if anybody's experiencing weird mirroring problems at 12:38 with the legs not aligning to the reference, you can fix this by applying all transforms by clicking on "Object" at the top in Object mode window, clicking "apply" then clicking "all transforms" after. then you can add the mirror modifier without giving our elfish woman detached legs!
This will happen if you move the mesh in object mode. Moving in object mode also moves the object's origin point which is what the mirror modifier uses as its center point. You can fix this by applying the transform, as you said, by placing the origin manually, or you can pick and object to use as mirror reference within the modifier with the eyedropper.
I'm a student studying 3D art and had been told not to try going into character modelling and to focus on environment art because it was just too complicated and there was too much competition. When I showed the same teacher my second model after following this tutorial series, he looked shocked, told me I should try to pursue character modelling for my final portfolio project, and took a picture of the tutorial on his phone so he could watch it and share it with other students later. That's how good this tutorial is
I was told the same thing in college lol, Character design is already an oversaturated market and so on. Definitely do what you enjoy, and keep doing so! XD
Actually that depends on how much effort you put into, if you’re really interested. Will overcome that, let say why teachers wouldn’t recommend it. Is there are not many students can make industry standards characters before graduation. Easy to learn and hard to master, modelling, re typology, bone, strength, flex 3d body, texturing. Everything above really matters. Within limited time, of course they wouldn’t recommend it. Even you can do it, you still need to complete with others. Since modelling entire character, can already be different lessons. And if the animation doesn’t look good, then it can’t show how good your characters. That’s why they won’t recommend it, all those added up. Nearly every 3d model skill has to learn. If you’re in general college that’s teaching about game development, 3 months there’s not enough time for them to teach. Maybe your teachers not good at character too. You need to learn in leisure time, get some feedbacks from your teachers.
The issue I have with a lot of tutorials here on youtube is that they do not repeat their process and hotkeys as they work. I don't blame them, it's second nature for them to know what to press and a lot of it seems like common sense to an experienced modeler. However for people who are new, not knowing even one of the hotkeys can send them in a spiral of trying to find it online or figure it out on their own and this can take up a lot of our time. I LOVE this tutorial because you repeat everything you do and you explain the basics instead of assuming we know everything! Thank you so much for the help. :)
I try to make it as easy and simple as possible because Blender can be really difficult to learn. I'm glad I was able to help you in your creative process.
@@GX-105Dthe blenderguru donut tutorial has a really good one on a Google doc in the description of the first(?) video! The issue with blender hotkey maps is that the keys all do different things from mode to mode so you need like 4 separate hotkey maps for the whole program
I'm only half way through this and I can already tell you, this is THE best of the obscenely large amount of tutorials I've come across on TH-cam. The most beneficial 30 minutes I've spent in a long time.
me too ... I've learned more in 15 mins than all the other countless hours of watching blender tutorials (even the donut one) that I've watched over the years I think its cause this guy hasn't been doing this for years ... he still remembers what it was like being a newbie so he knows what we are looking for :)
Thanks guys! There is still a lot more that I want to learn and experiment with. When I learn something new, I try in it my next sculpt to help show you guys how I done it.
Ditto! I'm glad for all the tutorials out there, but this is one of the rare ones that has increased my understanding of how this stuff works by a lot, and I'm only partway through the first video!
I think i cracked why this video is so liked. This dude just took sculpting and engineered the hell out of it. First video ive seen where dude starts shaping and not seemlessly making a face shape out of sculpting mode. No artistic decisions. Place cube, extrude, shape, keep going. This is gold.
I have never sat through a sculpting tutorial before, and I am losing my mind becusse not even 1/4 of the way through, I realized i can actually do this. This is what i needed for sure. I sat through the entire thing, and I will go back and watch it again while i go along with the tutorial and do it myself. God, thank you so much man.
I haven't tried it yet, but I have the same sense that this is something I can do. I have little to no artistic ability, but this looks very doable. However, I've been in this mindset while watching other videos, and I've ended up with Sponge bob rather than Zelda. Regardless, I was captivated while watching this, and think this has been one of the most worthwhile half hours in a long time. I thought I had hit the jackpot with the Skin modifier for character modeling, but I'm starting to reconsider that opinion. Now onto the sculpting video.
This process for building character models has been what I'm missing when it comes to modeling and work flow. This's already much more fun and enjoyable to work with than how I use to make character models. Fantastic tutorial to follow along with and build. I'm off to part 2
@@BranSculpts the whole process really, mostly getting the model created in the first place. So seeing the block out technique and how to remesh and sculpt solved a huge issue I've been having (basically I crash my computer repeatedly and give up lol) Im currently on your head sculpting video
For anyone thats struggling with mirroring you have to right click on the object, ->set origin and select origin to 3D cursor. You have to make sure your character is at the center
This tutorial came out at the perfect time as I am just getting over my basics of drawing and realized I might want to try to make 3D characters again since I tried once and it went...really poorly. So I genuinely feel like this is just a sign from someone to get back into sculpting and blender! Thank you so much Bran
I feel the exact same! Once i finished college, some stuff happened with my life and i lost a lot of my knowledge, do glad this is bringing it all back to me!
ive been learning blender and i feel like im stuck in a stage where im not a beginner but i also dont know enough to be able to create my own stuff and its so difficult finding tutorials that help me out with this but yours is so perfect! im only five minutes in and havetn even opened blender yet but i know im going to love this :D
It’s honestly crazy how much better online resources are than actual courses in colleges n stuff, this is amazing. I’m taking a course and by no means is my teacher particularly bad but I already had a preference towards 2D art and my teacher only made 3D look so much more impossible for me. You however made me feel like I could have a blank character model in under an hour and understand the tools I’m using to some extent 🙏
This is literally the best sculpt video i've ever seen, you make it look so easy, your workflow in other videos its good to not get stressed, before this i thought sculpting was hard, thank you!
The best teaching ever. You just made Blender seem a LOT less overwhelming and this is coming from someone who spent 16 hours straight a few years ago trying to make a shirt for an Imvu character lol. I wish I'd stumbled on this video instead.
