A bit of a tip: Green lights don't make your mechs look good _or_ evil, but they make it look much more militaristic. My theory is the association with Night Vision Goggles
things are asymmetrical on military vehicles because that was the most efficient way to pack whatever hardware they are carrying or equipped with you dont need two radios or two main guns lol . nice tutorial btw
your tip about recalculating bone roll saved me! Most other rigging tutorials skip over that bit and just say to change the pole angle - but that didn't rectify the weird angles so animation was a nightmare. Cheers!
Thank you for making this video. It is useful to see the whole process and the steps required before I actually start making something myself because I can properly plan.
These tutorials are EXCELLENT. I've been using Blender for years and I learned some really neat things with this! (Especially the object carver- holy crap i needed this on so many projects)
how to make a mech: add a cube mesh subdivide it add a cilinder at the bottom add a symmetry modifier "5 seconds montage of modelling the rest of the mech at the speed of light"
@@CriticalGiants Sorry for the delay, I wanted to work through the whole tutorial before responding. As far as which parts I'd like to see more of, I would say I'd like to see all the aspects in greater detail. I felt I learned something at each stage of the tutorial. I would love to see more time spent on the design aspect. It would also be nice to see more time spent on modelling reusable kitbash elements. The texturing part was great. I really liked the quick camouflage node setup you showed. I also really enjoyed the rigging and animation side of things. I barely ever rig, but found it quite fun. Seeing the mech come to life with animation was great. On the animation and rigging side of things, it would be neat to see how you would rig and animate retractable parts. I really enjoyed this tutorial and can't wait to see what you come up with in a longer form Gumroad video! Great work!
The bone symmetry doesnt work for me and I think its related to your bone structure changing for some reason and you dont mention that youve changed it. When you drag out the third bone it creates its own structure but then magically it's parented correctly in the hierarchy.
It was to do with the axis that you have built your shape on, mine was facing a different direction and thus my mirror modifier interacted differently to yours
id really wish you'd do tutorial but a bit slower and a little more detailed cause I can follow most things but still struggle on certain things, still great tutorial thanks for sharing
You shouldn't do the UV Mapping using Smart UV Project, the functionnality is "fast" but the UV Islands are pretty bad. You would have better results by doing the UV Mapping using the classic way and maybe an addon like UVPackMaster Pro 2 to sort you islands.
Thanks for the turorial. I don't understand one thing though: at what point did you make the mirrored legs become their own objects (and how)? I'm at the stage where I'm assigning vertex groups to the armature but one bone is moving both legs because they are still mirrored.
Why did you have to put some of the most important and complicated actions you did into hyper speed? For example combining the legs and different parts. I watched it at .5 speed and still it’s hard to understand what you did there
Hi. May you help me? I make the same process and nothing happens. When I press Ctrl+Shift+V my model changes its direction but doesn't paste the flipped pose. Any suggestion?
First of you have to make sure your bones are mirrored perfectly, with correct naming .L and .R in the end, then you should be in Pose Mode, select all the bones press CTRL + C and then go to a new frame and press CTRL+SHIFT+V. If this does not work, then try building a simpler rig first, and see if you can replicate it there. This should work, I would guess something is wrong with your rig if it doesn't work.
it would be nice if you explained how to do any of this instead of just saying "do this then do this then do this" its hard to see whats going on in the background, other than that this video was really helpful
The asymmetric things is because it's literally to serve a purpose, plus you REALLY think a breech is going to be having huddled crew? Look up a tank firing in the turret, it'll say why asymmetric things are on military vehicles
just my opinion but could you pls make your tutorial a little more slower, like yes i understand that "haha funny so fast" but can you pls make it more slower an more detailed for those that would like to follow along
I'm playing it on .25 speed and still having trouble keeping up. I'm a Blender n00b so I just know the basics. Still cant figure out how you were re-sizing in the beginning since it doesn't look like you have scaling enabled
YEE its more of a showing off beetwen Pro's kinda thing or self promotion, couse if someone can understand that pace dont need to watch it :) for learning material its not so good.
A bit of a tip: Green lights don't make your mechs look good _or_ evil, but they make it look much more militaristic. My theory is the association with Night Vision Goggles
didn't expect much from an 8 minuet tutorial but you really delivered
Wow the UA-cam algorithms actually delivered a gem, awesome stuff man!!! 😎🔥
things are asymmetrical on military vehicles because that was the most efficient way to pack whatever hardware they are carrying or equipped with you dont need two radios or two main guns lol . nice tutorial btw
The amount of info this man is able to explain in such a short time is amazing! What a great tutorial.
