Get Good at Blender - Advanced Topology - Making A Knight Chess Piece
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Get good at blender by working through simple challenges to improve your skill level and learn new skills along the way.
In this video I challenge you to make the knight chess piece. It's a tough one to make so I go through the best practice with edge flow and pole placement.
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Chapters:
0:00 Start
0:52 - The Base
2:33 - The Shape Outline
4:44 - Quad Based Mesh
6:23 - Edge Flow
8:58 - Horses Mane
10:48 - Sharpen Edges
16:39 - Tidy Up Edge Flow
18:22 - The Jaw
20:23 - The Mouth
21:51 - The Eye
22:53 - Blending Areas
24:45 - Attach Base
27:04 - Final Adjustments
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I was waiting for your tutorial on how to model a knight. Brilliant model but in my humble opinion a couple of ears would make it even better. Thank you.
I completely forgot to put the ears on 😀
Why stop at a couple
I love how you teach, giving us opportunity to experiment as begineers is great for critical thinking.
i do enjoy the "have a go at that" bit, before showing how to do it. Thats extremely fun to try it yourself before deleting it and following along.
I watched so many topology videos and for some reason, NOBODY EVER EXPLAINED WHY AN EDGE FLOW (shift+click an edge) STOPS (Vertex needs to have 4 edges connecting to it)! I don't know why, I've heard the term "poles" but that was accompanied by showing the top vertex of a UV circle. To be fair, I probably just misunderstood. In any case; your video was super clear and easy to understand. I've had that issue a few times now and didn't understand why. Now I do! Thank you, the whole video was great! ❤
For someone who wants to go step further, on 11:00, add bevel modifier, in settings limit method to weight and under geometry/mitter outer set to arc. Add to that weighted normal modifier and you get no pinching or shading issues at all. Also you get completly non destructive workflow and much much less loops and geo fixing. Works great with SubD too.
Too good. You explains difficult topology handling so easily.. Such a densely packed tutorial without being overwhelming. Awesome..
Such a densely packed tutorial without being overwhelming. Awesome.
Fantastic Grant. You are so generous with your tutorials and your education. Thank you so much.
Awesome tutorial, love how calm and comprehensive your tutorials are!!
Excellent. Id say this was more 'beyond intermediate' but still a nice step up for people and a stepping stone to facial topology. Looking forward to more!
I always admire anyone that takes the time to teach. Thank you for the videos.
Too good. You explains difficult topology handling so easily.
Thanks for another fantastic tutorial, and I must say that find the "format" of these tutorials very compelling and useful. Best regards.
topology is not easy at all. I have not checked all messages here, but using "shading smooth" in Blender in a regular basis help me a lot to progress. Please feel free to comment
Its amazing to see that you did no sculpting while making this, definitely looking to see what your courses are about!
Great tutorial and just perfectly helpful for my skill level :) Edge flow is something I'm still trying to wrap my head around.
Great video, excellent instructing. Answered a lot of questions I had about topology management
thank you, i love this modelling series
These are so nice to make! Can't wait for the next one 😅
Very, very nice, for beginning and I watch your channel from beginning and its lot of road, for all new artist's, keep calm and lowe modeling, and don stops!
Really fun way to learn. Thank you!
9:30 You can hit Alt+E to extrude along normals directly and skip a step.
I had forgotten that. Thanks
Great tutorial, I learned some very needed skills for my 3D advancement!
Very helpful. Thanks!
Some things other viewers may find helpful: - You can add a single vert directly from the mesh menu by enabling Extra Objects under Add-ons, rather than merging a cube - 10:14 Turning on Backface Culling under Viewport Shading will hide inverted (incorrect) faces, so you don't have to manually check face orientation Thanks for the great tutorial!
Amazing and detailed learning ❤
Wow these tutorials are great, thanks so much!
This piece looks great!
Hey, i am glad, that I am able to see this 3 hrs after you posted. Thank you for your tutorials, they are pure gold. I am quite new to subD modeling, and your series is amazing place to start my journey in this space. But I would be really cool, if could show an UV unwrap workflow !
See my uv unwrapping playlist
Excellent tutorial
Good tutorial, some different techniques and workflow than Im used to seeing.
Thanks for sharing. Very helpful video.
Very useful video. Thank you!
Thank you very much. Great tutorial.
Great video! Positioning the poles correctly is always the hardest part for me in topology. I once thought it would be good idea to reduce poles to absolute minimum possible even if it caused worse edge flow but that's not the correct solution to use. Just use poles but be wise where to put those.
