WEBVTT 00:08.690 --> 00:12.480 Hi, my name is Lucas Ridley, and welcome to this digital krater school tutorial. 00:12.860 --> 00:19.070 So I teach a Miah for Beginners class and I've had thousands of students take it and I've answered hundreds 00:19.070 --> 00:22.520 of questions and there's a few questions that keep popping up. 00:22.790 --> 00:29.020 So I want to make this video for the total beginner who starts out with modeling, which is pretty typical. 00:29.300 --> 00:32.240 And the first section of the course is about modeling. 00:32.240 --> 00:37.910 So I think that's why I see these problems arise most frequently out of any other problem. 00:38.240 --> 00:40.610 So this video is for the total beginner. 00:40.610 --> 00:42.500 It's not for someone who's familiar with Miah. 00:42.890 --> 00:50.690 And take a look and hopefully you will avoid these pitfalls that I see happen over and over with the 00:50.690 --> 00:52.340 beginning students in my class. 00:52.670 --> 00:57.980 So I've opened up a new myosin and I want to recreate some of these problems that I find. 00:58.370 --> 01:01.970 And I know the process that people are getting there. 01:02.150 --> 01:05.870 So I want to recreate that and show you kind of the mentality of what's happening so you understand 01:06.020 --> 01:08.420 where the mistake has been made and how to correct for it. 01:08.750 --> 01:13.850 So in the class that I teach, the first thing we do is to model a Ghostbuster trap. 01:13.850 --> 01:15.290 So it's kind of a rectangular shape. 01:15.590 --> 01:19.360 And one of the fundamental things you do in modeling is you extrude faces out. 01:19.730 --> 01:24.470 So I want to take this face and I kind of extend it out not just by moving it, but I want to leave 01:24.470 --> 01:25.840 an edge behind here. 01:26.390 --> 01:31.910 So how I do that is with the extrusion tool and it's this little button right here. 01:31.910 --> 01:39.180 And I think maybe this is what confuses the students, is that the the icon looks like, you know, 01:39.290 --> 01:41.600 a face has already extruded extrudes. 01:41.600 --> 01:44.330 It for you maybe is what the mentality I think is. 01:44.340 --> 01:49.850 So when people click it like I just did and nothing happens, they think, oh, the tool didn't work, 01:49.850 --> 01:50.750 let me click it again. 01:50.750 --> 01:52.940 And they end up clicking the politics shrewd tool. 01:53.150 --> 01:56.360 I've seen upwards of 20 times and people's history. 01:56.360 --> 01:59.740 And so let me just click it a few times and sorry, a double click. 01:59.780 --> 02:02.030 It opens up the options for it. 02:03.380 --> 02:08.990 And then sometimes I'll even see it where people will, you know, select multiple faces and do this 02:09.320 --> 02:10.010 as well. 02:10.010 --> 02:13.580 And then maybe they start messing with the options here, like, OK, well, this isn't working. 02:13.580 --> 02:15.920 Let me turn faces together off. 02:16.250 --> 02:17.570 Let me hit that. 02:17.570 --> 02:18.410 OK, that didn't work. 02:18.410 --> 02:19.730 I'll just hit this a few more times. 02:20.480 --> 02:25.640 Sorry, I keep double clicking it, but, you know, again, I've seen upwards of twenty times and how 02:25.640 --> 02:30.350 I know that is because all this history is kept in the channel box here and the inputs. 02:30.770 --> 02:34.400 So if you scroll down you can actually see all the extrudes we've done. 02:35.090 --> 02:37.340 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. 02:37.880 --> 02:43.640 And then eventually the student will figure out, oh, I need to pull this thing to get them to extrude. 02:44.360 --> 02:50.510 And then they get frustrated because this is the next level of mistake that, you know, they're not 02:50.510 --> 02:53.390 sure how to diagnose what went wrong in their mind. 02:53.390 --> 02:55.130 They think, OK, I have this tool. 02:55.520 --> 02:57.440 It says Keep it together is on. 02:57.700 --> 02:58.880 I finally got it to work. 02:58.880 --> 03:00.650 Now, why are the faces separate? 03:01.190 --> 03:07.160 Well, that's because at some point, like I did, they actually turn key pieces together off. 03:07.160 --> 03:10.400 And you can actually go back in the history and see where that happened on your face. 03:10.400 --> 03:14.480 Six when I did that on the sixth time, I tried turning the faces off. 03:14.930 --> 03:19.100 So it actually separated this four steps ago for me. 03:19.100 --> 03:23.030 And I just was adding, you know, faces on top of that. 03:23.570 --> 03:26.990 So the faces were already separated four steps ago. 03:28.160 --> 03:32.120 And so when I finally figured it out, they're already separate. 