How I Sculpt a Character in 5 minutes - Princess Link [The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild]

Sculpting Link from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with Blender in under 5 minutes!
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[@DelahayeChristophe]

This is exactly what I needed. I'm experienced enough to do it at my own pace but I needed the workflow ! Thanks !

[@yansculpts]

My pleasure ;)

[@b1na276]

@@yansculpts Could you please make a Thundercats sculpt (Lion-O). Tribute to the epic remake that was sadly discontinued in Cartoon Network.

[@khalidbamidele2610]

@@yansculpts please where can I learn blender

[@mannymakecustoms]

​@@yansculptshow do you reduce the triangles of the shapes?

[@saipranavk6666]

what a sculpt 280% better than other sculpting tutorials I wish I was able to sculpt like you.

[@PDD555]

Maybe I sound too cheesy with this, but you and your process are such an inspiration to follow! Even better is how you show the process of it, when most people would save it for themselves. Again, great video and sculpture!

[@RhysJosmin]

All hail princess link 😂

[@vidiagamara]

I still have a lot to learn but it’s so helpful to see what the real process of using blender looks like Most tutorials are too “in base ball” thank you

[@ProfJM_UNICA]

Great execution Yan, I follow you from 2019 and I wish to learn this techniques in Blender too. Thanks for sharing so cool stuff with us

[@alimariwankamal1937]

You inspire me so much! ♥

[@julieortiz7885]

Can’t wait to try this one day

[@NNNedlog]

"Nice". One of the best sculpting videos I've watched on your channel

[@andis9076]

Thank you, this's exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks for sharing, Happy Thanks Giving!

[@HighAFelf]

I love all of these how to sculpt in 5 minutes. Really appreciate your time and hard work. It has been helping me self teach a lot. Maybe you could do a Viego from league of legends sculpt at some point; he has some interesting hair and face structure. Thanks again!

[@asmi_asm]

Wow you are in my list of best 3d artists 👍👍👍

[@Nardeol]

You are so talented, I love your content

[@antonkalin5501]

The lighting does such a diference its insane like another model...

[@doop00]

He Her He Her looks awesome, would like a full realtime video for us mortals.

[@SohanSingh-ve6hl]

Your animation power superb 👍

[@3dKeneisha]

Very nice.

[@Isac7483]

you got my subscription 🤩

[@jesudoss7795]

Thank you sir

[@brehiner25]

This man is so good but to much good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@HazmatPyro]

This is probably the most wacky YanSculpts video since (maybe) earthworm jim. Everything from the sculpture to the random zoom-ins and other things combine for a truly fun video. Whilst I don't want this format to dominate the channel, it was quite fun to see. Also another request. Could you do more types of videos outside of the "How I sculpt a character in 5 minutes" series. Whilst they are very fun to watch, It does get very stale. The last video that wasn't part of that series was from 9 months ago. I get that they take more time and effort to make, but I would still like more variety in your content.

[@yansculpts]

Noted thanks for the input ;)

[@abrahamordonezzarco785]

@@yansculpts i love the spinning sections to see Zelda i mena Link in all his splendor!! Also the perfect line art work.... Funny.

[@lukeferguson7399]

I don't know if you've already showed it in a video, but do you think you could go over your approach to lighting? Link was already looking cool, but when you switched to the lit render it really made everything pop!

[@emmaprovot6770]

Wow. Just wow

[@CalmVink]

I love these videos! Noice one.

[@emche852]

3:22 Opportunity of a joke missed: "Link them to the Link" Love your content

[@AlexBlackfrost]

Awesome! I would like to see you sculpting old people, like an old wizard or something

[@FatalBagel]

Hi Yan, i wish you can post those recordings with real time commentary. I bought your beginner lesson packages but they’re all sped up videos and not actually really beginner friendly. I don’t really know all the details about the tools and the settings or what exactly it is you’re doing to make things work. Sorry for the long rant I just really hope to learn sculpting in Blender and your style is literally my all time favourite.

[@fadethecreator]

