How To Make Low Poly Models (That Don't Suck)

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[@TheVirtualRealityShow]

You did such a good job on the model!! Thank you so much :D Can't wait to show this off in the near future ;)

[@arcade215]

This would be perfect as a change of pace in VRChat or for VTubing Retro or Low-Poly games

[@muhammedibrahimtekin109]

Bruh

[@MekaniQ]

Eyyy

[@Mr_O]

saw the model, didn't see this video and my mind is blowing rn

[@the1pigeon]

with this you won't have anyone asking you to change into a poor or better xd

[@speeddecline160]

We NEED a tutorial on how you make your hair for these models, there doesn't seem to be any really good tutorials for low poly hair out there.

[@tammesikkema5322]

I suggest taking the scalp geometry (where the hair will be), duplicate it, thicken it by extruding, then do some extrusions if you want a ponytail for example

[@thefirebeanie5481]

Everything uses the strongly stuff that I don’t like I came here for this

[@novikovPrinciple]

Modelling tip: You can have several 3D Viewports so you don't have to constantly switch (e.g between Front and Right View). At the very least, have one 3D Viewport in Camera Perspective (not Orthographic), and adjust the angles around the model so you can spot potential weirdness early on.

[@garbaj]

True, dunno why I keep forgetting about that 😆

[@RREDesigns]

Yeah, but I like the rotation, it looks neat and takes just half a second. :D

[@Manas-co8wl]

Yeah.. I just can't make a habit of it, maybe I just like the wide view

[@BD-tc6fq]

The smooth mesh shading helped me alot on my models. By the way when texture painting, I find it a bit better to start off at slightly higher Res(512x512) to get more details when you downscale the image to 128x128 or 256x256.

[@garbaj]

that's a pretty schnice idea actually

[@TheMikirog]

@@garbaj Another idea: when downscaling try going for nearest neighbor scaling for that extra crispy pixel look that PS1 is known for. Bilinear gives more of an N64 look instead.

[@Miraihi]

I think Megaman Legends pulled out the best looking low-poly 3d anime character models, that also were pretty damn expressive. Also Vagrant Story is a good source of inspiration for low-poly characters with more edgy design.

[@bodhi8828]

If you wanna go the extra mile then model in triangles

[@garbaj]

Technically, all 3D models are made of triangles, but I know what you meant lol

[@rozumov]

Who doesnt?

[@1ogic948]

@@garbaj Actually, technically, there are kinds of 3d models that aren't based off of triangles used for other things like product design, but I know what you meant lol

[@Aereto]

All hail the Triangle. Hexagons are bestagons.

[@raffamuhammadyusuf8618]

@@Aereto are you rooting for triangles or-... the bestagons >:)

[@noiJadisCailleach]

Was helpful in a backwards kind of way. Everything said that's basically "a bad thing" in this video, is the exact aesthetic i wanted. example: I finally found 'shade flat'!

[@Tuugii]

Now I'm curious why PHIA wants retro style of her avatar.

[@Jakewake52]

Time to play some 5/6th gen games! Eventually it’ll go to 32bit then 16bit, 8bit, 2bit, 1bit

[@garbaj]

🤔

[@Gaven7r]

@@Jakewake52 HALF BIT , QUARTER BIT!!!! THE WRIST GAMEEEEEEE

[@MekaniQ]

Hmmm

[@FelineRaptor-gv4te]

@@Gaven7r *wrist* game

[@katesomnia]

This is fantastic information - thank you so much for sharing! High res stuff seems so out of reach for me as a 2D illustrator but you've made low poly modelling very accessible!

[@mina_rabbit]

OMG! this is exactly the kind of tutorial I was looking for! Alongside wit your 3d pixel art tutorial Thank you!! ✨

[@FusionJBR]

dude your channel is a godsend for these low poly blender tutorials. I hope you make more because as a newish blender user I can't get enough!