I am a fool who wishes to learn a new skillset, these videos will hopefully be a very informative resource to help prevent me from breaking down, crying, and quitting something I've been interested in for a while before I've even given myself the chance to properly learn how to do it.
Take your time and don't be too hard on yourself. Blender is a lot to take in and a long process to learn. Give yourself time and be patient when learning new things. You'll get to where you want to be creatively if you allow yourself to learn it slowly. Your first models won't always come out looking the best, but you will be able to learn from them and you'll learn the steps you need to fix it next time.
Don't be afraid to take a break, or repeat things you've already done. I have trouble remembering, and with attention, so I need to use GRATUITOUS repetition in order to learn new things.
Using Blender 3.41 If anyone is experiencing the issue where you turn off "Optimal Display" and you still can't see the mesh you need to go to Edit- Preferences-Viewport-Subdivision and make sure GPU subdivision is checked. Then you should be able to proceed as normal and see the reference image through your mesh. :)
I started learning blender back in February and have watched a dozen tutorials and this is probably the best one. Love the steady pace of everything. It was easy to follow and I really learned a lot. Thanks! On to the next!
You can also move the cubes in object mode and add an "empty" object and name it "world origin" and then when applying any mirror modifiers use it as the object to mirror from. Thus letting you use Local orientation when modeling which can be rather useful while still having mirrored objects. You can also very easily add any additional modifiers to the new cubes by quickly holding shift and clicking any object that has the modifiers you want to use in scene mode then pressing CTRL+L (for link) and copy modifiers. makes the whole process far less tedious.
I gotta say. I've tried to pick up 3D 4 years ago with the doughnut tutorial (you know which one I'm talking about lol) And abandoned so fast. Tried it again last year by trying to modify a VROID 3D model (I'm currently using that for my VTuber model) because I wanted to use it as a base... but that also was so daunting I left it. Now... THIS TUTORIAL!!! This series I've watched twice already and I'm now following it along using my own reference for my dream model. Boy I'm thrilled to say: you had got me hooked! I'm actually getting used to navigating Blender AND getting the hang of sculpting! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!! (sorry for the wall of text XD)
Yo thanks!! I'm really excited for you that you're getting excited about making your own models!! haha Keep at it, keep learning, theres so much crazy shit you can do in this program!
@@zuritary4075 Slowly but surely! I had to redo the retopo phase 3 times over (mostly because I'm using my own style and sculpt and because I had to adapt it and practice which is good!) Wish I could link a screen shot here but I did post some WIPS on my Bluesky (Viveltya on there too) if you're interested (last one is tagged adult because... well it's a nude model XD)
This series appeared in my recommendations at the perfect time as I have been wanting to learn how to sculpt for ages but didn't know where to look. I've greatly enjoyed following along so far with my own designs and can't wait to see the rest of it!
Literally such an awesom vid!! this is my first (ish) time using blender (i got halfway through the donut) and bc of this i was able to make an actually pretty good looking model so far! i feel like i've learnt so much about the software! i only have my character's tail to block out but now i feel confident enough to try it myself :3 i cant wait to start sculpting!
I took "game design" classes in college and they taught me some basic 3d modeling (hard surface) stuff in maya, but it doesn't compare to how comprehensive and helpful this tutorial is. There's other modeling tutorials out there but this one is so nice for literally walking through Step 1 and beyond and you saying exactly what you're doing even if its the same thing over and over again (add cube, subdivide) it's just So Nice, compared to ones where it's like "okay start with your already blocked out form" or "we'll sculpt a whole face from just a circle" despite not having any sculpting skills. Thank you so much for posting this and can't wait to try part 2
im so insanely grateful for this! ive been wanting to get into character modelling for so long and as a dude with an attention span shorter than himself, this is the only tutorial i can sit through
When I discovered your channel im so impressed how fast you improve in Blender. And when you say that drawing gets tiring i couldn't agree with you more. I've been burnt out with drawing lately and looking for something new to learn. Thanks for making tutorials man
I've tried this so many times using other people's approach and I have failed miserably. This is by far the cleanest and most helpful tutorial I've seen and I've been trying this on and off for years. I am only 10 minutes in and I feel like I've learned so much and without losing interest because you stay on topic. Thank you so much. Sincerely.
0:15 YEEEES! This is my problem! 😭 It’s even worse that I’m suing Nomad Sculpt instead of Blender. Tons of info for Blender, and there’s only one person (that I’ve seen on YT) that actually teaches Nomad and not just speed sculpts
Thank you. As you say right in the beginning. Yes, there are thousands of tutorials out there, of blender specifically, more so than others, which makes it increasingly difficult to get a full picture of the whole process, and the journey can be discouraging at best. So my sincerest thanks for your wisdom in doing this.
Your welcome! The legwork trying to find the right information to make the things you want in the way you want was the worst part of learning blender. Although nothing feels cooler than watching a video that's completely unrelated to sculpting characters and picking up an awesome tip that dovetails into your own workflow!
Awesome tutorial, dude! Ironically enough, while I was starting a sculpt yesterday, I was rewatching some of your vids at 0.25x speed to get a closer look at your workflow at this stage! Keep up the good work, man! Your progress is inspiring!
This is by far the best, easiest to follow sculpting tutorial ive seen for Blender... Character sculpting has always seemed so daunting no matter how many tutorials I watch, but this was so easy to follow and understand.
