I Learned Blender in 30 Days

[@katokarii]

Hi! 3D-Artist student here! I think the main reason why your models look ''flat'' compared to the original references, is because there wasn't any lighting in your scenes. For your next Blender adventure, it could maybe be a good idea to tackle lighting and rendering, to really finish off your pieces. Aside from that, great work! I can see how this could be an inspiration to future Blender artists!

[@usercontent2112]

Seriously how did you youtube guys improve your blender skill so fast. Another youtuber made a freaking giant transformer in 30 days of blender. I think I'm dumb idk, great video! Welcome back

[@overphildev]

Wait someone made a transformer that's awesome

[@AbdulhameedLawal]

Maybe they are very dedicated and not afraid of loosing

[@usercontent2112]

@@AbdulhameedLawal Awesome answer

[@LifeofaSinn]

I'm a little late on this comment... but let's not forget everybody learns at a different pace, no reason to beat yourself up over it! Just keep working on it and you'll eventually get the hang of it!

[@coldSsnap]

@@overphildev 😏

[@charlvanniekerk8009]

The giraffe looks awesome. I dont know why you're so hard on yourself🎉

[@overphildev]

Thanks, looking back it does look better than I remember. When I was making it though I was getting pretty frustrated

[@Mateo_Bc]

the giraffe looks like trash. I know why you're so hard on yourself 😩

[@olekanuriel9359]

yeah, my favorite model was the giraffe. i'd loved to see how you'd texture the spots.

[@janimusicshorts7707]

thats what i was thinking too.

[@McCoreman]

@@overphildev A lot of interest in art, and content in general, is the uniqueness that individuals add to them, how they perceive and then communicate that back out to everyone else. The model you made is a different, but still an entirely recognizable take on a giraffe. You could totally see that outline in a newspaper comic or as a silhouette on a children's toy.

[@NotAThespian]

Your channel is super under-rated. Ive personally been watching pretty much since the beginning and you absolutely deserve more attention. I always get excited when I see a devlog for this game

[@overphildev]

Thank you that means a lot

[@LemurG]

This was so good! I think adding slightly kooky and over the top animations would be a fun way to add more personality to the game. It would fit with how funny it is that the computer screen turns into a machine gun too!

[@overphildev]

That would be fun

[@bUildYT]

as an advanced blenderer, im telling u, the giraffe was ur best piece!

[@coolcons1930]

Piece

[@bUildYT]

@@coolcons1930 ?

[@ghostholo1146]

Can you teach me 😂😭

[@secret1525]

Piece

[@Allie-w1l]

When I made that giraffe, it ended up with a horse's face 😣

[@davidvorano3904]

Everything is awesome, your skill progress was massive.I suggest maybe making fence doors have one more bar or maybe metal tops so they can be more distinguishable from distance

[@overphildev]

Thank you that's a good idea

[@RonuPlays]

This is a HUGE improvement to the look of the game, keep up the good work!

[@overphildev]

Thank you

[@log.moon_]

Great progress! Very inspiring, keep up the good work brother!

[@overphildev]

Thank you so much

[@joaky1989]

Let's go! Makes me happy to see you're back at it. Please don't be so hard to yourself when it comes to "steal" ideas, art works like that, if you don't know how something is shaped, copy, copy and copy again until your brain is ready to create new shapes out of that copied image. Carry on! p.s: the new model look great!

[@ben_the_potato]

Nice! This inspires me to try to do this!

[@ben_the_potato]

also just subbed

[@overphildev]

Id recommend it, I was very surprised with my progress Also thanks I appreciate it

[@Sweepy_Games]

Blender in 30days is crazy. You are incredibly fast learner. My first two months wig blender were super hard 😅 nowhere near yours models

[@unskill5362]

I really like your sense of humor

[@coldSsnap]

Happy to have you back

[@overphildev]

Happy to be back, I've missed it

[@avengerofsquids]

Very professionally done! As someone who's also currently learning Blender, I'm familiar with the struggle lol. You're doing great!

