WEBVTT 00:00.210 --> 00:03.510 In this lesson, the following lessons, we're going to speed things up a little bit now that we have 00:03.510 --> 00:06.620 the had done and we are going to focus on the spine. 00:07.050 --> 00:13.920 So I'm unhide the reference and I'm going to grab the reference in the head and come in and click them 00:13.920 --> 00:19.600 and outliner and pull them both up so that the feet are kind of on zero here. 00:19.650 --> 00:23.500 This is the world space where we have the grid turned on and we can turn it on and off here. 00:24.090 --> 00:27.540 So what I'm going to look at now is the spine. 00:28.110 --> 00:34.050 And I want to make one spine joint and then kind of populate it all the way down the spine. 00:34.560 --> 00:40.800 And we're going to do it in a similar way that we did on the hard surface modeling with one little extra 00:40.800 --> 00:41.210 trick. 00:41.670 --> 00:44.910 So I'm going to make the one spine bone now with a cylinder. 00:45.520 --> 00:51.420 So click the cylinder from the shelf and I'm just going to drag this up just so it's kind of in the 00:51.420 --> 00:52.080 neighborhood. 00:54.460 --> 01:03.340 And go to a front view holding down space bar and the left clicking there, and I'm going to add some 01:04.210 --> 01:11.920 subdivisions here, maybe 10 and maybe an extra cap on the end that we can't see, which is the top 01:11.920 --> 01:12.340 and bottom. 01:12.910 --> 01:14.710 And I'm going to scale this down. 01:15.050 --> 01:18.820 I need some typing over here instead of it registering as a shortcut. 01:18.820 --> 01:19.780 So I just need to click. 01:20.080 --> 01:23.500 I like to just click here to to get that off. 01:24.010 --> 01:26.560 So scale is down. 01:27.990 --> 01:34.560 And go to the edges, double click the center edge here, so we're right in the middle, turn on self 01:34.570 --> 01:42.480 selection, hold down and middle mouse drag, I like take control and the top ones so that, you know, 01:42.480 --> 01:47.640 if we were to do this in the middle, it's going to scale this down, up and down vertically. 01:48.030 --> 01:56.160 And I just want to go from X and Z, the horizontal axis, someone hold down control, click the Y axis 01:56.160 --> 01:59.130 and pull this and something like this. 01:59.670 --> 02:02.580 Then I'm going to go to the object mode. 02:03.150 --> 02:08.160 I actually go to the edge mode, double click the top and the bottom edge here, turn off self selection 02:08.160 --> 02:15.300 and Bevell this and you increase the fraction, maybe give it one segment. 02:16.530 --> 02:18.030 Zoom out and see how that looks. 02:21.420 --> 02:28.530 It looks like a spine bone to me, I might delete this edge here because it make if you look at this, 02:28.530 --> 02:32.630 it makes kind of a hard edge here, which I guess is OK. 02:33.810 --> 02:36.160 If you don't like that, you could just delete this edge. 02:37.350 --> 02:43.320 It's the fact that these two are close together or what we could do is go to modeling, turn on transform 02:43.320 --> 02:48.300 constraint to be a surface slide or an edge slide, and then just scale these together. 02:48.310 --> 02:52.380 So it kind of moves them down away from the edge. 02:52.380 --> 02:52.680 They're. 02:55.490 --> 02:57.560 Cool, so we have one spine joint. 02:58.550 --> 03:06.250 Let's go to the right view and hit F to frame up everything and now we need to create a curve. 03:06.620 --> 03:12.770 So I'm going to go to curves and surfaces, click on the curve tool, and I'm going to start kind of 03:13.010 --> 03:18.170 down here somewhere just to give us some room to go, because we don't want to start this motion path 03:18.170 --> 03:18.950 thing that we're going to do. 03:19.010 --> 03:25.310 Right exactly at the starting point, because the ends of it can get kind of wonky how it interprets 03:25.730 --> 03:29.290 the rotation and direction of where it's aiming the thing. 03:29.840 --> 03:33.650 So and plus the hip bone is going to be its own thing. 03:33.650 --> 03:33.860 Right. 03:33.890 --> 03:35.530 Like this is going to be its own piece here. 03:36.020 --> 03:39.860 So I'm just doing this to give ourselves a little advantage. 03:41.000 --> 03:50.810 And I'm going to click in the middle of where the spine has been drawn and just keep clicking all the 03:50.810 --> 03:53.180 way up and in here. 03:53.400 --> 03:54.290 Have to kind of. 03:55.300 --> 03:57.100 Just guess where it is. 03:59.760 --> 04:01.270 And the medals appear. 