Fun fact, you can just type in any units into the object dimensions and it'll automatically do the conversion for you. So you can just type in 5'5" and then hit enter and it'll leave the units in meters. And of course don't forget to apply transforms when youre manipulating these things in object mode.
i've started using blender almost 4months ago now so i like that i'm familiar with most of the shortcut here, and also got a good intro to blocking out stuff, cuz my current only male body mesh was done modeling it. btw if you are a total beginner, if you moved ANY item in object mode, please, just get back a few steps back, and enter edit mode before moving anything, i messed up so many project without knowing that this would cause issue with some modifiers. Either don't move items in object mode, if you did it though, look for how to apply scale and rotation, cuz further done the road, it may mess up your fun ! can't wait to see the rest of the tutorial, i wish it was a netflix series that drop from ep 1 to final the same day haha ! Thnx a lot for the content !
oh man, I had the same problem! I don't dare move things in object mode. I had thought about trying to get all of these recorded and edited before I uploaded anything, but I figured I had enough footage to get up to retopology so I'll just edit those and upload as I get them done since the videos up to retopo could stand on their own to make base meshes. Just trying to keep the content flowing.
for 3 weeks now I have been trying to learn to sculpt and until this tutorial of yours, I was not able to finish a complete body thank you so much man!
The best blender lessons I've ever watched. Algorithm needs to push this more so leaving a comment here. everyone needs show this person some love as well.
I never thought I'd see a blender tutorial taught in a southern accent. It's oddly comforting, but this video is mad informative! Thank you so much for saying what keys you're clicking! 💯
God, I feel like a loser watching your progress. I've been playing with 3d for longer than I care to admit. And I've been messing with Blender for a few years now and I'm not even half as good as you are! But you've inspired me. Time to get busy!
im so excited to see the rest of this tutorial! i love your sculpts and ive been trying to study your workflow from your other vids and have switched to subdivided cubes for trying to sculpt (they are 100% a lot easier to deal with than uv spheres and so on) and its appreciated that you're making a full out tutorial now! thank you!
ty and yw! I know what you mean, I tried blocking out with spheres like some of the other guys and it never did click with me. These subdiv'd cubes were way easier for me to wrap my head around :P
Very good tutorial. Most of my time working in blender has been spent on making robots so the way you break down the limbs has been super helpful for me to learn from
I tried to use blender without a tutorial just to see how far I would get (No experience at all), and for a figure,4 hours total isnt bad! (It looked like a stick figure but who cares!) But then with the tutorial it took 2 hours! Thank you SO much for making this video! Its helped me a whole lot with the navigation, and other features blender has to offer. As a beginner this tutorial was really easy to follow! I'd recomend for any beginner who might want to start a little bit on the advanced side. I'll also make sure to share this video with some other people I know who want to get into 3d modeling!
To be honest I was waiting for a character sculpting tutorial like this with your blocking method because it's really cool and simple and I like it Thanks Brian ;D
YW! I never could get any speed with some other blockout methods like where you take spheres and sculpt them into bodyparts. Just felt like I was eyeballing too much. I much rather move verts around in the beginning.
u know a tutorial is good when it looks easy and simple to follow... the result looks already much better than anything i could ever achieve haha, i will keep working on it. Thx!
Thank you Sir @@BranSculpts I finished my sculpt a week ago and Im not liking the face haha now im into the Retopology stage Hoping 1 day I can progress like you
I really appreciate everything about this, it's really making sculpting click for me. And maybe it's weird to say, but I deeply appreciate the lack of wet mouth noises/swallowing/lip smacking that fills my soul with burning fury in so many other damn blender tutorials. Just really clean audio all around.
Amazing tutorial ❤️🔥 I learned so much watching the video! I'll have to use this workflow for future block-outs seeing everything as basic shapes helped me understand the shapes better and how they all connect I look forward to watching your next tutorial
You single-handedly managed to unscrew my modelling skills simply by telling me how to move blocks. Gonna finish the series for all the tricks to get a finished model but even what I have is an insane upgrade from the lego looking things I have been making.
i dont know how to thankyou enough for this series, i have bought courses and stuff, but you bridge the gap between beginner to mid very well! while explaining the things alot of pros over look. Tutorials like this, are massively important, more important than most. i greatly value your skill and explanations.
hey, at 3:56 when i uncheck optimal display, nothing changes. the potential vertices aren’t showing up, it just stays as the 8 vertices from before. i’ve selected the cube, and made 3 levels of subdivision, turned on x-ray and wireframe so im not sure what im doing wrong… i’m brand new to blender and only started 3 days ago so im not really sure what im doing in general LMAO, but im just gonna restart and redo the tutorial up to this point again to see if it works this time!! but also if anyone knows why it’s not working pls lmk, ty😽!!!!
@@BranSculpts also in preferences, i was told to turn off GPU subdivision because my blender would always freeze and crash if i added a subdivision surface modifier. ever since i turned it off, my blender stopped crashing. i’m not sure what the GPU subdivision does, but does it have anything to do with this?
@@k1utz Im having the same problem too, When I uncheck the Optimal Display nothing changes (Im in wire frame veiw too) but when I go Object Mode then it looks like what it was supposed too so I think it might be a bug. EDIT: (Most Likley Solution) When in Blender click EDIT then go to PREFRENCES then click on VEIWPORT then click the drop down arrow for SUBDIVISION then check the box for CPU SUBDIVISION and it should work now, it worked for me :)
thank you so much, i love all your tutorials! i am autistic, and usually, i have a very hard time learning with tutorials because they're too detailed and i cant remember the most necessary parts and only the little things, or theyre too vague and i dont understand some concepts at all. i love the way you explain and the way you add just the right amount of detail to remember and understand everything :) ive wanted to be a 3d modeler since i was a little kid, and i started off with sfm and putting premade models together in there, and im just now learning blender! huge thanks for all your tutorials- again!
i'm gonna be honest with you Bran. I've bought a ton of courses on character modelling, and all these expensive courses are nowhere near your free tutorials. I wanna thank you from the bottom of my heart)
Love how you work sir, think you could make a character modeling series for animation. It's just Darin Lyle is the only video out there with a big break down and well its a really old vid and well it'd be nice to finally see a new video for people learning character modeling
I've tried veeeery little animation, and even that was some brute force stuff. I'm planning on taking some courses this summer tho. Maybe by this time next year I might be ok at it XD
Absolutely phenomenal! I'm trying to create character models for my friends and have had trouble even starting the sculpt. I'm barely on the first video in this series and can already tell how much of this is not only extremely helpful and intuitive, but translatable into other projects! I thank you for these amazing tutorials, hopefully one day I can create something as helpful as this
OMG thankkkk you so so much.. This is the best sculpting tutorial ever!! I've always watch all of your sculpting videos and learn so much from your workflow. Watch all of your workflow videos with 0.25 speed so i can get a closer look stuff you do. But finally you do this tutorial.. finally!!
