Make Low Poly Characters in Blender!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ต.ค. 2022
- If you're struggling with making low poly characters in blender then no more, today I'll walk you through how to make them in blender!
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This is amazing! I personally love low poly aesthetic and enjoy going on sketchfab and studying and admiring low poly characters. Low poly + hand painted textures = perfection
Yeah I'm a fan of low poly + pixel art
Really wish you had the hot keys on screen every time you used them, kinda harder for noobs like me to follow along not having memorized all the shortcuts yet on blender, otherwise great video
Yeah sorry I forget to put them on when I record sometimes
bro PLEASE slow down jesus
“Make low poly characters”: proceeds to give one tip at the beginning and just does his own thing, at the speed of light, for the rest of the video
this is not a class on how to use blender, if you don't know how to get around blender, then obviously this tutorial won't be of much help cuz you'll be lacking a lot of other knowledge.
@@Pvydrow Not gonna lie, if you know blender, you can probably *already* make low poly characters, because "use references and go from there" is a pretty all-encompassing tip, spanning modeling and art in general. So... the fact that the video *exists* implies that it's a tutorial on how to use blender... to make low poly characters. It's not that, though, it's basically just a dude making a thing, so...
@@SnowheadBlitz I think the point of the video is to show his workflow, I think it was helpful to see how he went about doing certain parts like the collar bone and the legs. Either way, it’s more of a subjective thing whether or not the walkthrough was helpful.
@@SnowheadBlitz you can know blender's shortcuts and tools and still be confused/overwhelmed when having to put them into practice, you don't learn to loopcut and then immediately get the knowledge on how to make good topology or how to operate in 3d space in a straightforward way, stuff like the workflow used in the video helps a lot for a person who's aware of the shortcuts used and how the tools work but that haven't made a more """""complex""""" model (not really complex since it's just a low poly character, but more in depth than static object) again, the title of the video is how to make a low poly character, not how to use blender.
I can see where you are coming from, as someone who is pretty new to blender, tutorials can sometimes be extremely frustrating to follow or even understand what you are looking at. What helped me a lot was looking for videos on "hard surface modeling" witch are really really helpful for teaching how to navigate and use blender properly/ to its full potential
Thank you for this. I'm new to Blender and I learned a lot!
Great to hear!
Thx but it too fast, have to rewatch every 5 second 5 times
same here, i gave up on trying to follow along not even a minute into the video
@@finnoliver655 turn the video speed down to 0.5x in the settings
Really loving your channel, you’ve got a good editing style for your vids. Are you gonna continue or recreate the series on how to make low-poly anime characters?
I hope to make shapes as fast as this one day lol
Holy shit. I have no idea wtf I'm doing. Way too fast for me, plus I don't understand the technical language.
Well it is a good idea to learn the basics of blender and then you will understand the language plus you can turn down the video speed. In my perspective its not meant as like an in depth tutorial but just like a good way to do it tutorial or guide
I've seen loads of comments relating to the mirror modifier not working or showing up, to fix this, you need to make sure your axis are the same as Thomas, his mirror is set to X because of the position of his reference images, if you've set yours on the Y then the mirror will look as if it isn't there, follow the green (Y) and red (X) to make sure your images are in the right place, another tip, Thomas is going quite fast, this tutorial is more for those with a base knowledge of blender but if you're still struggling, pause and repeat the section your on using the left arrow key to jump back 5 seconds, no-one is going to judge you for trying to get it right first time but it's ok to make mistakes, CTRL Z is your best friend here!
Good video 👍🏽
I found your going a little to fast .
I like how you didn't put music in the background so I can choose my own!
Really good tutorial !
Thanks for including the shortcut addon, it really helps to see what keys you press.
I aspire to have a worflow as efficient as you in the future !
Have a good day mate
Glad it helped!
You are so underrated, you have helped me do my own charactes, I hope in the future you have more views.
me too! Your tutorials are the most helpful I’ve found. I’m finally, finally making characters.
Cool tutorial man! Thank you
Such a great tutorial. I feel so much more competent in blender after following along. Thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
XD so simple, i never thought of rotating the ref image in A pose to do the arms
Nice tutorial! New artists should beware the topology of the shoulders, hips, knees and elbows. If you plan to rig and animate this mesh you will have problems making those areas bend properly with the topology used here. I spent quite some time trying to figure it out as a novice myself, thought I'd warn other novices.
Any tutorials for specifically these aspects you might recommend?