It's been a while a tutorial has been this entertaining😄👍🏻
your tip about recalculating bone roll saved me! Most other rigging tutorials skip over that bit and just say to change the pole angle - but that didn't rectify the weird angles so animation was a nightmare. Cheers!
Thank you for making this video. It is useful to see the whole process and the steps required before I actually start making something myself because I can properly plan.
Wow! I've been using blender for a few years now, but I actually learned a bunch of new stuff from just this one video!
your tuts are severely under-rated. Keep it up tho
This video did more to help me understand modeling, rigging, UV mapping, and animation than any other tutorial so far. Damn.
Damn it was good 🙂🙂 i'm stayin here and waiting for more. Very good content, thank you.
Nice! I can’t wait to see the gumroad version of this 🙏🏿
WTH man how did you teach so much so easily in just under 9 minutes?? Is you alien, is you super?? what is you?? xDD
Love it.
Such an awesome tutorial, fast, snappy, funny, entertaining, useful.
I like how entertaining the tutorial is and also learn a bunch of stuff 😂
Yea learning can be entertaining, that's a thing.
incredible video, good job
This channel is awesome! Gotta make some mechs of my own
Love you stuff man!! Thanks for creating and sharing these amazing stuffs
Deam, this tutorial is super useful and entertaining, deam, ty
This video is great. You're great. Amazing. Subscribed!
Looks like you have been following the Ian Hubert Narrating style to the tea
just found this tutorial a YEAR later, and this is sooo informative. Great work!
Thumb up if you are one of those artist wannabe, that fires up Blender and just stares at the default cube aimlessly...amazing video btw!!!
Thanks dude! Liked and subscribed for more tutorials )
Please keep it up! Really interested in sculpting and animation in Blender )
Great tutorial! No bullshit and straight to the point
These tutorials are EXCELLENT. I've been using Blender for years and I learned some really neat things with this!
(Especially the object carver- holy crap i needed this on so many projects)
月光みたいで好きなデザイン！
how to make a mech:
add a cube mesh
subdivide it
add a cilinder at the bottom
add a symmetry modifier
"5 seconds montage of modelling the rest of the mech at the speed of light"
nice tutorial!
Overlapping UVs is a bad practice but this video was helpful to get me out of my perfectionist slump. 1:55.
Beautiful tutorial - amazing! I burst out laughing at - MODIFIERS!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Superb. I like your "quick&dirty" appoach with overpainting in photoshop. So simple,yet so effective.
Excellent, bro please make some videos on how to apply rotomation in blender. PLEASE PLEASE
End was 🔥🔥🔥
Dude, I cannot say thank you enough for this guidance. Do you have one on in depth material types and texturing?
ajaajaj me divierto y aprendo mucho, muchas gracias por todo
Epic, just epic my friend
Cool Thanks. I'm making a robot (Neon Genesis Eva 01). This will motivate me even more.
damnnn, that's really great
AMAZING thank you so much!
Amazing!!!! Thank you 😭
Great tutorial. Can't wait to see what your Gumroad version is like.
Hey there, which part of this workflow are you personally more interested in? From Design to Animation?
@@CriticalGiants Sorry for the delay, I wanted to work through the whole tutorial before responding. As far as which parts I'd like to see more of, I would say I'd like to see all the aspects in greater detail. I felt I learned something at each stage of the tutorial. I would love to see more time spent on the design aspect. It would also be nice to see more time spent on modelling reusable kitbash elements. The texturing part was great. I really liked the quick camouflage node setup you showed. I also really enjoyed the rigging and animation side of things. I barely ever rig, but found it quite fun. Seeing the mech come to life with animation was great. On the animation and rigging side of things, it would be neat to see how you would rig and animate retractable parts. I really enjoyed this tutorial and can't wait to see what you come up with in a longer form Gumroad video! Great work!
When I symetrize the joints end up behind the originals rather than on the other side of the body
YOU.ARE.AWESOME!
I wanna puke at how simple this looks. Its like photo bashing for concept art but for a model. and I simultaneously hate it and love it.
Im trying to figure out how you we editing the block to make the sides different angles
The bone symmetry doesnt work for me and I think its related to your bone structure changing for some reason and you dont mention that youve changed it. When you drag out the third bone it creates its own structure but then magically it's parented correctly in the hierarchy.
