NOW you tell me, *snicker* (I mean, NOW I am looking down here, when I am done). Oh well, I am in Blender 3.1 and it wasn't too difficult to figure out what had changed -- I also think the changes have been for the better, which helps. Shortcuts are obviously the way to go, even if at this point remembering them all seems daunting. That's why it's important that you show the alternatives. You have a teaching style that suits me well -- lots of demonstration and repetition, step-by-step. I can't bear the videos with "speed tutorials"; those aren't tutorials at all, but only show off how quick the person can do something they've probably done hundreds of times and I not at all. Maybe that will become ok when I myself grow more proficient, but I kinda doubt it; the way you do it just anchors it all better in my brain. In any case, thanks for sharing your knowledge!
everyone keeps talking about getting a heart but let's take a moment to appreciate this guy's heart. He still has the positive vibes all this time later.
I really like how you repeated a lot of the shortcuts or where you can find the tools since this is all new. After hearing it a few times it really does help. So, thank you.
As a complete beginner, I believe this tutorial is one of the best and most important tutorials for Blender on UA-cam (tried watching a few). It has really helped me grasp some fundamental aspects to modelling. And you don't know how excited I was just hollowing out the box for the first time. :D
Thank you very much for the awesome feedback! Super excited you enjoyed the tutorial and got something useful out of it :) I'm working on an updated version of the tutorial as I'm restarting my entire beginner series for the new version of Blender: ua-cam.com/video/bB3qtedwbSI/v-deo.html
one of the reasons this tutorial is so good is not just it's conciseness, but also your emphasis on using the keyboard shortcuts. It really does make the workflow much easier and enjoyable. Thanks!
Thank you for the awesome feedback :) I believe keyboard shortcuts make life SO much easier that it's really important to learn them, but I understand it takes a while to pick them up so in the early stages I like to repeat them. A lot :D
All comes down to practice in the end :) Just experiment and try to create models and over time you'll get good at it. It's no different from any other skill
You can only create certain shapes using certain techniques. All you really need to know how to do is create curves and shapes from scratch and just like drawing, realize every model is just a collection of shapes. If you use references for objects and break them down into simple 3D constructs, man-made objects like this with a lot of clear insets, extrusions and straight lines become really trivial.
One can make a chest but there isn't enough info here to make you knowledgeable in modeling itself. Not enough depth...it lacks the why. You know in your mind how you would do it but working in Blender you need to know how someone you have never met would do it and where they would hide the option to do it . Not intuitive at all.
I love the fact that the model is a trunk, like the one a hero would open to get their things before embarking on their greatest adventure: the adventure of modelling with blender!
I wish every Blender tutorials were that slow paced and detailed, so you don’t have to rewind every 10 seconds to see exactly what button or menu they actually clicked. Nice job !
6:09 for anyone who is in the newest version and since there is no transformation manipulator button, you could select those two faces, scale and hit Y to scale on that axis.
I really enjoyed this and you may be my favorite Blender teacher on UA-cam thus far. Many people are knowledgeable, but they aren't as effective at teaching, sometimes to the point that it feels more like they are showcasing what they know instead of helping others to learn. You have great Blender skills AND great teaching ability. Thank you.
This is a really great tutorial for starting out! I'm very happy with the fact that you constantly reiterated the shortcut keys for doing the different techniques, because I myself learn well with constant reiteration lol. Super informative!
Woo! Thank you for the kind words. Really happy to hear you enjoyed the tutorial. I remember what it was like when I first started out and I'm trying to teach in a way that I personally would have wanted to see. Glad to hear it's helping others :D
Thankyou for your videos. I just got back into 3D modeling. The last time I had done this I was using 3D studio 3 hahaha. Your videos are literally saving me time and money. Otherwise I would have to take a course at school.
You are a godsend. I always watch your after effects tutorials, and recently discovered Blender. I was stoked to see that my fav teacher had tutorials on Blender as well. Thanks a ton! You change lives!
Thank you for the awesome comment, that is really humbling to hear :) Yeah, I've started to love Blender and there will definitely be more tutorials in this series!
You made this so simple for someone just starting like me. You didn't rush through anything and you told us how to do things with the shortcuts and without them. Thank you for this!
I'm really new to blender (Just downloaded it yesterday) and I just saw this video on how to model for beginners when I searched it up. This tutorial is really useful! Thank you so much!
Decided to expand my 20+ years of graphic design experience & randomly just searched "create 3d model in Blender" and found this video near the top. What a fantastic starting point! You go a little bit fast for someone who has only ever *heard of* but never *used* Blender before, but I can always just go along and pause the video when the time comes to make a practical application of it (i.e. once I actually procure Blender lol). Definitely will be checking out more of your videos! Thanks for providing such great content!
@@sevoni Yeah because *obviously* my channel means a great deal to me, as you can tell from my upload activity, right? Exactly why are you so miserable that THAT was your first response to a random stranger's comment?
Hey, cool video. A tip for dividing the bottom of the chest into quads faster though is to delete the face, select an edge, and then hit f to fill a quad. Then just keep hitting f until it's been filled.
