WEBVTT 00:00.360 --> 00:07.740 In this lesson, we're going to learn a few new formers and create the ribs of Mr. Bones here. 00:09.540 --> 00:11.560 So we have our reference. 00:11.730 --> 00:12.870 We have our spine. 00:12.870 --> 00:13.560 We have our head. 00:13.950 --> 00:17.580 We can turn off to formers if we want, but we're actually going to need those in a second. 00:17.590 --> 00:21.530 So I'm just going to leave the farmers visible so we can see the lattice and everything else. 00:22.170 --> 00:25.650 So there's a couple different ways we can make the ribs. 00:25.650 --> 00:34.540 We could do box modeling where we create a box and we start extruding one of the faces here going to 00:34.560 --> 00:41.430 right click and going to face and then going to extrude and start pulling this out and just start pulling 00:41.430 --> 00:43.140 that out and do this kind of a thing. 00:43.140 --> 00:43.430 Right. 00:43.590 --> 00:45.290 Make a rib this way. 00:45.300 --> 00:47.520 Actually, that's one way. 00:48.450 --> 00:51.120 But I want to show you the former that can do this. 00:51.300 --> 00:58.830 And so for us, we just need to make a long kind of tube that would kind of be like a rib, I guess, 00:58.830 --> 01:00.480 or a box, really. 01:00.720 --> 01:02.640 So let's grab a new box. 01:03.160 --> 01:05.940 I'm just clicking up here in the modeling shelf. 01:06.450 --> 01:15.540 I drag this up and I'm going to stay in perspective mode just because this is going to take a couple 01:15.540 --> 01:16.620 of different views. 01:16.620 --> 01:25.680 So I'm going to increase the subdivision's by going to Poly Cube and let's see which direction we want 01:25.680 --> 01:27.630 it in the depth. 01:28.350 --> 01:30.930 So let's just crank that up and then we can. 01:31.260 --> 01:32.940 Well, we cannot. 01:33.780 --> 01:38.130 Oh, I don't know why it's stuck to the that one direction there. 01:38.160 --> 01:38.700 That was weird. 01:39.630 --> 01:50.100 So just grab this and scale it and Z and maybe we'll increase the subdivision's and the other axes as 01:50.100 --> 01:50.370 well. 01:50.670 --> 01:55.170 So you'll notice like when you start scaling something and you try to do this stuff, it goes crazy. 01:55.500 --> 02:01.980 So the proper way to do it, which it's kind of annoying, there has to be a proper way, is to use 02:01.980 --> 02:03.410 the depth values here. 02:03.870 --> 02:08.220 So once we do that and then we make changes, it should work just fine. 02:08.220 --> 02:12.810 So that's one little goofy thing about working with Maya. 02:13.560 --> 02:17.250 OK, so let's maybe increase the subdivision's here. 02:17.250 --> 02:23.790 I'm just trying to give us enough geometry so that when we apply to the former three year old. 02:23.800 --> 02:24.260 Correct. 02:24.360 --> 02:29.330 Look, when we apply that a former change that's too as little too boxy. 02:30.750 --> 02:35.580 Well, I'm trying to say is when we apply the former, it will have enough geometry there and topology 02:35.580 --> 02:37.230 so it can curve properly. 02:37.860 --> 02:39.210 OK, so that looks good. 02:40.500 --> 02:45.540 And so now when we go to the deforming, you go over to non-linear. 02:45.870 --> 02:46.920 I'm going to tear this off. 02:47.430 --> 02:51.000 And these deformities are super useful. 02:51.000 --> 02:56.550 And probably the bend to former is the one I use the most out of all the farmers combined. 02:56.940 --> 02:59.070 So even lattices or whatever else. 02:59.460 --> 03:02.400 And we'll learn about these others later on, probably in rigging. 03:04.500 --> 03:06.300 But yeah, so non-linear. 03:06.330 --> 03:10.260 These are super, super useful and very simple. 