[@eebee535]

So glad to see you back! This was such a cool little challenge for yourself and it inspires me to hop back on blender LOL Keep up the great work!

[@HeroACS]

8:15 was crazy bro 💀

[@BrxadCrumb]

xd

[@Narwhal12]

First video I’m seeing from you, high quality video!

[@Icfish.]

HOLY- i swear it looks so good!! im suprised how much 30 days can get you!

[@jacobpage8028]

I recently started blender too, as a game developer on the first game i want to actually sell, and the tutorial i am following is quite slow and boring. I was starting to get demoralized that it would take ages to be able to do exciting stuff, but seeing all the shit you made so soon after starting, like that well, it fills me with ✨DETERMINATION✨

[@christiansmitherman]

thank you for this video, I'm struggling with Blender and this helped inspire me to keep going

[@gtechnstuff]

Thank you for this video, I'm literally stuck doing unity game dev and needed a step by step to move forward with getting some 3d assets.

[@Idkikdhdnbd]

You forgot to make a Rock

[@TheSlimHim]

Would love to see a video of you modeling something from scratch to get an idea on how its done

[@ikerpaezrodriguez9735]

The color wasn't ruining your models, it was making your models have a style, if you combine all of those models with that same color style your game could look awesome.

[@jacobpage8028]

13:22 not to backseat here, but it might be funny if you gave the scarecrow one of those conspicuous trenchcoats. You know, the things shady detectives wear in pubs when handing iut secrets and stuff.

[@criticalowl4412]

shovel knight looking absolutely cheeked up!

[@Kurtiz-1]

This is actually really inspiring. I am trying to make a game on my own in unity so thank you :)

[@AyranGonzales]

This game gonna be hella awesome, cant wait to play it

[@genteel_reply]

IDEAAA use wrench as a stealthy ''knife'' for robots, sneak behind enemy robotd and ''unscrew'' them up with wrench and then a a cool animation like boom poof but not a mini explosion, it should be mini explosion out of screws and stuff, and some robot failure sounds, maybe use ur voice and use ''robot filter'' on it nice vid broo

[@mo-dev]

Great stuff man! It’s cool to see how quick you can improve by just being consistent. Something you may look into in the future since you are working with game assets is topology to make sure that your assets are always game engine ready and don’t lead to any issues. Once again though great stuff keep it up🙌🙌

[@NopelIa-b7d]

I love attempting to do blender, then completely stopping in 10 minutes.

[@FunTisLife]

Loved the video! Gave me some major inspiration for learning Blender, I’m trying to learn both Blender and GameDev… P.S. Didn’t know Shovel Knight was walking around with a whole bakery attached to his back!

[@Idk-ww3fq]

Thank you this gives me confidence 😊

[@eazzy000]

Shovel knight has some cake😂😂 8:15

[@JustWes]

You rock! Thx for the tips along the way!

[@coldSsnap]

Yay overphill

[@janimusicshorts7707]

I was at this point as a game dev too. once you learn blender, you life becomes so nice

[@voultronix761]

The scarecrow and axe models look like something youd buy in an asset store. Amazing progress🎉

[@henriqueam]

Really entertaining and encouraging as well. Great improvement overall. Keep at it

[@auroth6805]

This is so awesome really giving me motivation to do stuff my self!!! thanks dude

[@trevann8213]

I started modeling a little less than a month ago maybe and I made a semi low polly revolver and I have a lot to go but hopefully one day it will all culminate to a base of a game I'm committed in the long haul to make. Anyway if there are small things you need help with I enjoy doing some of that stuff on discord, especially since I come from a very artistic drawing and story writing background

[@Kiwi-Araga]

Here is something extra you need to learn as a game dev. Bake normals. It's not something complicated, but some of your low-poly assets can be even lower. You don't need (or want) each brick on that wheel in game, all you need is a cylinder with the lighting from your original wheel baked in. The same goes for the rooftop. A giraffe was one of my first projects. Not the one from Grant Abbitt because I started before his channel existed. My first project was an alien, which is something very complex for beginners, but I always start learning something with a difficult project. At first glance it looked fine, but with the topology I set a new low with how horrendous it was in reality. Then I started following tutorials (I'm still doing sometimes) and improved my modeling. My giraffe ended up fine because I was used already with how Blender works. You can always improve. And follow tutorials, you learn more stuff. Don't copy everything from them, try something else based on what you see there. Funny thing, you struggled with round objects, I struggled with sharp ones due to the ways we both learned.