I did the previous version of these challenges some years ago, following the categories in your site. Time goes by quickly. I also wanted to suggest that you inset the faces before extruding the mane, in order to "isolate" its topology from the rest of the mesh (thanks to the poles formed around it). Thanks for your videos, they are a big part of the foundation of what I know.
"I" for inset inwards and "O" for outwards. Just an additional comment, as I learned it today and seems super useful!
I think I've just found the best Blender modelling trainer on KZhead. Subscribed, purchased the course, let the journey begin :) (ps - I also love chess, so this is going to be so much fun). Thank you for your fantastic way of explaining (I really cannot praise you enough!), I'm 60 years old, a veteran 3DS Max user (though, believe it or not, not that great at modelling) and am loving learning Blender. Some how, Blender seems to encourage (me) to take up modelling, and, in a short space of time, I have indeed, by modelling simple objects which I was never interested in modelling 3DS Max. It's sooooo refreshing (for me) to be having fun again in a 3D virtual world!
Great to hear
You sound like you may be in a similar situation to me, mate. I'm a veteran Max user coming from the archviz side of 3d, where I learned a lot about the program and 3d, but not much about sub-d modeling, since the buildings didn't warrant it. It simply wasn't a good use of our time to learn it (unfortunately), when it was significantly faster & cheaper for the boss to just buy an asset pack with the furniture or object we wanted, than have us spend the time & expense of making the really complex stuff ourselves. I always wanted to learn it though, so I'm really pleased to see how fully featured Blender is nowadays! Also, this guy's tutorial is one of the best I've ever seen re explain edge flow, and how to fix it. Good luck to us both - cheers mate!
awesome video! I'm a beginner, and I learned a lot of nice tips from you vid! thanks!
The knight's form is quite complicated, so I wasn't able to get mine to look exactly like the reference, and got frustrated a few times but it still looks fine, and I learned a lot about edge flow, thanks!
That is just GREAT!
Saying the keyboard commands out loud is really nice, thank you
Very well done it was the video I was looking for...new subscriber !
Woooo!!!! bro the short cut was insane due!!! i learned alot a thing on this video woooaa!!!😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Thank you. That was very useful
A very thoughtful video clip, respect to the author
I love the hard surface more than sculpting, thanks for teaching us I would like to see more hard surface
Boxcutter is your friend!
Thanks for the tutorial
Thank you!
This was good, the ears was missing, I added them in after you mentioned the auto mirror in the Y, I shift + D on a face of the horse and scaled it down E extrude, scaled the top face and done a ear.
Great tutorial, great contribution. You have my like Thank you so much. Greetings
Really good!
Thank you
This reminds me of some good old 3dmax tutorials I was learning on. Very easy to follow along, good job man!
Thanks so much!!🙆♂
Well I have the bishop and the horse complete now and have to say I have learned some very handy tips from you Grant! Did you forget the ears or intentionally leave them off? I managed to extrude some ears out of the top of the head that turned out really nice. I picked 2 faces just outside of the bevel one wide and one narrow. For some reason I had trouble bridging the knight to the base and had to manually do it. Faced long triangle edges kept forming two or three faces farther than specified.
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I remember doing these first time with "3ds max 8", if you opened documents window, good to get Blender version 👍
really fun tutorial
thank you
How have I never realised modelling is pretty satisfying 😂
Thanks.
Incredible tutorial! Thanks so much; I always struggle with complex meshes. The more I see the better I get!
Yeah..this one was a doozy on my mind xD Very rewarding at the end but boy my poor brain lol.
@@andylastname566 Aye aye XD
You're a great teacher :)
Yooo no wayy 😂 awesome videoo
You do a good tutorial. If I wanted to use Blender I would definately watch your course, however I am a 3ds Max guy. Your tips on topology are good. However I wouldn't have used bevel on the edges. It always causes a mess to clean up. In max I would have found the eges I want to sharpen and I would have used the connect tool.
perfect!!!!!!!!
That massive pole (22:31) right above the eye, though, really needs some topology cleanup to get rid of it.
I think I made a horse straight out from a Family Guy's episode, ahahah. Great lesson, will try again :D
Really good, compared to a lot of the "instructional" Blender videos one finds here.
im impressed that youtube does not flag "pawn" when said with a british accent
Great video! However, there is a nice trick that can make sharpening the edges A LOT easier - it's called bevel miter. There's a video by Blender Bob named "Modeling for the VFX industry in Blender - EP1c". Roughly at 8:30 you can find it.