Hi, Salty ghost. I see you're on track to do character sculpting rn. It depends on where your level is at in terms of form understandings and as well as blender know-how. From the looks of it, you are a beginner rn. How I started my blender journey is through the donut tutorial 1 month ago. I know you want to dive right into sculpting, though most tutorials assume your level of blender comfort is at the least intermediate to beginner, and not total beginner. It's been a month of me using blender, I started with the donut tutorial by blender guru, then I did his bear tutorial. I went to grant abbit's tutorial next on how to create fast base meshes to sculpt finer details on after that. And just today, I sculpted my first ever character. Her face turned out looking perfectly human as well as her body and form, though I had no references, I have that knowledge of how human anatomy works, and with reference I think my second sculpt will be something fierce. I will be even more happy because I have reference next time. It took me a month to build these skills practicing every night a bit late staying awake. For you, it can be faster or slower, I didn't have a comment like mine guide me along a path, though I think since you do as I've been through it, depending on your world and art knowledge, if it is like mine, you may get through faster. My advice is don't rush. I can get from this video exactly everything he's done and how to replicate it, leaving texturing as I haven't studied that yet. If you don't know common hotkeys, and haven't many clues as to what he's doing or how, then here is my advice. Donut tutorial. > Bear tutorial. > Grant abbit tutorial on sculpting fast base meshes. > Work on your base mesh to a finer extent, don't be impatient. > Yan's hair tutorial(free on his channel and super easy). > Then watch this again, you'll have an almost step by step understanding on how to do what and where to go to do it. If your art knowledge isn't great rn, I suggest watching art youtuber like marc brunet, called bluefley as well, has great anatomy tips and helped me take my knowledge and skills to the next level. And if you do got art knowledge, and not blender knowledge, my advice is to follow the tutorial series I layed out for you, and I think you'll be something fierce yourself pretty soon fam. I bid you good luck and happy blending! :D

[@Chronomatrix]

It must feel so damn good to sculpt with that screen.

[@luisjordan1761]

I hope to be like you in the future, very good video :)

[@jdsculpts]

"No pun intended... haHaa." That laugh made my day 😂

[@abrahamordonezzarco785]

I love it!!! Please make a shader And lighting tutorial your renders look really cool.

[@AngeloKim]

fun, informative and short :)

[@gyronium]

3:29 blew my mind. That master sword was so damn quick!

[@johndeggendorf7826]

5 minutes with a Master = Education. There it is. ✊🍷🎩🎩🎩

[@uodige1]

Hello Yan, Thank you for uploading new character sculpting, I've been learning a lot from yours.. I wonder if you can show us how to render your character scene more detail...

[@PhantomWowfull]

Would you make one for the recent Arcane that came out ? Thinking either Caitlyn or Jinx would be amazing !

[@NycroLP]

INteresting approach to the eye lids. Looks less destructive and thus more beginner friendly, i assume.

[@ethanbs9393]

n o i c e

[@Shka_maru]

Hmmm maybe one day you can get into retopology after one of these sculpts to make them game-ready or maybe ready for cinematics!

[@t_claassen]

Very, very noice!

[@minhtrungle3111]

I have a question, Before using rigging to align the pose for character, do we need to work retopology on this one?

[@fadethecreator]

Hey Yan, did you use the boolean modifiers to connect the eyelids onto the face? only part I can't wrap my head around is how you first sculpted the base face and skull, then connected the eyelids and certain other parts seemlessly. I'd like help at understanding that part of your sculpt. Thank you for sharing these btw, it gives me a lot of insight as to how to smartly set my sculpt up for later ease.

[@Jaxru]

Fused using the Remesher :)

[@shadysamir001]

Hi Yan great work, I enjoy your videos.. have one question though : do you retopolo any of these characters before ringing and posing .. because the 5 min videos doesn’t include any retopology footage so I was just wondering ? Anyway thank you .. keep it up

[@ruta_o]

The legend of link

[@captaincrispy2184]

I absolutely don't get how you make these beautiful stylized hairstrands follow a curve like that. What do they consist of? My mind is blown.

[@erikblenderart]

Hi, I enjoy your sculpting workflow very much. I am starting at 3D in general and i would like to know whats is the tool that you use in 4:30 of the video. the one that does the lines?

[@MonstroGamer123]

Please do a lighting tutorial!

[@3DRamenArt]

Nice!! what is you pen button and movement settings?

[@Jack-nd3is]

What would you recommend I do if I have 0 experience in art and want to start doing what you’re doing? What foundational skills do I need to develop?

[@fiddlehead5515]

Do you shade smooth your sculpts? Also great video!

[@narin8711]

Thanks for the video, I love it but ... and the lights of the scene?

[@ivanhdp8118]

You retopo it ? or only use remesher ? for the rigging part i mean.

[@warwickdoolan6227]

How many polygons do you work with when character sculpting, thanks.

[@Brovider]

Good secret

[@actionkey8042]

niceeeee

[@Xanade]

Hmmm noice!

[@purpl_panda]

hi yan love your works' have a question .any face that I sculpt look exactly like the previous one . why???

[@danilob5304]

can you show us your light setup?

[@AlfredReinoldBaudisch]

Hey Yan, how do you deal with ergonomics when using this big tablet? I'm having a lot of pain. Is your right arm's elbow always resting on the table or a chair's armrest? Or are you fully moving your arm all the time? It's not possible to judge from the video, because only your lower arm appears. What about in some future video you position the camera a bit further, so we can see how is your egonomics when you work ? :)

[@kantameena9668]

what is the touch screen tool called that u r using? does it make it easier than doing it on a computer?