I'm not even half way through this tutorial. my first attempt messed up and on going around my nifty box, I noticed a bunch of edges on the embezzlements which I had done accidently by not using ctrlZ after canceling the operation. I managed to get back to where I was in no time because of how well this is taught, and without any messed up edges (yet)! Credit to you for these tutorials which, although the program has changed dramatically visually, can still be translated now and followed with ease! Kudos!
Good tutorial. You can also select a collection of face loops with control and select the edge pointing towards the other faces you want selected. Of course for the last part that potentially might select the bottom ones as well. You also need to flip the normals of the chest lid at the end. They're reversed which is why it is darkly shaded.
Thanks for the feedback and the tips :) I fixed up the normals at the start of my follow-up tutorial which is all about materials :) ua-cam.com/video/Oko7kas-fu4/v-deo.html
I've been using 3D CAD like SolidWorks etc for years and years, but I've never found the right resource to get started in Blender. These tutorials are really well made, clear, the right speed and invaluable to anyone trying to get to grips with how Blender works. Well done and thanks very much!
I joined an indie game dev group that allowed me to join while still learning modeling, and according to the other modelers, it isn't so bad to have triangles. So for anyone wondering, in game engines (like unreal engine 4) it isn't the end of the world if you model something that absolutely cannot avoid having a triangle, like the tip of a sword or a rupee from the legend of Zelda.
There is nothing wrong with having triangles in areas where you expect no deformation :) They're usually just a problem if they're on areas of a mesh that needs to animate / move / change so tip of a sword should be fine - though even that can easily be turned into an Ngon
But it would still be pretty easy to avoid triangles on sword tips/rupees. /\ | | | | | | |_| Now, this has a triangle at the top But if you put the top like this /\ |\/| | | | |_|_| Then you've just created trapezoids, (with 4 vertices)
@@SurfacedStudio I want to later animate things like models were done in the n64, where each arm for instance is a entirely separate model. In that case making sure everything is quad doesn't matter right?
This is so helpful, and it's great that you keep repeating shortcuts/ways to not do shortcuts even if you've already said it, and your teaching style is great, thanks!
All teachers/professors could learn something from you. Repetition is the key to learning anything, and you have a teaching style that subtlely reintroduces information throughout your lessons in a way that really reinforces it. You don't assume that your audience fully absorbed what you said the first time, and continually offer it up to them in a nonintrusive way. You have a gift sir, thank you for sharing it with us.
Awesome one bro... Earlier I thought working with a blender will be hard .... But while following your tutorials u done my job easier.... Thank u so much.... Bro
He loves you all back :) I always appreciate all the comments and the support, the feedback and just the conversations. It's getting a little challenging to reply to everyone these days, but I try what I can :D
clear and understandable voice for me who don't speak english, you keep repeating the shortcut way and the other way which is extremely helpful and this is actually my first finished tutorial on blender. for this you get a new subscriber!
That was awesome. Most blender tutorials are like: "This is how you open up blender and this is a photorealistic scene of a tiled subway tunnel with flickering lights that wather will rush through." Awesome Video. Deserved a Sub.
Thank you for the comment, great to hear that you enjoyed the tutorial 😊 Be sure to check out the updated version of the tutorial series here - ua-cam.com/video/3uEsPWjq4q0/v-deo.html
This has been so helpful so far! I'm trying to learn blender going into engineering and design, so starting out with your help has made it so much better. Thank you so much
I could never make anything besides a spiky, glitchy mess until now. I hope this man is doing great rn he made this tutorial easy to follow and actually broke it down for my inverted brain to understand. 10/10 went from negative to positive IQ after learning from this man.
Hey, thanks for this. One year ago thanks to this tutorial i was modelling my first thing in Blender. Now, I'm making entire 3D models of complex, textured and rigged creatures with a "Triple-A" look, all on my own. And it all started here. Thanks man♥️💯
That's really impressive to hear, thank you for leaving this awesome comment :D Excited to hear you made such huge progress since you started! All the best :)
Thank you for the kind words, really glad to hear you liked the tutorial :) Be sure to check out my updated version for Blender 2.9 here: ua-cam.com/video/3uEsPWjq4q0/v-deo.html
hey thanks alot for this. i have used blender for along time now along with alot of other cad molding programs. i could never really get any ware in blender for lack of the simple things you covered in this video like {end gons} and surface thickness. i will totally be going back into blender to draw up some things. i cant wait for more into about this program. it seams that info is limited for blender.. people leave out the little things and its was very inclusive. thanks so so much. i learned more from this video then the hours of vids i have watched on blender. i also love your after effects vids. they have helped me immensely . i have bin looking for a new program to model for 3d printing. i think iam going to go back to blender. thanks agane!!!
Thank you so much for the awesome feedback :) Really excited to hear you found the tutorial helpful! I do plan to make many more videos for Blender - in the meantime, another great source for Blender tutorials is Blender Guru :)
This is my very first 3ď tutorial. English is not my mother tongue and I can understand him all along. Despite the vastness of the explained....(for an absolute beginner) This guy is a real pro!
The "Region (Vertex Normals)" and "Individual Faces" seem to do the same thing and I can't find a fix for that anywhere. So far every project or model I've made I had to extrude individuals, then additionally extrude the faces on the edges. Is this a version problem or is there something I'm doing wrong? Great tutorial other than that, I wish I watched this when I started!
