WEBVTT 00:00.330 --> 00:06.530 Welcome to this lesson where we will discuss how we're going to use an image plain to create this character, 00:06.900 --> 00:13.780 and in this series we are going to model this character that will later use for rigging and animation. 00:14.280 --> 00:19.620 So before we get started, like we did on hard surface modeling with the Ghostbusters Trap, we need 00:19.620 --> 00:20.210 reference. 00:20.220 --> 00:25.410 And in this case, its concept art that I drew based off of, you know, looking at some other art. 00:25.410 --> 00:30.390 And you always want to start with a piece of reference and you don't just want to look at it like we 00:30.390 --> 00:32.910 were doing in the hard surface modeling example. 00:33.270 --> 00:34.410 That's that's one way to do it. 00:34.410 --> 00:39.750 But the more advanced way to do it is to actually have this image in your scene and use it as a direct 00:40.260 --> 00:44.160 correlation with where you're placing edges and vertices and faces. 00:44.490 --> 00:46.530 So in this lesson, we're going to bring this image into my. 00:47.010 --> 00:49.530 Let's go over to Maya and let's create a plane. 00:51.390 --> 00:54.450 Any time you create a plane, the default is to have 10 subdivisions. 00:54.810 --> 01:01.380 And when you start modeling, you'll quickly realize that the more subdivisions and the more faces you 01:01.380 --> 01:04.150 have in the scene, the slower it's going to be. 01:04.560 --> 01:08.940 So there's no reason for this image plane to have this many subdivisions because we're not deforming 01:08.940 --> 01:11.720 it anyway, so we can reduce this down to one. 01:11.820 --> 01:17.970 So it is just a single face and then we need to map this image onto this face. 01:18.450 --> 01:21.440 And it's currently not the same dimensions. 01:21.450 --> 01:23.260 You can see this is a square and this is in a square. 01:23.360 --> 01:28.800 And you'll often runs that when you're using reference, you know, it's not going to always fit up 01:28.800 --> 01:29.250 perfectly. 01:29.250 --> 01:30.700 So we'll deal with that as well. 01:31.200 --> 01:36.480 So let's go to let's rotate this image up in the Z direction. 01:37.140 --> 01:39.650 We can see what the Z direction is over here in the bottom left. 01:39.660 --> 01:40.800 We can see it's pointing this way. 01:41.230 --> 01:45.410 So it's rotated up and so it's facing front. 01:45.450 --> 01:46.770 So if we go to our front camera. 01:47.970 --> 01:49.350 We'll be able to see this face. 01:49.710 --> 01:54.270 OK, and let's add this image to this as a sign this a new Shater. 01:54.630 --> 01:55.460 This is something new. 01:55.470 --> 01:59.490 We're going to right click on this and scroll down to assign new material. 02:00.520 --> 02:06.160 OK, now we get a new window and there's a lot of different options, but for our purposes, we're going 02:06.160 --> 02:11.620 to use the Lambert, OK, and because the default shares Lambert one, it always is in your scene. 02:11.620 --> 02:13.360 So when you create a new Laimbeer, it's going to say number two. 02:14.020 --> 02:16.510 So let's just call this reference. 02:19.170 --> 02:25.830 And I'll put SAHD for Qader, so we have all these different attributes, we change the color and we 02:25.830 --> 02:32.640 can do all sorts of things, which if I hit six on my keyboard, it's going to update a little better. 02:33.570 --> 02:38.900 So now that I can I can show that color change and we can change the transparency. 02:38.910 --> 02:43.760 There's all these things, but we want to map the image into this color attribute. 02:43.770 --> 02:48.840 So let's hit this little checkerboard over here and we get another new window and I'm going to use file 02:49.800 --> 02:50.610 and choose file. 02:50.610 --> 02:57.990 It creates a file note, of course, and lets just type in reference here as well with an underscore 02:57.990 --> 03:02.670 to the file so we know it's a file and this might help us later if we need to locate this or something 03:02.670 --> 03:03.060 like that. 03:03.580 --> 03:07.350 But enter make sure you hit enter because any time you rename something and then try to map something 03:07.350 --> 03:13.320 into it without hitting enter here, it'll say, you know, can't find this node because you didn't 03:13.320 --> 03:14.310 finalize this change. 03:14.310 --> 03:17.330 So any time you name something like this, you want to hit enter. 03:17.580 --> 03:21.150 So that's when you actually map in the file, which we're about to do. 03:21.150 --> 03:26.520 It'll know where to actually put it, which is reference underscore file one instead of file one. 03:26.850 --> 03:33.630 So let's go to image name will hit the folder and let's go to find the. 03:35.260 --> 03:36.190 Reference image. 