@@ianmcglasham You are very welcome. I’m working on my second children’s book and I have to say one of the main characters nearly didn’t make it due to my lack of knowledge. I discovered your channel and it opened my eyes. I would love to send you a render at some point. I’m going to join your patreon so see you over there!
You teaching on topology is excellent There are so many other channels that model chess pieces and You never see this level of good work. I really hope we see th final Knight Piece, it seems like this series stopped before the final one!
Ian, your content is absolutely amazing. There is an overwhelming amount of blender content on the internet, but they are full of misinformation, bad practices, and a lot of "just do this" without any explanation or rationale behind it. Your videos remind me of my first year in university, the classic day 1: "forget everything you've learned so far". It's immediate to anyone watching you clearly know what you're talking about, you have a great way of explaining it, defend your position through examples, and then illustrate the proper way and the reasons why. I'm not sure why you decided to stop producing content, but please let me know what it would take to motivate you to do more. More subs, patron, a beer? Your videos are decorated with some of the nicest comments on TH-cam, I'm more than confident your subscribers would be happy to help promote the channel if we knew there would be more coming down the pipe.
Hi Vanguard2323. It is really generous of you to say that. The comments have been kind, and I am always grateful for that. There is more content coming relatively soon. I have a primer on cubic interpolation ("panel beating" we call it; I hate unnecessarily technical names for things. It always seems to lead to gatekeeping, which is the last thing newer modellers need to deal with!). I was recently surprised to find zero explanations of this powerfully technique anywhere on TH-cam, so I am making one as we speak. Unfortunately, my real work takes up so much of my time that it is difficult for me to make regular videos at the moment. I am also making a website dedicated to professional modelling techniques, which hopefully will be of some use to a few people. Thanks again. It really does mean a lot.
@@ianmcglasham , glad to hear it and I very much look forward to it. Hopefully not too long of a post here, but there were two epiphanies when watching your videos. As someone who focuses on game assets, I often overlook/disregard edge flow, for one because I'm going to reduce everything down to a few bevels, and two, sadly so many other youtubers call out edge flow and topology as a tool or a "nice to have" during modelling for the convenience of adding edge loops, refining, etc. Epiphany #1 is that edge flow is important in order to accurately model a shape and its contours, and #2 as a result it also ensures it catches the light in a realistic manner. Normally if I'm going to make a rook for a game, I'll just extrude the towers and let the normal map do the work... Well, I remodeled my rook based on your technique and attention to edge flow, my rook was about 50k tris with subsurf:2 when finished. I managed to manually reduced it down to 5k, but I retained the edge flow in the process, baked a normal map from high to low, and the result is, WOW. Have a look, I can't tell them apart. imgur.com/a/JPvpN22
Why are you showing this ART of modeling? Now I have no other choice than to watch all of your videos. Straight forward, very clean, well done. Thank you very much. Subscribed!
Only recently found your channel and pleased I did. Noticed you haven't posted lately, hoping I'm not too late to the party. Looking forward to seeing what you post next, your tutorials are so good. Thank you. Subbed...too right I did.
You modeling the pieces are very satisfying. It's like a therapy. I get hipnotized with so much perfection and precision. Thank you so so so so so much!!!!
I'm so happy to see you posting again Ian! I got a fright that you'd given up on YT. So glad you didn't, and now you even have patreon ! have to talk now with the Mrs about that :D Thank you for sharing your knowledge, and it's simply incredible the amount of information you present in a video. Keep it up, Sir Ian!
You make it look so simple... and, well, damn, that is one beautiful king! And the TRICKS! HA! Flat contoured surface into curved surface with perfect bevel? No sweat... it's like bloody magic. Another excellent video, thanks for the content Can't wait for the knight!
Ridge clusters? I'm always happy when names are given to common problems or useful techniques (Radial Connection Reduction for example). It helps your brain connect the dots to help you navigate your way to a solution to avoid issues or, in the case of useful techniques, a nudge towards the right tool or process to help you on your way to great topology. It might be a good idea to start listing these terms in a PDF document to add to the Patreon benefits package?
I think that would be a really useful document. There are a few important modelling terms I have not introduced yet so I may make it a document which I update after I have expalined the techniques. Good idea. Many Thanks.
