Low-Poly Character Model in Blockbench | Timelapse & Commentary
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
- I’m back in Blockbench to try out some character modelling; join me as I create a chibi version of Solid Snake and share my workflow for building a low-poly character in Blockbench… and stick around to the end for some cool close-ups of the final model!
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0:00 Intro
0:39 Head
1:58 Ears
2:47 Bandana
3:13 Hair
4:58 Body
7:18 Arm & Leg
8:29 Scaling Up the Model
8:59 Painting the Model
13:00 Duplicating Limbs
13:51 FINAL ARTWORK
14:45 Posing the Character
15:05 Exporting with a Pixelate Effect
15:42 CRT Time
16:36 VID OVER
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“I make pictures out of tiny cubes” should be your new tagline.
"I make pictures out of tiny cubes... with tiny squares on them... it's a whole thing" 😅
@@BJGpixel You’ll be making pictures out of tiny Lego next. 😉
@@LeeChesnalavage 🤔!
I thought so too :D "I make pictures out of tiny triangles" (since not all shapes are made out of cubes)
Nostalgically beautiful
Brandon, it's been a terrible few weeks and it's not looking much brighter anytime soon, but your videos are my happy place when everything else is gloomy. Thank you for being my art sanctuary.
Your Blockbench work has been amazing so far!! I hope you keep dipping into 3D stuff :D
Thanks! For sure, I'd like to keep making characters, and maybe even see what it's like to do scenery or something :D
@@BJGpixel landscaping sounds challenging, you sure you want to take that kind of leap?
Snake. Snake. Snaaaaaaake! Amazing! All it needs now is a cardboard box and a lewd magazine accessory pack 😂
Hahaha totally! Gonna have to follow that up with a guard and a locker as well 😅
I don't know why this video was recommended to me but I think I want to learn how to make low poly 3D models now. The final result looks so cool
this workflow evolution and mastery is crazy! i wasnt expecting you to level up to a straight up character model so soon!
I love that you turned me onto this program. I've used Blender quite a bit but always found texturing to be frustrating with it. Doing these low resolution models and drawing the texture right on is a great time.
I would love to let you know as someone who's desperately wanted to learn to 3D model, you're the only person I've found who not only did it in a process I was comfortable with (sculpting rather than tracing) but also showed me new tools, I thank you so much for this whole tutorial friend
Around 11:20, regarding the symmetry, there's two things you could have done.
One is to have the mirroring option on during the creation or moving around of vertices, which will usually work (though with some options might not work as expected, like merging into the center or moving to/past the mirroring plane).
The other option was to manually go into the faces (if you notice they're different) and right-click + "Switch Face Crease".
For those curious: In practice, all quad faces are pretty much just two triangle faces stitched together, and the crease is the diagonal line dividing them. Switching the face crease switches which diagonal it uses.
Mesh creation is usually done sequentially, so all faces should have the same diagonal for the crease, which ends up being opposite diagonals in the other side of the mesh.
This probably only applies to faces that aren't in the same plane, e.g. when only one of the vertices is moved.
Glad to see you making more blockbench stuff! Ive been using it as sort of cool down modelling space when im not working in blender and really love it
I am always blown away by your pieces. Thank you for always inspiring and creating such incredible vids ❤
I would love to see more of these Blockbench tutorials. You're a life saver.
I found your channel last night and since watching this video I’ve started doing some art in Blockbench and it’s the first time I’ve ever made my own art that I thought was of any actual quality and I want to thank you so much ❤️
loving the use of Low polly art like this, kind of makes me want more games like this again.
ALSO I LOVE that you wanted to give it that Mega Man Legends look and style.
I'd love nothing more than to have something like Megaman Legends again ^^
Really well done, absolutely captures the essence of Solid Snake! And thanks for inadvertently introducting me to blockbench! I have alwaus struggled with more complex apps like blender for gamedev and it seems like blockbench might be that perfect balance of feature-rich and user-friendly that Ive been after!
I love these videos so much, it's very satisfying to see it all come together.
after your initial blockbench video, i started to make art using it myself, but found it really difficult to look for any resources. i hope you make more blockbench related videos because this was was super helpful!
Love the utility of 45deg cube-on-cube to create contrast! It really helps break things up for such a simple operation. Great work!!
Thanks dude, yeah it's fun to discover those sorts of stylistic choices in the artform - it's like how pixel art also has creative approaches to restrictions :D
Dude this was incredible, I love this way more than just your regular pixel art videos. I think 3D + Pixel art is the way to go, I'd love to see more of these! How would you imagine Ash from Pokemon Red in this style?
loving all the low poly 3d stuff!! been itching to try it and your vids are always a great encourager
Love the video, and I can't wait to see more from Blockbench!