[@vanguardv1nce12]

Yip I'm inspired to start blender now. Thank you dude!

[@overphildev]

Good luck! I had a lot of fun learning it

[@izgit]

Grant is great! I took his udemy course and I admired how many thing he taught without overwhelming the student but also not staying on the same point

[@BabyInYellow44]

0:31 Ayo is that Chung from Kim’s Convinence.

[@pr4shantishere]

Finally! Someone appreciates Grant. He is underrated as heck

[@ryanmaldonado7344]

The improvised bubble butt is PEAK blender.

[@glowtort8442]

Dude you went from… not the best TO BASICALLY PRO! Very inspiring

[@Seraphiiiiic]

Excited to see the new main character soon

[@overphildev]

Hopefully it turns out well

[@skiBDman]

13:37 I really like the checkerboard you should keep it

[@DenVe234]

Your models look really nice! I'm curious to see what they would look like in game :)

[@overphildev]

Thank you, I'm pretty excited to get them all in

[@gamerdom7712]

Get this guy to 100k!

[@overphildev]

I wouldn't mind that lol

[@cornbreadbutcringey5723]

you're probably gonna need more rocks than giraffes in this game anyway

[@overphildev]

You know that's a great point

[@ettiSurreal]

Some personal advice, don't stop watching tutorials. As in, you don't have to recreate/follow every tutorial you make, and can just watch it for the process. Programs like Blender have many many MANY tools, hidden or in plain sight, oftentimes when you see a seemingly complex model it can actually be really easy to model, only if you know the right tools. Remember, you don't know what you don't know, so you have to find a way to know.

[@overphildev]

Oh definitely, I know there is still plenty I don't know

[@NOTuetc]

You should make like 10000000 shorts of this video where in each one you render each of your models an a scene and just make a mini shorts series

[@SmudgeDoesStuff]

You did killer man! For me personally its more inspiring than pewds, cause I know how hard 3d animation is, good stuff!

[@MartKart8]

You could bevel the sides of Hollow knight character to make it more round looking, Ctrl B in edit mode. For the Shovel Knight, I'd probably use a sphere for the head, then delete half of the sphere, and extrude the bottom part, sorry , just a lot of the time, I tend to look at the shapes of objects, and think which mesh works best for it. Great video.

[@overphildev]

I didn't even think of using a sphere and just deleting half of it, that would've turned out way better

[@PuffiBrawlStars]

your progress is unbelievable bro

[@MichaelGame_Dev]

Awesome video! I am considering something similar. I've done part of the donut tutorial, but I think going through something like the low poly playlist like you mentioned may be more helpful. If you have any good tips/resources on the texturing and having parts move, please let me know. I want to move my game to 3d, the models will be fairly simple, but I'll definitely need a few tricks to create different types. How did you setup the fence variants and bring that into your engine? Very cool idea.

[@MaxJprod]

Man why do You guys make such good progress in so little time Nice Giraffe by the way lol

[@kristenwatson1788]

The laugh I just let out when you turned the shovel knight and all I saw was cheeks 😭😭😭

[@14Ghost14]

3D is my biggest fear, I don't even know how to move the camera in Blender. I believe the models will look 100x better with lighting and post processing and maybe some shaders

[@unlifable]

You literally took 6 or 5 days TO GET BETTER LIKE WHAT WHY DID YOU IMPROVE IN LIKE 5 DAYS??!?!?!?!??!

[@cornbreadbutcringey5723]

anyway, i'm noticing there are a lot of small details on these models that would be better accomplished via texture than geometry, such as the grains on the wood on the scarecrow [13:28] and the small gaps between planks on the chest [9:07]. but otherwise, this is great.