Of all the videos out there, this has helped me without a shadow of a doubt. I am still on the blocking part (very slow learner) for a while now but slowly but surely, I'll get there. I just wanted to thank you.
im a industrial design major and i think that your video is by far the most understandable one i've came across, and i first knew discover about your channel throughout watching your goku sculpt video and i was like i need to understand blender cause all my other friends knew that i should use it to my advantage for making stuff in the toy industry in particular, and it should definitely come in handy for those render that they have, so first and fore most, thanks for this, and self educating throughout my sophmore year at rit helps undertsand what my capstone will be in my senior year. other the next parts in your video after this one will be my favorite part, cause then i can learn how to do and navigate the parts of blender i didn't know about. this turned into a little bit of a ramble but i can't thank you enough for stumbling by this video you have, and you definitely earned a sub from me.
This is actually fun and having a step by step has taught me so many new and neat tricks! It was rough when I was trying it on my own at first, kinda just sculpting a huge blob with like a million triangles to get fine detail and creases. This has helped so much, youve earned a sub for sure 😁
This is an epic tutorial and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series!! Thanks so much. Such an appealing character design and great tutorial. Perfect basic block out for many female characters too. So versatile. Thanks again!!
Hello, I'm Brazilian, I'm using a.i to watch your videos dubbed in my language, congratulations on the tutorial, I'm learning more about sculpture because of you. hug!
if anybody's experiencing weird mirroring problems at 12:38 with the legs not aligning to the reference, you can fix this by applying all transforms by clicking on "Object" at the top in Object mode window, clicking "apply" then clicking "all transforms" after. then you can add the mirror modifier without giving our elfish woman detached legs!
This will happen if you move the mesh in object mode. Moving in object mode also moves the object's origin point which is what the mirror modifier uses as its center point. You can fix this by applying the transform, as you said, by placing the origin manually, or you can pick and object to use as mirror reference within the modifier with the eyedropper.
thanks man
Thanks! I was stuck for a minute then figured I'd check the comments
you're a champion, ty
Listen, If i could, i would give you a high-five. Even a bro-fist
I'm a student studying 3D art and had been told not to try going into character modelling and to focus on environment art because it was just too complicated and there was too much competition. When I showed the same teacher my second model after following this tutorial series, he looked shocked, told me I should try to pursue character modelling for my final portfolio project, and took a picture of the tutorial on his phone so he could watch it and share it with other students later. That's how good this tutorial is
That's really awesome! Keep doing great things and I can't wait to see your models!
This reminds me of the famous bar scene in "Goodwill hunting".
oh wow thats cool!! good on you
I was told the same thing in college lol, Character design is already an oversaturated market and so on. Definitely do what you enjoy, and keep doing so! XD
Actually that depends on how much effort you put into, if you’re really interested. Will overcome that, let say why teachers wouldn’t recommend it. Is there are not many students can make industry standards characters before graduation. Easy to learn and hard to master, modelling, re typology, bone, strength, flex 3d body, texturing. Everything above really matters.
Within limited time, of course they wouldn’t recommend it. Even you can do it, you still need to complete with others.
Since modelling entire character, can already be different lessons. And if the animation doesn’t look good, then it can’t show how good your characters.
That’s why they won’t recommend it, all those added up. Nearly every 3d model skill has to learn.
If you’re in general college that’s teaching about game development, 3 months there’s not enough time for them to teach.
Maybe your teachers not good at character too.
You need to learn in leisure time, get some feedbacks from your teachers.
The issue I have with a lot of tutorials here on youtube is that they do not repeat their process and hotkeys as they work. I don't blame them, it's second nature for them to know what to press and a lot of it seems like common sense to an experienced modeler. However for people who are new, not knowing even one of the hotkeys can send them in a spiral of trying to find it online or figure it out on their own and this can take up a lot of our time. I LOVE this tutorial because you repeat everything you do and you explain the basics instead of assuming we know everything! Thank you so much for the help. :)
I try to make it as easy and simple as possible because Blender can be really difficult to learn. I'm glad I was able to help you in your creative process.
yeah, i'm like how are they doing that with ease, has to be a hotkey, keep looking for a hotkey map on the web, doesn't exist
@@GX-105Dthe blenderguru donut tutorial has a really good one on a Google doc in the description of the first(?) video! The issue with blender hotkey maps is that the keys all do different things from mode to mode so you need like 4 separate hotkey maps for the whole program
finally a tutorial that moves at a good pace and doesn't talk about random to pad out the time. Thank you kind sir
You're welcome!
And also one that isn't like "get good at sculpting in 5 minutes" or whatever.
I'm only half way through this and I can already tell you, this is THE best of the obscenely large amount of tutorials I've come across on TH-cam. The most beneficial 30 minutes I've spent in a long time.
me too ... I've learned more in 15 mins than all the other countless hours of watching blender tutorials (even the donut one) that I've watched over the years
I think its cause this guy hasn't been doing this for years ... he still remembers what it was like being a newbie so he knows what we are looking for :)
Thanks guys! There is still a lot more that I want to learn and experiment with. When I learn something new, I try in it my next sculpt to help show you guys how I done it.
Same here. You got my sub.
Ditto! I'm glad for all the tutorials out there, but this is one of the rare ones that has increased my understanding of how this stuff works by a lot, and I'm only partway through the first video!
