Turn Images into 3D Models | Blender Beginner Tutorial

In this follow along video we'll create a simple building out of an image texture.
I hope this tutorial helps you!
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[@teokimo]

This is an amazing tutorial I've been looking for.

[@normg2242]

Nice, slow and clear. Even I can understand this! Thanks 😊

[@datadantesolutions]

Absolute beast mate! Love it and thanks

[@skyline3d]

didn't need this tutorial but youtube showed me it. You explain very well, really useful for beginners

[@dirtreynolds7723]

You're a legend man, great teaching here! So many other tutorials on this are so complicated but yours was done so well, THANK YOU!

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Thank you for the kind comment! Best of luck with your 3D works!

[@tmasterpiece]

Literally

[@lovetravelapps]

Great tutorial, really useful!

[@mikebennewitz]

Thanks for the material alpha blend tip. That was vexing me.

[@Saulowski]

Amazing! Thank you for sharing!

[@moderntart-nr2bu]

Thank you, clear instructions 😊

[@Miguel-nr9kh]

Amazing, I have to thank you man, just made my life simpler.

[@VitusPolikarpusSM]

Great tutorial, I love it

[@bacetto73carlotto94]

Twan Oligschlaeger for president !!!

[@monkeyzeetube]

wow thank you.. you are a very good teacher

[@bettlebug5988]

Oh my goodness!! that was AWESOME!! great and simple tutorial. Thank you

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Thank you for the kind comment! Best of luck with your 3d adventures!

[@bettlebug5988]

@@twanoligschlaeger I will try because sometimes watching a tutorial others don't do a good job as you do. They will speed through a point and I never get finihed

[@ElectroTekChiapas]

thanks for this tutorial

[@jagannadharaju1155]

fantastic bro

[@herojitsingh5945]

nice, explanation....need more videos sir.

[@shiftq8375]

clear as the sky

[@vin_0916]

made a bunch of meme projects from this, thanks man

[@adrianewachholz]

fantastic! thank you so much!

[@twanoligschlaeger]

thank you for the nice comment! best of luck with your 3d adventures!

[@arcticbarbarian]

Very cool! thank you

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Thank you for the kind comment! Best of luck with your renders!

[@ihassan1001]

Love it!

[@twanoligschlaeger]

thank you for the nice reply!

[@StupidIdiotStudios-hh6ir]

Im trying to become a 2d animator and this helps out alot when it comes to makeing the model for rigging

[@twanoligschlaeger]

You can do it, good luck!

[@SitinprettyProductions]

Wonderful. Thanks for sharing :)

[@twanoligschlaeger]

I'm happy my video helped you!

[@Doctorsup-lk5ky]

What about the sides of the building? How would I add texture to that?

[@suryabhanesh3943]

hey man, amazing video.. can i use this in unity 3d??

[@imraghen789]

Nice

[@ahmedboshra7625]

Brilliant! can you make another video like this to get 3d model from Ai generated images like cartoon character for example, that’d be amazing if you can do this ❤️

[@Miguel-nr9kh]

I'm having some problems with the rendering. When I change from "Blender Render" to "Cycles" the image information is lost and the solid becomes a single white color. Any ideas on how to resolve it?

[@heroic3darts449]

This works great if you’re making a city/town and have it as a background piece. It wouldn’t work so good if it’s a foreground piece, would be better off finding a more well known building with better reference images or designing your own building. Nice tutorial though.

[@GetRealwithMike]

I need to take images of Victorian mansions and old west buildings and trun them into a file that can be cut with a laser cutter. I want to make the models but they are too complicated for me to create in Fusion 360. Can you explain how to do that in a tutorial for beginners?

[@valdirwilleneto1447]

Muito bom. Tks!

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Thank you!

[@vinaikumarharipuram2195]

tnq

[@llinglling]

Is it possible to convert it into a mesh at the end?

[@lucyynwang]

very nice and easy. I wonder is it necessary to cut the background out? seems tedious..

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Thanks! If you dont want to manually cut out the background, you can use photoshop to select and delete the white sky, or use a color ramp (with the texture image node plugged into it) inside of blender and plug it into the alpha node (but cutting out manually gives better results). hope this helps👍

[@RamDaresh-vh7td]

Turn imeg into 3d model on mobil in which app plese tell me about with all functions

[@DaSmokeDaddy]

Can this technique, images as planes, be used with a specific image and its depth map?

