How to Make Low-Poly Models with Pixel Texture | Blockbench Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- Let’s try out the low-poly modelling software Blockbench! This is an information-rich tutorial for beginners (of which I am one!), because I wanted to explore the fundamentals before revisiting Blockbench for some more ambitious work in the future!
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Special thanks to the Pokémon Wiki (pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Pokem...) for being a useful resource of information and reference visuals!
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0:00 Intro
0:44 New Project / Adding Shapes
2:08 3D Workspace and the Object Controls
5:55 Creating the Pixel Texture
9:35 Exporting a GIF
10:42 Making the MYSTERY Object!
11:22 Creating Groups and Setting the Pivot Point
12:31 Loop Cut
14:00 Finishing Details
14:36 Scaling an Object
15:16 Texturing, Round 2!
15:59 FINAL ARTWORK
16:42 CRT Time
17:13 VID OVER
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Software used: Blockbench (Version 4.6.5, on Mac)
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hey, nice to see you try out blockbench! just wanted to add a quick tip from someone that has used blockbench often: You can hold shift for .25 increments, and hold both ctrl/cmd and shift for .025 increments
Ooh thanks for the tip! Wow that gets to some incredibly small increments! :o
@@BJGpixel yup; i mean, it's just combining both!
Also might as well add: for cuboids, you can just create a normal cube then scale it to any size you want with the button next to the "create mesh" diamond (also if you right click, you can later convert it to a mesh, if needed!)
Thank you for this! I'm in the process of creating my first project in blockbench, and this has been a huge help!
I have a problem in blockbench, when I make a cube smaller than one, it gives an error, and when I set the error to per view, I have a problem with the texture. Pls help me
Besides this video, do you know any good tutorials for blockbench? I'd love to start using it!
7:44 - The reason the gird didn't look pixel perfect is because the old UV map was showing, you crunched a 5 pixel tall wall into a 2 pixel tall space (when making one half of the pokeball at 3:19). When you create a new texture, the texture density is recalculated via smart UV-ing but doesn't automatically update the grid on screen which might actually be a bug.
Ah interesting, that makes a lot of sense - thanks for the insight! I'll have to keep an eye on that, and the other thing I realized later (which I didn't try yet!) was to also adjust the coordinates of the mapped faces on the UV map if I wanted to change the mapping
More than a bug it kind of make sanse too you know? Imagine one of that satisfying slime videos where the slime has a stamped image in it, if the slime gets squished or stretched the stamped image will stretch/squish with the object so, take the image as the mesh representation.
One thing I really love about the end turntable is the slight texture warp on the pokédex. Really reminds me of those wobbly textures in PS1 games
Exactly, this is so Ape Escape it hurts
Are you referring to the flickering of certain parts of the model?
It looks like a case of the phenomenon called "Z fighting" and definitely adds to the retro aesthetic!
Looks like Z-fighting to me. Which is weird since I'm pretty sure none of the pieces are overlapping, unless he accidentally duplicated those buttons and then only painted one of them properly.
@@stevethepocket Pretty sure he is talking about the CRT time turntable but ok.
Its the gif optimization, not z-fighting
Never would have expected you transitioning to 3D tools, but it makes sense seeing it in action. Great job!
This is gonna be my new favorite tool.
I love how you made the models in the style of the OG Pokemon Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow texture style.
This can legit be put in a Pokémon 3d game
I'm quite impressed with how well you explained it being a beginner. Lots of useful features that took me a long time to figure out myself when I started using blockbench explained very simply for beginners. Wish I had this when I started.
glad to see a video on blockbench!! ive tried modeling in it several times before, but was unable to overcome the extreme poly restrictions after using blender. thanks for showing us this workflow!
Dude, of all the years on youtube, how did I not find you any earlier. This is awesome! Keep up the good work. You’ve finalized my decision on pixel art-style for my game. Cheers!
Cool to see you coming back to the 3d modelling, I really like the pixel art texture look
Great video! As a low-poly pixel artist I have been using blockbench for a while now, and it’s really interesting to see your approach! The end result looks great
the end result is super cute. Would love to see more of this!
Just tried Blockbench after watching this video, and I have to say your tutorial was immensely helpful for a beginner!
Love seeing more Blockbench Tutorials! Thanks for expanding the community!
I love your videos! I started using blockbench literally a few days ago, it's great to see you doing some tutorials for it!
Wow, that's a very cool tool to use! Thank you for sharing this and giving short and packed tutorial! Hope to see more vids on this
ive been using blockbench for about a year and i still didn't know you could do some of the things you did, great video
I installed blockbench a few months ago but never used it much , This video gave me some inspiration to try it again
Finally, always wondered how these amazing styled 3d models were made, blockbench all along +_+
Loved the vid, love Blockbench, would love to see more videos on it! When I started using it finding videos on the program was pretty difficult. Glad to see more people checking it out and making content about it!
Hey, Brandon! Super excited to finally see you try out this amazing application! I started off playing with Blockbench about 2 years ago and in the process, I was hired by a big team as a Fulltime 3D Modeler. There's so much more you can do with Blockbench and the community is fairly big. I hope to see more work from you with Blockbench!
