Hunting Knife | Beginner Exercises | Part 11 | 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 we are working on building ahunting knife using hard surface modelling techniques with the subdivision surface modifier and other useful tools. you can see the full playlist below along with others useful links.
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[@grayjackgaming1746]

Whenever you come to a point where it looks like there will be a triangle I always think... "well there is no other option than to just make a triangle" me 10 seconds later... Grant is a wizard confirmed!

[@newtons4o114]

Gray Jack Gaming Nothing’s impossible

[@Shadowgamer-ph2sf]

triangles arent bad ngons are, all perfect quads are more for movies a lot of game ready models have tris

[@radiantbacon1502]

just about four years later and the knowledge you've shared for free out of kindness is still teaching new people. I've tried to get into blender over the course of five or six years, and just couldn't wrap my head around it (even with the donuts). This is the farthest I've ever gone on the blender journey, and I feel like I'm actually learning rather than just following along. Thanks to you I can come home and spend my time doing something constructive. Thank you Grant, I don't plan on stopping!

[@coreys2686]

Me: How do you move a vertex? Everyone: .... Me: You Grabbitt!

[@RobsGameShack]

You make the internet a great place.

[@shogun3317]

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[@newtons4o114]

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[@guartis]

Now that i'm finally early enough, I can tell you how much your tutorials help me. I'm trying everyday to become a good 3D artist, I must say that you are a nice teacher and most of all, Thanks.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@lem3579]

You commented this 1 year ago, how's your progress now?

[@william383]

@@lem3579 he's dead :(

[@CarlyTho]

Sigh.. I just love you and all the effort you put into the community, so effortlessly. Thank you Grant!

[@AlOn556]

This video was like a warm hug of an explanation, so nice and calm and informative! I would love to see the texturing as well as your take on doing the small indents on the blade

[@Outmind01]

Oh wow, adding the textures will turn this stabber into a photo-realistic beauty. It would definitely be beneficial to see how you'd do it Grant! Gives me something to look forward to after finishing nodes 4 noobs.

[@count23all]

I tried last night, Uv unwrapping was fine, i found some free PBR leather, wood and metal textures, but when i applied them, it all came out flat. :S Definitely need a follow up tut.

[@nagysamuel2575]

@@count23all I hear ya, Texturing is a whole different beast to handle.

[@khageshbansal2400]

We want texture uv mapping video of same knife. Everybody pls like comment so he could see it.

[@grayjackgaming1746]

lol Grant sees all comments.

[@Outmind01]

@@grayjackgaming1746 And favorites 99 percent of them. At this point, I'm beginning to wonder how much longer he'll be able to do that with the influx of subscribers and all the new videos he's publishing almost daily.

[@coreys2686]

He usually does go into the texturing in a separate video too.

[@DaleNoble]

Yes I'd like to see how you specifically textured this. I'd guess stencil? Hope you make the video

[@count23all]

I think a texture follow up is really necessary at the hard surface level it's at. Texturing when dealing with complicated objects and edge loops (when the texturing is not procedural) is something that really needs to be covered off

[@MilindGour]

Your channel is my favourite timepass these days :) I learn so many things everyday during lockdown. Keep it up please!

[@mahmutfarukozdemir2746]

i just made the metal handle and i did a retopology and it felt great that im able to fix the shading issues at the curves. You really helping me keep up the good work!! Maybe i can get myself outta the 9-5 jobs thanks to you. Much love.

[@eight008]

You always find something interesting to teach, even on simple meshes. Thank you Grant!

[@vinay6188]

Thank you for uploading these tutorials in systematic way. I'm about to finish this series 😆. Your teaching methods are really good. Example e to extrude s to scale. By listening it everytime those hot keys get cemented in mind.

[@optimistms]

Great Guru, within an hour i was watching the well tutorial and this one, i learnt a few important tips like bringing an image, bend, applying matcap etc. you are wondeful.

[@joaoricardoaraujogranzoto3050]

Hey Grant Abitt, thanks for the tutorial, you are a good teacher

[@valart3154]

I always find these videos so helpful, very clear and informative without being too detailed and cumbersome. I vote for showing the texturing!

[@blenderfox_foxwastaken]

You really saved my life by saying the shortcut for Merge in 2.83 or greater is M. I have 2.9 and I have been hitting Alt+M Every single time, surprised that the window doesn't pop up.

[@m3t4llic69]

I was wondering the same, thanks!

[@sleepyslipper9208]

At last! An in-depth video showing how to model from vertices. Thanks.

[@grabbitt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@patrickmcdonnell489]

Man I love your videos. It never feels like 20 minutes or 30 minutes. Keep on keepin on brotha!

[@alandouglasrandall9961]

An elegant potpourri of modeling methodology. Nicely done, M8.