[@matiastemesio893]

i have a question, thats model is ready for a game engine? i mean its retopologized? when i make my characters i always have to retopologize it cause its always really dense of polygons, what do thou think that its better to do for a game character?

[@ilyauu7968]

Secret revealed!

[@magicinkstudio]

do you use mutiresolution modifier or dyntopology?

[@yourpersonaldatadealer2239]

Hey Yan, are you planning on doing a new sculpting course on gum road some day? Noticed it’s 3 years old (at least I think)

[@samiral-hayed1656]

How do you add the shapes without leaving the sculpt window?

[@sevenseven31]

after that what happens to your character where is used in the game industry or animation industry I am curious 🤔

[@depobreamillonario]

Hi Bro que programa utiliza por favor respóndeme tank you

[@mehmetcetinkaya8355]

Can you tell me the name of the material in the "material preview"?

[@nathananderson6944]

So do you not retopo. Like I now its not needed if you're not using the model for animation. But I am curious how your modeling would differ with retopo in mind.

[@ahmedelesari]

Can you make a tutorial for how can we sculpt from reference photos please 🥺

[@imnotmatthew]

Ooggah booggah. Ooggah me Link. Link Club! Oogaah boogh!

[@PackyYoshi]

Now, after rig, I need to know how to convert this in a file compatible with SFM (Source Film Maker) ! XD

[@nipperinshorts]

New to all of this and learning 3D art very slowly. What is he sculpting on?

[@vgtriggeredentertainer4906]

please make a sculpting titorial sir because i did not know where i will star to learnig sculpting

[@crack2264]

How did you draw straight lines?

[@Revgibsonjdas]

where do you get these reference images.Could you please send it to me.

[@CrimsonAgario]

how'd you go about merging the butt together? did you just use the actual merge command? :P

[@mauree1618]

How much real time does the process actually take?

[@windwakerlee6000]

Me: I will try this too Also me: just doing bullshit with a globe …

[@OpenYoureyes304]

Sir do you also sculpt the hair of your stylized character? I'm confuse actually if I should sculpt the hair, If no why?

[@miniyoutube4036]

Can you tell me your hardware ? What do you use?

[@casualcorner199secchio]

Princess Link

[@akatag]

Hi ! Your work is nice and clean ! how many times for the character?

[@yansculpts]

I think he took around 9 hours

[@akatag]

@@yansculpts ...and quick thank you!

[@itsmemaryo1615]

How much ram do you use for sculpting? mine at 16 GB is laggy.

[@cprn.]

Hope long does it really takes you?

[@mehgavenstudio4002]

Teach me sculpting pleaseee

[@SohanSingh-ve6hl]

Please till me Which company laptop is this

[@zachariezuwala]

Ctrl Z is totally my thing when it come to draw... 🤣🤣😅

[@conceptworld8545]

Could you please tell which device do you use for 3D modelling? Thank you.

[@milk6420]

It's blender.

[@conceptworld8545]

Thanks for reply but I asked device not software. What is name of touch pad ?

[@guayard]

Hello Yan! I like your art style and tutorials, however, I don't quite understand what the fundamental difference between sculpting female and male faces is. I mean where to start and what to pay attention to in order to give the desired shape to the head in the early stages. I would be grateful if you could devote a short video to this issue. Thank you for your work, and I wish you success and creative inspiration!

[@gonzaloortiz2721]

Nnnnnice 2 questions 1) how do u keep your tablet in good condition?? 2) is any chance that u can sculpt Gojo Satoru from Jujutsu Kaisen ??? 😬😬

[@yansculpts]

I don't do anything specific, the screen does take a hit with time, scratches and all but you don't notice it unless you look for it. 2: not impossible :)

[@nolifedudestv5330]

Noice

[@maxstepaniuk4355]

Looks easily from the first glance.....when i start following i got myself nicely detailed poop as the result......well at least it has a sword☺

[@sssul4773]

Do you do commissions? I have a character idea I want to bring to life

[@be1358]

Hi Yan, I Love You ... hehe

[@opuchem2596]

Oh so that guy called Zelda is te one who saves princess Link XD

[@HH-xf9il]

I wonder what the total hours where

[@youssoufarsawi9028]

princess link?

[@n3t0_omendez8]

hello my friend, help me please, i have a question for you this courses have Subtitle, on your Sculpting and Texturing Course, Recordings, and More Cool Character Stuff!), i need to learn this and get the courses but my birth language is spanish, then i need subtitle, thanks for yout time and Blessings.

[@jenny6609]

Alot of hers