I think i cracked why this video is so liked. This dude just took sculpting and engineered the hell out of it. First video ive seen where dude starts shaping and not seemlessly making a face shape out of sculpting mode. No artistic decisions. Place cube, extrude, shape, keep going. This is gold.
fucking love engineers
I have never sat through a sculpting tutorial before, and I am losing my mind becusse not even 1/4 of the way through, I realized i can actually do this. This is what i needed for sure. I sat through the entire thing, and I will go back and watch it again while i go along with the tutorial and do it myself. God, thank you so much man.
Glad I could help.
I haven't tried it yet, but I have the same sense that this is something I can do. I have little to no artistic ability, but this looks very doable. However, I've been in this mindset while watching other videos, and I've ended up with Sponge bob rather than Zelda.
Regardless, I was captivated while watching this, and think this has been one of the most worthwhile half hours in a long time. I thought I had hit the jackpot with the Skin modifier for character modeling, but I'm starting to reconsider that opinion.
Now onto the sculpting video.
@@anthonyobryan3485so did you do it?
@@anthonyobryan3485 did you actually do it
This process for building character models has been what I'm missing when it comes to modeling and work flow. This's already much more fun and enjoyable to work with than how I use to make character models. Fantastic tutorial to follow along with and build.
I'm off to part 2
Thank you! Keep enjoying it and I can't wait to see your finished work.
Months of struggling, solved in 30 minutes. Your an art saver ✨
Haha thanks! Glad it helped. May I ask what you've been getting hung up on?
@@BranSculpts the whole process really, mostly getting the model created in the first place. So seeing the block out technique and how to remesh and sculpt solved a huge issue I've been having (basically I crash my computer repeatedly and give up lol)
Im currently on your head sculpting video
@@crowinnards i know what u mean! Sculpting was so hard for me but its finally working out so far!
Today I learned women are made of cubes.
Bro why is there no reply lol
@@Micca_Girlbro why is there no reply lol 🤓
@@ihatetomatoeesfr
Aren’t we all
Men are just cubes, women are just cubes, the whole world is just cubes. We're all living in some crusty 12-year-old's subdivided Minecraft world.
For anyone thats struggling with mirroring you have to right click on the object, ->set origin and select origin to 3D cursor. You have to make sure your character is at the center
I HAVE BEEN ALL OVER TH-cam AND REDDIT TO FIGURE THIS OUT IT HAS BEEN I KID YOU NOT 2 HOURS OF ME STRUGGLING THANK YOU YOUVE SAVED ME
@kirasgirlpower7534 I had to do some playing around to get it, there's another to mirror objects as well.
I'll have to look into it once I get home
Not all heroes wear capes 🙏
THANK YOU!!!!!
Thank you so much I've been trying to figure out why it's not doing what his doing love you some
This tutorial came out at the perfect time as I am just getting over my basics of drawing and realized I might want to try to make 3D characters again since I tried once and it went...really poorly. So I genuinely feel like this is just a sign from someone to get back into sculpting and blender! Thank you so much Bran
Awesome to hear you're getting back into it! Stick around a little longer this time XD
Honestly this is what I needed to get myself back into it, since I've been kind of out of the game for a while now.
Same, I tried to get back into it the other day in was flapper-gasted at doing what used to be so simple 😭
hell yeah! get back in there!
I feel the exact same! Once i finished college, some stuff happened with my life and i lost a lot of my knowledge, do glad this is bringing it all back to me!
ive been learning blender and i feel like im stuck in a stage where im not a beginner but i also dont know enough to be able to create my own stuff and its so difficult finding tutorials that help me out with this but yours is so perfect! im only five minutes in and havetn even opened blender yet but i know im going to love this :D
It’s honestly crazy how much better online resources are than actual courses in colleges n stuff, this is amazing.
I’m taking a course and by no means is my teacher particularly bad but I already had a preference towards 2D art and my teacher only made 3D look so much more impossible for me.
You however made me feel like I could have a blank character model in under an hour and understand the tools I’m using to some extent 🙏
The internet is wonderful place to learn things and I'm glad I could be of help to you.
*been following along for 40 minutes* *checks how far in the video i got: 10 minutes*
This has been so amazing to follow along with ! Thanks so much!
Glad you enjoy it!
This is literally the best sculpt video i've ever seen, you make it look so easy, your workflow in other videos its good to not get stressed, before this i thought sculpting was hard, thank you!
Thank you! I always try to find the best workflow for me and hope that it helps others.
The best teaching ever. You just made Blender seem a LOT less overwhelming and this is coming from someone who spent 16 hours straight a few years ago trying to make a shirt for an Imvu character lol. I wish I'd stumbled on this video instead.
I am a fool who wishes to learn a new skillset, these videos will hopefully be a very informative resource to help prevent me from breaking down, crying, and quitting something I've been interested in for a while before I've even given myself the chance to properly learn how to do it.
You can do it!
Take your time and don't be too hard on yourself. Blender is a lot to take in and a long process to learn. Give yourself time and be patient when learning new things. You'll get to where you want to be creatively if you allow yourself to learn it slowly. Your first models won't always come out looking the best, but you will be able to learn from them and you'll learn the steps you need to fix it next time.
Don't be afraid to take a break, or repeat things you've already done. I have trouble remembering, and with attention, so I need to use GRATUITOUS repetition in order to learn new things.
finally, a tutorial from you with the whole process. thank you so much ❤❤
haha your welcome
Using Blender 3.41 If anyone is experiencing the issue where you turn off "Optimal Display" and you still can't see the mesh you need to go to Edit- Preferences-Viewport-Subdivision and make sure GPU subdivision is checked. Then you should be able to proceed as normal and see the reference image through your mesh. :)
thank u very much i was confused on that
@@danieluseda9993 Of course!!!
I had to Un-Check it for the grid to appear.
You are a saint, twenty minutes of Googling couldn't resolve this issue for me and you just did in 10 seconds.
bless you
I am INCREDIBLY grateful for this series, already watched parts 1-4 three times so far. Your workflow makes so much sense to me. Thank you so much!!
You're very welcome!
I started learning blender back in February and have watched a dozen tutorials and this is probably the best one. Love the steady pace of everything. It was easy to follow and I really learned a lot. Thanks! On to the next!