03:32.810 --> 03:40.010 And you can see these multiple loops here as I extend it out and you can, you know, start to kind 03:40.010 --> 03:41.000 of move edges around. 03:41.000 --> 03:44.210 You can see, look, there's more edges here, there's more edges there. 03:44.420 --> 03:49.970 It's all this hidden geometry that's stacked on top of itself because we kept extruding, but we never 03:49.970 --> 03:50.750 moved anything. 03:51.110 --> 03:53.420 And that is the main point here. 03:53.720 --> 04:01.950 If you hit a face and you select it and go poly extrude, but you don't move it, that edge loop that 04:01.970 --> 04:04.580 is still stacked on top of itself right there. 04:04.580 --> 04:05.750 So let me hit it one more time. 04:06.140 --> 04:11.930 So if I grab an edge, I don't know if I'm selecting the first, second or third one that stack on top 04:11.930 --> 04:12.300 of itself. 04:12.300 --> 04:14.540 So if I pull this out now, look what happens. 04:14.540 --> 04:15.950 It's all kind of wonky. 04:16.190 --> 04:17.450 I don't know why that is. 04:17.450 --> 04:23.300 Well, it's because you extrude and you didn't pull the face out and that's where that stems from. 04:24.110 --> 04:27.020 So let me just show you real quick how to fix that. 04:27.020 --> 04:30.560 If that happens, it kind of in a simple way, just delete all that noise. 04:31.680 --> 04:33.770 I want to actually grab this lower face. 04:33.770 --> 04:37.850 Let me undo this a few times and just get this face back down. 04:38.840 --> 04:45.040 So what I can do is pull this up and then start selecting edges and pull those up. 04:45.080 --> 04:51.560 OK, so if it starts to look like this, I know that it's a face stacked on top of itself, so I haven't 04:51.560 --> 04:55.430 grabbed the correct face, I haven't grabbed the cracked edge or other. 04:55.670 --> 05:01.520 So until, like, if you see this kind of flashy black thing, that's because faces are stacked right 05:01.520 --> 05:02.300 on top of each other. 05:02.630 --> 05:06.200 So this is actually the edge that should be above this one. 05:06.200 --> 05:06.680 Something grabbed. 05:06.720 --> 05:11.310 That pull it up, so now I know this is the order in which they should be this one shouldn't be below 05:11.310 --> 05:15.000 this one, right, because we get that kind of feedback where we say it's all wonky. 05:15.750 --> 05:18.240 So now I know that's fixed. 05:19.080 --> 05:22.680 I can actually just kind of get back to square one by deleting all of this stuff. 05:23.130 --> 05:25.530 And you can use two different methods. 05:26.670 --> 05:32.970 You can use the Pinda polygon tool, which I like most, or you can just fill the hole. 05:32.970 --> 05:40.800 If it's something as simple as this, you can go to the mesh tools, which, OK, so it's kind of confusing 05:40.800 --> 05:41.940 as it says may cause here. 05:41.940 --> 05:44.820 But the actual fill hole is in a different place. 05:45.900 --> 05:47.790 It's not super well organized. 05:50.110 --> 05:55.330 Yeah, fill holes under mesh, so it'll actually just make another face for so now we can go back to 05:55.330 --> 06:02.200 extruding this and pulling this up and now, you know, now we have like one face by itself. 06:02.200 --> 06:04.690 So we pull this and it should just be that one single edge. 06:05.080 --> 06:06.190 So it's how we fix that. 06:06.250 --> 06:06.580 All right. 06:06.580 --> 06:11.960 So the next step I want to show that people mess up is with loops. 06:12.040 --> 06:13.930 So kind of another super basic thing. 06:13.930 --> 06:19.360 I'm just going to make a new cube here to mess with is the insert edge loop tool. 06:19.690 --> 06:27.400 So let's grab that under mesh tools, insert edge loop and we can just start clicking and making edge 06:27.430 --> 06:31.750 loops and, you know, we're making a bunch whatever. 06:31.750 --> 06:35.340 And then we're like, you know what, I don't want one of these. 06:35.380 --> 06:38.950 So let's go to the edge mode, double click to select the edge loop. 06:39.280 --> 06:42.550 And I'm going to hit delete on my keyboard, which is the key point here. 06:43.000 --> 06:46.210 And the mistake is made right now when I had to leave the keyboard. 06:46.660 --> 06:47.860 But it's hard to see. 06:47.980 --> 06:49.390 Right, because it looks fine. 06:50.080 --> 06:55.290 And if we go into vertex mode, we can see all those vertices are left behind. 