WEBVTT 00:00.660 --> 00:04.800 Hey, I want to make a little update video to this course and introduce you to a tool that I've been 00:04.800 --> 00:09.630 using a couple on a couple of projects recently and that's the quadrature tool and it's related to the 00:09.630 --> 00:11.160 work we're doing right now in the course. 00:11.400 --> 00:17.130 And so it can be an alternative method to the things I've already taught or in and am teaching after 00:17.130 --> 00:17.850 this as well. 00:18.060 --> 00:24.140 We're basically we're creating the topology as we model, whereas this method you could actually reach 00:24.150 --> 00:28.110 apologize on top of an existing model, which is typically the workflow. 00:28.110 --> 00:33.180 If you're coming from another modeling package like Ze Brush, which has a ton of geometry, you need 00:33.180 --> 00:39.270 to bring it back down to something manageable for animation because you don't want like a million polygons 00:39.270 --> 00:42.630 on a character that's going to be animated, it's going to be a nightmare to animate. 00:43.200 --> 00:49.500 So what you can do is apologize after the fact or make good topology as your modeling, which is what 00:49.500 --> 00:53.430 I traditionally have shown in this course to do with this character. 00:53.700 --> 00:57.780 So this is actually kind of an alternative method to use and just to have in your back pocket as another 00:57.780 --> 00:58.350 tool to use. 00:58.650 --> 01:03.420 So it's related to the stuff we've been doing because you're already familiar with make life right and 01:03.420 --> 01:07.470 you need to make live on the thing that you're apologizing. 01:07.470 --> 01:13.390 In this case, it's the skull, and we've already kind of made decent geometry topology rather on this. 01:13.680 --> 01:16.650 And so it's not super necessary to go about this. 01:16.650 --> 01:21.270 But if you just want to kind of like start clean with new topology, this would be a way to to generate 01:21.270 --> 01:21.390 it. 01:21.870 --> 01:27.360 So what I'm going to do is hit make live, which we're familiar with by hitting this magnet button up 01:27.360 --> 01:27.600 here. 01:28.320 --> 01:33.330 And another thing to turn on is the wire free on shedded, which is this button right here. 01:33.600 --> 01:39.060 So when I click that and it gives us a nice view of this is the make live object because it's green, 01:39.360 --> 01:42.680 and we can remember that from an earlier lesson that that's that was the case. 01:42.680 --> 01:45.810 I want turn on anti-aliasing just so the edges of that are a little cleaner. 01:46.230 --> 01:51.480 And then I'm going to go to the modeling toolkit here and I'm going to go down to Quadra and this is 01:51.480 --> 01:52.860 the tool that we're going to be using. 01:53.070 --> 01:59.010 There's a few settings down here, but I just usually leave it on default, and what I use it for is 01:59.010 --> 02:00.150 for apologizing. 02:00.150 --> 02:05.610 Like I said, where you can actually just come in here, not only how I start as I start very broad, 02:05.610 --> 02:06.900 very big strokes. 02:07.170 --> 02:11.340 So let's say I'm going to do start with the skull, the top of the head first. 02:11.550 --> 02:14.820 So I'm going to make some pretty big quads here. 02:15.090 --> 02:19.980 So I'm just hitting left mouse button in four different places and then I hold shift. 02:19.980 --> 02:21.720 And that makes one whole face. 02:22.140 --> 02:26.430 And you might think to yourself, Well, if I look at it from this angle, it's not following the head 02:26.430 --> 02:27.030 very well. 02:27.450 --> 02:28.290 Well, that's OK. 02:28.320 --> 02:32.340 We're going to deal with that in a second because what we don't want to do is start in here and start 02:32.340 --> 02:34.170 at this scale of the faces. 02:34.170 --> 02:40.080 We don't want to be in here like making faces this that big or that small, because that's going to 02:40.080 --> 02:41.670 be very time consuming. 02:41.670 --> 02:43.650 And I'll show you why here in a second. 02:43.650 --> 02:49.890 So I've hit control shift and I left mouse button click and actually delete that face the way to extrude 02:49.890 --> 02:51.270 out, which is what we've been doing. 02:51.620 --> 02:54.300 You know, you can actually hold down shift and move and edge. 02:54.600 --> 02:58.590 Here you can hold down tab and left mouse button move edge. 02:58.920 --> 03:01.140 So that's just while you're in the quadrant tool. 03:01.460 --> 03:08.810 If we jumped back into modeling traditionally and I went to like the edge mode here, I'm just going 03:08.820 --> 03:14.970 at four so I can get to this edge and see it a little cleaner, I can actually hit shift and then extrude 03:14.970 --> 03:15.450 like this. 03:15.450 --> 03:16.440 So that's another alternative. 