[@Dante08124]

You improved so much in 30 days. Im gonna try out this challange for myself too and see if i make any progress, but did u use any settings in blender to make it easier to use the tools?

[@gofrisuto]

This video rocks.

[@overphildev]

Best comment

[@gofrisuto]

@@overphildev thank you! You're an amazing earth blender (see what I did there?)

[@NOTuetc]

You should add some better lighting to your game, your game would look 1000000x better if you made the lighting good

[@RationalBike]

This looks VERY good.

[@alhediia]

I'm laughing so hard at the continuous rock jokes and references

[@AnotherGalaxyToys]

Thanks for sharing your journey. I'm curious if you used a lot of modifiers to do your modeling or if you just directly edited the primitives? I'm learning Blender myself and keep trying to remember how/when to use the more advanced modifiers so I can develop a more nondestructive, professional workflow, but it slows me down. I know I can model faster if I focus on just making vs. doing it the way a lot of books and courses tech it. Curious your thoughts on that.

[@fruitbat8546]

This video got yourself a new subscriber. Really loved it!

[@thereviewerofgames5353]

Holy shit he’s back

[@BenjaminMcgirr]

Didn’t know you work every day but let’s go a new video

[@DreamWaveLofi-tg7fb]

Me: in my first project I made a sword with lights! OverPhil: mE mAdE rOcCkK

[@Moochaa]

Washing machine that shoots lost socks could be fun. Could walk on arms similar to your sketch.

[@overphildev]

Interesting, that does fit my idea of having every enemy be a robots that people in the real world would actually use that just got corrupted

[@EtanMarlin]

i too really was inspired by PewDiePie's vid, it really makes me think that we can do anything if we put our minds to it

[@EtanMarlin]

oh also welcome back haha

[@overphildev]

Thanks, and yeah I was very surprised with how much I learned

[@skib_IZIKI]

you make it look easy

[@danyo6938]

Would have killed me if there were rocks in the chest 😂

[@jelvik]

6:47 is it just me or is he looking kinda thiiccc

[@doomande]

He is alive! I was quite worried, looked at the discord to see if there was any news, and saw porn spam bots, so thought that this project was over and done

[@overphildev]

Yeah the discord is a bit of a mess right now, guess that happens when you go afk for months

[@DaichivalorentVersatility]

bro whats with that obsession with rocks🤣🤣that part was hilarious🤣🤣

[@usernameforgottoexist]

12:46 is just karen.

[@cursedhyena9267]

we gon talk abt how that giraffe was sick

[@SlayerMophisis]

I SWAER THIS GUY IS OPSESED WITH MAKING ROCKS

[@pmdesigns5798]

*Before watching the video* "What!? You learned everything there is to know about Blender in 30 days!? You must be some kind of super genius!" *After watching the video* "Oh. You meant to say that you learned Blender FOR 30 days."

[@MomoTempest6]

What plateform you use for the dev developement ?

[@morganwilson7276]

just started using blender to help my friend with games very painful

[@ChristianPretorius]

I'm not sure what your day job is, but I can't imagine you couldn't do youtube full time, top tier quality content. Just upload a little more regularly haha

[@overphildev]

Thank you, I would love to one day

[@justarandomguy-gn2tu]

That shovel knight is a thicc knight

[@rikomon]

you should add the giraffe as the final boss

[@kartik-rk2jk]

A good giraffe ❌ A simple rock ✅

[@FrozenInIce]

you should smooth shading so it doesn't show the edges every quad.

[@Cluxiu]

Thank you for this video.

[@maxzimmer4338]

What did you use to make your actual game/world for your game?

[@kitsuRai-Vnom]

huh u look so pro in day 4 already xD

[@b-vance]

I like that giraffe though.

[@JunoWhom]

Same cadence as Chef John Food Wishes.

[@champion2365]

THE MAIN CHARACTER OF HOLLOW KNIGHT THAT U DREW ISNT CALLED HOLLOW KNIGHT THAT’S THE FINAL BOSS

[@Markie0808]

*Shows Deep Rock*: WE'RE RICH!