[@artantme]

+1

[@ZeekDoesStuff]

anybody know hot to make the glass almost like a layer to still percieve whats behind? as if simulating a shop front window? Thanks!

[@twanoligschlaeger]

maybe try chaging the alpha on the principled bsdf node in the shader editor. does that give you the result youre looking for?

[@Gamezoneadi]

i am struggling to plant my house in the ground cause its not flat. i dont understand how it is so nicely merged with the ground with no clipping of stairs in games

[@hamzaodt3515]

Now thanks for this , but when I import the model from blender to Unity3d the when i am inside the building, the face become transparent?

[@twanoligschlaeger]

maybe try giving it a solidify modifier in blender? im not sure what the right process is for exporting objects to unity3d

[@crimson_defendz1126]

is it possible to put your own image in instead of finding ones already on the website?

[@twanoligschlaeger]

yes, just select a different image

[@CLUAlNMEALA]

Hi thanks for the vid, I used a png file but when I exrtude my image it doesn't look solid except for the front and back. Any idea where i'm going wrong? 🙂

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Try going into the material properties tab, scroll down and change blend/shadow mode from opaque to alpha hashed! Does this help? :)

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Now that I think of it, the reason why it's only solid from the front and back is because you've probably extruded a 2D image plane, to also make the top and bottom closed, go into edit mode, select the highest vertex's and press F to fill, this should create a new ''face''. repeat this for the bottom side as well. Let me know if it works otherwise i'll provide a more detailed answer.

[@CLUAlNMEALA]

@@twanoligschlaeger Thanks for the responce, when I examined the png image there was a border around it even though I could see through gaps in the structur, so after cutting around, it worked ok, thanks

[@Amouryxk]

I tapped blend mode, and Alpha Hashed, it's still transparent. Can you help me please? 🙏

[@maro4324]

I have the same problem

[@isrequired]

it isn’t showing edit mode in the little drop down did I miss a step or smth

[@panduke9627]

❤

[@chocolatewings_]

Can i know your Blender ver ?

[@An0therR0gue]

the add image as plane does not work. it shows as a blank plane on both side, but if you add reference it shows the image, but obviously you can't edit the image (with knife). is there a setting you did that was not explained on camera?

[@twanoligschlaeger]

did you switch to the Material Preview mode? (the standard blender viewport is in 'solid' mode)

[@ConnieGMK]

Why didn't use a background remover first

[@jonasfrapattedyrforeningen9711]

how do i move the image when im in edit mode, need to movie the image while im cutting

[@dbron_8132]

hold shift then the move camera

[@calonatlit447]

hey whatt tool you use?

[@twanoligschlaeger]

do you mean 'Blender'?

[@herojitsingh5945]

pls. make a mountain from image.

[@twanoligschlaeger]

i recommend using the free "A.N.T. Landscape" addon for making mountains. its pre-installed in blender👍

[@muhamaddahlan728]

i extrude it but it didt become like the video it just become seperate like 2 image anyone can help me ?

[@Almareaver]

same here :/

[@maro4324]

same here

[@lostark3278]

is it still works on new blender version?

[@dbron_8132]

yes

[@arlfiftyfourtd8132]

would I be able to import a google image into blender?

[@xavierf2229]

of course mate,any type of images or videos

[@arlfiftyfourtd8132]

@@xavierf2229 well thanks but unfortunately I discovered that this video won't help me make a 3d model of ship ahoy Dudley from bendy and the dark revival using a 2d google image

[@lyleheup-long7891]

I pressed K to get the knife tool and that's not what came up

[@twanoligschlaeger]

are you in edit mode?

[@rubbish9231]

now we have some ai plugins available to generate 2d to 3d

[@bogdizzz]

can you tell me what plugin is ?

[@ferlaur113]

Don’t forget to add some bevel on edges, because no building in real world is sharp as a knife!

[@cr4723]

You dont need bevel. Big objects with far camera dont need that.

[@Trinity_Financial]

am i the only one that "D" didnt work for with extruding the image??

[@twanoligschlaeger]

I think you should press "E"

[@StanleyKubick1]

Just incredibly low-rent. This can be solved much better

[@dovmerrill804]

OK. Please briefly explain your process (for us just starting to use Blender). Thank you in advance!

[@SDSypher]

you just gonna criticize him and not provide any input on your supposed genius whatsoever? Not even gonna slightly elaborate?

[@SGTRandyB]

Seems more like a low-rent comment offering nothing better. You should make a video for your 3 subscribers showing how an expert does it better.

[@atefe6377]