Man..words can't describe how incredibly intelligent you do these type of things..started out with blender a month ago..and I'm sure I've just found my first tutor for life..if you decide to continue with this type of content for a while. Thank you very much for the time and effort and wisdom you put into these videos.
Thank you very for sharing all this knowledge with us. I am very passionated about the Knight and how you will approach this one because there are a lot of knights in TH-cam that have many flows and lacks geometry. I am sure that yours is gonna be something different.
Ian, you are seriously incredible and the best teacher I've seen in the Blender modeling community. Criminally underrated and this filled the knowledge gap I had been looking for. Maybe I haven't been looking in the right corners, but it's so hard to find this level of quality mixed into a pool mirroring the same 'lazy' practices. I've learned more from your series than I have learned from hundreds of hours of other videos. I don't think I've ever learned so much from something that seemed so basic and it really translated well. You absolutely nailed it: perfection with advanced techniques engineered in easy to approach scenarios, with many problem scenarios described perfectly. As someone who had no clue how to approach sub-d properly, by the King video I could just hear you describe a next step you'd take before you spoke. Or approach it a completely different way after explaining why. There was just so much to learn in this short series which was packed densely and approachably that I'll have to watch it again. And that's what makes them fantastic tutorials and you a fantastic teacher: the scenarios are presented in such a 'basic' and relatable environment. In fact, I almost overlooked the series because "modeling a chess set" seemed like it would be just another blender tutorial extrude plane starter kit explaining things that I already knew. I, personally, was lucky enough to stumble on your channel with the "connecting cylinder" video, could immediately see absolute mastery, then stumbled on the blenderhelp video, and knew I had to watch the entire thing. The only thing I was disappointed about was that you didn't have more, even if I had to pay for them (and I tried to see if you had more 'for sale'): I'd love to see you model that train, those sunglasses, a full car, etc. Will do everything I can to send people your way, because you are that darn good.
Using Inset as a way to add control loops in an accurately equidistant manner is a great tip. Using Seams to colourise edges that are important to help control sharpness so that they can be seen at-a-glance is also cool. One could say it Seams like the way forward. Sorry for that shamelessly intended pun. Please don't unfriend me 🙂
I was waiting for this one Ian. Once again you make it look so simple. It`s quite mesmerizing to watch you work. I`ll be doing my King asap by following along. Thanks again for doing these tutorials. It`s very much appreciated.
dear sir, just sarted watching one video but started slowly addicted to watching the rest...truly forgotten industry standard workflow easy to relate...please do videos on uv unwrapping and texturing and compositing in blender,,,you must have high standard studio quality work flow... please share in your busy schedule or share some of the other tutorials links. I wonder how you approach composting in blender!!!! Cant imagine!
I've loved all of these so far. I really like the SubD workflow, and it'll be interesting to see how you pull these techniques together to make the Knight. Do you have any literary resources you could recommend, so I can read up and learn more?
Hi BIG BM. Glad you like them! There aren't really any topology references for the more unusal techniques. They come from my time working in studios where the techniques are often closely guarded secrets! You will struggle to find anything about control loops, radial connection reduction, radial connection expansion, ridge clusters, termination, non-radical flow and many other really useful things that I use. I will cover them all eventually and I am creating a written guide to topology but it is slow going as it is a huge area! In the meantime, I do like the "pushing points topology workbook" and "anatomy for 3D artists: the essential guide for CG professionals. Cheers!
first time i finish all the video on a channel ... thats what something i definitevly loking for .. what are the real base to start modeling thanks ian
@@ianmcglasham I'm trying to learn the basics, what I call the real basics... what are the primitives how to nest them together, how to control them... and really here I have it all and I've offered you a coffee for your work and the fabulous amount of detail I've learned... how to control the flow with the inset, in the king example how to join the rectangular part, in the video on the rock how to control the form with subd 👍
Fantastic chess series so far, but the Knight is missing. This video refers to two models to go, which are the King and the Knight. Or did I just not find it? A link would be great...
oh wow a year ago and no knight ? is this comming or do we need another creator to learn the knight ? good stuff btw i did learn alot on this series , hopefully it will continue the last pawn also
How did you learn all of this? Just through trial and error? or did you refer to someone else? I'm asking because I'm curious how this knowledge came to be
Hi eitanal. Glad you like them. I have been part of alpha and beta testing teams since the very early days of cg. A lot of the methods have been team efforts but their translation to blender is pretty much just all me!