[@danieleliahushapiro4280]

Grant, it may seems not much to you, but your videos keep me inspired to carry on. Thank you ever so much!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@isabelaprado3256]

you are one of the best instructor out there!. and yes! texture it plz.

[@MegapixelsofFun]

I have grand plans of what I want to do with my Spaceship and other sci-fi designs but the huge holdup is texturing them and doing it well enough for my post production in Photoshop to be minimal - what I need is a workflow from Blender to Photoshop or something - so any texturing tutorial on this would be really helpful

[@yiyang4445]

It seems there is a pole with 3 edges coming out of it around the tip of the knife the whole time, and for me I just use your technique in part 8 to make every vertices have 4 edges, then I found it really easy to just bevel around to get sharp edges...don't know if this is a better solution but I'm really happy that I am able to apply what you have taught...really appreciate it!

[@garic8423]

Wow extruding vertices would have safed me so much time trying to create complex shapes... At least i know about it now, thank you :D

[@grabbitt]

You're welcome 😊

[@Frank_G_Finster]

This was almost zen to watch. :) Thank you for sharing!

[@LuisPereira-bn8jq]

These sure are ramping up! Just as with part 10, I followed your challenge to give it a go by myself, and I think I managed something pretty close. In fact, now that I look closely at your model it seems I overshoot, since I made mine as closed to the photo as possible, including the 5 semi-circular holes in the blade and those fancy hooks on the hand guard (which I don't think I got 100% right, but I did manage something reasonably close). Time to watch the video and see the better tricks I could have used :P

[@karraryahya8496]

Thank you 😊

[@JReed-mn2sd]

Love to see a texturing tutorial on this knife! Great work!

[@DvirElisha]

Nice one. I was a little disappointed when I finished it and found out that the texturing part is missing. I trust you to complete this one soon.

[@dzplayer0149]

Thanks mate. was having issues with the blade of my sword. this helped alots!

[@bol10010]

I really love your videos. Everytime I'm happy to see that notification on youtube

[@keoshi]

same here! :D

[@aloomia826]

Great Tutorial! Thank u!

[@deadpoolbr0]

i don't get why views dropping down but anyway big thank you for such a great series i really began to understand edge flow theory, it's yet hard for me from time to time, but not incomprehensible like it was before big thank you sir!

[@Orphanlast]

Hey man. I really appreciate the video here. It's getting me to think a bit differently about the sculpting process. 20 minutes is no big thing, man.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@timvanhalewyck3370]

Super helpful and yeah, would like to see the texturing of this as well.

[@dvincentart2156]

Your voice is so soothing. You sound like the Bob Ross of Blender. Makes it less stressful to follow along lol

[@grabbitt]

Oh thank you!

[@dvincentart2156]

@@grabbitt I really have been enjoying your videos and learning a lot from them. Thanks you for creating such valuable content for Blender beginners!

[@danvlas8814]

I dont know if you know this but there is an adon wich lets you add a single vertex, its called ''extra objects''. Then you can add the vertex with Shift+A, add mesh, single vert. Thank you for the great tutorial.

[@mohsenkhademi7787]

thanks for this free tutorial very useful

[@palletanka5233]

Very thankful for this one!

[@grabbitt]

My pleasure!

[@spatialmusician]

Good tutorial!

[@keoshi]

Finally, a guide with a knife. i like it! :D

[@jonathanwalsh1206]

Mate you totally rock.

[@saugataroy8383]

Awesome tutorial need some character face modelling and rigging tutorials too please

[@coreys2686]

Rigging, I don't remember, but check out the playlists, there's a playlist modeling a game character. It's the Friday livestream at present. edit: then I scroll down through a couple more comments and see a link "Rigging a Low Poly Person | Blender 2.8 | Beginners"

[@21Liberdade]

Bloody hell. I decided to give the notches on the blade a try with Ctrl Minus / boolean, and the amount of correction and loops I had to add so they could be well defined.

[@deadoutside9014]

modeling this was extremely fun. Also, I think this was way easier than part 10

[@grabbitt]

yeah tricky to get the levels right :)

[@hesbonaluoch8415]

Your tutorial are so helpful to me... great work keep it up

[@BeatlesToJestCos]

Sir, you rock!

[@dopplegangerdavid]

I read that interview with you in CG Cookie. How dare you use left-button click!! You betrayed the brotherhood!

[@pavvlito2414]

Maybe I'm wrong. but to make quad instead of triangle, you can also try gg and connect some vertexes or you can subdivide one of the edges.

[@blendergeek6230]

Its Awesome 💜💜👍

[@dolu6321]

Definitely want to have the texuturing tutorial!! I was trying to image paint on my knife but it just doesn't look realistic no matter how I adjust the metallic and roughness in the shader node at the end.