@@summonfish Yes! Check these out:
wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Limb_Topology
www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1218697/FULLTEXT01.pdf
@@summonfish
The value of this particular tutorial is to generate your initial model with a natural workflow. He has another tutorial on retopologizing for animation.
th-cam.com/video/VwNUMIrFCEA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=sIXEFc6p1Jy291Tq
I'd love it if you could do more of these! The custom character ones are cool but the basemeshjes are the biggest thing I struggle with
It’s such a good inspiration for more
Thank you for making the video Thomas it was very helpful indeed . The introduction of the reference image is a great help and splitting the screen as well. Your general knowledge of blender is awesome and I appreciate you taking the time to make this tutorial. My only downside with the video is that some of the steps were not explained and I had to do extra research to get to the finish line with your project. When I say this I mainly mean what buttons to press to do certain actions. For ex. the knife tool and not explaining how to move from one point the next without it sticking and making 4 cuts instead of 2(which is double click or press E for anyone reading this), or sliding things by double clicking G. Which ironically I had to look up other videos for the info. All in all , still a very informative video but if your going to take the time to make the tutorial you might as well review yourself to make sure it wont be confusing at any point . You were a bit fast as well , had to stop and rewind to grasp what you were doing at some points sometimes to no avail. Keep making your tutorials, keep being awesome , and remember to self - analyze to improve the quality of your lessons. Respectfully, TMJ
Generally not against the consensus of this comment.
However, there are other tutorials, and whilst some quite crucial things are skipped out on, this tutorial falls into the more enthusiastic side of tutorial videos.
What I mean by that, is that it glides along with a theme that other videos might've taken half an hour or even more to cover, with emphasis being on you, the viewer, being enthusiastic enough to either already know the majority of the things done in the video, or at least be knowledgeable enough to look things up.
One simply does not, under normal circumstances, launch up blender and decide that one wants to model a humanoid character without some fraction of extensive knowledge about the program.
So yes, good point.
However, my point, and the point of many commenters alike myself, is that this is not the kind of tutorial that takes it slow. And many of us, appreciate exactly that.
Since there are plenty of other tutorials out there, that do exactly what you wished this video had done.
For example, the famous donut tutorial is great, however for someone that already has some basic knowledge about the program, it would be considered way too lengthy by them.
For a newcomer however, which the tutorial is aimed at, the tutorial covers great basis and does it at a fitting pace.
Edit: To expand further, you'd actually have better performance approaching these kinds of *very* specific tutorials with the preconcieved knowledge about modeling. These kinds of videos are more so meant as guidance for someone who already understands a fair bit of modeling, to model something more specific.
To make a metaphor, before joining life as an adult, you are meant to take study tests, sometimes with extreme and weird conditions. That is meant to prepare you for "everything" (in quotation marks cause the education system in many parts of the globe sucks) so that you may eventually, even in situations wildly differing from the ones you encountered in the test, may be able to tackle the problem head on with knowledge you have gathered before hand.
Redundancy, that's the word for it.
Before anything, (I know that it's time consuming and you may be lazy) always try to learn everything about a certain topic.
A real life scenario for this is that you can program a whole game with code leeched from tutorials, however you may at some point come across a scenario/thing you may want to create, and there will be no tutorial for such a thing. That's why it is heavily encouraged, and especially required in workplaces, to have gone through a study course of a programming language before you may start to try and make anything with it.
if you look in the corner of the plane screen, you'll see it shows the keys he's pressing.
Ik it's been five months since this comment, but hopefully someone else will need this info
@@oranplan1630 ty bro
i thought i had to use planes and one i extrude the body i had to round it out using only the poly builder but thanks to you i learned how to just do it simpler, thank you man. +1 sub
You're welcome. Glad it was useful.
for those using the knife tool, you press k and left click and drag from a spot you want to another and then enter to apply
i am finally able to use blender, thank you
Thanks. The reason i wanted to make a somewhat low poly model of my avatar is because a low poly model might help me not have performance issues on my PC.
yo thanks for such a slow and understantable turorial
Thanks, very helpfull
Great tutorial !
I have a question, is this the best topology for animating low poly characters ? the edge/faces loops especially in the chest-arms-shoulder area.
i see many versions of how the topology should be, dont know which is better.
Check my this destroys 83% of game characters. I go over there the best ways to make topology
@@ThomasPotter great ! ill check it out.
Thank you
really wished i could see what keys you press
it writes at the bottom right
this is the best thanks king!
so this may seem futile of asking, but you got or know any tutorials on making a underground enviorment, trying to make a mine sort of thing that opens to a tyranid hive within the planets crust. and am having trouble making a effective way for the tunnel walls.
Wow, how long I took to understand that you said press G and then Y to drag it back at 0:32 is ridiculous.
Well i should Model my murder drones OC Like this cuz i like 2D styled motion and low poly
This is the only tutorial that has helped me ty
The image you linked isn't available at that URI anymore. However, it does exist online.
Do you have the link?