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These are unbelievably good tutorials. How fortunate I am to come across them. Thank you, and thank the TH-cam algorithm for bringing me here
Thank you!
Just hoping this channel continues to exist and to produce content. Intelligent approaches and well explained. Thank you
The King of the land of Subdiv was a good one and his subjects loved him. Long live the King. 👑
Thank you so much for your support. Means a lot.
@@ianmcglasham You are very welcome. I’m working on my second children’s book and I have to say one of the main characters nearly didn’t make it due to my lack of knowledge.
I discovered your channel and it opened my eyes. I would love to send you a render at some point. I’m going to join your patreon so see you over there!
You teaching on topology is excellent There are so many other channels that model chess pieces and You never see this level of good work. I really hope we see th final Knight Piece, it seems like this series stopped before the final one!
Ian, your content is absolutely amazing. There is an overwhelming amount of blender content on the internet, but they are full of misinformation, bad practices, and a lot of "just do this" without any explanation or rationale behind it. Your videos remind me of my first year in university, the classic day 1: "forget everything you've learned so far". It's immediate to anyone watching you clearly know what you're talking about, you have a great way of explaining it, defend your position through examples, and then illustrate the proper way and the reasons why. I'm not sure why you decided to stop producing content, but please let me know what it would take to motivate you to do more. More subs, patron, a beer? Your videos are decorated with some of the nicest comments on TH-cam, I'm more than confident your subscribers would be happy to help promote the channel if we knew there would be more coming down the pipe.
Hi Vanguard2323. It is really generous of you to say that. The comments have been kind, and I am always grateful for that. There is more content coming relatively soon. I have a primer on cubic interpolation ("panel beating" we call it; I hate unnecessarily technical names for things. It always seems to lead to gatekeeping, which is the last thing newer modellers need to deal with!). I was recently surprised to find zero explanations of this powerfully technique anywhere on TH-cam, so I am making one as we speak. Unfortunately, my real work takes up so much of my time that it is difficult for me to make regular videos at the moment. I am also making a website dedicated to professional modelling techniques, which hopefully will be of some use to a few people. Thanks again. It really does mean a lot.
@@ianmcglasham , glad to hear it and I very much look forward to it. Hopefully not too long of a post here, but there were two epiphanies when watching your videos. As someone who focuses on game assets, I often overlook/disregard edge flow, for one because I'm going to reduce everything down to a few bevels, and two, sadly so many other youtubers call out edge flow and topology as a tool or a "nice to have" during modelling for the convenience of adding edge loops, refining, etc. Epiphany #1 is that edge flow is important in order to accurately model a shape and its contours, and #2 as a result it also ensures it catches the light in a realistic manner. Normally if I'm going to make a rook for a game, I'll just extrude the towers and let the normal map do the work... Well, I remodeled my rook based on your technique and attention to edge flow, my rook was about 50k tris with subsurf:2 when finished. I managed to manually reduced it down to 5k, but I retained the edge flow in the process, baked a normal map from high to low, and the result is, WOW.
Have a look, I can't tell them apart.
imgur.com/a/JPvpN22
Why are you showing this ART of modeling? Now I have no other choice than to watch all of your videos. Straight forward, very clean, well done. Thank you very much. Subscribed!
Cheers Georg. Glad you like them. If you have any trouble then I am always keen to help out!
Only recently found your channel and pleased I did. Noticed you haven't posted lately, hoping I'm not too late to the party. Looking forward to seeing what you post next, your tutorials are so good. Thank you. Subbed...too right I did.
Hey!? Where are the poneis?!?!?!
Find out your channel just now in 2023... loving it!
Hope to see more videos
This tutorial series was greatly appreciated, I am looking forward to seeing if you're going to release the knight piece
You modeling the pieces are very satisfying. It's like a therapy. I get hipnotized with so much perfection and precision. Thank you so so so so so much!!!!
Your voice sounds kinda like Jeremy Irons and that makes the tutorials 100 times better
I'm so happy to see you posting again Ian! I got a fright that you'd given up on YT. So glad you didn't, and now you even have patreon ! have to talk now with the Mrs about that :D
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, and it's simply incredible the amount of information you present in a video.
