One of the reasons they pushed 3 back from the normal release schedule was to fit Cycles X in.
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Blender 2.90 Drops Today; Many Big Improvements Abound
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Apple has joined the Blender Development Fund
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Apple joins Blender Development Fund — blender.org
Apple has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member to support continued core development for Blender.
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Hello, i was wondering if anyone had any good resources, tips, tutorials, etc. To start doing character modelling, beginner level? I tried a couple of times but i always get frustrated and don't get past the head.
Character modelling, especially realistic humans, is really hard. Getting frustrated is normal but remember every mistake, if you recognize it, is progress.
As with anything modelling/sculpting related, don't rush into detailing too quickly, try to shoot for 3 or 4 passes of detail. The first one is over proportions, using mostly primitives build the shape, then go for landmarks> where the eyes are placed, where the ears are placed etc. Then do a few detail paces and keep the resolution as low as you can while still getting the look you want for as long as you can.
Use Reference! It isn't cheating, it isn't copying, and it will help you see the things (anatomically) that you just have stored to memory yet.
I followed this tutorial from Darrin Lile. It's still on Blender 2.7 but he has an amazing soothing way of explaining principles and problems that creep up during character modelling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QT1GNMevfc&list=PLyelx0TsmSpcnM61Z2XLrs1sInsQvdfl0
Thank you both for the advice/tutorial! Yeah, it's easy to get frustrated, it feels like learning to draw all over again but i do think after multiple attempts at a head i was going quicker and slightly better so that's a positive :).
The most important thing about character modelling is topology. Even if you're not planning on animating it, good understanding of the needed topology will help immensely. Also at the start: keep it as low poly as possible.
Speed comes with experience, always.
I am currently looking into learning rigging and animation and it's quite the challenge. Takes me forever to just set up good weight paints.
Topology is way low down in the line for character modelling in my opinion. If your just starting out then you shouldn't be worrying about topology at all. You should just learning sculpting tools and anatomy and just getting something that vaguelly resembles a human or animal.
Although maybe the poster doesn't want character modelling and is more interested in low poly modelling, I noticed the tutorial is really old.
Depends on what workflow you favour. I agree that sculpt and retopo is the way to go for production assets. But as an exercise topology teaches you a lot more about structure and geometry of faces/bodies than sculpting.
The tutorial might be old, but the principles of good topology are still applicable. Even when doing retopo it's imperative to understand topology else your edgeflow will turn into a mess.
If you just want to do quick design work without worrying about animation you can just use makehuman or daz for a base mesh and then sculpt the rest
Yeah I don't know I thought organic character modelling was done mostly in sculpting apps like zbrush, 3dcoat, etc. Personally I'd even do low poly characters in a sculpting app, it's more fun than pulling verts around and easier to get it into those forms I feel, and then retopo after.
Getting the proportions and anatomy correct is more important than topology flow to start with I think.
The thing with verts modelling is that it forces you to really think about shape. It's harder and more time consuming, but it is a great learning exercise that can help you understand proportions and anatomy better than sculpting. Organic modelling ofc is done primarily with sculpt/retopo workflows these days. But you can see with a lot of people starting out with sculpting, that they get lost in detail rather than first focusing on basic shapes and volume.
At the very least learning to create a decent base mesh for sculpting would also be enough to learn anatomy and proportions.
But the great thing is that you can do both techniques these days and mix and match to achieve what you want. Especially once you add in clothes and accessories to the character.
Edit: Btw I completely feel your point about sculpting being more fun. Ultimately it doesn't matter what workflow you use. If it works for what you want to achieve, and you're having fun. Go for it. I think that's really important for having fun with 3D. It gets tedious and frustrating all by itself sometimes.
I would really like to learn how to do sculpting in this to make figures/statues to 3D print. I tried in the past but either couldn't get my brain on it or got frustrated.
I used to be able to sculpt and I have tried to keep up with my drawing but it been a couple years since I did regularly.
It looks like a super cool bit of software.
I used to be able to sculpt and I have tried to keep up with my drawing but it been a couple years since I did regularly.
It looks like a super cool bit of software.
Just tested out cycles X .... Wow. It's literally night and day. A 35 min Render done in 5 mins, without any optimization
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Make blenders interface sensible? There's so many different kinds of menus and hotkeys and windows and mode switches that are completely separate from each other. Like, you right click to open one menu, go to another menu on screen, open up a third with a hotkey, a fourth with a different hotkey and none of them have the same options. Menus and hotkeys And quick bars and whatnot should all be redundant. There shouldn't be three parts of the screen with different ui paradigms and three distinct feature sets just to change the properties of an object.
Make blenders interface sensible? There's so many different kinds of menus and hotkeys and windows and mode switches that are completely separate from each other. Like, you right click to open one menu, go to another menu on screen, open up a third with a hotkey, a fourth with a different hotkey and none of them have the same options. Menus and hotkeys And quick bars and whatnot should all be redundant. There shouldn't be three parts of the screen with different ui paradigms and three distinct feature sets just to change the properties of an object.
Yeah, but it doesn't get posted in very often.
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Might wanna also make it an OT since that's what we've been using this one as for the past 2 years.
new OT
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got a new thread up here. let me know if there's anything to add
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