This tutorial is so helpful I made a mistake on the cylinder unknowingly and corrected it without hitting ctrl + z 20 times. I noticed the mistake after using the knife tool. I did dissolve faces which made the bottom flat instead of having an open bottom. Selected the bottom and did deleted the face and made it hollow as intended. This tutorial has taught me well. Thank you for this 👍
OMG. THANK YOU. This was one of the best and easiest tutorials I have EVER followed. From starting with this chest I have now learned how to create other things in Blender. Thank you SO much!
If you want to assign different materials to different parts of the model you have to go in edit mode and select the faces you want to have a different material. Then right in the Materials Tab you press plus for adding a new material slot. After you configurated the material like you want just click assign while the faces are selected. Now you have different Materials on one Model. I hope it helped :) I also made a quick video about it: ua-cam.com/video/uMJC5BMVzC0/v-deo.html
Thanks to one of your tutorials, I was able to change the materials of a cube and render it. Now, it is everything, from my profile pic to my wallpaper. I effin love this cube.
@@SurfacedStudio The tutorials you do are the best I've found, and give me the beginner info. I didn't even know how to change the view type, and you actually told me how to do that. Thank you very much, I hope to be able to do something with this information, something I can enjoy.
my opinion : ur the only person who teach slow, much clearer and much understandable thank u so much for this tutorial of urs, i'm new in blender, now i kinda understand each tools is needed for, i still didn't check ur vids, i hope u can do some window teaching or gothic things, + subs thank u agn
I got problems using the knife tool. It worked just fine outside the box, but inside I only could cut thrice before it didn't work anymore. Once I make the line from a to b and press enter, it just vanishes (the entire line). I have tried to remove doubles, but I had none. EDIT One: I then tried to use j instead. It worked on all except one. Whenever I use j on that one it doesn't cut straight from a to b, but instead it literally goes along the wall (instead of the floor) for some reason. EDIT Two: Now it suddenly worked using the knife tool. I don't really like how unreliable this software is, but oh well, it's free.
Link hello, I also had the problem that knife just vanish. What I found that solved my problem was first eliminate any doubles. What I did was select everything (all the chest) press W and then remove doubles. I had like 160 vertices removed and after that knife worked without any problem.
I don't think it's the software - it's been a pretty reliable and stable build for a while. You may have accidentally duplicated your edges or vertices. Check out this video on some common things that can trip you up: ua-cam.com/video/n9YYrVQdCMY/v-deo.html
@@SurfacedStudio I had the same problem and I notice that only happened where we made the extrude, where two vertex are close from each other. On those locations, the green square keeps his bright green color when touch the vertex and when I click, the line vanish. In places without vertex close, the squares turn green-brown and the knife works. So, I don't know how you do it and why works for you...
YOU ARE THE ONLY UA-camR THAT EXPLAIN VERY BRIEFLY THAT'S WHY YOUR TUTORIAL ARE QUITE LONG BTW WHY YOU HAVE SHIRT WRITTEN THAT VIDEO GAMES RUINED MY LIFE
@@SurfacedStudio That’s super cool! People would be lucky to have you right now. Unlike other tutorials, where people just tell you step by step how to do something, often far too advanced to just be teaching step by step, your video(s) actually shows people important elements of blender, like extruding, subdividing, Beveling, key framing, shortcuts, rigging, etc. I could go on and on for hours.
for anyone struggling with adding loop cuts - you might have knifed an N-GON into your model. have a look around your model for the culprit (whatever edge the loop cut stops at) use the merge vertices tool--> alt-m in 2.8/2.9.
My guess is to either look up sculpting or make a cube and bevel out limbs then add a sphere for the head and reshape it. I'm not sure about the hair, if you want to use 3D hair strands or a plane, like old school games. I'm still trying to get used to Blender again, but I hope this gives you some ideas.
You are my hero, oh my god. I've found so many tutorials that assume I already know the basics, and it's so disheartening. This was exactly what I needed!!
Whew, my cube came out very close to the finished product! Only had trouble with the center Bevels on the main base box. Got around it by just making more individual Control R cuts. Also- LOVE how you teach the shortcuts as you go. Thanks!
Thanks so much for this tutorial! I learned Maya in school years ago but now that I want to get into modeling again, I really needed a refresher and it's cool to see that blender is such a great tool.
You are a absolute legend, i just want to you to know people really appreciate your teaching. I have watched the tutorial, and now i will go and make my first whatever the hell it's gonna turn out to be :D
I just recently decided that I wanted to make a video game and so have been educating myself on how to use blender because I can't afford the small fortune that 3ds Max and maya costs to own and this video has helped me soooo much to be able to get started using blender. thank you so much for everything yo.
⭐ Check out the UPDATED version of the tutorial for Blender 2.9 here: ua-cam.com/video/3uEsPWjq4q0/v-deo.html ⭐
NOW you tell me, *snicker* (I mean, NOW I am looking down here, when I am done). Oh well, I am in Blender 3.1 and it wasn't too difficult to figure out what had changed -- I also think the changes have been for the better, which helps. Shortcuts are obviously the way to go, even if at this point remembering them all seems daunting. That's why it's important that you show the alternatives.