Keep it up, Sir Ian!
Thanks Marko. I've been on Holiday! I wouldn't give it up. I love doing it!
@@ianmcglasham So glad you're back! Hope you had a great Holiday!
Hope you are still alive and with us Ian!
I find your channel tomorrow and already watched all your tutorials. That`s amazing !
That is amazing! Thank you!
You make it look so simple... and, well, damn, that is one beautiful king! And the TRICKS! HA! Flat contoured surface into curved surface with perfect bevel? No sweat... it's like bloody magic.
Another excellent video, thanks for the content
Can't wait for the knight!
So glad you are enjoying them. The knight is the most fun to make!
nice modelling . this is helpful.
Kind Sir. We await your knight. The only person I can turn to for these chess models.
Coming soon! Cheers.
@@ianmcglasham you legend!
Ridge clusters? I'm always happy when names are given to common problems or useful techniques (Radial Connection Reduction for example). It helps your brain connect the dots to help you navigate your way to a solution to avoid issues or, in the case of useful techniques, a nudge towards the right tool or process to help you on your way to great topology. It might be a good idea to start listing these terms in a PDF document to add to the Patreon benefits package?
I think that would be a really useful document. There are a few important modelling terms I have not introduced yet so I may make it a document which I update after I have expalined the techniques. Good idea. Many Thanks.
Every video in this series was amazing. A master class of beautifully efficient subdivision modeling and the joy of blender. Thanks so much for this.
This looks and sounds professional in every aspect. Thank you, sir!
Thank you very much mantiVik!
Man..words can't describe how incredibly intelligent you do these type of things..started out with blender a month ago..and I'm sure I've just found my first tutor for life..if you decide to continue with this type of content for a while. Thank you very much for the time and effort and wisdom you put into these videos.
Thank you so much! I am taking a little break at the moment and I'll be making more in September. Cheers!
@@ianmcglasham Looking forward to it.
@@pvdl11 Thanks Paul.
@@ianmcglasham Any updates yet?
Cheers!
Thank you very for sharing all this knowledge with us. I am very passionated about the Knight and how you will approach this one because there are a lot of knights in TH-cam that have many flows and lacks geometry. I am sure that yours is gonna be something different.
Amazing as all the others. There is so much know-how squeezed in each of these tutorials....
Thanks Fabrizio. Still so much to get out there. Thanks for watching.
Ian, you are seriously incredible and the best teacher I've seen in the Blender modeling community. Criminally underrated and this filled the knowledge gap I had been looking for. Maybe I haven't been looking in the right corners, but it's so hard to find this level of quality mixed into a pool mirroring the same 'lazy' practices. I've learned more from your series than I have learned from hundreds of hours of other videos. I don't think I've ever learned so much from something that seemed so basic and it really translated well. You absolutely nailed it: perfection with advanced techniques engineered in easy to approach scenarios, with many problem scenarios described perfectly. As someone who had no clue how to approach sub-d properly, by the King video I could just hear you describe a next step you'd take before you spoke. Or approach it a completely different way after explaining why. There was just so much to learn in this short series which was packed densely and approachably that I'll have to watch it again. And that's what makes them fantastic tutorials and you a fantastic teacher: the scenarios are presented in such a 'basic' and relatable environment.
In fact, I almost overlooked the series because "modeling a chess set" seemed like it would be just another blender tutorial extrude plane starter kit explaining things that I already knew. I, personally, was lucky enough to stumble on your channel with the "connecting cylinder" video, could immediately see absolute mastery, then stumbled on the blenderhelp video, and knew I had to watch the entire thing. The only thing I was disappointed about was that you didn't have more, even if I had to pay for them (and I tried to see if you had more 'for sale'): I'd love to see you model that train, those sunglasses, a full car, etc. Will do everything I can to send people your way, because you are that darn good.
Very useful and highly entertaining as usual 👍🏽
Thanks MAN art. Means a lot.
Amazing Content as always!🤗
Using Inset as a way to add control loops in an accurately equidistant manner is a great tip. Using Seams to colourise edges that are important to help control sharpness so that they can be seen at-a-glance is also cool. One could say it Seams like the way forward. Sorry for that shamelessly intended pun. Please don't unfriend me 🙂
Ha. Everyone at work used to think I was mad for making all my control loops red - they all do it now! Seams It is useful. Ha.