@@scottgerloffs6148 Unfortunately, most URIs can't be posted to TH-cam comments. However, Pinterest pin 14566398776169239 or the search term "ideal proportion male" in Google should provide examples.
This is how you make a tutorial! Most ones out there frustrate me, they go over simply useless stuff and have you do things you don't even want to use. Not to mention, they make multiple parts and long videos for a simple model. You'll learn more with this than any other blender tutorial out there
I laughed my ass off when youtube shorts tutorial came out first, and people were able to show the same features in 1 minutes that took like 10 hours to the Blender guru to tell.
How do I bring those down like you did? I ended up with two empty legs and the whole side of the chest moving out with the arms
Cool dude
instructions unclear, cube turned into eldritch horror, low poly character not achieved, blender crashed, good tutorial
had to play this video at 0.5 speed slow down bro
lm having trouble adding ONLY a modifier to teh cube sine it takes the poly body as well in consideration once applied the subdivision
I'm sorry for askin, but for 2:04 of the video you day "Lets add two or three __" I know you are adding vertices, but what button did you use?
(I saw the comment with the scroll up part)
Thank you for the tut btw
When you do the loop cut, scroll up and that adds multiple edges
CTRL+R use mouse scroll up and down to increase/decrease the number of cuts
dude i really needed this im so happy im subbed!
Thanks!
cool ttorial
Thanks!
A1 tutorial my dude
TY!
That was nice and fast
14 min video made me learn lol thanks dude!
For a recommendation, add those things that show the keys you are pressing, so it's easier to see what you are doing without being too verbosey haha
yeah i forget to add it on some videos, my last character video i use a different method and should have screen cast keys on
@@ThomasPotter still, you made me learn to use blender and make models in a day!!! Ofc im no pro but I can do something decent using references ^_^
Good guide. Those who write negative comments need to better understand the program.
Bro are you speedrunning a Blender tutorial?
Right lmao .5 felt like normal speaking speed🤣
a little fast in the beginning but holy shit... forget blender guru you're a blender masta!
nice video.
GREAT VIDEO, pls how did you learn blender
I just watched as many videos as possible
you talked a bit too fast and mumbled a lot, but otherwise great video
hey nice video! but what are you doing at 3:19 to get the legs to have the other side? because when I make the legs one side of the leg isnt connected
he made them as an extension of torso
While torso has a mirror modifier turned on
Обязательно попробую. Гайд крутой
Got to watch it in 0.25 speed but thank You so much
at 2:05 i cant tell what key he is using to add the extra point on the body, and its holding me back, can anyone tell me what keys to use and what that is called? amazing videos btw so knowledgeable and helpful
hey i just figured out the answer to my own comment, it is (CTRL + R) allows me to add segments like he did
Descent Players here ? I just realized, that the Medium Hulk/Super Hulk is basically a floating male chest. Add spikes to the shoulders and you get the Fusion Hulk. I bet Paralax used some manequins for the objects.
Hello, could someone help or explain how he was able to split his legs? 3:19 Modifier Mirror Clipping doesn`t work
the model you made looks like cerberus from ultrakill, anyway thanks for the tutorial
I would reccomend that tutorial for ppl that do know all of the basics bec im really new to blender and bro it felt like a race XD welp I gave up after 5 mins but nice tutorial tho
This might be because I'm using a later version of blender but every time I follow the steps at 9:10-9:18 the following happens
I get two cubes and both cubes act as a child cube and inherit the properties of the original mesh. Leaving this comment here, hoping somebody better than me can help
Edit: after about 20 minutes of messing around I found out that the issue was duet to me being in edit mode instead of object mode!
Yer an artist Thomas.
how did you transparent the cube?
For my character I have made a helmet instead of a head. When I try to join them together I get a double of the helmet from the mirror modifier. How do I prevent this?
Delete part of the helmet
how do you open those options to go to different views? like these little squares popped up around your curser and you clicked top view, how did you do that
by default its the key under the escape key
The last name is very intresting
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2:15 what are you saying here? "G" to grab but then you also use twath? I have watched this bit a dozen times cant figure it out lol
twice
@@ThomasPotter looks like the ref image link is expired just wanted to let you know
at 2:04 you add three.. something and you don't say what to press to do it lol. been stuck on it for 15 minutes now trying to figure out how you did that
you scroll up
Well I assumed he knew how to add an edge loop but didn't know how to add multiple at once
Scrolling up is how you make more at once
Hi at 1:47 when you begin positioning everything I find that I end up only moving 2 points of the cube instead of 4
I'm in wireframe, this means that you can see through and when you drag select it selects all the vertices
Can this be imported to Unity or any game maker and use them as a character you can play as
yes, you would have to follow the other steps to get it game ready. Check this playlist th-cam.com/play/PLYAFctXyURilNnvAQjc1iptR_IKG2VjKU.html You'll learn everything you need to know to make game characters
@@ThomasPotter Thanks!👍
I just started using the blender, so i have a question. should i use low poly objects? why i shouldn't use high poly object? i'm sorry for my english
It's just an art style. It's up to you what you like more
@@ThomasPotter ok thank you❤️, so i can use high poly but i think it's more difficult. I have to watch many video on topology. (I think My english is very bad, sorry, i'm italian)
How do you select the entire arm when touching up the shoudler at 7:27 ?