You have a teaching style that suits me well -- lots of demonstration and repetition, step-by-step. I can't bear the videos with "speed tutorials"; those aren't tutorials at all, but only show off how quick the person can do something they've probably done hundreds of times and I not at all. Maybe that will become ok when I myself grow more proficient, but I kinda doubt it; the way you do it just anchors it all better in my brain.
In any case, thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Two years later and he's still giving comments hearts. Respect.
Going to try to keep it going for as long as I possible can :D Struggling, but still appreciate everyone who can be bothered leaving a comment!
@@SurfacedStudio hope you feel better.
666th like
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@@SurfacedStudio can you please do modeling in blender 2020 2.82
@@SurfacedStudio i haven't even seen the video yet but you already seem cool
everyone keeps talking about getting a heart but let's take a moment to appreciate this guy's heart. He still has the positive vibes all this time later.
And that's a heart for those kind words :D Thank you, I try what I can!
bruh your hella determined on giving hearts. you have my respect
Thanks for the comment bro! I still try to keep up with my comments as best as I can :)
@Sonic the Artist who hurt you
:((
@Sonic the Artist ikr ): who hurt you
You've stated multiple times that you will post more if there is a demand - consider this a "yes" vote.
Consider that vote taken into account :) There seems to be quite an interest in Blender so I likely will turn this into a full series
@@SurfacedStudio - Looking FORWARD to it bud ! Thanks ! - Chuck.
@@SurfacedStudio NICE.... I SUBSCRIBED..!!!
666 likes :)
is the vote still valid? my vote is "yes"
I really like how you repeated a lot of the shortcuts or where you can find the tools since this is all new. After hearing it a few times it really does help. So, thank you.
Glad to hear you found my 'teaching' style helpful :)
yes this was reli helpful
@@SurfacedStudio extremely
As a complete beginner, I believe this tutorial is one of the best and most important tutorials for Blender on UA-cam (tried watching a few). It has really helped me grasp some fundamental aspects to modelling.
And you don't know how excited I was just hollowing out the box for the first time. :D
Thank you very much for the awesome feedback! Super excited you enjoyed the tutorial and got something useful out of it :) I'm working on an updated version of the tutorial as I'm restarting my entire beginner series for the new version of Blender: ua-cam.com/video/bB3qtedwbSI/v-deo.html
one of the reasons this tutorial is so good is not just it's conciseness, but also your emphasis on using the keyboard shortcuts. It really does make the workflow much easier and enjoyable. Thanks!
Thank you for the awesome feedback :) I believe keyboard shortcuts make life SO much easier that it's really important to learn them, but I understand it takes a while to pick them up so in the early stages I like to repeat them. A lot :D
I still have a bit of trouble of applying this knowledge into actually modeling something i want to make. It feels like i always need a tutorial.
All comes down to practice in the end :) Just experiment and try to create models and over time you'll get good at it. It's no different from any other skill
Its been 8 months now :) how are u doing now with blender? do u feel more comfortable ? I also started learning 4 days ago nd im enjoying it
You can only create certain shapes using certain techniques. All you really need to know how to do is create curves and shapes from scratch and just like drawing, realize every model is just a collection of shapes. If you use references for objects and break them down into simple 3D constructs, man-made objects like this with a lot of clear insets, extrusions and straight lines become really trivial.
well this is year later but its helping me take down notes of quick keys and small notes he makes on the site :)
One can make a chest but there isn't enough info here to make you knowledgeable in modeling itself. Not enough depth...it lacks the why. You know in your mind how you would do it but working in Blender you need to know how someone you have never met would do it and where they would hide the option to do it . Not intuitive at all.
For problems with the knife tool in 2.8 around 23:20 use Merge Vertices:
ua-cam.com/video/88E6dx2NoPo/v-deo.html
I about freaked out when i finally was able to make
my first hollow box
:D
@@SurfacedStudio oh and your voice is nice to listen to
@@SurfacedStudio do you know if you can import these models made with blender to roblox (roblox studio)
stuhough btw. Yeah, you can. I used to be a Roblox dev and made all my objects in blender.
stuhough btw. Same I’m here so I can make models for my game
I love the fact that the model is a trunk, like the one a hero would open to get their things before embarking on their greatest adventure: the adventure of modelling with blender!
Haha, nice! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial :D
14:48 in the updated blender it is ALT+Left click!!
I wish every Blender tutorials were that slow paced and detailed, so you don’t have to rewind every 10 seconds to see exactly what button or menu they actually clicked.
Nice job !
6:09 for anyone who is in the newest version and since there is no transformation manipulator button, you could select those two faces, scale and hit Y to scale on that axis.
Not only did you make this easy to follow, but also captured how fulfilling 3D modeling is. Grade A content!
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave this awesome feedback :) Much appreciated!
@@SurfacedStudio you’re very welcome!
I really enjoyed this and you may be my favorite Blender teacher on UA-cam thus far. Many people are knowledgeable, but they aren't as effective at teaching, sometimes to the point that it feels more like they are showcasing what they know instead of helping others to learn.
You have great Blender skills AND great teaching ability. Thank you.
I'd really be impressed if he still gives hearts after 3 years!
*awaits reaction...*
Totally insane
@@SurfacedStudio still helped me out a ton! Im 3 years late but tysm for the tutorial !