03:16.440 --> 03:20.480 But because we're staying in this tool, I'm going to go back to that method. 03:20.490 --> 03:22.500 I just want to show you the comparison there. 03:22.800 --> 03:27.900 So you can see Quad Draw also kind of turns on this kind of x ray mode here so we can see through the 03:27.900 --> 03:29.760 model and see the faces that we're making. 03:30.030 --> 03:37.290 So by again, by holding tab, I can extrude out and not have to go back to the time move tool that 03:37.290 --> 03:40.230 we had before when I hit Tab and then do it again. 03:40.410 --> 03:42.550 You can kind of see that starting to get to be diagonal. 03:42.570 --> 03:46.800 And one thing we can do is hold down shift and just relax this out. 03:47.130 --> 03:51.690 So we're kind of brushing this area out, and it's relaxing the geometry down. 03:51.840 --> 03:58.110 We can also just left mouse button on whole faces or vertices or edges and move them individually so 03:58.110 --> 04:00.690 that we can rearrange it the way that we want it to. 04:01.050 --> 04:07.770 Now the other cool thing about this about holding tab is this is that instead of what we've been doing, 04:07.800 --> 04:14.250 Tab Left Mouse clicking, if we tab middle mouse click, we can actually take this whole edge loop up. 04:14.970 --> 04:18.690 Now you can start to see it's kind of wonky because we're going in one direction, but the faces are 04:18.690 --> 04:21.270 all kind of facing different directions as we go around the sphere. 04:21.540 --> 04:26.280 So you'll want to make sure that you're kind of clean that up as you go along and they're following 04:26.280 --> 04:27.390 where you want them to go. 04:28.170 --> 04:29.610 So we can just move this up. 04:29.610 --> 04:34.260 So it's kind of more in line and then we can hold down, shift and brush this area relaxed that back 04:34.260 --> 04:39.750 out so that it kind of evenly distributes the faces that we've created some trying to pull this one 04:39.750 --> 04:40.590 down individually. 04:40.860 --> 04:45.570 Now to the core stuff that I referred to earlier about, why are we starting so big? 04:45.870 --> 04:52.380 That's because we can use the kind of edge loop tool here and create edge loops after we've made these 04:52.380 --> 04:53.220 big chunks. 04:53.580 --> 04:59.190 And because we're still on the make live features turned on that will follow. 04:59.460 --> 05:05.100 The shape of the make live jump to underneath it, which is the skull, so if you look right here, 05:05.100 --> 05:10.980 we can see that the blue edge here just goes straight down where it should be following the contours 05:10.980 --> 05:11.580 of the skull. 05:11.910 --> 05:18.330 So if I hold control on my keyboard and then I left mouse click, we can see it will jump out to that 05:18.330 --> 05:18.750 point. 05:19.080 --> 05:25.170 Now it's also because we don't have an edge on the profile here, so I can control and click there. 05:25.770 --> 05:31.770 We can see that it's starting to contour to the skull as well, so we can see there's a spot here that's 05:31.770 --> 05:32.430 still sticking out. 05:32.430 --> 05:37.380 So I could add an edge there, add an edge here, and that's a ton easier than if we were to go on and 05:37.380 --> 05:39.540 make each individual square by themselves. 05:39.870 --> 05:44.280 So that's why we started big and then we can add edge loops in after the fact. 05:44.940 --> 05:51.270 Now it's worth noting that we may want to hit shift and relax this area to relax and back out again. 05:51.660 --> 05:59.670 Alternatively, you could jump back into a more traditional method, like using the multi-car tool and 05:59.850 --> 06:05.130 when we hold control here, we can also make an edge loop and we still have make live on, so it's going 06:05.130 --> 06:06.240 to act very similarly. 06:06.510 --> 06:13.110 But the advantage of maybe using the Multi Multi Cut tool here is that we can hold down, shift and 06:13.110 --> 06:18.480 actually get to the middle of that cube of that quad rather. 06:18.720 --> 06:22.170 And so we already have a pretty even topology there. 06:22.470 --> 06:27.930 So when we jump back in a quad draw, it maybe won't have to relax it as much, but that's just to give 06:27.930 --> 06:30.000 you an example of comparing those tools. 