BLOCKBENCH for BEGINNERS - The Interface & All Basics

[@MoreByKev]

What do you want to create with Blockbench? Subscribe to the Main Channel kzbin.info if you look for some epic inspiration for your own projects!

[@Grimlin]

i will be patiently stalking your channel waiting for the next episode. i started learning to use block bench a few days ago by watching you and the others. I'm currently making a model of a giant mech but I'm still really inexperienced and have no idea how to code " that's a later problem" loving the videos

[@MatthewsLivingAdventures]

A cozy cabin in the forest. Both exterior and interior! Im really looking foreword to this series! Making modles and textures (aside from Minecraft) and worlds and animations seem super fun! Thankyou for deciding to make this tutorial series!

[@petraharvey8774]

loved this tutorial, I am hoping it will help me create new resource pack for new types of fish for minecraft. Thank you so much for an amazing video!

[@SethStudt]

I think I’m gonna make a big dinosaur thing and thanks for teaching all of us

[@faym6164]

I want to make a gaint dragon 🐲

[@EmptyBlock]

Dude, the fact that you give away all this knowledge for free, in such a concise and clear way, shows that you really care about bringing value to your viewers. It's so enjoyable! Thank you, you earned a subscriber.

[@juangonzalez9396]

Thanks so much I was unsure if blockbench was safe to use. This channel deserves for subscribers

[@MoreByKev]

Blockbench is absolutely safe to use ❤️ I work with it in a full time job, so ☺️

[@We.Are.I.M.P.C.T]

This tutorial literally covered every question I had as I was having it.

[@Oil_lover6723]

I feel so, so powerful by changing the likes form 3.9k to 4k

[@ルミンtheInkyVhenshun]

Lol

[@zerolevelvoid]

This is fun I like to listen to smooth voices to teach me things It's not the same as being shouted at for not seeing the obvious and this makes me feel nice and warm Wish it's a direct teaching from you but this is good enough for me

[@MoreByKev]

Haha, me in a classroom is with a flamethrower and megaphone! ☕️🤓

[@quinn2826]

this is downright one of the best tutorials I've ever seen for any program ever, thank you!

[@TeejayTrehan-s6k]

this is the best! guide Ever!

[@MsLiberanimus]

You're so easy to understand. I'm 100% beginner it means world to me. Tnx man.

[@Atell4]

I've seen you in other youtuber's videos showcasing mobs created by the ideas of that youtuber's fans and now I see you as a lot more than just another youtuber. This will help a lot on my journey to learn modding and I will revisit these videos in the VERY near future.

[@MoreByKev]

They all started with my old tutorial ^^

[@MinecraftCurios]

Thanks for this video! Very useful indeed❤

[@InfinityTheInfinite]

0 replies??

[@LXSLight]

no way this only has 1 reply

[@InfinityTheInfinite]

@@LXSLight ikr

[@YosefMalasquez-z4m]

Man words cant describe how awesome and helpful this was!!!

[@jaryarts]

OH DIOS MUCHAS GRACIAS!!! 💞Ni siquiera hablo ingles pero explicas de una forma tan sencilla y directa que pude seguir y comprender a la perfección tus pasos, ERES TAN GENIAL!!! Espero ver mas tutoriales de este tipo, de verdad lo que haces es oro.

[@TheyYeht]

How did you get does cool stickers

[@TheyYeht]

Como opteniste esos stickers bonitos

[@LittleStoryDreamer]

This is amazing, I wish more tutorials had this lay out, thank you so much!

[@Prismarine_Man]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, now I can finally create my own models without learning blender or 3Ds Max ! ❤

[@MoreByKev]

I come from a +10 year background in 3Ds Max 🤣❤️

[@devseb]

This video is exactly what I'm looking for. Very recent too!