Thanks for that. Just checked it out and that would have been a lot faster
That aside: love to see a tutorial covering modelling a Knight. When I found the first two in this series I hoped you'd cover a knight. (The last chess-set I built digitally was in Pov-RAY, so I'm keen to attempt it in Blender, but the Knight always made me hesitate.)
i make it on rhino with nurbs and create a quad mesh, and then sub D it.. then export it with bit polygon
@26:00 loop tools circle. A 3D cursor at the correct height and "To Sphere" would give better results.
Good point
Good
Grant's tutorials show me how shit my 3d teacher was...
Just wanted to comment on your CTRL-1 shortcut for adding a subdiv modifier. You pressed CTRL-1, then bumped the subdivision level up to 2 -- but CTRL-2 does that; it applies a subdiv modifier with a subdiv level of 2. I just tested this to confirm my memory was correct -- and it also works with CTRL-3, CTRL-4, and CTRL-5. 🙂 (I guess they decided 5 was enough; CTRL-6 does not do it...) EDIT: Oh yeah. I see you used CTRL-2 later in the video. Never mind 🙂
yes I introduced that badly :)
This man is the GOAT in blender
11:00 Shift+E! Shift+E!! "bevel" Noooo!
Though people should be careful if they need to crease edges or bevel. Like you can't export obj file with crease edges since the feature is exclusive to blender.
It must take ears and ears to get this good at Blender.
👂
finally someone who knows how to use BLENDER like how I use MAYA. You now need to churn out more my friend. WE ARE NOT WORTHY, BUT THANKS FOR SHARING!
Thanks for noticing me on your comments, for that, you have have got yourself a customer to the series of courses relating to the knight topology lesson Purchasing 27 May 2023. I know topology quad/ngons from Maya but I dont use Maya since Blender 2.93 . The problems was where are the tools kept, shortcuts too which I will be hoping to find in your tutorials. please send a link to other tutorials you think will benefit my advancement to Blender. Thank You.
at 6:00 I do not understand the terminator edge and why is it obstructing the edge flow, can you please explain why this happens?
1:17 i seriously need an add-on to summon just one vert 😂
Hey Grant, is there any benefit to using extra edge bevels for supporting loops vs just dialing up the mean crease for the mane?
Mean crease gives you less control
at this point I'm beginning to believe that every problems solution is adding a loop cut
Question: why do you use additional edges to sharpen subdiv vs using the edge crease weight? Is there any benefit to one way vs the other?
It's not actually as good but it's tough to explain
Good tutorial. I think the horse might like a pair of ears 👂👂
Man, figuring out where to place edge loops takes a lot of planing and fore thought. I'm guessing there is just experience at play here, knowing what you need to do to end up on the final product. But is there like a rule.of thumb other then just quad it out? There was just so much that happened so quickly through out this when adding the edge loops.
It takes a bit of practice that's all
👍👍👍
Well, my horse looks slightly,... how do I put this nicely... extraordinary 😇
Hi I got a question. Great video but here is something I'm just curious on. You made sure there weren't any ngons for this so kept it with all quads but I think I recall in one of your videos it ok to have an ngon here or there at time but it a good idea to make sure they are all quads at times. just shouldn't worry too much if an ngon in a place that out of sight if I recall correctly.
It's OK to have ngons, but they must be on planar surfaces. So in this case it's better with quads
@@grabbitt Ahh good tip to keep in mind. I appreciate that. Thank you.
@@grabbitt Thank you for this info and also for this awesome tutorials :)
I'm curious why you would choose to add in a bevel to add definition and sharpen the edges rather than using a crease. I tend to use creases because they're super easy to apply and edit later. Is there some disadvantage to creases?
Yes less precise control and its about learning what's happening under the hood more
There is another reason. There isn't one universal crease standard between different modeling software. When you bring your model into another software the crease might not work properly. I know it is a bit nitpicky as many people won't work with multiple software but it might become relevant when sharing models online.
why are my vertices sticking out when I use subdivision at 2.21 ? :(
i can finally get good at blender, now on to trying to figure out how the devil i can import this to ue5 😂😂
It looks like you still have a pol left on the upper side of the head (5 lines joining one vertex), at 17:36. Will that remain there?
Yes poles are fine.
Please make robot tutorial
Is it wrong to just join both objects on 24:47 using ctrl+j without working on attaching the mesh vertices?
its not very good topology and you can have inside faces
If you can please make robot tutorial
7:43 - For me the middle edges aren’t locked to the middle and they move with those 3 parts, and that makes a big hole in the knight. I unfortunately can’t continue making the knight if it will not work, please help
perhaps send me a screen shot of what you mean
You're a good teacher you know that right?