06:55.330 --> 06:56.470 That's a big no no. 06:56.470 --> 07:01.180 If you go in a vertex mode and you see a bunch of vertices with no edges through them, that's a major 07:01.180 --> 07:02.310 mistake, OK? 07:02.890 --> 07:05.680 And we can select those and delete them. 07:06.880 --> 07:12.430 But what ends up happening is let me just leave those there and how people end up discovering this later 07:12.430 --> 07:13.180 way down the road. 07:13.180 --> 07:14.490 So they made that mistake here. 07:14.490 --> 07:18.910 And then they keep modeling and doing stuff and maybe they try to insert another loop. 07:19.540 --> 07:20.350 So let's do that. 07:20.620 --> 07:23.680 And they click something and they're like, hey, this loophole is broken. 07:23.920 --> 07:25.860 And they and they blame it on the loophole. 07:27.340 --> 07:29.230 They're like, hey, it doesn't go all the way around this edge. 07:29.390 --> 07:30.100 Tools broken. 07:30.100 --> 07:31.360 It was going around earlier. 07:31.630 --> 07:38.470 Like we go down here, look, it goes around because it's not that edge loop is not going into a face 07:38.470 --> 07:40.540 that has more than four sides, which is the point. 07:40.540 --> 07:40.840 Right. 07:41.230 --> 07:45.460 So when you leave these vertices behind, actually you can see it even by selecting the edge. 07:45.460 --> 07:51.190 You can see the red selection only goes, you know, to where that vertices is. 07:51.910 --> 07:56.440 So we go to Vertex and we grab it, pull it out. 07:56.440 --> 07:57.790 You can actually see those edges. 07:58.180 --> 08:04.270 So now we actually created a face that has, you know, more than four sides. 08:04.550 --> 08:08.650 So if an edge, the edge look tool doesn't know how to go through those faces because that's called 08:08.650 --> 08:13.330 an end gun and that tool wants and needs four sided faces. 08:13.330 --> 08:16.630 That's why it's working down here, because there's all of these are four sided faces. 08:17.020 --> 08:19.690 I can click this as many times and I'll go all the way around. 08:20.050 --> 08:26.770 But as soon as I do it, where there's vertices up here or runs into where there's more than four sides 08:27.100 --> 08:31.630 and it's hard to tell again, because, you know, in this mode, it's not super visual that that's 08:31.630 --> 08:32.110 what's happening. 08:32.110 --> 08:36.850 You have to go to vertex mode or try to select the edges and think, you know, even in that little 08:36.850 --> 08:39.130 dot there, that's actually cutting that edge in half. 08:39.580 --> 08:43.810 So it's making that be more than four sides, even though it looks like it's four sides. 08:43.810 --> 08:44.140 Right. 08:44.800 --> 08:50.350 That I can understand why this can be confusing because it's just a straight line and think, oh, it's 08:50.350 --> 08:51.160 a straight line. 08:51.940 --> 08:55.300 You know, that's not that that still looks like four sides to me. 08:55.630 --> 08:59.200 Well, it's not the vertex actually cuts that edge in half. 08:59.200 --> 09:02.290 So that makes it more than four sides for this face. 09:02.290 --> 09:02.680 All right. 09:02.680 --> 09:04.300 And that's why the tool will not work. 09:06.370 --> 09:12.610 So the tricky thing, though, is you can delete Vertex as with the delete on your keyboard, but to 09:12.610 --> 09:21.190 properly delete an edge from anything, you can hit control and hit delete on the keyboard. 09:21.190 --> 09:27.040 So hold down control and then hit delete or you can select an edge hit shift and. 09:27.040 --> 09:27.280 Right. 09:27.280 --> 09:28.540 Click and go to delete edge. 09:28.570 --> 09:33.460 Those are the two ways to successfully delete edges and not leave behind vertices. 09:33.730 --> 09:34.120 All right. 09:34.510 --> 09:37.390 And that leaves me to the kind of final point. 09:37.600 --> 09:46.210 So we've gone through extrusion mistakes and what those lead to keeping faces together on and off and 09:46.210 --> 09:47.320 how to find that in the history. 09:47.320 --> 09:50.650 Over here on the right in the channel box, you can kind of see where you make mistakes. 09:51.400 --> 10:00.100 And then we just learn about edges and loops and in Gon's and how to delete the vertex of that are left 10:00.100 --> 10:02.500 behind and how to properly delete edges. 10:02.500 --> 10:11.500 So the final one that I want to mention is kind of a mentality and the mentality is antithetical to 10:11.500 --> 10:11.920 learning. 10:12.130 --> 10:16.000 And I'm telling you, I'm talking about is the questions that some of the questions are really this 10:16.000 --> 10:16.720 isn't everyone. 10:17.020 --> 10:21.310 But I'll receive a question and the first sentence makes it hard to answer. 10:21.760 --> 10:26.770 And what I mean is the first sentence is I did everything right and this doesn't work. 10:27.550 --> 10:31.360 So in the very first sentence, they're already not accepting blame. 10:31.960 --> 10:33.520 They don't think they did anything wrong. 