03:38.170 --> 03:40.600 Character design JPEG had open. 03:42.470 --> 03:49.040 And if I right, click on this sample, it'll update the little test swatch here, and sometimes if 03:49.040 --> 03:53.120 you're having trouble, I just hit spacebar to get the four of you up here and then hit spacebar again 03:53.120 --> 03:53.960 to get back to perspective. 03:53.960 --> 03:54.800 That was just an accident. 03:56.690 --> 04:02.720 There is one bug that I found in this version of Maya, and every version of Maya is going to have its 04:02.720 --> 04:06.050 own fun sorts of bugs in it. 04:06.260 --> 04:07.790 You'll have to just kind of troubleshoot. 04:08.090 --> 04:12.140 But the textures should just pop up when you do what we just did. 04:12.140 --> 04:12.410 Right. 04:12.410 --> 04:13.520 We designed the new shader. 04:13.760 --> 04:17.750 And when we look at the color now instead of a checkbox, it has this kind of arrow box thing. 04:17.750 --> 04:19.760 If we click that, it'll take us to that final node. 04:20.210 --> 04:22.400 So it's not showing up. 04:22.430 --> 04:25.850 Even though we see it's registering here, it's not showing up in our viewport. 04:26.240 --> 04:27.020 So it's it's six. 04:27.020 --> 04:28.490 Make sure we're in texture mode. 04:28.730 --> 04:33.680 Or you can also hit this button up here, which is the texture option, but it's not updating here. 04:33.950 --> 04:39.050 And this may not happen for you, but the bug I found in my version of Maya is you have to open up the 04:39.050 --> 04:44.900 hypercharged, which is this little ball icon up here, which we'll get into and later lessons. 04:45.740 --> 04:51.200 So you can see when I open up the Hypercharged, it finally made the texture reload. 04:51.500 --> 04:54.260 This, again, is a goofy thing. 04:54.260 --> 04:55.300 And Maya. 04:55.550 --> 05:01.490 So if that has happened and we've you've assigned the shader to this and you've loaded in the file, 05:01.910 --> 05:03.410 try opening up the hyperspeed. 05:03.620 --> 05:06.290 And so it'll kind of refresh the textures. 05:06.830 --> 05:11.150 So you might have to do that more than once to see if it'll have to close and reopen it. 05:11.540 --> 05:13.070 And yeah. 05:13.100 --> 05:19.160 So let's deal with the scaling issue now because this image is squashed a square right now. 05:19.610 --> 05:23.570 So go into wherever the file is and UniMac. 05:23.570 --> 05:24.230 I just Right. 05:24.230 --> 05:30.560 Click and go down to get info and on a PC, I think it's properties somewhere. 05:30.560 --> 05:32.690 It should show the dimensions of the image. 05:33.080 --> 05:34.430 And on a Mac, it's right here. 05:34.670 --> 05:36.700 So ten, twenty three by fifteen, thirty nine. 05:37.160 --> 05:39.700 So we can use that to scale this up. 05:39.710 --> 05:42.290 Let's go back over to the channel box by clicking this button up here. 05:42.860 --> 05:48.470 And currently this is at an odd scale, so I'm just going to do one for that. 05:49.040 --> 05:51.710 And ten, twenty three. 05:52.490 --> 05:53.420 So I go ten. 05:53.430 --> 05:54.140 Twenty three. 05:56.240 --> 06:01.040 And it's going to freak out because, you know, that's a that's a massive distance, as you can tell, 06:01.400 --> 06:04.130 but all we're trying to do is get that ratio for right now. 06:04.370 --> 06:06.200 So 10, 23, three, 15, 39. 06:06.530 --> 06:09.100 We want to go in the direction we can see here. 06:09.560 --> 06:11.690 So let's type in fifteen, thirty nine there. 06:13.100 --> 06:16.550 And so this thing is massive now, OK, and that's fine. 06:16.550 --> 06:19.760 But we now have the correct dimensions of this image at least. 06:20.150 --> 06:24.230 So let's scale this back down to something more manageable. 06:25.270 --> 06:25.990 And. 06:28.100 --> 06:34.370 Now you have a reference image and it's properly scaled to the right dimensions, and if we want to 06:34.370 --> 06:37.280 lock this in, we can just freeze the transformation's. 06:37.610 --> 06:41.000 And what I mean is, you know, all of these numbers are a little weird right here. 06:41.360 --> 06:47.150 And if we want to have it be a little more clean, we can just freeze the transformation's so that it'll 06:47.150 --> 06:50.180 be one and all of the scale dimensions. 