03:11.700 --> 03:16.350 You can go through an experiment with these basically when you click one, it'll create kind of like 03:16.350 --> 03:19.620 this to former let me isolate, select these so we can see it by itself. 03:20.010 --> 03:24.990 It'll create like this little deform or handle thing and you can see it over here in the outliner and 03:25.000 --> 03:27.030 it's just going to usually go up and down like this. 03:27.030 --> 03:33.900 So even though our piece of geometry is horizontal, it won't really care when you create it initially. 03:34.320 --> 03:41.460 So if I was to start to crank this one up, you know, it's not going to be working the way it should. 03:41.970 --> 03:47.700 So, you know, you can just simply rotate the former down to line up with whatever object you have. 03:48.210 --> 03:53.550 And then once you start adjusting it, it should work as expected. 03:54.450 --> 03:55.920 And it's super cool. 03:55.920 --> 04:01.560 And, you know, there's it's pretty simple, but there's, you know, handy controls like this. 04:02.460 --> 04:09.390 And if you wanted to save this and not have the deform or of course, the geometry here and go to edit, 04:09.390 --> 04:14.010 delete by type history, and it'll save that out and delete the former. 04:14.640 --> 04:16.020 But we don't want this to form. 04:16.020 --> 04:19.140 And I encourage you to just play around with the other ones. 04:19.590 --> 04:21.120 They're all useful in their own way. 04:21.120 --> 04:24.690 But the Binda farmers just I mean, it's it's classic. 04:24.930 --> 04:27.570 It's hard not to use it on every project. 04:28.050 --> 04:33.300 So I'm going to go back to isolate, select, you know, if we go over to the bean input here and I'm 04:33.300 --> 04:38.340 going to middle mouse drag here in the viewport like I was doing earlier, you can see it's bending 04:38.340 --> 04:43.020 and kind of the x axis direction, which is not what we want. 04:43.350 --> 04:45.090 So we need to rotate this thing. 04:45.570 --> 04:46.050 Check this out. 04:46.050 --> 04:50.620 You can just kind of experiment and play and you could animate this, you know, rotation. 04:50.640 --> 04:51.630 It could do crazy stuff. 04:51.630 --> 04:56.790 But anyway, for our purposes, we're using it for modeling to help us kind of dial in a rib. 04:57.240 --> 04:59.430 So, Zuhur, out the. 04:59.550 --> 05:03.330 Crazy values and get back to being more serious about this. 05:05.070 --> 05:12.180 So I'm gonna flip this around 180 in the Y and then I just need to rotate it 90. 05:13.580 --> 05:24.260 Yes, so we have a rib, kind of the binda former, you can, you know, translate it around as well 05:24.270 --> 05:28.450 so that'll, you know, adjust kind of where the point it's scaling from. 05:29.000 --> 05:35.780 And it also has these inbound things, which I don't think will affect us as far as like the maximum 05:35.780 --> 05:41.420 they should be at because they look like they're already to the maximum. 05:41.420 --> 05:41.650 Right. 05:41.660 --> 05:43.890 Like you can see the little green dot here, hopefully. 05:44.420 --> 05:48.170 So if this was a super long thing, you might need to extend the bounds. 05:49.370 --> 05:55.310 But what we're going to use the balance for is to kind of help, maybe adjust, let's say let's scale 05:55.310 --> 06:00.050 this thing up, because this is like too aggressive of a curve. 06:00.050 --> 06:00.350 Right. 06:00.350 --> 06:05.630 And we could, you know, reduce this here, which is partly what we'll do. 06:05.630 --> 06:10.460 But we also need to maybe scale that a former up because we want this to cover a greater area. 06:11.450 --> 06:16.040 And let's turn back on let's turn off, isolate, select so that we can see the reference. 