WEBVTT 00:00.240 --> 00:04.920 In this lesson, we're going to cover two of the main techniques for modeling used and we're going to 00:04.920 --> 00:07.020 get started on the skull head. 00:07.440 --> 00:14.010 So two of the different ways to begin modeling something like this would be to go into one of your views, 00:14.010 --> 00:18.930 the front viewer, the right view and choose the front view, rolling down space and right clicking 00:18.930 --> 00:20.940 and going to the front of you. 00:21.540 --> 00:24.060 And we can create a box. 00:24.210 --> 00:26.360 And this is called the box modeling method. 00:26.880 --> 00:34.050 So I'll drag this box up that I just made by clicking in the poly modeling menu and basically start 00:34.050 --> 00:38.460 to pull points around and try to match the image that we have. 00:38.910 --> 00:47.340 So we could go in here to our custom menu and start adding edge loops and pull those out at different 00:47.340 --> 00:48.070 distances. 00:48.510 --> 00:56.280 We can also extrude faces to try to get to the right kind of shape. 00:56.610 --> 00:58.590 But basically you want to. 01:00.150 --> 01:07.920 Use as few amount of lines to describe an area as possible, so you don't want to start just detailing, 01:07.920 --> 01:13.890 you know, the lips or something like that when you start modeling, you want to get the basic forms 01:14.040 --> 01:17.340 correct first before you start adding any kind of detail. 01:17.910 --> 01:22.410 So this is how you begin and this is called box modeling. 01:22.710 --> 01:26.130 You start with the box and you just start kind of pushing points around. 01:26.460 --> 01:28.140 You can see what I'm doing is double clicking. 01:28.140 --> 01:31.920 So I know I get the whole edge loop that goes all the way around and then I'm just scaling it to try 01:31.920 --> 01:34.650 to match the outline of this character. 01:34.920 --> 01:36.380 OK, so that's box modeling. 01:36.780 --> 01:42.990 So what happens when we need to create the eyes or or start making this more rounded or something like 01:42.990 --> 01:43.230 that? 01:43.350 --> 01:45.840 So I'm going to hide this box real quick. 01:45.930 --> 01:51.900 I'm going to object mode and had control and then I'm going to go back to the front view and discuss 01:51.900 --> 01:55.590 the edge modeling method or modeling. 01:55.930 --> 01:58.370 There's a couple different ways you can describe it, but it's the same idea. 01:58.740 --> 02:09.570 So I'm going to create a plane and drag it up here and I'm going to rotate it 90 degrees and I'm going 02:09.570 --> 02:12.540 to turn the subdivision's to one. 02:12.540 --> 02:13.890 So we just have one face. 02:14.910 --> 02:18.360 And I'm actually going to go out to my perspective. 02:18.360 --> 02:19.670 You holding down space bar, right? 02:19.680 --> 02:22.680 Clicking And or sorry, not right. 02:22.680 --> 02:25.740 Clicking Just left, left. 02:25.740 --> 02:28.530 Mouse clicking And then we'll go back to the front of you. 02:28.530 --> 02:32.100 So I want to pull out so I could see that off of the image there. 02:32.280 --> 02:37.920 So the one thing we can also do if we can't see through this object, we could go to the shading materials 02:37.920 --> 02:43.230 here from the attribute editor and turn down the transparency of the share that this is assigned to. 02:43.500 --> 02:47.840 Any time that we have an object selected and we go to the actual editor, it's going to pull up its 02:47.990 --> 02:49.200 its different attributes. 02:49.200 --> 02:50.730 And there's all these different tabs up here. 02:51.000 --> 02:53.610 And the last one farthest to the right is always the shader. 02:54.060 --> 02:56.970 So if we select well we have the display layer here. 02:56.970 --> 03:01.560 So if we turn off the reference of the display layer for the reference and I select that and I go to 03:01.560 --> 03:06.990 that letter, we go to the far right tab, this is the shader for that so we can change the transparency 03:06.990 --> 03:07.470 and all that. 03:07.950 --> 03:11.460 So let's turn that back to reference and let's click the. 03:12.880 --> 03:20.710 Plain and let's turn the transparency down so we can kind of see through the object to make sure we're 03:20.710 --> 03:25.750 lining things up and we could do the same kind of thing, scale this, move it up. 03:26.380 --> 03:32.890 And instead, you know, we can use the edges to extrude someone to get this to a place where I want 03:32.890 --> 03:33.900 to extrude an edge. 03:33.910 --> 03:37.910 I'm going to go to right click and go to the edge mode and scale this out. 03:38.710 --> 03:43.420 And just like we can extrude faces like we did in the hard surface modeling, we can extrude edges. 03:43.640 --> 03:45.270 Someone hit the extrude button up here. 03:45.310 --> 03:47.670 We can also get to it from our customer knew where we saved it out. 03:48.190 --> 03:50.740 And you get the same kind of attributes. 03:50.740 --> 03:52.720 You know, you can just start pulling edges around. 03:53.200 --> 03:58.840 And when you hit G, which is a very good shortcut that we've used a lot, you can begin to move really 03:58.840 --> 04:01.200 quickly in how you're modeling something. 04:01.780 --> 04:07.240 One thing to keep in mind, too, is that oftentimes when people begin modeling, they only model one 04:07.240 --> 04:10.710 side and they cut their model in half. 04:10.990 --> 04:16.740 So to do that, we could go to the edge loop tool and we can go to the tool settings and turn on multiple 04:16.740 --> 04:18.340 large loops and turn that down to one. 04:18.910 --> 04:23.290 That way, when we click here for the loop, we can see it's going to set it right in the middle. 