[@paulbeattie]

I managed to model the notches on top of the knife and it looks great with no artifacts but the topology is quite bad (lots of triangles, poles and bad edge flow)... but it looks good. My question is how acceptable is bad topology in the industry even if the model looks good? Perhaps a good idea for a tutorial would be to give us a complex model that we all try and you can correct/comment on various versions of the model that we send you. This is the best series on blender modelling, love your work Grant!

[@grabbitt]

bad topo is fine as long as it looks good and isn't showing up bad when animated

[@82christos]

Thanks!!!

[@grabbitt]

No problem!

[@minot0_]

woah upload 26 mins ago? this is the freshest video ive ever saw luv ya vids

[@Mika_Mino]

Большое спасибо за видео! 🙏😃

[@-AaronRay-]

Wow, reeeally wish I had heard not to model the complicated bits on the blade before I paused it. Looks nice but probably took four times as long.

[@alalcastello5344]

always a good work out👌

[@nikfaisal1994]

I would love to see the texturing of it. Thank you for the video.

[@snyyx]

Omg.. You said the knife was in the description and I stopped watching as soon as you said that and tried to model it by myself... What a mess ! I tried to model all the holes at the top of the knife too and when I came back to the video, with sweat dripping everywhere, you forgot the holes !! :O xD Nice vid btw ^^

[@aitorreyortega9002]

It would be great, the video of the texturing.

[@sanbaldo]

top content, thanks!

[@aarensan]

Wow this is really cool! Now I will make my Rambo knife :D

[@RayStudio95]

My biggest problem on making this are the blade. Took me a while to understand.. But i manage to make it as well. And yes i would like to see the texturing.

[@keelanbowker-obrien2222]

I really related to the last 2 minutes of this video

[@exploring2351]

at 6.40 i try to adapt the shap by G , it will create a hole in mess in some point,

[@PeterSotosEPT]

Please do the texturing but also add those divets into the knife. ;)

[@santicheeks1106]

Please do a texturing tutorial for it

[@martinsjj6919]

Excellent. I think you should make a car tutorial

[@grabbitt]

yes i may just do that :)

[@100Peterll]

Great tutorials as always Grant, one question about the mirror I couldn't quite figure out even after fiddling around with it. My viewport and object orientation (looked at the xyz gizmo), origin and 3d cursor was pretty much identical to yours but when I used the mirror modifier I actually had to tick the Z axis for the same effect, the Y axis was giving me an upside down reflection of the mesh on the same spot and I couldn't figure out why. Edit: Figured it out, had to do with the object transformations, after applying with ctrl + A it worked with Y mirroring.

[@xantishayde-walker4593]

@Voi_D That'll get ya' almost every time. Gotta' apply your Transforms (Location, Rotation and Scale) and you'll be all sorted.

[@RNBnewsIndia]

how did you extroud verti.... 10:40 without going in z and y exis for knife blade and body

[@haissake]

Thank you for this series, although I must say I'm kind of dissapointed with this tutorial, I spent over 30 minutes trying to model all those details and concave shapes cause I though you would model the entire blade... Well at least it was fun, but definitely I need something more advanced. Any suggestions?

[@velstorios9473]

15:16 Hunting butter knife :D

[@jonathanwalsh1206]

Normals....gets me every time....man

[@gixj5373]

thank you for the great tutorials, i got a questions tho, when you modelled the handle you used the mirror modifier to add thickness, but what if i used the solidify modifier, is there any difference?

[@grabbitt]

Yes mirror is more precise around the edges

[@Esaumd]

Does the "Mean Crease" parameter cause compatibility issues when exporting the model to other 3d editing software or engines? just looking for an excuse to use an extra edge loop instead. Mean Crease seems to be really powerful and easy to get used to, but I'm not sure if its the most versatile option when you work with different software. Great tutorial btw. 😊

[@grabbitt]

No it's not compatible

[@Mr850man]

Thanks Grantt, for the "holes" on the top do you just use booleans?

[@grabbitt]

i would inset faces

[@youfam]

I did everything in a slightly different way, but in the end I think I came out with something good ;)

[@staruberhater1973]

this is the voice that makes me go sleep

[@altairfaltore7261]

We are going a a more interesting territory for me, hopefully we may get a firearm modelling down the line. Thanks as always

[@coreys2686]

CG Cookie did a paid-for series on the M4 carbine many years ago. They've since released it on their KZbin channel. It has 15 chapters, each with a duration of 35-60 minutes each. While it uses Blender 2.6, Jonathan Williamson uses application agnostic modeling techniques. You can use the series to model in any 3D program. Or any object, really.

[@altairfaltore7261]

@@coreys2686 I followed that one with a rather satisfying results but I would like to see more of that kind of thing from Teach here

[@ahmtutorials]

Please make a tutorial for game environment design. A nice simple scene , and if possible also tell how to take the models to substance painter and then gta back to blender. A new series mayb, focusing environment design.