[@MoreByKev]

Yep, and I have more coming - been off a week due to travel 😊

[@smulandatCAT]

This is such a huge help for everyone trying to learn modding or modeling in minecraft, your voice is calming and gentle and catches ones attention, it makes one wanna have attention on the video and makes it so you wanna learn more and watch you more, you earned a subscriber and it's almost a crime that you dont have more subs, keep up the grind bro:)

[@JayBarber-l1g]

Thanks for the tutorial! I was really struggling to use blockbench before I saw this

[@teresaobstoj8980]

This video is so cool im now knowing how to use BlockBench!

[@Benito.Mussolini.]

oh yeah motherf*****r I've been waiting for this video since the dinosaurs! You are an amazing person and I love your creativity! keep up the good work!

[@MoreByKev]

Yikes! That's a hell of a long time!

[@LancerLady1456]

Your video helped me a lot, before i was thinking i will never know how to use blockbench now i improved a lot .

[@irmul5626]

Muchas gracias por el video, estaré esperando el siguiente! 😃

[@MoreByKev]

It's on its way! I've just been incredibly unlucky with sickness this autumn

[@sj3o3gaming26]

❤Thanks love from India

[@CraftyJimYT]

thank you a tutorial i can do with it. managed to make a zombie reskin for bedrock earlier

[@EscapazitionMCmaps]

Blockbench is the actual GOAT.

[@princederick5308]

Thank you for helping me in block bench 😊

[@cassodile]

thank u so much this is so clear and makes so much sense

[@FunnyLingaw-vl7wq]

this is sooo cool in the future i will remember this and become an blockbench artist yay

[@EpichomerEh]

This is insanely helpful.

[@Biepz69]

Hey Kev, When can we expect the rest of the tutorials in this new series? Really want to learn blockbench by making goodlooking and Usable assets like that sign post and that character you showed untextured.. Please do not stop this new series! EDIT: may I also suggest making a new playlist folder on the artsbykev channel, like you did on the morebykev channel. And lastly.. Blockbench is not only used in minecraft, others are also using it to make models ready for when Hytale comes and others (like myself) will use blockbench for our indie game projects. Would you be willing to take this into account for when you are teaching us blockbench modeling, like how to handle animation, How to make certain pixels in your textures glow, how to create different pixel-art textures for the same model, and maybe some tip and tricks on having a good workflow, fixing texturing/uv wrap problems and importing images in other texturing tools (Gimp/Photoshop/Aseprite) to make them ready to import into rendering tools (Blender) or game engines, just to show them off with visual effects/lighting.

[@MoreByKev]

I aim to cover all if not as much of it as possible. I also use Blockbench for other game engines! Were meant to get them out earlier. As parenting goes, I fell ill a few days ago and have been busy with my son since my wife was sick the week before that. Any particular part you are extra anxious to get to know?

[@Biepz69]

@@MoreByKev I think there are 3 parts/subjects that are not commonly mentioned or taught that I would love to learn myself. This includes the things I mentioned above of course. 1: Manipulating objects/cubes. Let's say you made one side of a sword and they have angled cubes in the handle. Now you want the other side to be a mirror of this. How would we achieve this. How can we get the same angles in other direction without messing up the angle. 2: Texturing. This is my biggest issue with blockbench, I have a bit of trouble "wrapping" my head around it XD. You have to select texture size when creating your first project, and again when you make your first texture file. Do they have to be the same? What if you want some parts of your model to be lower size (16x16) while bigger parts in a higher size (32x32) can that be done? How?.. And finally.. what if you made a model (and you chose 32x32 at the beginning of the project) and you decide you want a lower (or higher) texture size. Can you just wrap up a bigger size around the same model or do you have to do some editing to your model? 3: The most important thing to learn if using blockbench for other things then minecraft is to extend the workflow outside of blockbench. How does this work? For example using another tool like Aseprite to do your texturing, can this be done and do you see the changes live in blockbench? If you are using your model to be imported into an game engine (Unity, Godot etc.) What do you need to know, to get it working with both textures and animations. And how would you be able to make parts of your model glow (like eyes or parts of your weapon). As far as I know you cannot select pixels in your texture to make it glow in Godot or Blockbench. So basically.. For new people (including me) having someone that can teach us the workflow to create models (and manipulate it with rotation, extruding, custom shapes), textures and animation to be imported into a game engine would be VERY important and incredibly useful. I just dived into game development. have purchased numerous courses to teach Godot, GDScripting, Music/sound creation, Blender and Pixel-art. I'm learning so much at so many places and it's great to hop around and learn what I need to know to improve in game development. it has been a dream of mine for the past 18 years. I love how blockbench can look (I've seen the amazing stuff on sketchfab) and the simplicity but also strenght of Godot. But as you might know the problem lies in the courses/tutorials of Blockbench. There are a few out there but 90% of them are focused on Minecraft (importing, animation, adding effects, new monsters or blocks) and also a large part uses the older Blockbench. These videos can be 3 to 5 years old.. No new videos on blockbench modeling has been made that ALSO targets people who want to use it for game development or make scene rendering as a hobby. When I saw your video and the way you teach us things, I really hoped you could fill that void. Becoming the go-to tutorial that teaches us how to make beautiful and complex models with amazing textures to be used in our other projects (scene redering or game development). Anyway.. with 3 weeks without a new video I thought you maybe decided not to continue this tutorial series. Hearing about you and your wife being sick I can totally understand and wish you well. I hope you do not get a 'forced' feeling from us that you need to keep the videos coming. You need to get better first.. making videos when your head is not at the right place yet, will only demotivate you to keep going.. so my best wishes ;)