@@SurfacedStudio Bro that's great
This is a really great tutorial for starting out! I'm very happy with the fact that you constantly reiterated the shortcut keys for doing the different techniques, because I myself learn well with constant reiteration lol. Super informative!
Woo! Thank you for the kind words. Really happy to hear you enjoyed the tutorial. I remember what it was like when I first started out and I'm trying to teach in a way that I personally would have wanted to see. Glad to hear it's helping others :D
Thankyou for your videos. I just got back into 3D modeling. The last time I had done this I was using 3D studio 3 hahaha. Your videos are literally saving me time and money. Otherwise I would have to take a course at school.
Thank you very much for the awesome feedback :) Great to hear you're finding my tutorials useful!
Surfaced studio: doesn't delete base cube
Base cube: **surprised pikachu face**
Haha, yeah one of the few where the cube doesn't just die. Got another one here: ua-cam.com/video/ogWQs_7DU0Y/v-deo.html Surprised cubes everywhere!
@@SurfacedStudio 😂😂😂😂
You are a godsend. I always watch your after effects tutorials, and recently discovered Blender. I was stoked to see that my fav teacher had tutorials on Blender as well. Thanks a ton! You change lives!
Thank you for the awesome comment, that is really humbling to hear :) Yeah, I've started to love Blender and there will definitely be more tutorials in this series!
Surfaced Studio No. thank you sir. ❤️
You made this so simple for someone just starting like me. You didn't rush through anything and you told us how to do things with the shortcuts and without them. Thank you for this!
You are very welcome and thank you so much for the awesome feedback :D Really happy to hear you liked it!
Outstanding tutorial for absolute beginners in Blender! Your step-by-step approach makes it easy to follow along and grasp the basics of modeling.
Glad it was helpful! Be sure you check out my updated series :) And even that might be a tad out of date now with the latest version of Blender
I'm really new to blender (Just downloaded it yesterday) and I just saw this video on how to model for beginners when I searched it up. This tutorial is really useful! Thank you so much!
Thank you very much for the awesome feedback :D
No other tutorial I have found so far, has mentioned the Middle Mouse Scroll option for multiple edgeloops. Nice one! That will save me a ton of time.
Decided to expand my 20+ years of graphic design experience & randomly just searched "create 3d model in Blender" and found this video near the top. What a fantastic starting point! You go a little bit fast for someone who has only ever *heard of* but never *used* Blender before, but I can always just go along and pause the video when the time comes to make a practical application of it (i.e. once I actually procure Blender lol).
Definitely will be checking out more of your videos! Thanks for providing such great content!
@@sevoni Yeah because *obviously* my channel means a great deal to me, as you can tell from my upload activity, right?
Exactly why are you so miserable that THAT was your first response to a random stranger's comment?
@@sevoni I am not reading all that from someone who acts like a 12 year old troll. Have a nice day.
I love how you continued to say the short cuts. It helped me remember them faster.
Hey, cool video. A tip for dividing the bottom of the chest into quads faster though is to delete the face, select an edge, and then hit f to fill a quad. Then just keep hitting f until it's been filled.
Nice, I do like the fill face option, didn't know I could just keep hitting it to fill the bottom up :)
Thank you! You saved me a whole bunch of time! :)
I'm not even half way through this tutorial. my first attempt messed up and on going around my nifty box, I noticed a bunch of edges on the embezzlements which I had done accidently by not using ctrlZ after canceling the operation. I managed to get back to where I was in no time because of how well this is taught, and without any messed up edges (yet)! Credit to you for these tutorials which, although the program has changed dramatically visually, can still be translated now and followed with ease! Kudos!
Good tutorial. You can also select a collection of face loops with control and select the edge pointing towards the other faces you want selected. Of course for the last part that potentially might select the bottom ones as well.
You also need to flip the normals of the chest lid at the end. They're reversed which is why it is darkly shaded.
Thanks for the feedback and the tips :) I fixed up the normals at the start of my follow-up tutorial which is all about materials :) ua-cam.com/video/Oko7kas-fu4/v-deo.html
You've just taught me everything I didn't know about modeling in Blender.
:D Glad to hear you found it helpful!
Yeah, I didn't know I could bevel flat surfaces to make a tight area of cuts, that'd have been useful to know...
I've been using 3D CAD like SolidWorks etc for years and years, but I've never found the right resource to get started in Blender. These tutorials are really well made, clear, the right speed and invaluable to anyone trying to get to grips with how Blender works. Well done and thanks very much!
Thank you very much for the feedback Andy, it's really humbling to hear that you got something useful out of my tutorial :)
I joined an indie game dev group that allowed me to join while still learning modeling, and according to the other modelers, it isn't so bad to have triangles. So for anyone wondering, in game engines (like unreal engine 4) it isn't the end of the world if you model something that absolutely cannot avoid having a triangle, like the tip of a sword or a rupee from the legend of Zelda.
There is nothing wrong with having triangles in areas where you expect no deformation :) They're usually just a problem if they're on areas of a mesh that needs to animate / move / change so tip of a sword should be fine - though even that can easily be turned into an Ngon
But it would still be pretty easy to avoid triangles on sword tips/rupees.
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Now, this has a triangle at the top
But if you put the top like this
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Then you've just created trapezoids, (with 4 vertices)
@@SurfacedStudio I want to later animate things like models were done in the n64, where each arm for instance is a entirely separate model. In that case making sure everything is quad doesn't matter right?