Great job mate! Loved the workflow, the commentary and the final result!
The irony of this being a lowpoly tutorial, yet probably still higher poly than Snake's actual PS1 model lol
incredible work as usual, your videos never fail to motivate me to work on pixel art of my own
love the file names you put whenever you're showing a progress shot, "smolid snake" got a laugh out of me
This is so cool. I could spend the whole day watching you do this
this is so amazing i love the model so much, he looks so good 😭❤ but of course he does, everything you make is so good
Dude this is freaking AWESOME!!
Would love to see more of this. :D
I think the tint shade tone on skin is brilliant, it gives the illusion of the transparency nature of it.
I cannot express how much I love this
That's the cutest Snake I've ever seen. Great job!
You never fail to impress us. Nice job! :)
Excited for the animation tutorial you teased in the last video with the pokedex!
This tutorial is perfect for me. This is the exact aesthetic I’m trying to do
this helped me understand low poly modeling a little more, thanks!
btw really cool model
FINALLY A PROPER BLOCKBENCH LOWPOLY TUTORIAL THANK YOU
Really awesome work! 👏🏼 I had seen blockbench before but never thought about doing the low poly stuff. I figured blender was a lot more flexible, but I might have to try it out now.
Wow awesome model & presentation!! This is a huge step up since the last one, it's great seeing you take this software further 🤩
The little details are great, very cool how rotating that rectangular prism makes it look round in this context. Also really like how that headband came out! 🐍
Thanks bud! 🐍 Yeah it's been a fun program to explore, and the modelling itself is a different world of restriction and stylization to explore 😁 It's also pretty satisfying to make a full model and easily pose it around rather than redrawing - but I suspect animations will be a whole other thing 😅
Low poly characters is clearly my sweet spot. This looks insane
I'm late to responding, but HAHA! I knew it was Snake! This was such an awesome video, very different from your normal pixel videos, but you brought it back when the coloring came in. I love the fact that all your videos make me want to try all these different programs, but i hate that I don't have the time to do it. Keep up the great work Brandon!
You are not the only one everyone has problems with blockbenches uv
Yeaaah! Love Blockbench stuff, such a solid beginner friendly program.
I was wondering why you were using this instead of Blender at first but the texturing in this program is really cool and definitely lends itself to a pixel art workflow. Well done!
i would guess he also didnt want to torture himself
@@charlot6590 Assuming you have problems using Blender, friend? Doing something like this would be very easy in Blender though (minus the precise texturing perhaps).
@@vettie besides the precise vertice positioning
I love that the filenames are "Smolid_Snake" and "SNAAAAAAAKE"
I think I've found something to put time into again.
thanks for the program recommendation.
I think after watching this one, I can confidently say your channel is my favourite youtube channel out there. Followed closely by Studson Studio and TheCrafsMan.
Awesome model mate. Love it!
Really amazing work!
Snake? SNAKE?! SNAAAAAAAKE!!!!!!
This video convinced me to learn Blockbench
so satisfying!
I spent over a month making a model and yours still looks better. my dreams are ruined
"You're pretty good."
- Revolver Ocelot
You made Snake super cute!!!
I just discovered about meshes in blockbench, in other words in a lot of my models, I suffered with individual shaping and angling and stuff, now I'm trying to learn how to use meshes since I just learned about them.
I was looking for tutorials for this style in blockbench this is gonna be handy!
So cool!
This is awesome. You're making videos on low poly modelling at the same time I'm trying to learn it. Something I've found out that might be helpful to you is a plugin for blockbench called MTools. I don't know all of it's capabilities yet, but I do know that it has a really helpful feature for texture mapping. It lets you select which faces you want and then project them onto the UV
Thanks for this!
Revolver Ocelot voice: You're pretty good!
Amazing ❤😮
If you want any help with the posing, it’s really easy, and I could tell you right here. It would also probably be a good idea to make a video doing it, because some people may be curious 😂. The way you start out is by grouping all your individual limbs together, like forearm and arm. Do it in the folders. Make sure they’re separate. Do that for all the limbs you want to move. Then, create a new group, called body. Then dump everything into it. To begin the next step, start by putting the hand folder into the forearm folder. That way when you move the forearm with rotations, it also moves the hand, but the hand can still be moved separately. Do that for all the limbs, head, legs, arms, and torso. Then group the clumps of the legs and arms and torso into body folder. I recommend putting the head in the torso folder, then in the body folder. The next and almost final step is to put the pivot points in the right spot. Place them at the point where they would move that part. So the hand one at the wrist, the forearm at the elbow, and arm at the shoulder. Lastly, head to the animations tab. There, create an animation, and start to pose! You can animate too, but it’s especially difficult with humanoids. Please use this if you see it, and good luck if you give it a go!