[@MoreByKev]

I am very much looking to cover those topics ahead, and you are very right about the intention of the series. Minecraft is a common space for Blockbench usage, but not the only one. I have the poor habit of falling out of sync with my upload and production schedule, where the biggest issue now is that I am also on parental leave. So when not sick, still very occupied with other endevours 😅 You'll get it all in due time, pinkie promise ❤️👌

[@Biepz69]

@@MoreByKev I can't wait! (seriously XD) I'm glad to see new blockbench videos about these topics in the future. I have subscribed to your channel and am ready to learn new things (blockbench related) alongside with you.. I will hold you on your pinkie promise ;) And.. thank you for the effort you are putting in this tutorial series. It might not seems like it at times, but it helps out a lot of people that are wanting to use their blockbench creations in their upcoming projects.

[@shlooploop6827]

when are you going to upload the next vid and I must say that I love your video and I had a bad day and know knowing that I can learn how to use blockbench im very happy. thank you(:

[@MoreByKev]

If I can get it edited and done within the next week, that would be fantastic, but it may be a few days more, since I am busy with my little son all days during normal work hours ^^

[@ChiefSupreme6803]

Thank you for making this❤😁

[@Armetron]

I just started learning the tools for Minecraft modding and I'm excited to see you go in depth into blockbench. If possible, I have a request that I would like you to go over at some point. When learning about modeling and animating different blocks and entities something that keeps coming up is a library called GeckoLib which is an animation engine. All videos about GeckoLib I've found simply state that you just need to add a plugin to blockbench, yet they never go into details about the benefits/advantages of making a GeckoLib entity vs a regular entity. From what I could tell you can still animate in Blockbench without it. Basically I'm trying to figure out, why should I use it?

[@MoreByKev]

GeckoLib is for when you wanna export keyframe animations for Java mods, since normally mods rely on math animations.

[@reillydonohue-nm4wk]

This video really helped a lot

[@Goboo-zZ94]

Membuat addons itu sebenarnya mudah.. Yang susah itu memikirkan ide dan membuat model dan texturenya:)

[@MoreByKev]

Which is why I am making an attempt to help that creative process

[@BytePix_]

Thanks for the videos/playlist (also btw the moustache animation somehow made it more engaging)

[@LeeStyxx-vg8vj]

I can’t wait for you next video! The project I’m currently working on is completed texture, animation and model wise but I have to add script and animation controllers to the json text so am at a loss as to how to do it properly. I’m hoping you’ll cover that information with the sign project!

[@MandyShaibu-zp2ts]

This vid is a thumbs up

[@thatweirdgamer7820]

Thx so much amazing vid

[@squaredfox]

thank you :]

[@faym6164]

Thank you so much 😊

[@RodanNotFurry]

08:45 so thats why my model was moving wrong, thx my guy 🎉❤❤🎉❤🎉

[@4bril-]

thanks !

