Making a Low Poly Modular Monster in Blender

[@mihaistanciu464]

I just started your character course and I got to the modular modelling part and I hot to say that it is so pleasing to actually understand exactly what you are talking about, it is such a great video and also the course is great. Keep it up. 🥳🥳🥳

[@mattwester9093]

Something I found a few years ago on some forum, when getting your models to a game engine like unity or unreal, make sure that you tick the little Legacy option for the rigify addon, and it will make the rig with no face bones, and work perfectly with most humanoid animations (mixamo included). Really great video!

[@shujauddin2205]

Easiest way to rig complex model ... we need more creative tricks like these !!

[@timarlow8007]

Would love to see your thoughts on pros/cons of this method (multiple meshes for different body parts) vs 1 mesh for entire body with regards to game models. Thanks!

[@adamtowers]

+ 1 to this

[@dmd356]

I think its a bad idea for just 1 vs multiple parts, but 1 is easier for a basic cheap game. More is for more developed teams. It just depends on time and energy soent on a section and judging by whether its worth it. Sometimes enemies are simple sometimes they will be complex and needing that polish, same with player model. Just depends on implementation

[@KalponicGames]

Multiple is for modular characters

[@riccardoleone4265]

Exactly what I was searching for. Low Poly is so charming.

[@AoBomberman]

I wish there were more guides/tutorials for making low poly monsters like this. There's plenty of info for making lowpoly humanoid models (especially anime-like ones), but there's very few documentaries for making lowpolys of more monstrous characters (that's not paywalled). I find guides for making more uncommon designs a bit more useful for learning 3D modelling, as making such things tend to be better at breaking my "comfort zones" in regards to art.

[@gabrielWachong]

Your tutorials are on another level 🤯🤯

[@Legomaster01]

Please make a more in-depth tutorial about rigging! I would definitely watch that, also thanks for being such a great help with blender, these tutorials are awesome!

[@pixelsNbits647]

Great fun. I’d love to see a tutorial series for this!

[@jellybean4049]

Another great video. I'd love to see more on making and attaching the armor and other clothing to the model and Rig. Loved you Courses on gamedev too. Not long finished three of them.

[@lucasbittencourt8290]

Thank you for sharing another amazing tutorial!

[@Jadebones]

Barry? Berry? Beary? However you spell it... I love you, you're an awesome monster!

[@jotarokun2223]

Hi grant, normally I don't really understand concepts easily, but your videos are kinda different, and are very very good for learning new and complex blender topics. Currently I'm working on a game but I'm struggling to create modular assets, i can create cliffs, rocks and trees easily (low poly, learned from your videos), but I'm unable to create modular assets like - house props, buildings and some others as well. A deep request for you to please create a low poly modular assets creation 🥹🥹 , please 🙏.

[@jhinns]

Hi Grant! Big fan of your tutorials on gamedev tv. I aim to land a job in the games industry as a character designer in the near future. You mentioned that you were a teacher at one point in the past, and it really shows in your courses and KZbin videos because you make it extremely easy to understand. I'm still a few months into learning, but I have taken big steps in terms of developing my 3D modelling skills thanks to the content you've provided.

[@carlgreen2330]

I'm just about to start your character course! Finished your environment course not too long ago and just finished my own japanese alleyway scene using the same method and it came out pretty good. Can't wait to move into character design and then combine the two! Thanks for all your hardwork and for helping us along the way.

[@DLVRYDRYVR]

I call him Grunt Abhorrent, but Barry works also 😅

[@AleksandarPopovic]

Very, very nice, special for artists who don made characters, this is fun and exciting start, and I love to continue this tutorial, lot of stuff you don covered in this video, and old public like myself won't more on this topics! Keep going ❤

[@lucashaymaker5927]

Wow very good! I had never thought to parent some objects normally and others with weights.

[@BeastSri]

Yo brother, you make me amazed everytime.🤩

[@MadCandy3d]

Good One Grant...! Thank you for the tutorial😊😊

[@darth_hylian]

Awesome 👌 this can be very useful for different classes and ranks with 3D prints for board games or models for video games

[@MartKart8]

I've been doing this a lot now, most days, making models using images. I tried following how you made a rabbit, I couldn't get it to work with a plane, so I used a cube and got the rabbit shape to work.

[@OveniaHimself]

Thank you

[@mobamenace3591]

Like always. Amazing 😍😍

[@deepelements]

This is great I want to try this with blender and Unreal 5 thanks. I use to be into realistic characters but now with all the metahumans and scaned data, photogrammetry I've gone back to more stylized art. Love your work.