[@grabbitt]

i dont use substance at the moment but maybe in the future

[@ahmtutorials]

@@grabbitt sounds good. Until then we'll do in blender 👍👍

[@robertenglund3578]

Is there a reason why the vertices did not connect at the sharp etch of the blade (the whole bottom part), but did so at the top?

[@bilbag]

thats was helpful. thanks. i had a problem with the bevel at the end. when i bevel it the shape is getting very strange. i dont know why. anyway. and i wonder if at our models there are triangles is a big problem? not at this. i generally speak

[@bilbag]

and yes i would like to see texturing too :)

[@darkknight4353]

Can you do classes on retopology please. i find this subject rarely on youtube in blender. flippednormals did it but not in detail

[@grabbitt]

eventually :)

[@tehikamusume]

Hi! Thanks for all of your efforts to teach us Blender! These videos are very helpful. I was hoping you could help me out with this one - Any idea why do all my handle modifiers apply to my new cube object when I try to make a guard? I keep starting over and it always happens. I use Blender 2.83

[@grabbitt]

Don't know about that one sorry

[@tehikamusume]

@@grabbitt Thats ok, I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually :D Thanks!

[@danieleliahushapiro4280]

PinchingPoles, here I gave you the idea for a catchy blender youtube channel name

[@andabien3]

I had trouble with the initial outline, because it wouldn't extrude properly. I figured out that my viewport was not perfectly flat/square as I drew it, so the individual vertices were not all on the same axis.

[@powersave2]

Hey Grant (or other knowledge commenters) What would be the best way to model a leather wrapping for the knives handle? Any good resources anyone can share?

[@shaiseg]

Hi @Grant Abbit, Thanks again for yet another great tutorial! A noob question: I see in many tutorials that to add a single vertex you start with a mesh and dissolve it. Why not just Ctrl-Right-click to create a new vertex?

[@grabbitt]

not sure what you mean

[@shaiseg]

@@grabbitt At the beginning of the tutorial you started with a single vertex, then extruded it along the path. To create a single vertex you started with a plane then dissolved it to a single vertex. I usually press Control and right-mouse click on an empty spot to create a single vertex. But I see in many places that they use your technique, so I just wondered if there is a reason behind it.

[@shaiseg]

Sorry, my bad... You can not enter edit mode unless you start with some kind of object...

[@Cedrek]

Hi , grant , i'm trying to complete this playlist and until now it's really fantastic playlist (thank you so much) , and i'm trying to learn modelling for creating assets for my game , so do you think after completing this play list can i hand modelling gun or is still so far to create it? i know it depend from person to another but at least can i handle it or not?

[@grabbitt]

you should be able to yes

[@Cedrek]

@@grabbitt thank you so much i will try to even if it fail i try again ,(thanks for your response as always)

[@buntys2535]

hey @ Grant Abbitt waiting for texture Video :)

[@culturecauldron9137]

FINISH THE PROJECT!!!!

[@Gio-mi3hd]

so which better to keep the topology perfect and minimalist? *mean crease* or *support loop* because my tecaher said that too much vertex looks ugly he said any help? edit: i like using mean crease, but at the same time i'm scared if something goes wrong with the topology.

[@grabbitt]

It's whatever your comfortable using and what's best for the output needed

[@xianjamesd.fajardo6090]

and how do you trace?

[@elijahlalkrossmawia4091]

Guys what is the difference between Auto Mirror and mirror modifier?

[@grabbitt]

Auto mirror vid your object in half and then add the modifier for you

[@nemock]

After doing the handle, how do you decide whether to start with a new shape for the finger guard, or just extrude the faces of the handle?

[@grabbitt]

Copy the reference. If it's a new object make a new object

[@hannerz3441]

For the texturing is it just projecting texture from view

[@grabbitt]

pretty much yes

[@hannerz3441]

@@grabbitt It would seem im actually learning stuff :D

[@kursatsokmen45]

Granbitt Knife

[@DevGods]

I’m hella confused @ 13:50 I thought that face in the top of the blade was a triangle so how was he able to loop cut through it? Then he deleted the edge that I thought turned that top face into one big face with a small triangle at the tip. I’m completely lost. I struggle with topology. 😔

[@DevGods]

OMG Grant You genius I see it now! You added that vertex so that the top face is a quad my mind is blown

[@alexbeattie4181]

Hello! I noticed your position for the vertex (y) is -0 I was just wondering how you did this as when I lay down my vertices they do not follow the y axis. Thanks (:

[@grabbitt]

You must be in side view

[@Junior-nv6zh]

Why we dont smooth the normals? It also smooths better than subdivision surface modifier

[@grabbitt]

not used the smooth normals yet myself