[@MoreByKev]

You're welcome!

[@themanok178]

mam i so exited

[@Bobby21NL]

I hope you will make a tutorial on preview scenes in the future

[@MoreByKev]

Absolutely

[@Bobby21NL]

@@MoreByKev nice

[@Green_Magnum]

Hey I need to know how to upload my custom block bench creation into Minecraft, I don’t know how, and I know that it involves coding I think, can you make a video showing how to upload a block bench creation into minecraft?

[@MoreByKev]

We'll be going over all those steps in videos ahead, one way or another. Elaborate your setup and I'll see where it could feasibly slot in! :)

[@Prof.steelSRM]

I use the Maya Autodesk key binds since I teach Maya Autodesk myself. I am mostly here to learn how to make a 3D model for Bedrock Minecraft.

[@MoreByKev]

Aaaah, good ol' Autodesk 👌👌👌 Started my journey with Inventor and AutoCad, then moved into 3DStudio and later picked up Maya for mesh rigging 😁

[@CrystlJdSchtz]

😊🐷☀️🍑​@@MoreByKev

[@CreativeDrone]

I want to see a design mechanic like edit mode in blender meaning extrude, loop cut, etc

[@annabezas1844]

no way you are the guy that toath teares hd?!? i love that guy and since you gived him the nolage you can sure teach me

[@MoreByKev]

I am his project manager today even

[@pinkbanana]

kev do u think you could make a tutorial on how to make particles and animating textures? idk if you can't use particles in bedrock either

[@MoreByKev]

Just a bit more patience 😊

[@pinkbanana]

@@MoreByKev u got it

[@dawndyer5279]

Cool

[@alyamr2653]

love ur content

[@MoreByKev]

Oii!❤️

[@notabot3236]

Do you ever use the other premade shapes?

[@MoreByKev]

Meshes? Or with the shape generator? If the latter, no - don't find it useful. For meshes, yes.

[@notabot3236]

@@MoreByKev I meant meshes and asked that without finishing the video, lol.

[@dawndyer5279]

Can you make a setting for a medieval sword please

[@MoreByKev]

Sounds cool

[@htf_09]

Thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnks. I like you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@MoreByKev]

O.O

[@cococooldog25]

Can you make a tutorial on the new Item Wizard please

[@MoreByKev]

Absolutely! Both armor and items

[@cococooldog25]

@@MoreByKev thank you so much I need it

[@Elias405Oficial]

You can do a step-by-step tutorial on how to make a human and with animation and tell what mistakes to avoid since in my case when making the forearm and the arm they came off in blockbench

[@affexthunder971]

Next tutorial can we do particals or did you say it in the vid and I missed it

[@DreamNeverFound]

Can You Please Tell That How To Add Forge Created Mobs In The Game With The Animations?

[@MunkFano1]

Are you going to continue this series?

[@MoreByKev]

Mhm

[@marymuoki4948]

which mindcraft do you use

[@MoreByKev]

Both versions :)

[@filipolendzki8276]

thank You

[@Silent-hz4wv]

Piviting is like being in the fourth dimension

[@socksfan2117]

is the second episode out?

[@bonniebull1987]

Wow it's just like using Roblox or the Hello Neighbor modkit editor. a lot of the skills made sense to me.

[@MoreByKev]

Yep, it's and easy pick-up

[@tikoblocks3224]

Are models created from blockbench decently optimized?

[@MoreByKev]

Generally yes, depends on your end-use platform

[@littleboulderbro4981]

Kev im ahving troubles with the texture part of the models for minecraft could we maybe talk and you could help me?

[@AnonymousCastle]

@Morebykev can you create a video about how to create biomes in minecraft for a java mod?

[@MoreByKev]

Kaupenjoe is to check in with for that

[@AnonymousCastle]

@@MoreByKevThx

[@witheredstrike]

Hey @MoreByKev, is there a Direct Follow up to this video ? I found a playlist but it just confuses me

[@MoreByKev]

They are coming; it's just been heavily backlogged.