You can also move the cubes in object mode and add an "empty" object and name it "world origin" and then when applying any mirror modifiers use it as the object to mirror from.
Thus letting you use Local orientation when modeling which can be rather useful while still having mirrored objects.
You can also very easily add any additional modifiers to the new cubes by quickly holding shift and clicking any object that has the modifiers you want to use in scene mode then pressing CTRL+L (for link) and copy modifiers.
makes the whole process far less tedious.
I gotta say. I've tried to pick up 3D 4 years ago with the doughnut tutorial (you know which one I'm talking about lol) And abandoned so fast. Tried it again last year by trying to modify a VROID 3D model (I'm currently using that for my VTuber model) because I wanted to use it as a base... but that also was so daunting I left it. Now... THIS TUTORIAL!!! This series I've watched twice already and I'm now following it along using my own reference for my dream model. Boy I'm thrilled to say: you had got me hooked! I'm actually getting used to navigating Blender AND getting the hang of sculpting! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!! (sorry for the wall of text XD)
Yo thanks!! I'm really excited for you that you're getting excited about making your own models!! haha Keep at it, keep learning, theres so much crazy shit you can do in this program!
how are you coming along with your modeling?
@@zuritary4075 Slowly but surely! I had to redo the retopo phase 3 times over (mostly because I'm using my own style and sculpt and because I had to adapt it and practice which is good!) Wish I could link a screen shot here but I did post some WIPS on my Bluesky (Viveltya on there too) if you're interested (last one is tagged adult because... well it's a nude model XD)
This series appeared in my recommendations at the perfect time as I have been wanting to learn how to sculpt for ages but didn't know where to look. I've greatly enjoyed following along so far with my own designs and can't wait to see the rest of it!
Awesome! Tag me so I can see what you come up with!
Literally such an awesom vid!! this is my first (ish) time using blender (i got halfway through the donut) and bc of this i was able to make an actually pretty good looking model so far! i feel like i've learnt so much about the software! i only have my character's tail to block out but now i feel confident enough to try it myself :3
i cant wait to start sculpting!
I took "game design" classes in college and they taught me some basic 3d modeling (hard surface) stuff in maya, but it doesn't compare to how comprehensive and helpful this tutorial is.
There's other modeling tutorials out there but this one is so nice for literally walking through Step 1 and beyond and you saying exactly what you're doing even if its the same thing over and over again (add cube, subdivide) it's just So Nice, compared to ones where it's like "okay start with your already blocked out form" or "we'll sculpt a whole face from just a circle" despite not having any sculpting skills.
Thank you so much for posting this and can't wait to try part 2
I'm glad I can help you out!
This is the best version of how to use Blender that I have found yet
I like how straight forward this is
This is like the Doughnut of Character Modeling. I've learned so much doing this
im so insanely grateful for this! ive been wanting to get into character modelling for so long and as a dude with an attention span shorter than himself, this is the only tutorial i can sit through
When I discovered your channel im so impressed how fast you improve in Blender. And when you say that drawing gets tiring i couldn't agree with you more. I've been burnt out with drawing lately and looking for something new to learn. Thanks for making tutorials man
Thanks, and yw! I took like a year off of drawing and was looking for a new thing to fall in love with, and man, making 3d characters was it!
I've tried this so many times using other people's approach and I have failed miserably. This is by far the cleanest and most helpful tutorial I've seen and I've been trying this on and off for years. I am only 10 minutes in and I feel like I've learned so much and without losing interest because you stay on topic. Thank you so much. Sincerely.
0:15 YEEEES! This is my problem! 😭 It’s even worse that I’m suing Nomad Sculpt instead of Blender. Tons of info for Blender, and there’s only one person (that I’ve seen on YT) that actually teaches Nomad and not just speed sculpts
Thank you. As you say right in the beginning. Yes, there are thousands of tutorials out there, of blender specifically, more so than others, which makes it increasingly difficult to get a full picture of the whole process, and the journey can be discouraging at best. So my sincerest thanks for your wisdom in doing this.
Your welcome! The legwork trying to find the right information to make the things you want in the way you want was the worst part of learning blender. Although nothing feels cooler than watching a video that's completely unrelated to sculpting characters and picking up an awesome tip that dovetails into your own workflow!
Awesome tutorial, dude! Ironically enough, while I was starting a sculpt yesterday, I was rewatching some of your vids at 0.25x speed to get a closer look at your workflow at this stage! Keep up the good work, man! Your progress is inspiring!
Thanks, man! Glad it helps!!
OMG same
This is by far the best, easiest to follow sculpting tutorial ive seen for Blender... Character sculpting has always seemed so daunting no matter how many tutorials I watch, but this was so easy to follow and understand.
Fun fact, you can just type in any units into the object dimensions and it'll automatically do the conversion for you. So you can just type in 5'5" and then hit enter and it'll leave the units in meters.
And of course don't forget to apply transforms when youre manipulating these things in object mode.
Good to know. Thanks!
Beginner at blender. Only been practicing a couple of months and this tutorial so far has been by far the best 😁
i've started using blender almost 4months ago now so i like that i'm familiar with most of the shortcut here, and also got a good intro to blocking out stuff, cuz my current only male body mesh was done modeling it.
btw if you are a total beginner, if you moved ANY item in object mode, please, just get back a few steps back, and enter edit mode before moving anything, i messed up so many project without knowing that this would cause issue with some modifiers. Either don't move items in object mode, if you did it though, look for how to apply scale and rotation, cuz further done the road, it may mess up your fun ! can't wait to see the rest of the tutorial, i wish it was a netflix series that drop from ep 1 to final the same day haha ! Thnx a lot for the content !
oh man, I had the same problem! I don't dare move things in object mode.
I had thought about trying to get all of these recorded and edited before I uploaded anything, but I figured I had enough footage to get up to retopology so I'll just edit those and upload as I get them done since the videos up to retopo could stand on their own to make base meshes. Just trying to keep the content flowing.
