i was trying to create the same shape that he wanted, i got a good idea of how to do it from my past experience with similar shapes, and thus managed to do it in a fraction of the time, while turning it into a situation where i can teach the person about modifiers, and about the fact that sometimes less is more, in a sense that if you have less vertecies you have to do less work and you can offload most of the work to properly set up stack of modifiers ^^

[@hopefulkoala01435]

Not only are these free, he remade the video because the old one became outdated. Bless Papa Jan

[@xuaalbito8303]

Bro spent all his life on blender

[@jeric_synergy8581]

Why do you have to hit Z multiple times???

[@fefchanskiy4696]

Instructions unclear, accidentally made a fish from Subnautica

[@GioGvazava]

I pause video million times... what a hell... could you make it slow and show full monitor...

[@HiememMeow]

Wth

[@t-man5323]

next time slow down. andshow full screen. How did you rotate the blades with proportional editing? i keep rewinding this video millions of times.

[@BlenderSecrets]

You can read the written version of this tutorial for free if you want. Page 11 in my free 30-page PDF. Hope that helps. Have a nice day!

[@borjacc]

Hi, someone is reuploading some of your videos (uncredited) on Tik Tok, user: monich_an

[@SnowInHere]

amazing