[@SaturnDahlia]

Cool! Thank you for this vid because I’ve been struggling with how to make stuff in blender and this makes sense, it gives me an idea of where to look into next

[@danielhaup599]

1:54 when she sees my lighning mc queen crocs

[@SamiTheAnxiousBean]

Im glad this exists! also immidiatly recognized phia from the tumbnail, which is good cause it shows you translated the design well!!!

[@GoobyGooby]

I actually wanted to do this but didn't know how I wanted to do it. This is a good start!

[@niemieckaagenturawpolsce3390]

you made video titled "how to make low poly models" without actually telling how to model them

[@zla_204]

This is probably for more advanced students and not one for beginners

[@Kallensayz]

@@zla_204 that’s not fair though, where’s a tutorial for us beginners??

[@zla_204]

@@Kallensayz just search “blender beginners tutorial” and you’ll find thousands of series for beginners. Advanced students need their education aswell yk?

[@matthall7359]

But modeling is a very specific term, I want to know the process of making low poly models specifically, not just shading and drawing on them that’s the easy part lmfao

[@Kallensayz]

@@zla_204 yeah none of those are actually helpful. They explained everything as if you have EXPERIENCE. Which we DONT.

[@livvy94]

I think the only part of this I'm not confident in is the rigging, I've definitely tried and failed at weight painting in low poly but I'm not sure how to get it to treat the separate parts as connected to each other.

[@IAmVarious]

Really late here, but really all you need to do is parent the mesh to your custom skeleton with empty vertex groups, and assign each individual body part to their respective bones. That way, the seperate parts are still seperate, but they have the illusion of being connected since the bones themselves are connected

[@jbear40]

@@IAmVarious if you could find out the reason that my generate rig button is greyed out when i go to rig the character that would help me out

[@Gaven7r]

Nice videos dude, I've been enjoying them recently!

[@kushine_]

oh wow your channel is not just game design commentary but actual game design too, nice

[@felineentity]

The most unexpected crossover.

[@garbaj]

lol yeah it was a surprise when she reached out to me. I've been a fan of her content for a while too

[@felineentity]

@@garbaj Makes you wonder if Phia is interested in game dev. :D Hope she liked that model, it looks great!

[@LambVisionStudios]

Wow this is a very underrated video great stuff this is extremely helpful!

[@brim-skerdouglasson]

Not a super great tutorial to be honest, more of a technique. Im pretty new to blender so seeing how you broke it down would have been nice.

[@lukasallenbaugh4728]

Thanks! This was very entertaining and such a great idea.

[@TurquoiseIcy]

Phia?! Let's go! Best collab ever.

[@flamentnagel]

video was actually so unhelpful it made me close the program out of frustration that a guy saying "you can make a low poly model in blender' somehow passes as a tutorial..

[@dragonusmolamola4140]

same

[@rovertronic]

Another thing you can do is assign vertex groups named after the bone you want it to correlate to. I use this for actual N64 compatible skinned models.

[@marscaleb]

You have to remember that they couldn't have weights for joints back then; a vertex could only be influenced by a single bone in a skeletal mesh. It was very common to have shoulders that didn't connect to the body. They usually still connected the elbows because they have simpler movement that was easy enough to deform properly. Hands would depend on the game; if they did a lot of intricate hand movement like in MGS they wouldn't be connected, but for a simple shooter where all they do is hold a gun they would be. The only alternative was to use vertex animation which came at the cost of memory. It was common in PC games but rare among console titles.

[@GraveUypo]

this is the type of modeling that is fun. i should do this more. the more complex, the more investment, the less fun. keep it simple, do it a lot, you'll get good in no time

[@erickschusterdeoliveira2662]

your channel is fucking awesome for laymen that have an interest in game dev. also do something related to Guilty Gear Strive! seems like talking about its technical aspects is all the rage right now.

[@eurusbaby]

Please do more!! You’re my inspiration !!

[@ianhandsup]

This looks cute! Maybe I'll try

[@StarkCraftsYT]

Looks so awesome man! I'm curious for what she is going to use the model for. Also God! I love phia's look and personality I would kill to collab with a vtuber.

[@carbonanimationproductions6537]

this is so dope bro

[@drgrand2048]

This creation inspired me! Thanks!