[@SolearGnG]

Nice work, Grant. Just one question: do you have anything against the "shade smooth"?😉

[@grabbitt]

I like the low poly style

[@krzysztofswierzy4226]

I was experimenting with this approach earlier and I noticed, that building models as conjunction of spearate body parts doens't work when there are any material/color differences between body parts. It would animate unnaturally, unfit to low-poly style. In the end I had to settle on building model as a complete uninterrupted mesh.

[@icewm1474]

I'm VERY new to Blender(I am 20 videos into watching the Axe you made in my free time from studying, you might have mentioned it there but I can't recall) so forgive my silly question, but how do you make & import (I assume) the images you use for references? Btw, your videos are the best I've found and your more detailed explanations of the less flashy work is very appreciated

[@Eren_Yeager_is_the_GOAT]

just drag the image into blender (you have to be in object mode to do this)

[@grabbitt]

Just drag them into blender

[@acspectre3130]

Hi Grant, great video. Could you break down the creation of modular parts please. I have been trying to do this for a while and am struggling. I have created a robot with several weapons that I would like to swap in and out!

[@YulRun]

Hey Grant, have all your courses on Udemy and the GDTV ones. Curious if you plan to make a course on this, but with a solid character. Basically something like your barbarian character you did, that is just sliced at the feet / legs / torso / head / arms / hands so it looks solid and less blocky but still animates properly. to look like one complete mesh. Similar to games like Lineage 2 if you know it.

[@grabbitt]

Possibly, I'll give it some thought

[@indianastilts]

Question...do you parent the clothes, armor, weapons to the mesh section for example clothes to body weapon to hand etc or to the bone? Also is this technique you did with modular models better than a character all in one mesh? What do AAA games do like last of us or gta/half life etc...do they do modular characters or full one mesh?

[@grabbitt]

characters in one full mesh then clothing separately if its changeable. parent to a bone

[@sulemanmohyudin5546]

Nice work.. So you are not giving them away for developers to use ?

[@grabbitt]

Afraid not

[@RapidFrames]

How many hours you completed this model? Aproximately is ok

[@grabbitt]

2 hours to model, then about a day for all the actions

[@Dead_Channel964]

Hey, do you have the files for your refrence image?

[@grabbitt]

Yeah I'll consider uploading them if enough people ask

[@Gmee_]

how do you export this kind of model (everything separated) to a game engine? how do you prepare it

[@grabbitt]

It depends on lots of things and how you intend to use it

[@Gmee_]

Nvm I was just hung up on using unreal's Blender importer. I had just to manually export the model as an fbx and then import it there! Thx anyway :)@@grabbitt

[@GeorgeKarala]

Did you make this reference image or fount it i am trying to find this or similar and no luck

[@grabbitt]

I made it

[@11305205219]

*Learning Low Poly from sheep 🐑 to monster 👾*

[@illslim2100]

Hello, Grant. I truly enjoy your videos. Would you be willing to tutor someone on game asset design for some money?

[@grabbitt]

I don't do personal tutoring but good luck with your search

[@ambiance_sounds_relax]

ita amazing bro can u do a video to how to import a character to unity .fbx because when i import a character from blender to unity appear without colors

[@grabbitt]

I've done a basic video on that. I always use a texture atlas

[@Historypress-pq4ng]

like can you make a turtoiral of an sea beast in blender plz thx 😃🥰

[@watus1992r]

Where background image link? #monkey in studio meme

[@grabbitt]

i'll hunt around and see if i can find them

[@dopplegangerdavid]

I always find it funny when people call this style 'low poly' when the polygon count is actually rather high, especially compared to models from the 90s. They would've only used like 500 triangles back then.

[@grabbitt]

Yes it's just the name of the style these days

[@PengPengPengPengPengPeng]

​@@grabbittWell, you're right but also it's more a case that the threshold the hardware considers something low poly is much higher now!!

[@wolfshadow2418]

Are this courses available in udemy too?

[@grabbitt]

All my courses are on udemy

[@sadidislam3348]

im first lets goo

[@AansBlfls]

Your hand won't fall and your career wouldn't be ruined if you did a step-by-step series of modeling, rigs, animation like that, man. It won't hurt you anything if you do a COMPLETE series like this for free, even if it's just to show the basics of what you did. Don't be lazy and give up the life of a THIEF at least once in your life, please!!!

[@grabbitt]

Well seeing as you asked so nicely🤣

[@SylkieDev]

Wouldn't you technically be the thief? The time grant would have to make the models, make the video, and edit the videos down, you would be taking it all and giving nothing in return....