06:17.330 --> 06:19.550 In general, everything is really too big. 06:20.090 --> 06:27.320 Let's go to the front view, holding down spacebar, left, clicking in the center and just in front 06:27.320 --> 06:27.570 of you. 06:27.920 --> 06:32.150 So when if you tried to start to move this stuff, it's going to get all crazy. 06:32.810 --> 06:35.990 And this may be the kind of effect you're going for. 06:36.140 --> 06:44.450 But what I like to do is parent the handle of any the former under the geometry or applying it to that 06:44.450 --> 06:44.690 way. 06:44.690 --> 06:48.290 When you move the geometry, it should move with it. 06:49.040 --> 06:56.540 You can see the handle ends here are all moving around with it and the pieces is maintaining its deformation 06:56.540 --> 06:57.110 and shape. 06:57.680 --> 07:04.700 So the reason I'm doing that is because the ribs kind of come down like at an angle like this. 07:04.700 --> 07:05.060 Right. 07:05.690 --> 07:14.930 And so we basically just need to kind of figure out where this deform our needs to line up with the 07:14.930 --> 07:19.220 ribs and we can kind of move this around and do all this crazy stuff. 07:19.220 --> 07:22.160 But in general, it looks like it's all way too big. 07:22.190 --> 07:25.610 So I'm going to scale all this way down and. 07:26.950 --> 07:29.590 Let's see, let's look at this first one. 07:31.370 --> 07:33.530 It looks like this first one's kind of. 07:36.720 --> 07:42.540 Like that ish, and this can kind of get us in the ballpark and then we can continue modeling on our 07:42.540 --> 07:47.970 own, um, that looks pretty close at three. 07:49.560 --> 07:54.620 I think maybe just the size of everything is too thick. 07:54.660 --> 07:55.140 Let's see. 07:55.810 --> 07:56.490 Um. 07:58.730 --> 08:00.220 And it's not around enough. 08:03.440 --> 08:15.040 Hmm, it depends on the shape of the rib that you want to create, but for me, this is kind of it's 08:15.040 --> 08:17.880 too uniform, right, as a square. 08:18.280 --> 08:19.980 So we need to break that up. 08:23.020 --> 08:28.900 So I'm going to select a face here and select a face over there, so when I double click, it'll go 08:28.900 --> 08:30.230 between the faces I selected. 08:30.230 --> 08:34.210 I'm going to do the same thing here for the bottom part. 08:36.950 --> 08:46.920 I have those faces and I'm going to control middle mouse drag them so they'll move relative to their, 08:47.940 --> 08:48.670 um. 08:50.930 --> 08:57.990 They move relative to their normals, which is the direction the face is facing, so I'm going to hit 08:58.020 --> 09:02.840 B and hold on to control again. 09:03.830 --> 09:04.840 And just kind of. 09:06.460 --> 09:11.230 Push that I think be might be the wrong thing to do, because I think these are the normals of these 09:11.230 --> 09:14.740 things are those faces are going in the wrong, wrong direction. 09:15.520 --> 09:17.440 So go back to one. 09:18.220 --> 09:24.270 Yeah, it just looks like this stuff needs to be fixed because that's all crashing into itself. 09:25.210 --> 09:33.140 And so I'm going to turn on the edge, slide, transform, constrain here so I can just slide this stuff. 09:33.160 --> 09:41.410 Well, it's freaking out and it looks like I can't undo that now, which is always fun. 09:48.720 --> 09:49.680 So. 09:52.490 --> 10:00.260 You get to see, like real time what modeling is all about, a scale this down, actually, you know, 10:00.260 --> 10:06.680 what I might do is just delete this until the edge and use the multicar tool. 10:08.330 --> 10:08.540 Yeah. 10:08.580 --> 10:09.830 So this is his modeling. 10:09.830 --> 10:18.420 Sometimes Maya is not kind some holding down shift to get to 50 percent and just remaking of these. 10:18.440 --> 10:21.810 I wish I could remember what this went into. 10:21.920 --> 10:25.810 Let me let me back up and see what that went to that star. 10:25.820 --> 10:26.210 Okay. 10:27.500 --> 10:28.010 So. 10:30.150 --> 10:31.260 Slowing down shift. 