[@samuelhugo3387]

can you make an tutorial on how to actaully make the model, like how do you make those shapes

[@Kallensayz]

Fr

[@devanmauch7843]

I appreciate the tutorial!

[@Furiac.]

thanks. i recently realized that texturing can make low poly seem medium to high poly, so this was a great video to add to my understanding.

[@fumomofumosarum5893]

you make it look so easy...

[@MrMaskYT]

Great fucking tutorial on showing few second of u modelling and skip to finished product. brilliant. Totally I could follow that yea totally.

[@RancorSnp]

Oooh, very interesting. I did not know that for the purposes of rigging and animation having the body parts be separate is actually easier. I do know retro models did it, I've been consuming references by tonnes looking for solutions and inspiration. But I thought that I will need to make a connected model for ease of animation. Learning that I actually can not do that - makes it a loooot easier. Thanks!

[@FeizaoDied]

I thought this was a tutorial on how to model it not just color it and stuff

[@SaltyJerzel]

Gonna use this

[@acuddle]

Low-Poly Phia adorbs! 🥰 I love how the algo saw the two seconds of Minecraft and decided it was a video about it 😄

[@Kiimo_Chii]

The collab i never thought would exist

[@majorpaper4065]

Thats awesome! Now I need to find a video on how to subscribe 2 times!

[@Summmer85]

Wow! Thank you for inspirational video!

[@angrygeri7026]

YOOO THE PHIA FEATURE LET'S GOOO

[@5secondsago15yearsago4]

Can you do a tutorial or time lapse video of creating this type of low poly humans?

[@RetroPlus]

That looks great

[@GrilledChickenRamyun]

this makes me want to learn 3D and make my characters come to life

[@marcoshenriquearrudadasilv1135]

Not the Jill sandwich cutscene 😭😭😭

[@MsZyraMMD]

I needed this becuase I wanna make my own fall back model for VRchat

[@Ketiseb]

Actally a good tutorial.

[@epicjonny155]

Gonna make low poly models for a mod that's for 0 ad for performance reasons

[@user-vg4on5cj8b]

One of the few artist on internt who like to show thier scerets !

[@ZigealFaust]

What are you on about, many tutorials are available online. Heck, Royal Skies LLC has tutorials 100 times better than this that are all under 30 seconds. Seems you just either don't know about the other artist mate.

[@JeanMartinez-nb8ev]

I will save this for later

[@Kutejikashi]

I mean, you can rig it in the classic style with all the limbs separated, but you can also fix the topology and make a good rigging with weight painting. I just don't recommend automatic weigh painting since it's messy, and instead use empty groups.

[@diensilva]

Pleasee full tutorial of this modelling 🙏🙏

[@RealJustinReed]

Could you do a full modeling tutorial?

[@sidclauwers5945]

Very cool also uncanny how much the model reminds me of someone I know.

[@roy_tr3s]

que good que me he topado with este video, thank you brother

[@mimifurwalker]

even better if you have a ristricted pallete

[@ShurekHam]

Never thought about making separated limbs, makes total sense! Then how to rig it? each limb is full Hard Weighted? Tying that later

[@cocomendos]

I need to try this one again later, I gave it a shot making a model for a friend, but texture paint gave me the hard time, most likely due to my uv unwrapping which didn't let me texture the model properly when texturing at 256 =(

[@Tommyknocker.]

Thanks! ......how to make a model. 💀

[@Batsbatsbatsbats]

This could be useful for a fan puppet combo killer

[@teeth3801]

Man the subtitles gave me an screamer

[@bluniverse]

what shape is the best to start with? i've tried with a round cube mesh before but i can't get it to look right. i genuinely have no idea what i should start with edit: no actually using a rounded cube was the right choice!!! for anyone wanting tips, i recommend choosing either the octohedrod or quadsphere presets and changing the radius/divisions :D

[@zupdude20]

I've been trying to do a PS1 styled low poly model myself where the model is seperate by chunks kinda like an action figure. My question is once you seperate the model and you rig a bone to each one of their limbs, what do you do to turn it all into one single mesh without ruining the rigging process?