Thanks for your awesome videos!
You’ve been a massive inspiration for me and I’ve learned so much from your channel. After being introduced to Aseprite and now Blockbench, I’ve spent a lot of time with them and I’ve made some stuff I’m really happy with from the advice you’ve given in your videos. Your stuff is seriously underrated. Keep up the great work!
i've been using blockbench for low-poly modeling recently and was surprised to see this! great video!
I only recently started using Blockbench 3 days ago and now I get to see my favorite artist start working on this program as well, its really cool to think about what you'll make in the future
Thanks for this one homie. I get a bit overwhelmed everytime I try a new 3D app and this was a really perfect slice to get my feet wet.
Thank you for this!
You were my inspiration to getting into pixel art and now have been on the fence about 3D modeling but thanks to this video, I know exactly where to start
With your skills in pixel art, models look awesome. Hope to see more videos from you using Blockbench 😄
I needed this excitement in my life. I havent felt this excited to try something in a while!
Gosh, I've seen this channel a long time ago and finally got a chance to subscribe. Thanks for all of the material.
Dude you're so talented, honestly, love your channel
Wait, don't all digital artists technically make images out of tiny squares? You're the one that makes pictures out of bigger squares
OMG YES
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Achtually! ☝️ It's triangles. 🤓
Finally Blockbench gets more attention that he deserves!
I’ve been using blockbench for ages, really nice to see you using it.
Fell in love with this art style since I played Mega Man Legends.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful video😍
Thanks man, and great as always!
I just started using this tool! Didn't know you did a tutorial series on it. I'll have to watch it. Thanks!
Wtf I JUST downloaded the software and was looking for tutorials when i see this show up in my feed. What are the chances! Thanks for the awesome tuts as always ^^
Amazing work as awlays! I'd love to see more 3d modelling from you :)
I love it! Thanks for introducing us to such softwares. I loved playing around with PicoCad, and I'm definitely going to give this one a go too. 😊
Wow! I did my first Blockbench model thanks to you. I appreciate it!
thank you so much for showing how to create textures! ivw been struggling to do it since i started, and this helped so much.
What a great Birthday present 🎁. Happy Easter!
My god, I love using Blender but I hate doing these types of designs with Blender even though I love the 3d pixel art look just cause of how tedious and how many plugins I needed to do literally what looks to be base features in block bench. Simply wonderful, will try it out.
this is so rad! been wanting to get into 3d modeling for a while, have dabbled very very lightly with magicavoxel and recently blender, but this is right up my alley! definitely gonna have to give this a whirl soon. great video and art as always man!
This is great ❤ I’ve been looking at this software
This will be handy for my game project. Thank you and my friend who recommended me this video for this.
Absolutely awesome work dude!
I really love how this looks!
Wooow, I love the result :-O !! This program have a lot potential
wow ! Thanks so much for making me discover this software ! i've been intimidated by blender, but this looks perfect for the low poly style i wanted to make ^^
thanks so much for introducing me to this software! i tried blender many times and found it so complicated and difficult to use.. this is much simpler and allows me to much more easily access the tools i want to use to make models!
I think you are reading my mind! I was just thinking about getting into making low poly models
This is a really interesting tool. Thank you for sharing!
This was incredible, and really inspired me to pick up blockbench!
Dude! This was amazing! It's like "What if Pokemon was a 3D PS1 game?" 😍
ok, this is the first 3D modeling software that doesn't crash every time I leave it open for more than 10 seconds. Also, thanks for the tutorial, I hope I manage to do something at least decent today.
I've always wanted to learn this program. I started thanks to this video and I had a lot of fun
This is awesome I was looking for something that would let me not only create but animate low poly models
Dang it man, I was planning on doing a Blockbench video myself :D great tutorial!
Amazing been looking for something like this hope for more
Thanks for the Tutorial, Brandon! I can finally start doing low-poly models :D
yooo blockbench I love using blockbench
Hmmm you don't look like one
@@rmcoutinho ?
@@rmcoutinho why does your channel look like its from 2005
I had no idea this existed omg, this is perfect for not just minecraft, but any ps1 aesthetic, or late DS
I love you’re videos keep up the great work! You inspired me to start pixel art when I watched one of you’re videos thanks for the great content!
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@@noxabellus y'our
This looks really interesting! Just downloaded it, really glad it's got a desktop version.
Good video! Thanks for the information.
Awesome introduction to Block Bench, I've never heard of this one before but it looks really nice, I like how modern the UI looks! Coming from a small Blender background, it looks like it has all the tools you'd need for making the assets it specializes in. It's incredible how great software like this are made available for free (and open source too!!) I really wish more industries with expensive software solutions would follow. 😌
The Pokeball & Dex came out looking great too! The detail with the sphere & tube is a very cool addition indeed! Also, the wireframe looked pretty crazy on the CRT! Was that the same clip earlier in the video? 😱
Thanks dude! Yeah I was impressed with how accessible this was - and fills an interesting space between picoCAD and Blender :D And yeah, that was the same animation sequence - the wireframe version has really thin lines and ended up with artifacting from filming - I was hoping to recover more detail in post-processing but really ended up being a cool effect either way!