No wonder all the Sims 4 hair meshes seem to have nothing but triangles o-o
This is so helpful, and it's great that you keep repeating shortcuts/ways to not do shortcuts even if you've already said it, and your teaching style is great, thanks!
Thank you for your comment, glad to hear you enjoyed the tutorial!
All teachers/professors could learn something from you. Repetition is the key to learning anything, and you have a teaching style that subtlely reintroduces information throughout your lessons in a way that really reinforces it. You don't assume that your audience fully absorbed what you said the first time, and continually offer it up to them in a nonintrusive way. You have a gift sir, thank you for sharing it with us.
Big respect, you showed me how 2 do stuff.. now im a dev... epic!
Glad you found the tutorial useful!
Awesome one bro... Earlier I thought working with a blender will be hard .... But while following your tutorials u done my job easier.... Thank u so much.... Bro
No worries bro! Glad to hear you enjoyed the tutorial :) Blender is pretty awesome once you get into it!
3 years later and he is still helping everybody, and hearting comments. Gotta love em man, gotta love em.
He loves you all back :) I always appreciate all the comments and the support, the feedback and just the conversations. It's getting a little challenging to reply to everyone these days, but I try what I can :D
This is the best tutorial I've watched as I've been trying to learn Blender. Really helped my confidence. Thank you so much!
No worries, thanks for the awesome comment :) I released a new Blender beginner tutorial just an hour ago if you're just getting into it
it is still useful now, 2020. I took 2 days just to finish this tutorial. wew it was hard for me but worth it !
Glad to hear you got something useful out of the tutorial!
I've tried to learn Blender basics a dozen times in the past to no success. This was the first tutorial that actually worked. Thank you.
You're very welcome! Glad to hear it helped. Be sure to check out the updated version of this tutorial series - or my free course :)
@@SurfacedStudio Will do!
Would love to have this re-done for the current UI in blender.
It's on my plan :)
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@@bobmcboblin
me? no.
u? yes.
@@bobmcboblin You've hotel'd your last trivago.....
Special Dude YOU’VE YEE’D YOUR LAST HAW.
You're a great teacher.
:D
i bet he made 105 accounts to like that
@@dailycomplaintsanimationst837 who type of fucking youtuber would make 105 accounts to like this shit?
clear and understandable voice for me who don't speak english, you keep repeating the shortcut way and the other way which is extremely helpful and this is actually my first finished tutorial on blender. for this you get a new subscriber!
Awesome, Blender updates the day I find a good tutorial.
i started 2 day ago but with another tutorial, and now is updated... at least some good tutorials are still valid
I'll be making tuts for 2.80 as soon as I got my new studio setup :D
@@SurfacedStudio Thank for all the tutorials, i really appreciate your work!
Yep, a friend just sent me this link today since I was planning to get back into learning it. Might have to wait a little while.
This guy: can I offer you some hearts in these trying times?
This man's ability to explain why and what is doing made it easy for me to explore further. Love this channel
Thank you so much for the comment :D
You are the BlenderMan !! Best Tut on UA-cam.
Thank you for the awesome comment!
This video was great, thanks :D I'm learning Blender to use for my games; keep doing Blender tutorials!
I intend to, thank you for the comment :)
That was awesome. Most blender tutorials are like: "This is how you open up blender and this is a photorealistic scene of a tiled subway tunnel with flickering lights that wather will rush through." Awesome Video. Deserved a Sub.
Thank you for the comment, great to hear that you enjoyed the tutorial 😊 Be sure to check out the updated version of the tutorial series here - ua-cam.com/video/3uEsPWjq4q0/v-deo.html
This has been so helpful so far! I'm trying to learn blender going into engineering and design, so starting out with your help has made it so much better. Thank you so much
That is awesome to hear, thank you very much for the feedback :)
Omg thx for the tutorial.... now im fully understand how to use this app
You're welcome, glad to hear got something useful out of the video :)
I could never make anything besides a spiky, glitchy mess until now. I hope this man is doing great rn he made this tutorial easy to follow and actually broke it down for my inverted brain to understand. 10/10 went from negative to positive IQ after learning from this man.
really good with these blender tutorials.
I'm Making A Robot Movie While Learning how to model,animate and render in blender.
Thank you, there will likely be more coming if people want more :D
heh you can't
why cant he?
because he does not really want to do...
If you already have the level to do a movie, what are you doing here? o.O
Comment section: Still hearts after all this time?
Him: Always ❤️✨
Him: still trying :)
@@SurfacedStudio never stop uploading pls
Hey, thanks for this. One year ago thanks to this tutorial i was modelling my first thing in Blender.
Now, I'm making entire 3D models of complex, textured and rigged creatures with a "Triple-A" look, all on my own. And it all started here.
Thanks man♥️💯
That's really impressive to hear, thank you for leaving this awesome comment :D Excited to hear you made such huge progress since you started! All the best :)
Thank you Surfaced Studio, this really helped me a lot for my Graphic designing and etc. Thanks again!
Thank you for the feedback, that is great to hear!
Legend says, no matter how late you are. He’ll still like your comment
Let's keep that legend alive. Where does that legend come from to begin with? I'm curious!