I was waiting for this one Ian. Once again you make it look so simple. It`s quite mesmerizing to watch you work. I`ll be doing my King asap by following along. Thanks again for doing these tutorials. It`s very much appreciated.
Sorry it has been so long in coming! Thanks very much!
@@ianmcglasham No need to apologise Ian. I fully appreciate these videos take time to put together. Thanks again!
Thanks for very good lesson. You have 1 new subscriber👍
Please dont stop with these lessons.
Have a good day😊
I NEED MORE TUTORIALS BY IAN
Ian, you are a very talented man and a teacher!
Great tutorials, I gotta say that I have learned a lot with your videos! Are you going to model the Knight?
Yes.
dear sir, just sarted watching one video but started slowly addicted to watching the rest...truly forgotten industry standard workflow easy to relate...please do videos on uv unwrapping and texturing and compositing in blender,,,you must have high standard studio quality work flow... please share in your busy schedule or share some of the other tutorials links. I wonder how you approach composting in blender!!!! Cant imagine!
Wow I just found this amazing channel. You have amazing videos on topology. Please keep posting and sharing with us.
I've loved all of these so far. I really like the SubD workflow, and it'll be interesting to see how you pull these techniques together to make the Knight. Do you have any literary resources you could recommend, so I can read up and learn more?
Hi BIG BM. Glad you like them! There aren't really any topology references for the more unusal techniques. They come from my time working in studios where the techniques are often closely guarded secrets! You will struggle to find anything about control loops, radial connection reduction, radial connection expansion, ridge clusters, termination, non-radical flow and many other really useful things that I use. I will cover them all eventually and I am creating a written guide to topology but it is slow going as it is a huge area! In the meantime, I do like the "pushing points topology workbook" and "anatomy for 3D artists: the essential guide for CG professionals. Cheers!
perfection
Hi Ian... its been months... are you coming back anytime soon? We miss you!
Hey Ian, are you still posting? I am up to the knight so am keen to see how you do this one. I love the talk on good topology.
first time i finish all the video on a channel ... thats what something i definitevly loking for .. what are the real base to start modeling
thanks ian
Thank you so much syntax error. It means the world to get support and know that you are finding my videos useful. Lots more soon!
@@ianmcglasham I'm trying to learn the basics, what I call the real basics... what are the primitives how to nest them together, how to control them... and really here I have it all and I've offered you a coffee for your work and the fabulous amount of detail I've learned... how to control the flow with the inset, in the king example how to join the rectangular part, in the video on the rock how to control the form with subd 👍
Thank you for this! The absolute best!
Fantastic chess series so far, but the Knight is missing. This video refers to two models to go, which are the King and the Knight. Or did I just not find it? A link would be great...
these are really good tutorials, will you ever make the knight one too?
It has been a month, a really long time since your last post. Hope everything ok at your side.
Hi Sudipto. Everything is good. My real work has been too hectic this last month to get any video's made. Back soon!!!
All the sub D rappers be like: check my flow 😅
oh wow a year ago and no knight ? is this comming or do we need another creator to learn the knight ? good stuff btw i did learn alot on this series , hopefully it will continue the last pawn also
if possible please make a video on chess knight ???
Great video! What version of Blender is this?
What makes a good king? -tywin Lannister
Hallo Ian, any update about the Knight
Hey, Thanks for your tutorials. can i ask about knight peace tutorial pls?
Is there a video for the Knight?
How did you learn all of this? Just through trial and error? or did you refer to someone else? I'm asking because I'm curious how this knowledge came to be
Hi eitanal. Glad you like them. I have been part of alpha and beta testing teams since the very early days of cg. A lot of the methods have been team efforts but their translation to blender is pretty much just all me!
where is knight> :)
When is the knight coming?
Minuto 16.04 solo funciona hasta la versión 3.1.2 . Desde la versión 3.2 hasta la 4.2.1 ha dejado de funcionar. ( posible bug ? )
knight next?
Coming soon!
Is there no knight video?
waiting for the Knight
Soon!
Subd modeling tutorial like how to model Computer mouse or same complex shape. Please .... BIG HELP
Hi, Ian. I guess Knight feels himself very lonely (
Come back for the Knight 😢