I didn’t finish the video when I posted that… but please use the animations tab if you didn’t…
A new era begins
Watched this while eating dinner to make my meal more sophisticated.
just awesome.
You should do a video on animation in Blockbench. Your videos are so useful in learning this program and I want to learn how to make a short little video with these low-poly models!
Ooooh, interesting that ENDESGA's palette is included in the program. I know the guy, he's a game dev and he released a few palettes that got quite popular
sooo gooood ♥
I’m not gonna lie, while it doesn’t seem to be able to do animation in app, this program is super simple and easy to use compared to other programs usually used to model (Maya & Blender namely).
Also explaining the keys and options you use when creating is tremendously helpful to people who haven’t used 3D rendering software. New people won’t know terminology or what to look for when they want to create, and you can’t exactly google something you can’t exactly explain, so your practical examples and use cases help those people so much. All in all, you did good, you showed me a new program for me to use, and I’m sure this video will help people take the step forwards into 3D modeling!
Edit: I just saw the animate tab in the top right. My one negative point I had is gone now (outside of any fringe use cases that show up when attempting to do something outside of the devs original idea)
What is interesting is that from The thumbnail alone I knew this was Snake in Megaman Legends style.. good job
I love this
This video inspired me to pick up this program and make some models! Spent all day making a template for low-poly Mega Man X characters and then starting work on Zero, lol.
Nice! Was hoping you'd do another blockbench vid~ just started messing with it after making my minecraft skin then saw your pokeball vid
the tip of the cigarette just looks untextured XD
I know it's supposed to be ash but I'm so used to the transparent texture in art programs that I can't see it as anything else, and for some reason I find a transparent tip hilarious rn.
I remember when you weren't having 10K+ subscribers. I discovered you from a meme post you commented years ago
Perhaps for the paintinf and symmetry issues, it would be more efficient to cut the entire model in half, then mirror it across the x axis once you finish modeling it, that way it's guaranteed to be symmetrical. Great video, cheers!
You may do more Low-Poly tutorials because these tutorials are really great❤🔥
For example, making nintendo nes
ah! im loving these lowpolys! will you also be doing animations in the future?
Thanks so much! And yeah absolutely, hoping to cover that in a future video - after getting a handle on the animation timeline 😅
@@BJGpixelplease do an animation tutorial when you feel ready!! You are seriously a great teacher and I’m a complete beginner to this 🙏
It looks fantastic! Metal Gear Solid Legends! The ultimate PS1 game!
Me: *trying to figure out how to use the mesh since was released*
Brandom James: "its my first time making a character"
Cool guide, i tried to make a Sweet Tooth car model in BB after your first video about BB but still not finish it (stopped on texturing cause had a some troubles with it). I hope this this video help me to fix it.
hey, blockbench user here! some stuff to note, you said there were some transparent pixels in the model when you tried the 32x size, and that is somewhat normal, as far as my experience goes. one way to close them is painting directly into the uv grid, as it fills th gaps left in the texture!
another thing is, the mirror function is a bit messy, since the uv generated is not always symmetrical, so you dont have much to blame for it to not work properly!
all in all, good job mate!
your models would make for a really good ps1 game
"This is Snake, I'm done here"
when you name a folder
left_(something) and transform it to the other side
it will automatically name it right_(something)
Neat! Isn't it weird that this has more polygons than the original from the first game?
I'm curious about this program now.
does anyone else think the blocky ff7 polygon models have sooo much more character and style than the modern remake designs? it could just be nostalgia goggles but i genuinely think the style of the original game is superior
Damn. Haven't done Blockbench works myself in a long while.
you're picking this software up fast! any thoughts on the similar software Crocotile3D?
You can make the group's first, and it'll be a little easier to manage.
Simple type models are perfect for papercraft
It would be cool to experiment with posing a 3D model and animating it to create animated pixel art with the pixelized output.
SNAAAAAAKEEEE
I was also wondering if you could try megaman volnutt in this style. I would really like to see how anime hair is done
Hey Brandon! Amazing workout there!!
I'd a question in my mind that in which fields the models we make in blockbench are usable, are they only could be use as a piece of art and minecraft mods or there is much more than that, can we export those models like .obj or something and then rig and animate them, Can they be use as in personal game project stuffs?
I'm interested in a tutorial on how to make lo-fi polygons like on the DS, particularly with more realistic proportions. All the tutorials I have found are for PS1 and N64 style graphics. A good reference point to what I mean are the graphics from games such as Phantasy Star 0, Avalon Code, and Cop the Recruit.
may i have the .bbmodel project to learn with? please.
Those rotating wireframes are very SNES Rare.
Animate this incredible model NOW!!
Pretty high poly, if you ask me