10:36.530 --> 10:42.660 I want to go 50 percent want to end on that one and enter and I we need to fix all this stuff as well. 10:48.380 --> 10:57.800 This is part of modeling is when Maya freaks out, doesn't let you and do you know, you just kind of 10:57.800 --> 10:58.970 roll with the punches here. 11:01.560 --> 11:05.760 And it's this and. 11:06.870 --> 11:07.770 We push back. 11:09.550 --> 11:10.860 Sure, for the bottom as well. 11:13.520 --> 11:16.650 So, you know, you don't have to do exactly what I'm doing. 11:16.970 --> 11:17.600 This is. 11:19.880 --> 11:27.590 Just kind of my best guess as to what would make the best shape here, you know, kind of rounding off 11:27.590 --> 11:36.710 the corners of the box, actually, I want to do the controlled middle mouse drag here because they're 11:36.710 --> 11:40.010 all kind of going in different directions because it's a semicircle now. 11:40.610 --> 11:45.590 And you could make these adjustments before you applied the the bend, the former, which might make 11:45.590 --> 11:46.670 all this easier. 11:47.510 --> 11:53.660 But, you know, if you didn't have that decision made before you started, it's no big deal like I'm 11:53.660 --> 11:54.140 showing you. 11:54.140 --> 11:56.360 You can just kind of keep going with stuff. 11:59.680 --> 12:02.280 And isolated, Alan. 12:11.660 --> 12:15.630 Just control no mouse dragging three 12:18.900 --> 12:20.890 and I mean, that looks kind of like a ribbon. 12:21.420 --> 12:26.100 I think the middle here is probably too thick still, but I like this. 12:26.220 --> 12:31.410 The difference we get, you know, um, get back to one. 12:33.740 --> 12:45.230 I think these all of this stuff is too narrow, maybe someone like that, it be our skill out in this 12:45.230 --> 12:48.400 direction, maybe a little bit in that direction. 12:50.500 --> 12:51.940 Just making these little tweaks. 12:53.540 --> 13:01.280 To get it back in the ballpark of, uh, proper rebe shape. 13:20.210 --> 13:28.100 Something like that, but you get the idea and the binda to former is still applied, so we can adjust 13:28.100 --> 13:28.730 that later. 13:30.320 --> 13:34.190 I think we need some variation here on the vertical as well. 13:34.820 --> 13:46.770 So I'm just going to grab these vertices and scale them down and y maybe increase the self selection. 13:47.600 --> 13:48.800 I'll do that first one. 13:50.610 --> 13:52.170 I go further out here. 13:54.000 --> 13:54.390 Yeah. 14:02.920 --> 14:12.530 I like that to the object space, so what I did just there was holding R and left clicking, you know, 14:12.530 --> 14:13.810 same kind of deal I've been doing. 14:13.820 --> 14:17.210 You can change the ACSI of The Manipulator. 14:25.800 --> 14:34.200 So in general, this is kind of a bone shape right here, the front of you kind of looks like a rib 14:34.200 --> 14:37.230 to me, but yeah, you can keep messing with this. 14:37.230 --> 14:38.420 But this is the general idea. 14:38.430 --> 14:42.960 You could even, you know, extrude these faces, make the ends more bony looking. 14:42.960 --> 14:46.620 But I think for a rib, this is kind of, you know. 14:47.950 --> 14:48.940 It's a pretty simple shape. 14:50.080 --> 14:56.140 So one thing you can do now is to actually once you finalize this, you could just duplicate this out 14:56.800 --> 14:58.650 and then just kind of slide it down. 14:59.530 --> 15:05.440 Let's go back to the front of you, slide this stuff down and then kind of keep making tweaks to each 15:05.440 --> 15:12.640 one or, you know, instead of it being the copy that you're dragging down, leave the copy where it's 15:12.640 --> 15:14.620 at because it doesn't have the former with it. 15:15.070 --> 15:18.070 So we've made that copy and it says Binda former. 