[@ELmarcos69]

Muy buen video🎉🎉🎉

[@BazilBuildBases]

cool program and really smooth tutorial! i watched it in one breath, even tho i still not really understand how did i get here and what can i do with this program. it is fairly looks like a better version of Mineimator, but.. can i animate directly in this program, or it is just for making assets? if so, how can i make an animation like the one on 0:59 ? thank you in advance for your respond!

[@MoreByKev]

Yes, that is possible and doable. But you may want to use a proper rendering software to get the beauty out of it 👌

[@ADeityIsHere]

How can I move a block independently of the grid? Because if you can't, you couldn't make things like teeth, a tail, and other basic things to make something.

[@Melonspawn]

I got a question, how do i import models from other mods (say smth like the moobloom from friends and foes) into blockbench? Is there a way to do that so i can pose them for thumbnails?

[@itsdaxgoal6300]

Hello, i like this idea for making a custom mobs and boss etc. and i? getting interest on this block blench, i have a question how do i add a steve dummy?

[@9kStndrt]

OMG, is that Blender for minecraft/mods?

[@MoreByKev]

Pretty much ^^

[@SolitaryLuX]

I want to do animation in block bench but I cant see where the animation tab is, all I can see is the display tab in top right corner (I need help)

[@MoreByKev]

That's because Java Block/Item models (which I will asume is the project type you opened) does not support animation.

[@finbob4277]

Hi, this was really cool. So I am kinda young but I managed to make a chestplate for my friend on PC on the item wizard or whatever and it was in Minecraft but it looked like a deformed iron chestplate and it was on my legs!? But yeah I did change the texture but it wasn’t showing so please help if you can, once again great video!

[@MoreByKev]

Check the armadillo video on the ArtsByKev channel!

[@finbob4277]

@@MoreByKev Hi! Thanks I tested I out on a weapon and it mostly works it’s just once again in game the model looks a bit deformed with parts missing, sorry to bother you but yeah I tried everything if you have anything that you think could possibly help I would really appreciate it!

[@azlaakunz]

Can you make a tutorial for making a totem

[@MoreByKev]

In what fashion? 🤔

[@Kryzor_]

i have always used block bench on my phone for about 3 years now and over updates it has gotten a lot more difficult to use and i do not have a computer to access 100% of the time

[@MoreByKev]

I wholeheartedly agree here, new features are regularely added and arrive in a way that makes what used to be a slim and intuitive process into a multi step micro hell 😂 On a phone device

[@canadianturtle7240]

This app is INSANELY glitchfested. I'll literally pay you for help

[@TheFilipFonky]

That was a great video, but it seems you never actually turned this into a series. What happened? I see you have a 1 hour and 40 minute video of an entire series, but that's your old series from 2020. Am I not seeing the new one or did you not make it?

[@MoreByKev]

Life came inbetween, partially as I became a parent, and partially due to working on an actual course program intended to hone skills, instead of trying harder to create multifaceted tutorials. The basics is always the fast and easy done one, getting people to explore and examine. But the moment you delve deeper, the concepts grow a multitude per level of depth, since they cross associate and grow into more specific cases, from which it's hard to not 1. Get repetitive 2. Present *the important stuff* without reenforcing the basics of that direction, and what sets it apart from another, over and over. Still got it in the pipeline.

[@dinomain3824]

How do you rotating cube freely?!?!?!?! I can only rotate it with 22.5 degrees but I need kinda 5

[@MoreByKev]

Java projects are locked to those angles

[@Camerablue_gaming]

Thx for the turtorial,but does this work for mobile? I recently discovered that you can download blockbench on mobile without these apk and stuff

[@MoreByKev]

Yep, it's just a wee bit more finnicky due to window formatting and menues placement.

[@braxtonmontgomery1668]

Is it possible to make a mod in Blockbench to build much faster, such as creating or destroying many blocks at once rather than painstakingly one at a time? On top of making mobs, can you also make additional items, blocks, weapons, armor, and game modes with Blockbench? I'm curious about the capabilities of Blockbench-?