Holy hell the Legend is true :o
o(^・x・^)o
Wow!
Hahahaha.. delightful!
dude, this is the best tutorial i've seen. not just for blender, for anything!
you have a natural talent for teaching. well done.
Thank you for the kind words, really glad to hear you liked the tutorial :) Be sure to check out my updated version for Blender 2.9 here: ua-cam.com/video/3uEsPWjq4q0/v-deo.html
hey thanks alot for this. i have used blender for along time now along with alot of other cad molding programs. i could never really get any ware in blender for lack of the simple things you covered in this video like {end gons} and surface thickness. i will totally be going back into blender to draw up some things. i cant wait for more into about this program. it seams that info is limited for blender.. people leave out the little things and its was very inclusive. thanks so so much. i learned more from this video then the hours of vids i have watched on blender. i also love your after effects vids. they have helped me immensely . i have bin looking for a new program to model for 3d printing. i think iam going to go back to blender. thanks agane!!!
Thank you so much for the awesome feedback :) Really excited to hear you found the tutorial helpful! I do plan to make many more videos for Blender - in the meantime, another great source for Blender tutorials is Blender Guru :)
thank u man..u are helping me too much understanding this great program ..hope u go deeper in next videos
Thank you! There will be lots more tutorials :)
This is my very first 3ď tutorial. English is not my mother tongue and I can understand him all along. Despite the vastness of the explained....(for an absolute beginner)
This guy is a real pro!
No pro here, but I sure am glad you enjoyed the tutorial :D
first 5 minutes and i learnt so much that i did not learn from 5 seperate videos.
Glad to hear you found the tutorial helpful :D
Next up: how to spell "separate".
crazy to see this is what blender used to look like 3 years ago
Man, you just killed it! Brazilian designer here and i'm glad to watch this kind of content. Amazing work, dude! Congratsss
Thanks for the comment :)
bruh lets get this a heart in the first hour
let's hope
@@minorityman6672 well it didn't i still hope it gets heart
Can you explain why everyone is so hard up in hearts? Is there a competition going on somewhere? :D
@@SurfacedStudio nah just the vid was posted a long time ago and u still see comments and heart them
Still see them. Still heart them :D
The "Region (Vertex Normals)" and "Individual Faces" seem to do the same thing and I can't find a fix for that anywhere. So far every project or model I've made I had to extrude individuals, then additionally extrude the faces on the edges. Is this a version problem or is there something I'm doing wrong? Great tutorial other than that, I wish I watched this when I started!
same
Kinda got the same Issue but I cant even choose "Region (Vertex Normals)" in the dropdown-meny when pressing Alt+E
Same issue here....version 2.79b
This tutorial is so helpful I made a mistake on the cylinder unknowingly and corrected it without hitting ctrl + z 20 times. I noticed the mistake after using the knife tool. I did dissolve faces which made the bottom flat instead of having an open bottom. Selected the bottom and did deleted the face and made it hollow as intended. This tutorial has taught me well. Thank you for this 👍
Thx watched the whole video and i learned so much liked
Thanks for that video!!! I really needed it 😂
Glad you found it helpful!
OMG. THANK YOU. This was one of the best and easiest tutorials I have EVER followed. From starting with this chest I have now learned how to create other things in Blender. Thank you SO much!
So, yeah I'm not an artist but I'm not hopeless, before i go on. Is this the series for me?
yep i literally watched this yesterday and now im able to inset, extrude and all the basic commands and ive never touched 3d modelling in my life
can you do a camera tracking tutorial in blender?
I plan on doing that eventually :) Will cover the basics first though
Surfaced Studio yaay! :D
hey, i sended u an email. Do u still use your email? I was wondering if i can help u with advanced blender tutorial's
I'm a totally begginer (I have blender for 2 days ;-;)and this video will help me 👍
Btw i'm from Poland so you have a viewer from this country 🇵🇱
I'm also confused on adding separate materials to separate parts of a model... I'm pretty sure I just select different parts and apply materials
If you want to assign different materials to different parts of the model you have to go in edit mode and select the faces you want to have a different material. Then right in the Materials Tab you press plus for adding a new material slot. After you configurated the material like you want just click assign while the faces are selected. Now you have different Materials on one Model. I hope it helped :) I also made a quick video about it: ua-cam.com/video/uMJC5BMVzC0/v-deo.html
I'm learning with you!
:D
so am I
Thanks to one of your tutorials, I was able to change the materials of a cube and render it. Now, it is everything, from my profile pic to my wallpaper.
I effin love this cube.
:D Thank you for the comment! Glad to hear you liked the tutorial!
@@SurfacedStudio The tutorials you do are the best I've found, and give me the beginner info. I didn't even know how to change the view type, and you actually told me how to do that. Thank you very much, I hope to be able to do something with this information, something I can enjoy.
very nice sir u good vidos all thanks
Thank you!
How the hell did you still giving heart on comment on this very old vid
There’s this button you press... kinda looks like a heart on the comment ;)
my opinion : ur the only person who teach slow, much clearer and much understandable thank u so much for this tutorial of urs, i'm new in blender, now i kinda understand each tools is needed for, i still didn't check ur vids, i hope u can do some window teaching or gothic things, + subs thank u agn
Awesome!