[@Boomrainbownuke9608]

i may not be garbaj but you can select the objects and combine them. click on one then use shift while clicking to select another object right click to bring up a menu and click on join

[@vitalepitts]

You have such a good presentation style for these vids

[@xxxxsuperduperstarxxxx7570]

couldve been more detailed on the modeling process when it comes to a tutorial..

[@TinyDragonGamer250]

I am gonna make my own version of v1 and use it now.

[@deletedaccount4479]

A good channel 👍❤️

[@GrandeGio95]

Heroes of the storm mentioned, YESS !

[@AnonymousXWeirdo]

I'm struggling, but I must try

[@theeggoplant]

does anyone know what tutorials he used to learn?

[@marscaleb]

An important trick for making an N64-style model is to have varied texel depth. Your model here used a 256x256 texture, but for an N64 model you'd need to use 64x64. The trick is to focus that detail on the portions that most need the detail, such as the face, and then make most surfaces use only a couple pixels.

[@franksalot114]

What do you think about having the limbs seperate but still part of one mesh just the acording bones are fully wieght painted to the acording limbs for optimization?

[@blisterfingers8169]

This. So it still works like a skinned mesh and has all the GPU optimizations etc. Get a lot of these characters and low-poly or not you're gonna be boned in Unity when each one is a heavy af GameObject. Not sure if joining the model, after you've done all these steps, works or not.

[@ShadowScorp99]

How do I go about rigging the model at the end? I have a model with each of the limbs as their own objects but I'm not sure how to proceed from here.

[@jan45352]

thank you now i can make my game

[@NoSoyDib]

It looks like something Directly out of play 1 or nintendo 64, Nice!

[@johnjoeparrot]

Awesome

[@LandonEmma]

Bro basicaly said do it yourself, like how...

[@huntermcmillan294]

i like the part wher u showed us how you made it

[@Hyperfixatedx]

could you make a longer tutorial ? please? XD

[@starry-p]

i’m watching this so i can draw a 3D model. yes draw, I don’t do 3D modeling and want to draw them.

[@TheSuperCasual2914]

Well… time to start over again… (I used the same shape as the full body for mine 😔 )

[@caoistico669]

Ok, and how do i do all these things?

[@TheManudo00]

i swear to god "How To Make Low Poly Models" then proceeds to show a finished model and talk gloss over the texturing , jesus christ and then there is a lot of comments of acting as if it was a masterclass what the heck

[@caoistico669]

@@TheManudo00 yeah, basically that

[@jackoc3336]

a video on Godot character animation handling would be cool

[@ame367]

animations made in blender can be imported directly into godot, and you can play the animations using godot's animationPlayer node

[@benpitchford621]

lovee it

[@zaehmd]

Ah, i see your man of culture

[@BlixerTheGamer2024]

Making Custom SM64 Models be like:

[@xr_xharprazoraxtra5428]

1:53 Garbaj : * taking her bones apart Me : laugh + choking XD Phia : really ?... -_-

[@bubba9276]

would try if I knew how to draw the characters in my head

[@emanuel3617]

"Welcome to the virtual reality show!"

[@A.I.rchist]

This looks so easyyyyyyyyyyyy but is probably so difficult, why must art torment me like this?

[@Viktoria_Selene]

12 seconds in and I'm already lost (I need to learn blender)

[@denizdemir9255]

that tiny blushing anime face made me lol

[@daretheday7852]

Hey I see so many people do this type of modelling where they map out a surface over a 2D image/reference then make it a 3D model and I was wondering how you do this/what its called so I can find a tutorial on it. Thanks! ^~^

[@imselfaware419]

Look up: "Blender Tutorial - 2D Drawing to 3D Model (part ~)" by Eve Sculpts on KZbin.

[@vulpipunkgaming]

Look up " how to insert reference images in blender" and you will be on the right track. Some videos cal them back ground images. You can try "modeling with a reference image in blender" as well

[@finlayfin212]

how do you do that mirror thing with the subdivide? i need this for a project and to make 3d modeling easier