It was to do with the axis that you have built your shape on, mine was facing a different direction and thus my mirror modifier interacted differently to yours
id really wish you'd do tutorial but a bit slower and a little more detailed cause I can follow most things but still struggle on certain things, still great tutorial thanks for sharing
Cool video dude!!!!
This is gold
How did you cut the box in half so quickly? I been tryin to do that for the last hour. xD
what hot key did you use to cut it in half?
How did you duplicate the boxes without also duplicating the pelvis? Cause mine does that. ver 4.2.1
You shouldn't do the UV Mapping using Smart UV Project, the functionnality is "fast" but the UV Islands are pretty bad. You would have better results by doing the UV Mapping using the classic way and maybe an addon like UVPackMaster Pro 2 to sort you islands.
When I symmetrize, the copy of the left side's armature is flipped in a weird way. Is there a way to fix this?
Oh dang, the Voronoi Sci Fi texture slides all along the mesh when im animating it, doesnt stay fixed
question is when it comes to rigging, is adding controls always optional?
i can now finally make a mech and dance around B)
Raiden, watch out for those UGs!
Thanks for the turorial. I don't understand one thing though: at what point did you make the mirrored legs become their own objects (and how)? I'm at the stage where I'm assigning vertex groups to the armature but one bone is moving both legs because they are still mirrored.
Why did you have to put some of the most important and complicated actions you did into hyper speed? For example combining the legs and different parts. I watched it at .5 speed and still it’s hard to understand what you did there
The Rheinmetall Kröte. 😊😁
is it ok if i use your thumbnail as a uv texture thing
unfortunately i cant be able to animate or move the mech in any way, ive tried this tutorial but cant make sense of it 😅
I'd love a longer Gumroad on this!
Omgard you guessed it ;) In the works :D
@@CriticalGiants Joy and Happiness desend upon me.
@@tomh.6261 Curiosity, which part of this workflow are you more interested in? Design, Modelling, Texturing, Rigging or Animation?
@@CriticalGiants Rigging & Animation
BUT... Design, Modelling, and Texuring are also welcome! :D
Please make it a detailed tutorial video
Curious if you've heard about Quickshape and Quicktexture plugins?
Yup I have, they are cool tools :)
nice video
Hi. May you help me? I make the same process and nothing happens. When I press Ctrl+Shift+V my model changes its direction but doesn't paste the flipped pose. Any suggestion?
First of you have to make sure your bones are mirrored perfectly, with correct naming .L and .R in the end, then you should be in Pose Mode, select all the bones press CTRL + C and then go to a new frame and press CTRL+SHIFT+V. If this does not work, then try building a simpler rig first, and see if you can replicate it there. This should work, I would guess something is wrong with your rig if it doesn't work.
@@CriticalGiants ok. I will try it with a simple animation. Thank you.
Yea the only one thing that i hate in blender is texturing object.
i think you should of made 3 parts
BRO, CARVER SHIT IS FREE?!!? WHY TF DIDNT I KNOW THIS SOOONER?!!?
it would be nice if you explained how to do any of this instead of just saying "do this then do this then do this" its hard to see whats going on in the background, other than that this video was really helpful
METAL GEAR?!
Why not just make a normal speed video with all steps.
The asymmetric things is because it's literally to serve a purpose, plus you REALLY think a breech is going to be having huddled crew? Look up a tank firing in the turret, it'll say why asymmetric things are on military vehicles
i made some mech in blender but arent as great as those in the video 😮
Are there any additional steps needed so that this mech can be printed on a 3D printer?
Warframe ?
A metal gear?!
Thanks for the tutorial! You talk/work so fast I have to watch at 0.5 speed to keep up
woah woah WOAH! Slow down man
Algorithms
Good tutorial but it was way to fast and you glossed or skipped over a lot of stuff that would be very important to know for beginners.
just my opinion but could you pls make your tutorial a little more slower, like yes i understand that "haha funny so fast" but can you pls make it more slower an more detailed for those that would like to follow along
I'm playing it on .25 speed and still having trouble keeping up. I'm a Blender n00b so I just know the basics. Still cant figure out how you were re-sizing in the beginning since it doesn't look like you have scaling enabled
YEE its more of a showing off beetwen Pro's kinda thing or self promotion, couse if someone can understand that pace dont need to watch it :) for learning material its not so good.
You speak too fast and unclear. Hard to follow the steps for begginers. But good video overall.
sadly not for blender beginners
I disliked this video because I live by myself and I had this full blast on my speaker and I got super scared in the end.
And you're the only one...
Im making an mech from mech arena, but this helped me less.