04:23.590 --> 04:30.340 OK, on turn off the tool settings here and I'm going to go to the face mode and my cue to pull up the 04:30.340 --> 04:34.180 selected tool, click and drag, select those faces and delete them. 04:34.930 --> 04:43.360 So all we should worry about now is modeling out this right side so I could go to this edge and extrude 04:43.360 --> 04:47.290 it and pull it out and just continue modeling. 04:47.410 --> 04:53.170 And when we get to curved surfaces and things like that, we could go to the perspective mode and we 04:53.170 --> 04:55.060 could start, you know, pulling this around. 04:55.060 --> 05:00.940 We can go to object mode, pull this out to the front kind of where the forehead should be, and we 05:00.940 --> 05:05.140 can start pulling these things around and it's going to edge mode, pull this back in. 05:06.310 --> 05:09.670 So this is the kind of edge or point modeling technique. 05:10.150 --> 05:16.030 So we can see we're going to need some more edge loops here so we can add those and we can start wrapping 05:16.060 --> 05:21.210 these edges around and extruding them as we need. 05:22.510 --> 05:28.420 So this is two different ways of modeling the box method, which we've already shown. 05:28.420 --> 05:34.330 And then this method and you're going to need to know both of them to be a successful modeler. 05:35.440 --> 05:41.530 Different circumstances call for different techniques and you'll need to know both of them. 05:42.010 --> 05:48.490 So what I like to do when I'm starting is use the box method and then later I'll come back to this method. 05:48.880 --> 05:56.950 And if there's an area where it's hard to use the box method, I'll delete faces on the box and then 05:56.950 --> 06:03.100 I will just use a new plane and I'll I'll show you how we can do that here in a little bit. 06:03.430 --> 06:07.690 So I'm going to go back to the front view and do what we did on the face. 06:07.690 --> 06:10.300 So the other thing to keep in mind is we can also use symmetry. 06:11.230 --> 06:14.680 We can go to the tool settings here. 06:16.150 --> 06:23.680 And when we go and we hit W to make sure that we have the move tool on, we can go down to symmetry 06:23.680 --> 06:26.440 settings here and the tool settings and we can turn it on. 06:26.440 --> 06:31.930 We can click this little button and we can tell it which direction to be symmetrical. 06:31.930 --> 06:39.460 And because it's not always that you you want to go in, I guess Object X or World X is the same thing 06:39.460 --> 06:41.890 because we're modeling this right at zero. 06:41.890 --> 06:45.160 So it won't really matter if we choose object or world at this point. 06:45.640 --> 06:47.200 Let me show you what happens when you do that. 06:47.410 --> 06:51.760 If we go to Vertex and we just select one over here, you can already see that as I hover over one, 06:52.060 --> 06:53.980 it selects the other on the other side. 06:54.520 --> 07:01.150 And let me just turn off the tool settings here so we can get a closer look and turn that one down. 07:01.510 --> 07:04.510 So when I hover over, you can see this kind of blue selection here. 07:05.750 --> 07:12.020 So when I start pulling points, it's going to be symmetrical, so that's also one way instead of having 07:12.020 --> 07:18.410 to cut a model down the middle and then just model one side and then copy it and flip it over and then 07:18.410 --> 07:22.630 merge all the vertices down the center, you can just turn on symmetry and work this way. 07:23.000 --> 07:27.830 And a lot of times I'll end up doing both where, you know, I'll start out this way and then I can 07:27.830 --> 07:35.480 only get so far and then I'll have to resort back to splitting it in half and then go back to this method. 07:35.490 --> 07:40.400 So there's a lot of back and forth, but basically, any time you start, you kind of want to just get 07:40.400 --> 07:41.680 the basic shapes down. 07:41.690 --> 07:42.980 So I'm going to drag this down. 07:43.260 --> 07:48.020 I can see I didn't get all of the edge just going to click and drag and then control click and drag 07:48.020 --> 07:52.250 everything above that bottom edge loop, trying to drag this down to the bottom. 07:53.420 --> 07:54.680 And then I'm to scale this down. 07:55.880 --> 08:01.970 And then I'm going to start adding an edge loops where I see kind of the furthest point on the silhouette 08:01.970 --> 08:02.270 here. 08:02.560 --> 08:07.580 So if we look, we can tell we're going to probably need one in here, up here, up here, you know, 08:07.580 --> 08:13.340 here and also with drawings, you know, we probably need to be going to the inside of the drawing. 08:13.610 --> 08:16.780 This is a very thick line so we can adjust for that as well. 08:16.790 --> 08:18.130 So I'm going to put it well. 08:18.470 --> 08:22.810 So, yeah, I use that tool and we've got to turn off the equal distance here. 08:22.820 --> 08:29.540 So let's go to a relative distance, turn back off tool settings so we get a better view and let G to 08:29.540 --> 08:34.760 pull up the last tool, which is incidentally we've been using and I'll just click and drag in here 08:35.390 --> 08:40.250 and make a bunch of loops so that we have some geometry to pull around. 08:40.580 --> 08:42.620 Otherwise we don't have anything to work with. 08:42.620 --> 08:48.260 And it'll make modeling a lot more difficult if we don't have these edges. 08:48.490 --> 08:55.970 OK, so with that done, I'm going to click, drag, select and bring this up to the middle here or 08:55.970 --> 08:58.190 the sorry, the bottom of the skeleton head. 08:58.610 --> 09:04.430 I'm going to start double clicking and scaling these out to match the silhouette of the skull. 09:04.880 --> 09:08.030 So the next lesson will continue working on the model head. 09:08.030 --> 09:09.110 And I'll see you there. 09:09.290 --> 09:09.890 Thanks for watching.