@@BJGpixel Season 2 of PicoCAD to Blender sure is off to a great start! 🤩
I'm glad the wireframe recovery on the CRT didn't work out cuz it ended up looking rad as heck! 😎
Blockbench is a fantastic program for low poly modeling and with new features like mirror modeling its constantly getting better! Recently I even made a model for a Mario 64 PC mod with Blockbench
Awesome video ! I tried multiple times to make low poly models with pixel art texture with blender but everytime having a bad time ! Thanks for sharing this tuto on Blockbench I'm downloading it to try asap !
That looks amazing!
I'm indebted to you for introducing me to this.
Best tutorial for sure, thanks!
Oh my gosh this is amazing, I was just about to try to learn blender, but this is waaaaay more up my alley and has the exact style I was looking for the game I'm making 🤩Thank you!╰(*°▽°*)╯
Same. Was just about to start a tutorial on blender, when I noticed this video :3
I've been using blender for a few months and tbh if I wanted to do something lowpoly i think using another software like that one would be better
So if you wanna do just voxel lowpoly stuff, this is probably better
but you might wanna learn blender or any other program to create a more detailed render, this software seems a bit lacking to make scenes honestly
You can apply most of this video to blender, since it has the same tools. Also in blender you can set the pivot point to a specific vertex and in loop cut if you use the mouse wheel it increments the number of cuts.
What is the game?
what game r you making? :3
Thank you very much - really nice tutorial 😁
Great vid as always, I also stated using blockbench recently
conviant, I just started to learn this myself, thanks for some new nsides!
this looks fun to play with, i might try it out
I've always wanted to try out doing low poly!! thank you for this! i finally have a reference/ guide to look at when i eventually do low poly!
No problem, happy it could help! Would love to see how your designs and style translate to low poly ✌️😊✨
Oh. My. God. I am so glad I watched this video. I am so glad I got to 15:00 right in the middle of going through the positions and adding *2 to the end and then scaling everything up after. This is going to halp making my data pack so much easier
I'm going to be honest, I learned more on how to use this app from this video than actual tutorial videos. I don't know why. I feel like I can start 3D modeling right now and just go fucking ham. And I'm going to starting tomorrow.
Estuve esperando un tutorial asi desde hace mucho tiempo.
Gracias.
Thank you (and the YT algorithm) for introducing me to Blockbench. It seems to be exactly what I was looking for to create some low poly models for my projects. The only other option until now was Blender, which is way too much overkill for that kind of stuff.
Oh wow I was having troubles with the workflow of blockbench so seeing this is pretty inspiring (i was too lazy too look up tutorials lol)
That is epic, learned something new! I will try some things out like masks, helmets and swords, I will see what I can create
Thank you for the lesson!
I literally juat learned about this program yesterday from mortmort and i sooo wanna try it! I love making low poly pixel art in blender but this looks like a fun program to experiment with
yep i saw mortmort's model too and was like " I wonder if Brandon has seen this software?" sure enough there is a vid up 😄
I have been dreading learning blender to make low poly assets, but block bench looks so much simpler to use, I have to give this a try.
I remember back in highschool, the first thing we were tasked with making in our tech class was a Pokeball. Good model for learning the basics of a program
This was very helpful... more helpful than the other tutorials. Keep Pixel arting
CRT Time usually isn't the highlight of a video for me, but this one was particularly beautiful! Those wireframe textures at the start reminded me of the Sonic OVA
One thing I would to add. You can turn off the shadows in the upper right corner by clicking on the light bulb, this will allow you to better see the original colors when painting
I downloaded Blockbench and followed you're guide. Would definitely like to see more 3D videos.
Yo! I had already downloaded and started using this before you even got started on the Pokedex. I've been wanting to fiddle with low poly stuff for a while, and Blender really wasn't hitting the spot. I also tried PicoCAD, but to similar disappointment. This tool is intuitive and very streamlined for exactly what I want to practice. Great little video. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome stuff, I just finished my own pokeball following your video, already started messing around with the settings and looking what else I can try. Already grabbed some plugins that looked useful too. I like blender, but I'm learning to make stuff for fun, you know? This one is perfect, blender gives me too many "I don't know what this does, nor I need it, I think" moments.
Thank God I decided to click on their before giving modeling a go because I know for a fact I would of malding about why the origin point was still where i spawned the image, hope you make one for animations too
Brandon continuing to be an inspiration to me. Love your videos man, keep it up. Love from Niagara Falls!
this is very cool! like blender but specifically for low poly things. i'll totally try this out.
I'm definitely checking out this app.
I love your videos great job 👍
you've inspired me to get into block bench
Yoooo! Let’s go! Blockbench is dope, I’ve been messing around with it for game dev assets, so happy to see you checking it out I know you’re going to make some awesome stuff with it, these were great, easier to duplicate that rare candy than it was in Pokémon red with the old man trick 🤣❤ I’ve been going back and forth between Blender, Crocotile and Blockbench. Crocotile is nice too, have you tried it? Very different workflow where you build out of your drawn assets in single tiles. Pretty fun!!!