10:33.940 --> 10:38.470 So the learning process is stopped immediately for them and their mind. 10:38.470 --> 10:43.360 And this is what is kind of tragic for me to see that, you know, when you're learning this stuff, 10:43.630 --> 10:45.130 you kind of have to be your own teacher. 10:45.340 --> 10:49.600 You know, in my classes, I have hours of courses, but you physically have to be the one. 10:49.660 --> 10:55.060 To follow along and do it for yourself and as you progress and evolve in your career and learning all 10:55.060 --> 11:00.190 this stuff, you need to learn how to become your own teacher and to problem solve. 11:00.280 --> 11:04.310 You know, if you get a job in the industry, that's one of the main points is problem solving. 11:04.720 --> 11:11.260 So if you're how you start is I did nothing wrong and this doesn't work. 11:11.320 --> 11:13.240 So you start pointing the finger at other things. 11:13.930 --> 11:18.820 It makes it very, very hard for you to troubleshoot and problem solve for for yourself, because there's 11:18.820 --> 11:20.920 not always going to be me there to answer questions. 11:20.920 --> 11:24.010 There's always going to be a co-worker who's willing to answer a question. 11:24.520 --> 11:26.770 So you need to figure out how to troubleshoot for yourself. 11:26.770 --> 11:29.740 And the way to do that is to change that mentality. 11:29.740 --> 11:34.640 If you have that mentality, the you know, the first step is I think I made a mistake. 11:34.990 --> 11:39.340 So then you can go back through the actions that you made and to diagnose what you did wrong. 11:39.910 --> 11:41.890 And I make mistakes. 11:41.890 --> 11:42.910 Everyone makes mistakes. 11:42.910 --> 11:45.070 It's OK to admit you make mistakes. 11:45.400 --> 11:52.930 I think as someone learning, they get super defensive and think that they have to prove maybe their 11:52.930 --> 11:54.670 intelligence or something else. 11:55.060 --> 11:58.330 So square one for them as I didn't do anything wrong. 11:58.330 --> 12:00.460 I'm smart, I'm not dumb. 12:00.460 --> 12:06.280 And there's all this kind of underlying kind of immaturity going on there that you need to get over 12:06.280 --> 12:12.190 and mature as a student and an artist and, you know, accept that you can make mistakes. 12:12.760 --> 12:16.750 So when you ask a question, don't start with I did everything right. 12:16.900 --> 12:17.290 All right. 12:17.300 --> 12:21.940 And that's the final mistake I'll leave you with for the total beginner starting out. 12:22.660 --> 12:28.000 And if you're in my when I classes and you want to ask a question, don't start the question with. 12:28.000 --> 12:28.990 I did everything right. 12:29.500 --> 12:34.990 OK, start started with what the problem is and then we can go from there and diagnose it and figure 12:34.990 --> 12:35.290 it out. 12:35.590 --> 12:40.570 But hopefully if you've watched this video all the way through, you will not make these mistakes and 12:40.570 --> 12:45.340 you won't ask these kinds of questions and you'll have other problems and I can help you with that. 12:45.340 --> 12:50.560 In the classes I teach, you can enroll in them at digital creator school dotcom. 12:50.950 --> 12:57.940 I teach a bunch of different MIAH classes and the one in particular where I think I get the most questions. 12:57.940 --> 13:03.010 It's one of the first courses that people take is the modeling class, because that's kind of how you 13:03.010 --> 13:04.620 get into learning 3D. 13:04.630 --> 13:08.920 The first thing you need to do is learn how to model something so you have something and you know, 13:08.920 --> 13:10.720 animate or texture. 13:10.720 --> 13:12.550 You have to have something has to exist. 13:12.760 --> 13:15.130 So it's natural for the first thing to learn is modeling. 13:15.170 --> 13:19.210 That's why I think I get the most questions and I see the most mistakes happen in modeling. 13:19.960 --> 13:25.180 So if you wanna learn the stuff, head over digital creator school dotcom, become a member and you'll 13:25.180 --> 13:27.730 have access to every course that I put out. 13:28.000 --> 13:32.500 And currently it's over 50 hours and I add to it about every month. 13:32.740 --> 13:37.180 So there's a few new hours of teaching that you'll have every month. 13:37.660 --> 13:41.350 And you can ask me questions there and I will help you learn this kind of stuff. 13:41.710 --> 13:44.890 So if you like this video like comments, subscribe. 13:45.250 --> 13:48.580 Let me know that you like this stuff is kind of relatively new for me. 13:48.760 --> 13:53.620 Next week I'm going to try to do something more advanced, so stay tuned for that. 13:53.980 --> 13:55.060 But give me feedback. 13:55.060 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