06:50.460 --> 06:51.770 So let's go to edit. 06:54.100 --> 07:02.080 So let's go to modify Free's transformation's, and I can see everything went to one and everything 07:02.080 --> 07:06.220 else is zero, let's duplicate this and rotate it. 07:08.030 --> 07:13.070 And 90 degrees, and now let's go to the front view. 07:15.270 --> 07:24.660 And let's just line up the drawing to be right in the center of our grid here. 07:25.050 --> 07:28.800 You know, we can see where zero and zero for X and Y are. 07:29.280 --> 07:30.900 So we need to just center this thing up. 07:30.900 --> 07:32.730 So it's roughly in the center. 07:34.200 --> 07:41.380 Of the scene so that everything that we model can be symmetrical and mirrored over to the other side. 07:42.030 --> 07:43.050 So that's pretty good. 07:43.260 --> 07:46.370 Let's go to the other side, the one that we duplicated and rotated. 07:46.680 --> 07:49.560 So let me back up, because it looks like we just we didn't do anything. 07:50.130 --> 07:56.730 So, you know, we move this one to the center, but this one is still rotated 90 degrees and we haven't 07:56.730 --> 07:58.190 moved it in any direction yet. 07:59.040 --> 08:02.760 The reason we rotated it 90 degrees is because this is going to be the side view. 08:03.090 --> 08:07.440 So we want to line up this image to the right to be in the middle. 08:07.620 --> 08:11.100 And sometimes these might very well be two different images. 08:11.100 --> 08:15.930 So you might have to create a new shader and applying Yarshater with the new texture on it, just like 08:15.930 --> 08:19.490 we did already with this one, you might have to do that again if you have a different image. 08:20.040 --> 08:21.870 And so let's go to the right view. 08:22.770 --> 08:24.300 And now we can see this one. 08:24.460 --> 08:32.430 I mean, S.R. kind of zero axis here and this is kind of up to you where, you know, you can kind of 08:32.430 --> 08:33.210 eyeball it. 08:33.900 --> 08:38.310 You might just kind of split the difference and maybe look at the neck or the spine or something like 08:38.310 --> 08:38.610 that. 08:39.480 --> 08:41.450 But this roughly needs to be in the center as well. 08:42.000 --> 08:48.510 So if you wanted to kind of minimize the distraction of having this other image here, we can go to 08:48.510 --> 08:55.290 our custom menu, go to the edge loop, and we could create an endless loop here and we could just drag 08:55.290 --> 09:03.930 it over to wherever we wanted it, basically, and hit V in the selection tool selected with the cue. 09:04.180 --> 09:07.500 Let's go to face and we can just delete that. 09:08.040 --> 09:13.260 So now all we have is this side of you and we could do the same for this side as well. 09:14.250 --> 09:15.180 It doesn't really bother me. 09:15.180 --> 09:20.520 And it might be nice to kind of have this in the same view where when we're modeling the front. 09:21.360 --> 09:22.470 So you can leave that for now. 09:22.920 --> 09:28.980 One last thing I'd say about reference images is that when you're modeling, it's a little distracting. 09:28.980 --> 09:34.260 If these are selectable, you know, say you're modeling a cube in here or something like that to make 09:34.260 --> 09:39.030 the skull and you keep actually selecting the reference image. 09:39.270 --> 09:42.810 So one way to get around that is to click and drag, select everything. 09:43.230 --> 09:46.740 And let's first put these in their own group and call them reference. 09:49.270 --> 09:53.560 So it's a little more tidy in the outliner, and then let's go over to the display tab over here and 09:53.560 --> 09:59.930 hit this far right button, when we do that, it adds these images to a new display layer. 10:00.230 --> 10:05.290 OK, all that means is it gives us a little bit more functionality that we can turn these on and off. 10:05.560 --> 10:09.390 But it also means that we can template these really easily or reference them. 10:09.700 --> 10:12.040 So with a template, it'll only make these outlines. 10:12.460 --> 10:16.710 But if we click this third button one more time, we get an R and that means reference. 10:17.080 --> 10:19.480 So when we click, we can't actually click these anymore. 10:19.810 --> 10:22.570 So we can always turn that off again by hitting that. 10:23.080 --> 10:27.490 But let's keep that on R so when we start modeling, we won't be accidently selecting the reference 10:27.490 --> 10:27.940 images. 10:28.250 --> 10:32.200 I'm just going to rename this display later reference. 10:36.530 --> 10:40.940 And it says it already exists, so you might need to add like a little. 10:42.320 --> 10:45.140 Suffix like disp or something like that. 10:45.820 --> 10:49.290 OK, I'll see in the next lesson where we will get started modeling. 10:49.490 --> 10:50.120 Thanks for watching.