Making a Droid Army in Blender

This week we take a look at army of Battle Droids rendered using Blender 2.8's new real-time render engine, Eevee.
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Modelled, animated and rendered in Blender 2.81 Eevee. Texturing in Substance Painter. Graded using FilmConvert Pro.
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[@FilmLearnin]

I'm being convinced more and more every day to get into Blender- Well done!

[@gunnaryoung]

Do it! I can't wait to see what you do with it!

[@DS6Prophet]

*First of all, why does this incredible artist NOT have over 1 million subscribers yet?* *Second, you are hands down one of the most amazing creators! All your work shows just how powerful Blender keeps on becoming & how limitless your creativity with it can be! Spectacular work, sir! I pray people will find out about your work!!*

[@gerrysstruffle3535]

Dude droids have such good posture

[@NarekAvetisyan]

Great overview of what can be done with EEVEE. Loved it.

[@hookflash699]

I *really* hope the Blender devs can figure out how to add proper motion blur and dynamic GI (maybe voxel-based?) to Eevee. That would be a game-changer.

[@MrMargaretScratcher]

There's object motion blur in Unreal so hopefully they can compare notes :)

[@Artman009]

Great video! Love your work and your in-depth explanations/breakdowns.

[@activemotionpictures]

Awesome tip at 2:24- Cool video!

[@jeremyanderson2374]

Really enjoy watching your approach, keep the videos coming!

[@DanceManAlex]

This was great! Now maybe a Stromtrooper please:]

[@drinnerd8532]

Time to re-export this fantastic, animation in one of the most recent 2.9 versions of Blender to utilize that FANTASTIC Evee Motion Blur and make this sick-@SS animation look EVEN MORE Sick!!!

[@5tevecarnaghi]

Who would have guessed that 20 years later one man could produce work better than an entire team in 1999.

[@BlenderBurst]

Nice Work!

[@filmdon2475]

@Ben Jewer would you be able to elaborate a tad bit more on how you were able to join the robot yet still rig it to move without deformations. Thanks!

[@xalener]

If you're bugged about baking indirect lighting in eevee, do what they did at crytek for Crysis 2 all the way through to Ryse and spam color picked area lights on every flat surface

[@jeffg4686]

cool animation

[@Assassin_Gamez]

I really want that battle droid model tho

[@alan112223]

Super informative, thanks! Subscribed.

[@paraisoenllamas]

Great work!

[@thesenate4536]

I am in the process of rigging and would love to know how you did it. Is there any way you could make a tutorial on this. Even though you don't want to mislead anyone it would be really helpful to just show how you did it and maybe we can learn a few things. Thanks

[@abiyyupanggalih854]

Its really mind blowing🌟😀👍

[@billyjohnny6225]

Nice vid, thank you!

[@fabianoperes2155]

Amazing work. I Think sound FX would improve a LOT! But it's amazing anyway.

[@MADAMOTION]

Great work and breakdown 👍

[@MichaelKarius]

Very interesting, thank you for sharing!

[@the23rdapr90]

Wow... I love it 💜💜

[@venkadaganapathy2385]

Wonderful Video :) Can You Tell me How to make That Droids In Blender With Reference :)

[@papiotoon]

It’s better than whole The Last Jedi movie;)

[@davidmurphy563]

I never use the knife tool. I'm just wondering is anyone has any suggestions about when it's best employed and what the advantages are.

[@mad7nstinct494]

Knife tool Is a very powerful tool. You can use it for example in subdiv modelling when you want to create a shape and manipulate the support loops. Hope it helps.

[@davidmurphy563]

@@mad7nstinct494 It did, thanks! You know, I always have a tendency to add loops, inserts or fills between vertices. Let me try knifing as well, would be good to have it in my workflow.

[@brunocastro4558]

A good thing about using knife is that you can cut unwraped/textured mash without the need to reset the uvwrap.

[@premnathart3496]

What is your hardware set up?

[@gower1973]

Got any tips for relating face count of a model to the texture resolution to get a good texel density, Im currently working on a model that has 150k faces and even with a 4k texture on it the texture resolution looks kinda janky close up. Ive maximised the space as much as possible, Im wondering if there some kind of face count limit to using one texture and know when to split it in more than one.

[@BenJewer]

Texel density shouldn't depend on face count at all - it's purely a measure of the number of pixels in any given area. So for example, a single plane 10m x 10m mapped to fill a 1024 texture would have the exact same texel density as a 10m x 10m plane subdivided 10 times and places on the same texture. There is an addon for Blender called texel density checker that allows you to easily calculate or set texel density on individual UV islands on a model. Find a texel density that works for your model based on how close you're going to be seeing it, and then if your UVs end up too big to fit on a singe sheet, split it off into a separate texture.

[@sebastienlopez7803]

quic question when making evee renders. for your scene, how many sample did you put for the render animation?

[@BenJewer]

Can’t recall off the top of my head but I think it was 64.

[@DarkStray]

im struggling on the shape of the head its hard to make, then add the eyes, im trying to boolean the eyes into them

[@bombboy3427]

Boolean is touchy and situational. It's best to use extrude whenever you can! Do the eyes using the knife tool or Displacement maps.

[@siahsargus2013]

Roger Roger

[@fish3170]

song in the beginning?

[@santicheeks1106]

I have a question, I hope you dont mind, can you do a tutorial on how to make dinosaurs because I know how to model them but I have no idea how to texture them and make them look realistic

[@BenJewer]

I definitely want to cover this at some point, however right now I’m not able to record myself using blender or substance painter for a long time as it quickly starts to lag out my machine. I’m looking into getting a capture card so I can do so.

[@santicheeks1106]

@@BenJewer oh ok, but I wanted to know how to texture in blender not substance painter because that's all I have I want to leave more 👌

[@BenJewer]

I’ll probably be doing tutorials on both blender and substance when I’m able to. You can do pretty much the same things in Blender as substance, the workflow just takes longer.

[@santicheeks1106]

@@BenJewer ok sounds good, thanks for responding 👍

[@xtilakx]

guru ji>

[@axelseger]

Make a scene were you destroy all this droids using a lightsaber!

[@migueltrejo1767]

Actually looks better than Phantom Menace. Not because the tech has come so far, the Phantom Menace sucked

[@jolynewilkinson2417]

Nah the prequel cgi is pretty dated and needs a remaster

[@armandooliveira3712]

Pleeeaaasse tutorial...

[@why4019]

Me

[@sohailwazir7680]

sir, you have big potential if you make detailed tutorials then overview. you can get many subscribers like me. pls, share your knowledge with detailed tutorials. give us a chance to say thanks.