@@BranSculpts can't wait to dive in the next chapters !
you could do Ctrl + a and apply scale and rotation
@@moonlightblue9196 indeed ✨👌
for 3 weeks now I have been trying to learn to sculpt and until this tutorial of yours, I was not able to finish a complete body thank you so much man!
Glad I could help!
Just finished this part :-) For now it seems that the best blender character tutorial on YT for beginners :D
The best blender lessons I've ever watched. Algorithm needs to push this more so leaving a comment here. everyone needs show this person some love as well.
Wow, thank you! I really appreciate that!
Lovely!! this is the first blender character creation tutorial I can actually follow! 🤣❤
Wow, thank you!
I never thought I'd see a blender tutorial taught in a southern accent. It's oddly comforting, but this video is mad informative! Thank you so much for saying what keys you're clicking! 💯
God, I feel like a loser watching your progress. I've been playing with 3d for longer than I care to admit. And I've been messing with Blender for a few years now and I'm not even half as good as you are! But you've inspired me. Time to get busy!
Never give up!
I dont know what to love more, the tutorial or his accent
im so excited to see the rest of this tutorial! i love your sculpts and ive been trying to study your workflow from your other vids and have switched to subdivided cubes for trying to sculpt (they are 100% a lot easier to deal with than uv spheres and so on) and its appreciated that you're making a full out tutorial now! thank you!
ty and yw! I know what you mean, I tried blocking out with spheres like some of the other guys and it never did click with me. These subdiv'd cubes were way easier for me to wrap my head around :P
Very good tutorial. Most of my time working in blender has been spent on making robots so the way you break down the limbs has been super helpful for me to learn from
I've had so much fun so far doing this sculpt!
Awesome! To me, blocking out usually is the most fun part of the whole process.
I tried to use blender without a tutorial just to see how far I would get (No experience at all), and for a figure,4 hours total isnt bad! (It looked like a stick figure but who cares!) But then with the tutorial it took 2 hours! Thank you SO much for making this video! Its helped me a whole lot with the navigation, and other features blender has to offer. As a beginner this tutorial was really easy to follow!
I'd recomend for any beginner who might want to start a little bit on the advanced side. I'll also make sure to share this video with some other people I know who want to get into 3d modeling!
To be honest I was waiting for a character sculpting tutorial like this with your blocking method because it's really cool and simple and I like it
Thanks Brian ;D
YW! I never could get any speed with some other blockout methods like where you take spheres and sculpt them into bodyparts. Just felt like I was eyeballing too much. I much rather move verts around in the beginning.
@@BranSculpts I Agree
u know a tutorial is good when it looks easy and simple to follow... the result looks already much better than anything i could ever achieve haha, i will keep working on it. Thx!
I try to make it as simple as possible because Blender can be overwhelming for people to use.
Awesome thanks for this just starting my sculpting journey so timing for me is awesome. Loving your sculpts so happy to see your workflow.
Base mesh made waiting on next part. Great first video Bran
awesome! part 2 hopefully up tomorrow
Thanks so much! good luck!
finally ... someone has made a video explaining exactly what I needed to know about modelling and sculpting.
Hope this helps you out.
I made it through the blockout! let see if I can make it to the Sculpting 🙂
Thank you for this series!
You got this!
Thank you Sir @@BranSculpts
I finished my sculpt a week ago and Im not liking the face haha
now im into the Retopology stage
Hoping 1 day I can progress like you
I really appreciate everything about this, it's really making sculpting click for me. And maybe it's weird to say, but I deeply appreciate the lack of wet mouth noises/swallowing/lip smacking that fills my soul with burning fury in so many other damn blender tutorials. Just really clean audio all around.
Amazing tutorial ❤️🔥 I learned so much watching the video! I'll have to use this workflow for future block-outs seeing everything as basic shapes helped me understand the shapes better and how they all connect I look forward to watching your next tutorial
👍👍👍
You single-handedly managed to unscrew my modelling skills simply by telling me how to move blocks. Gonna finish the series for all the tricks to get a finished model but even what I have is an insane upgrade from the lego looking things I have been making.
amazing tutorial cant wait till part 2
ty! it'll be up in the morning hopefully
Beginner here. I have used a few character creation methods so far and this one is by far the most easy and clean way of making humans. Thanks!
Yeeees! So excited for this video!
haha don't get too excite, It wasn't exactly the most energetic commentary XD
i dont know how to thankyou enough for this series, i have bought courses and stuff, but you bridge the gap between beginner to mid very well! while explaining the things alot of pros over look. Tutorials like this, are massively important, more important than most. i greatly value your skill and explanations.
Thanks so much! I'm glad it's helping and I really appreciate the kind words!😭
@@BranSculpts your welcome!!, do you have a discord i can drop my WIP in or is it okay to tagg you on insta and twitter?
hey, at 3:56 when i uncheck optimal display, nothing changes. the potential vertices aren’t showing up, it just stays as the 8 vertices from before.
i’ve selected the cube, and made 3 levels of subdivision, turned on x-ray and wireframe so im not sure what im doing wrong…
i’m brand new to blender and only started 3 days ago so im not really sure what im doing in general LMAO, but im just gonna restart and redo the tutorial up to this point again to see if it works this time!! but also if anyone knows why it’s not working pls lmk, ty😽!!!!
Hi! On the top of the subdivision modifier, is "on cage" turned on or off? It looks like 🔽.
@@BranSculpts it’s turned off
@@BranSculpts also in preferences, i was told to turn off GPU subdivision because my blender would always freeze and crash if i added a subdivision surface modifier.
ever since i turned it off, my blender stopped crashing. i’m not sure what the GPU subdivision does, but does it have anything to do with this?