[@MoreByKev]

Blockbench is a modelling software. You must learn coding to change, edit or adjust ingame behaviours

[@braxtonmontgomery1668]

But if you learn the coding, you can make mods? Is this easy to do? I want to make my own mods & skins, but I've never had any kind of experience with such.

[@MoreByKev]

Modding for Java? Easy is a subjective term, depends on your information accumulation and problem solving skills. And code is not something you write in Blockbench, however you can script variables into animations and more to later control with code in your mod / pack

[@braxtonmontgomery1668]

@MoreByKev Thank you! I really do appreciate all your replies! God bless!

[@LizardFella2.0]

Can you please tell me why I can't export using the MCBedrock item maker?

[@KuroNeko2173]

Im interested in making 3d textures for minecraft java since a few months now but i just cant find a tutorial how to convert my models in vanilla minecraft

[@sunnymeadowmouse9675]

pls make a vid on how to make a custom bow and arrow in java plsssssss

[@sirasia3957]

yo. i need to open a .json file i converted from a png and it isnt working. it doesnt say anything bout errors and js doesnt open the model. how do i fix it

[@holacomo9149]

Hello, I have a problem rotating blocks, it only allows me 22.5 and 45, what can I do to change that?

[@MoreByKev]

Java models have those hard bound limitations :) There are ways to break that, but then the model won't work in game.

[@Agodimus]

idk what im doing wrong but i dont have the menu on the right ( its only on the web version the menu on the right, not on the app version )

[@pepejowsky]

how to change grid snapping? because when I rotate the cube, it rotates by 22.5 and I want to rotate by 1

[@MoreByKev]

File > Settings > Snap / Grid

[@ExoSweeper]

How do you put it in a curseforge modpack or can you

[@Captain-Obvious-Idiot]

I got a problem where im trying to make a horror mob but everytime I try to download it or move it to VS Code (mobile) I can't open it or it wont show the "Open in VS Code" link and its been bothering me a bit that I cant change the hp or the damage of the mob

[@MoreByKev]

Are you trying to open the corresponding json files for these details, or the blockbench model? Bedrock? Check out the entity wizard for a brief on all files.

[@Captain-Obvious-Idiot]

I tried using a computer but it still didn't show the link and it didn't let me open the files I downloaded the file 50 times but each attempt didn't work I also tried asking a friend who has experience but even he couldn't figure it out

[@MoreByKev]

If you use a PC, install Blockbench instead

[@Captain-Obvious-Idiot]

With the PC I have at the time I can't download BlockBench but do you have any recommendations for other websites that might work until I get one that can download BlockBench?

[@DreamNeverFound]

Can you tell me how to change to way mob looks at you? Like when my looks at me it dosent looks at me from its head side it looks me from backwards of its body pls tell me

[@Dream72909]

The biggest question i have is how to make an animation only move if you type it on command

[@ultratoilet2112]

0:12 wither storm?

[@capim000]

thank you for the video! but hey, i'm using blockbench and some of my tools are hidden, i am using ''generic model'' but some of them stills hiden, do you know how can i unhide them? Sorry my bad english

[@MoreByKev]

What tools in particular? You can always make a ticket via blockbench.net and their discord! :)

[@capim000]

​@@MoreByKev Tools like Sean tool, Paint brush, Loop cut and other tools. I was thinking if those tools only appears in other situations.

[@MoreByKev]

Yes, tools are bound to different systems. Cubes and meshes have different tools for manipulating their shapes.

[@D3V1NXIC31]

Hey morebykev can u show me how can i edit the resize its scales it big but yours small

[@MoreByKev]

Hold shift and/or ctrl whilst dragging.

[@frogboi1015]

how do you rename blockbench models?

[@SsSs-jx8mh]

I don't know what I did, so there is a picture on the background from the studio, and when I do something new, it doesn't disappear forever. How can I remove the pictures on the background?

[@MoreByKev]

View - scene