06:30.270 --> 06:34.890 But what I like to do is just stay in this tool and not jump back and forth between the others as much. 06:35.370 --> 06:40.950 So that's a really good way to use the Quadra tool now, just as a general note about topology in general, 06:40.950 --> 06:46.440 I want to re-emphasize basically what we're doing here is we are making sure that we're having good 06:46.440 --> 06:49.170 topology for animation and to do that. 06:49.560 --> 06:52.920 We want to make sure that we have the right kinds of loops. 06:52.920 --> 06:58.410 And that's why in this course, we were inserting this edge loop here for the eye socket so that we 06:58.410 --> 07:01.380 could animate a blink later on in the course with a blend shape. 07:01.860 --> 07:07.080 So one thing that I would also do is I would just in the workflow wise, I would maybe stop what I'm 07:07.080 --> 07:11.340 doing here on the skull and think, OK, I kind of have the skull cap in a good spot, but I know I 07:11.340 --> 07:13.320 want this edge loop here around the eye socket. 07:13.710 --> 07:21.300 Now, another bit wonky of a way to use this tool is if we just hold down tab on the face without actually 07:21.300 --> 07:24.360 being near an edge, it'll give us this face. 07:24.390 --> 07:28.590 Now you want to be careful about using this because it can actually have the first face kind of flipped 07:28.920 --> 07:31.950 if we were to start drawing to the right. 07:32.520 --> 07:33.980 See how it kind of keeps flipping around. 07:33.990 --> 07:36.540 It's kind of going based off the direction that we're pulling it. 07:37.230 --> 07:38.820 So if I meant to go. 07:41.540 --> 07:43.850 That direction, see how it overlapped itself. 07:44.840 --> 07:49.160 I want to make sure that the first face I do is actually behind the cursor so I can kind of drag it 07:49.160 --> 07:51.020 here and whip it around. 07:51.260 --> 07:55.070 And the other thing is, if I want it to be bigger faces, I'll have to do is just middle mouse drag 07:55.070 --> 07:56.240 and scale the face up. 07:56.660 --> 08:01.160 And so then I can just click and drag around the eye socket. 08:03.560 --> 08:07.310 And we can kind of just paint these even quads. 08:08.630 --> 08:12.590 And we can loop it back up here, hold down shift and then click. 08:13.290 --> 08:18.320 That was kind of the original method and then we can just kind of relax this area out and now we kind 08:18.320 --> 08:19.370 of have that edge loop. 08:19.670 --> 08:23.210 Then we could, you know, continue our traditional modeling techniques. 08:23.510 --> 08:29.600 Now back to the earlier topology, when we did the odd and even kind of connections, that's where something 08:29.600 --> 08:30.230 like this comes in. 08:30.280 --> 08:31.760 We need to connect these two spots. 08:32.090 --> 08:35.060 We could kind of divide them up and say, set an edge. 08:35.060 --> 08:39.320 Basically at each point where I know I'm going to need to connect between here and here and here and 08:39.320 --> 08:39.650 here. 08:39.980 --> 08:41.830 And so maybe it'll go there and there. 08:41.840 --> 08:44.300 And so I need an edge for here and here. 08:44.780 --> 08:49.610 And then this vertex and I need one here, right? 08:49.760 --> 08:54.140 So that means when I hold down shift now, I have this nice bridge between those areas. 08:54.470 --> 08:57.620 And so you can just go through and make as much topology as you need. 08:58.280 --> 09:04.010 And again, just kind of jumping back and forth between the tools I could hold down tab and middle mouse 09:04.010 --> 09:05.480 drag two edges out. 09:06.410 --> 09:13.820 And then the vertex will also snap down there so we can very quickly topologies something like this 09:14.600 --> 09:15.740 without too much effort. 09:15.740 --> 09:18.800 And then, of course, hit shift and then relax this area back out. 09:18.800 --> 09:24.830 So we're not getting too much stuff bunched up there, too much quads bunched up in that section. 09:25.220 --> 09:29.420 So it's a really nice tool that I've been using lately, and I just want to update this course. 09:29.720 --> 09:33.680 If there's any other updates or you have questions, you know, hit me up and asked me about them, 09:33.680 --> 09:40.430 or if you want me to update the course with a topic, I'm considering doing a follow up course that's 09:40.430 --> 09:41.900 maybe a bit shorter than this one. 09:42.170 --> 09:43.370 So stay tuned for that. 09:43.370 --> 09:49.850 And check out Digital Critter School YouTube channel, where I'm posting a bunch of videos about just 09:49.850 --> 09:52.670 the animation industry in general and some other Maia tips. 09:52.940 --> 09:55.340 So thanks for watching, and I'll see you and the next lesson.