@@k1utz Im having the same problem too, When I uncheck the Optimal Display nothing changes (Im in wire frame veiw too) but when I go Object Mode then it looks like what it was supposed too so I think it might be a bug. EDIT: (Most Likley Solution) When in Blender click EDIT then go to PREFRENCES then click on VEIWPORT then click the drop down arrow for SUBDIVISION then check the box for CPU SUBDIVISION and it should work now, it worked for me :)
@@k1utz its a bug, check with blender 3.3 it works fine for me
thank you so much, i love all your tutorials! i am autistic, and usually, i have a very hard time learning with tutorials because they're too detailed and i cant remember the most necessary parts and only the little things, or theyre too vague and i dont understand some concepts at all. i love the way you explain and the way you add just the right amount of detail to remember and understand everything :) ive wanted to be a 3d modeler since i was a little kid, and i started off with sfm and putting premade models together in there, and im just now learning blender!
huge thanks for all your tutorials- again!
I DIDN'T GO BACK INTO OBJECT MODE FOR MY CUBES AND NOW IT'S ALL ONE OBJECT
i'm gonna be honest with you Bran. I've bought a ton of courses on character modelling, and all these expensive courses are nowhere near your free tutorials. I wanna thank you from the bottom of my heart)
Ooh! Thank you so much for this tutorial!!
yw!
this is the best blender sculpting tutorial amazing job im going to recommend this tutorial to everyone that wants to get into sculpting
Thank you so much! That's very nice of you.
Love how you work sir, think you could make a character modeling series for animation. It's just Darin Lyle is the only video out there with a big break down and well its a really old vid and well it'd be nice to finally see a new video for people learning character modeling
I've tried veeeery little animation, and even that was some brute force stuff. I'm planning on taking some courses this summer tho. Maybe by this time next year I might be ok at it XD
Absolutely phenomenal! I'm trying to create character models for my friends and have had trouble even starting the sculpt. I'm barely on the first video in this series and can already tell how much of this is not only extremely helpful and intuitive, but translatable into other projects! I thank you for these amazing tutorials, hopefully one day I can create something as helpful as this
It's an awesome feeling when I can help someone grow creatively. I'm happy that you enjoyed the series.
Thank you so much I'm going to relish this
I've never made anything in Blender in my life. But now I'm making a 3d model of an oc?? This is an incredibly good tutorial, and somehow really easy!
Thank you! I'm love hearing when you all make progress on being creative!
Thanks 😃 much appreciated
np!
OMG thankkkk you so so much.. This is the best sculpting tutorial ever!! I've always watch all of your sculpting videos and learn so much from your workflow. Watch all of your workflow videos with 0.25 speed so i can get a closer look stuff you do. But finally you do this tutorial.. finally!!
Haha ty Glad I could help!
i have problems with not mirroring at 4:20
me too, did you solve this problem?
I am 10 Minutes in and this is so well made. Very good tutotial. I have been using blender for a few months and this video taught me a lot!
EPIC.
Just finished making a youtube video on following your course to learn 3D .... I did what I had to do!
28/02/2024 i start this tutorial
I went to college for 3D modeling and I learned more from this video alone then I ever did in college.
Its somewhat sad
bob ross of blender
I really like this method of sculpting the body. Way easier than trying to pull the leg out in sculpt mode.
It really is!
Hey ! Why don't you try to make games? Give it a shot
I'd love to, I just don't have any cool ideas to try to make. :P
@@BranSculpts You can collab with someone and make characters for them
Your way of explaining and your thought process is more understanding than most. Keep up the good work
Of all the videos out there, this has helped me without a shadow of a doubt. I am still on the blocking part (very slow learner) for a while now but slowly but surely, I'll get there. I just wanted to thank you.
I'm glad I did a coloso 3d course before coming back to the basics. Now I can understand most of everything after struggling the first time
I paid for characters courses, yet i find this workflow, better than them. Congratulations and thanks for your work!
Thank you! I'm happy they came in handy for you.
im a industrial design major and i think that your video is by far the most understandable one i've came across, and i first knew discover about your channel throughout watching your goku sculpt video and i was like i need to understand blender cause all my other friends knew that i should use it to my advantage for making stuff in the toy industry in particular, and it should definitely come in handy for those render that they have, so first and fore most, thanks for this, and self educating throughout my sophmore year at rit helps undertsand what my capstone will be in my senior year. other the next parts in your video after this one will be my favorite part, cause then i can learn how to do and navigate the parts of blender i didn't know about. this turned into a little bit of a ramble but i can't thank you enough for stumbling by this video you have, and you definitely earned a sub from me.
That is so awesome! So you make toys? Am I understanding that right? That sounds cool as hell!
@@BranSculpts yes! I make toys and I really want to end up working with hasbro or tamashii nation; Bandai in particular to their toy line
I am 4 Minutes into your video but man, I like your style! You have perfect pace, a mellow voice, attention to detail! Thats a sub for sure!
My journey in becoming better at 3d continues here. Thanks for this man
This is actually fun and having a step by step has taught me so many new and neat tricks! It was rough when I was trying it on my own at first, kinda just sculpting a huge blob with like a million triangles to get fine detail and creases. This has helped so much, youve earned a sub for sure 😁
Thanks a lot for doing this. I watched and I'm grateful I came across this amongst the bunch of videos over the past months.
Thanks Bran...added to my playlist for my next tutorial after the sculpting one you suggested on the head
oh man, the Dannymac one? It really helped me get my feet on the ground!
@@BranSculpts yeah its awesome and thanks to your direction here is how it turned out...th-cam.com/video/cdkNMeOwmUU/w-d-xo.html
Another gem of a tutorial 🔥
These tutorials are fantastic. Get to the point, simple to understand et
I try to make them easy to relate to and fun at the same time, if I can at least. Glad you enjoyed them.
guess what, 1 year later this amazing tutorial is going to help make my dreams come true, i might even be able to make my job of it, thank you so much
This is an epic tutorial and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series!! Thanks so much. Such an appealing character design and great tutorial. Perfect basic block out for many female characters too. So versatile. Thanks again!!
Awww... well thank you for enjoying it so much!
Hello, I'm Brazilian, I'm using a.i to watch your videos dubbed in my language, congratulations on the tutorial, I'm learning more about sculpture because of you. hug!
Happy to hear that!