15:18.070 --> 15:22.900 But it's not going to do anything because it's you know, it's not connected to it. 15:22.900 --> 15:25.360 I just copied it just for copy sake. 15:25.360 --> 15:27.000 And it didn't actually make the connection. 15:27.370 --> 15:36.190 So instead of dragging the copy down, why don't we drag this one down and then we can continue adjusting 15:37.090 --> 15:45.460 each one with the binda former so we can go back to the binda former change the curvature of this one 15:45.460 --> 15:46.030 a little bit. 15:46.780 --> 15:50.860 But I think, you know, for our purposes, let's go to the side of you and see what this is looking 15:50.860 --> 15:51.160 like. 15:51.400 --> 15:58.600 Of course, we're way off and I'm sure the drawing is not accurate whatsoever. 15:59.680 --> 16:01.120 That's kind of even hard to tell. 16:02.420 --> 16:04.620 Which ones are rib the bottom, that one. 16:04.640 --> 16:05.110 That's one. 16:05.420 --> 16:07.370 So I think it was like in here somewhere. 16:08.270 --> 16:12.860 So it looks like there are all too big in that direction because they need to connect to the spine. 16:13.460 --> 16:15.500 But you get the kind of general idea here. 16:16.430 --> 16:21.950 And we just want to have like an interesting shape and. 16:25.860 --> 16:31.530 Yeah, so this is, you know, another thing we could do is add another binda former, so we have this 16:31.530 --> 16:32.070 copy. 16:32.340 --> 16:33.990 We could even do it to this one as well. 16:33.990 --> 16:36.510 But let me click this one and go Binda former. 16:36.960 --> 16:42.210 And any time have you been to form, I just crank up the curvature so I can see which direction it's 16:42.210 --> 16:42.650 facing. 16:43.080 --> 16:51.810 So then I know which direction to adjust the handles here and go back to perspective. 16:52.690 --> 16:54.330 Looks like it's collapsing. 16:54.330 --> 16:55.740 The volume of the. 16:58.500 --> 17:04.080 The thing that might hopefully it's just because of how much I'm curving it, let's do something like 17:04.110 --> 17:06.270 this, maybe we can move this away. 17:09.440 --> 17:11.770 Make it out to the right view. 17:14.510 --> 17:18.200 Something like that, and then sometimes I'll just delete it and see what the difference is and undo 17:18.200 --> 17:18.950 the deletion. 17:23.130 --> 17:26.400 Sorry, my arm is hitting my scroll wheel on my tablet. 17:30.840 --> 17:32.650 So, yeah, I think it looks better with the former. 17:33.360 --> 17:41.040 So I'm just going to drag that onto itself and go back to perspective and then just keep refining this 17:41.040 --> 17:41.280 stuff. 17:41.280 --> 17:45.600 You can see where because that had been the former recollapse, the geometry here, it's going to go 17:45.600 --> 17:51.780 back to one she's faces, pull this stuff out, kind of keep modeling, doing what we've been doing, 17:52.530 --> 17:55.530 just making sure we're getting the shape that we want with everything. 17:56.640 --> 17:57.870 So, yeah. 17:57.870 --> 18:00.630 And the next lesson, we all continue modeling this stuff. 18:00.630 --> 18:07.320 But for now, you can just do this for this right side and we'll mirror everything over here in a later 18:07.320 --> 18:07.680 lesson. 18:07.680 --> 18:09.810 So don't worry about doing it for both sides. 18:10.830 --> 18:12.420 Just focus on one side. 18:12.930 --> 18:17.790 So right now I'm doing the right side and I'll probably model all the right side and then we can measure 18:17.790 --> 18:23.400 everything over to the left in a later episode or video. 18:24.900 --> 18:25.230 Cool. 18:25.620 --> 18:26.590 I will see you guys then. 18:26.730 --> 18:27.270 Thanks a lot. 18:27.450 --> 18:27.780 Bye.