You alt and select
sorry to bother but can you tell me how to make it not just do 1 when you use the select box you select more than 1 verticies at a time, like if i selected the corner in front view but i cant select both vertices
are you're talking about being in wireframe so you can select the front and back vertices
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Hey man could you tell me what hot key you used at 2:03
Nvm I figured it out, its ctr + R (atleast I think thats what you did)
Yeah it's adding an edge loop, you can also scroll up on your mouse to add multiple lines at once
when i put the mirror modifier it doesn't create the other half for the cube
Are you sure you've done it in front view. You could change the axis(the XYZ buttons on the mirror modifier)
I have a question pls answer anyone, in the captions at 2:15 to 2:20 you say g1 but it doesnt work
pls answer
If you listen to the audio is says g twice (gx2)
@@ThomasPotter As far as i could hear, you said "G twa" or "G to R". Even after reading this comment, it doesn't sound like "G twice".
good tutorial but i had to slow it down to .50, you talk lightening fast while doing things so for me to follow there is constant pauses and rewinds to try and understand what you say as you do it. and this is coming from a beginner so to speak, so. ya. but great tutorial.
Easy just creat a highly defined mesh, and dissolve 9999 vertices per square inch by hand.
AHHHH SLOW DOWN
how do you make edge tubes?
i figured it out. to anyone who has the same problem its control r in the edit mode
Well the outcome is great, but it would be better if you would not skip some steps like adjustments in 2:10 and would explain more about the keys you are pressing. I had to go back multiple times and even in 0.5 sec speed that was way to fast for someone who isnt familiar with all keybindings and somehow you swaped from wireframe to solid multiple times which is only confusing
Edit: for real this video is less learning step by step but more like you just rush every step explaining it with "thats goes there" "this goes here" and change 5 vertices in 2 seconds while switiching repeadly between wireframe and solid and give no time at all to actually watch what you just did..way too fast and hard to follow. You know your stuff, but pls do it slower and dont rush it. We are idiots, so pls just say what keybindings you are clicking and dont click it and do it where it belongs and go to another step in 2 seconds, we need 5 seconds to understand and follow. You are good but i really cant recommend this video to anyone who doesnt want to take 5 hours for a 15 min video because he has to go back multiple times and the creator just SKIPS STEPS and does not explain what he is doing.
Sorry if this is a noob question, but can this character be rigged?
Yeah, you can but you would have to make a few extra loop cuts where you want things to bend, and alter some things to your liking.😁
Edit: I've tried it and it worked pretty ok, for a game I'm working on. You can also make clothes off of this.
i cannot bevel it, is it something about addons ? its working fine with edges but with dots it not working :(
you have to click v to bevel vertices
how did you select an entire edge at 4:49?
Alt select
I am looking at the comments lol. This has easily been the most helpful tutorial. for me. Its weird how some people have been trashing on it. The title doesn't say "for beginners" or even "tutorial". Its a walkthrough, and it delivers that perfectly.
@8:07 a hole shows up where the neck should be how do I fix?
Nvm fixed it
how do you make tis horizontal at 12:14 ?
S + Z + 0
reference link dosent work
2:02 what did you add? what shortcut on keyboard is this??
Ctrl r for edge loop
@@Boxscape_VR it's litteraly ctrl+ r and you scroll up... he isn't lying you just don't know how to properly do it
hes moving so fast i cant keep up
This video was way too fast
buddy, u explain it too fast
can we use this in unreal engine?
Yeah of course
Im new to blender and this part 2:06 what did you click?
to do what, adding more loops, moving or selecting?
@@ThomasPotter the thing where you divided the cube
Ctrl r to add edge loop
Ok but question, following your instructions can I make the model default dance (i'm serious i'm making a model because I want to make a very specific character default dance.)
2:52 how do you add that edge loop on the body like that?
Ctrl R
@@ThomasPotter i tried that put it doest put it horizontally like your it only lets me do vertical ones
@@ThomasPotter when you do it it make a line that goes horizontally through the front of the body to the back of the body mine just goes straight up and down
you have to move your mouse around to other edges to get them to flow that way when adding an edge loop