:D
I got problems using the knife tool. It worked just fine outside the box, but inside I only could cut thrice before it didn't work anymore. Once I make the line from a to b and press enter, it just vanishes (the entire line). I have tried to remove doubles, but I had none.
EDIT One: I then tried to use j instead. It worked on all except one. Whenever I use j on that one it doesn't cut straight from a to b, but instead it literally goes along the wall (instead of the floor) for some reason.
EDIT Two: Now it suddenly worked using the knife tool. I don't really like how unreliable this software is, but oh well, it's free.
Link hello, I also had the problem that knife just vanish. What I found that solved my problem was first eliminate any doubles. What I did was select everything (all the chest) press W and then remove doubles. I had like 160 vertices removed and after that knife worked without any problem.
I don't think it's the software - it's been a pretty reliable and stable build for a while. You may have accidentally duplicated your edges or vertices. Check out this video on some common things that can trip you up: ua-cam.com/video/n9YYrVQdCMY/v-deo.html
Thank you both for suggestions. I'll also take a look at the video.
@@SurfacedStudio I had the same problem and I notice that only happened where we made the extrude, where two vertex are close from each other. On those locations, the green square keeps his bright green color when touch the vertex and when I click, the line vanish. In places without vertex close, the squares turn green-brown and the knife works. So, I don't know how you do it and why works for you...
@@albertoalarcon3794 That was exactly my problem, and after a 140 vertices genocide everything worked fine, thanks for the help!
one of the smartest tutorials on blender I have seen. That's because you explain the principles of how blender "ticks".
Thank you for the awesome feedback!
I can’t find edit mode because my blender is newer
Edit: Found it. Top left corner
Glad you figured it out!
how new are you?
YOU ARE THE ONLY UA-camR THAT EXPLAIN VERY BRIEFLY THAT'S WHY YOUR TUTORIAL ARE QUITE LONG BTW WHY YOU HAVE SHIRT WRITTEN THAT VIDEO GAMES RUINED MY LIFE
THANK YOU VERY MUCH GLAD YOU LIKE MY TUTORIALS ALSO I LIKE TURTLES
Him: "So here's how you make a chest in Blender."
Me who just wants to know how to make a spikey shiny ball in Blender: 👁👄👁
Once you learn the basics, they're transferrable to anything you want to make, including spikey shiny balls
Doesn't even work on v2.8. The whole cut thing is broken
I did this tutorial on 2.8 without any problems. Biggest difference I found was that select now defaults to left click instead of right click.
After 3 years of modelling and animation with blender, this video is of extreme nostalgia to me.
Thank you so much for teaching me the ropes.
You’re welcome :) Im currently working on refreshing my beginner tutorial series for the newest version of Blender
@@SurfacedStudio That’s super cool! People would be lucky to have you right now.
Unlike other tutorials, where people just tell you step by step how to do something, often far too advanced to just be teaching step by step, your video(s) actually shows people important elements of blender, like extruding, subdividing, Beveling, key framing, shortcuts, rigging, etc. I could go on and on for hours.
anyone from 2019!
I am! :D
lol its only 1 / 2 years ago
Omg yes, i thought i was the only one able to time travel!
No
Next.. Make a blender with Blender.
Inception!!!
Blasphemy!
for anyone struggling with adding loop cuts - you might have knifed an N-GON into your model.
have a look around your model for the culprit (whatever edge the loop cut stops at)
use the merge vertices tool-->
alt-m in 2.8/2.9.
how do i make anime girl with blender ok tutorial ?
My guess is to either look up sculpting or make a cube and bevel out limbs then add a sphere for the head and reshape it. I'm not sure about the hair, if you want to use 3D hair strands or a plane, like old school games. I'm still trying to get used to Blender again, but I hope this gives you some ideas.
You are my hero, oh my god. I've found so many tutorials that assume I already know the basics, and it's so disheartening. This was exactly what I needed!!
Thank you for the lovely comment! Happy to hear you got something useful out of the tutorial!
Whew, my cube came out very close to the finished product! Only had trouble with the center Bevels on the main base box. Got around it by just making more individual Control R cuts. Also- LOVE how you teach the shortcuts as you go. Thanks!
gotta get those loop arounds when your box Wont Cooperate lol (mine did the same thing)
Thanks so much for this tutorial! I learned Maya in school years ago but now that I want to get into modeling again, I really needed a refresher and it's cool to see that blender is such a great tool.
Glad to hear you liked the tutorial :)
I'm gonna use your tutorial to start trying to do blender! Wish me luck! 😊
Good luck!
You are a absolute legend, i just want to you to know people really appreciate your teaching. I have watched the tutorial, and now i will go and make my first whatever the hell it's gonna turn out to be :D
You're very welcome and have fun making your first whatever :D Mine was definitely a 'whatever' on the first few tries haha
I just recently decided that I wanted to make a video game and so have been educating myself on how to use blender because I can't afford the small fortune that 3ds Max and maya costs to own and this video has helped me soooo much to be able to get started using blender. thank you so much for everything yo.
You're very welcome yo :D Glad to hear you enjoyed the tutorial!
Finally took off using Blender thanks to your teachings, after stumbling around with many a cumbersome tutorial. Great work!
Thank you for your comment :D Great to hear you enjoyed the tutorial!