04:01.440 --> 04:06.240 The medals probably here ish, and it reverses back and starts. 04:07.330 --> 04:08.320 Coming back this way. 04:12.570 --> 04:19.590 And we're running in this right at the base of the skull, cool, I hit enter, now we have our curve. 04:20.700 --> 04:26.900 So I'm going to attach this like a motion path like we've done before in the hard surface. 04:26.930 --> 04:31.110 So I need to go to animation, constrain, go down to motion passed. 04:31.110 --> 04:34.800 I'm going to tear this off because we're going to need this again and a little bit, I'm going to say 04:34.800 --> 04:35.880 attached to motion path. 04:36.540 --> 04:42.570 And you can see that it is not pointing the right way. 04:42.720 --> 04:48.990 So we need to go to the attrite editor and go over to Motion Path and start messing with these basically 04:49.200 --> 04:54.240 and try to figure out which way it needs to point to be up. 04:54.510 --> 04:55.230 So there we go. 04:55.830 --> 04:57.780 For an axis Y up, axis X. 04:59.340 --> 05:05.400 And now it is traveling down the spine bone and we kind of want it to start in here, probably to the 05:05.400 --> 05:12.540 one little trick that we're going to add to this before we do the visualizing step that we did previously 05:12.540 --> 05:14.390 down here, create animation snapshot. 05:14.700 --> 05:18.870 We're going to set it as a flow path object. 05:19.380 --> 05:22.080 So when I click this, you can see it already. 05:22.700 --> 05:23.460 Let me undo it. 05:23.460 --> 05:27.480 In case you missed that, when I click the flow path object, just going to add a lattice. 05:27.480 --> 05:33.120 We're not going to see it because we have showed a farmers off from the last tutorial. 05:33.120 --> 05:37.170 So I'm going to turn the farmer's back on and click flow path object. 05:37.170 --> 05:41.720 And now you can see it kind of conform to the curve a little more. 05:42.210 --> 05:47.550 So this will just kind of automatically give us unique shape to each spine joint, even though the exact 05:47.550 --> 05:53.750 same cylinder at their position all along the curve is going to change their shape. 05:54.060 --> 05:58.500 So it's a really nice way to very quickly get some variation in each of these joints. 05:59.040 --> 06:04.800 So I'm going to click this and go back to visualize and create animation snapshot. 06:04.800 --> 06:06.000 I mean, open up the menu here. 06:07.350 --> 06:15.390 And we basically need to set that increment based on the distance that we need to kind of intersect 06:15.390 --> 06:16.110 each one of these. 06:16.590 --> 06:21.390 But actually, before we do that, we need to change the motion path. 06:21.600 --> 06:25.710 If I select the node here, we get these are key frames at either end. 06:26.220 --> 06:29.370 And I showed this very quickly. 06:29.700 --> 06:31.710 And again, we're going to get back to this animation. 06:31.710 --> 06:36.810 But if we get to Windows animation editor's graph editor, we can see that it starts slow and it ends 06:36.810 --> 06:37.290 slow. 06:37.290 --> 06:43.260 And we want it to be a consistent speed so that when we set the interval at where to create a new cylinder, 06:43.620 --> 06:44.640 that it's consistent. 06:44.640 --> 06:44.910 Right. 06:44.910 --> 06:47.100 We don't want a bunch down here and a bunch at the top. 06:47.100 --> 06:48.090 They need to be consistent. 06:48.090 --> 06:52.590 So we're going to set that to linear by clicking the linear tangent handle there. 06:53.100 --> 06:54.210 And that's all we need to do. 06:54.420 --> 06:58.050 And we'll learn more about graph editor and tangents and all that kind of stuff later. 06:58.530 --> 07:04.620 So now, with that said, we just need to set this interval at an appropriate interval with our cylinder 07:04.620 --> 07:05.670 selected and hit apply. 07:06.120 --> 07:14.530 And we can see already that we have an issue in that at some point along the curve, it starts to twist 07:14.540 --> 07:14.970 someone's head on. 07:15.010 --> 07:16.200 Do we scroll? 07:16.200 --> 07:17.980 This will be able to see where that happens. 07:18.540 --> 07:24.570 So this is a goofy thing that Mike does where it doesn't know what the up access accesses if you're 07:24.570 --> 07:30.930 going vertically with the flow motion or flow path tool that we used. 07:31.320 --> 07:41.970 So the quick way around this I found go back to perspective is simply to rotate this thing down 90 degrees 07:42.450 --> 07:44.100 so that it is no longer. 07:48.850 --> 07:50.390 So that is no longer vertical. 07:50.890 --> 07:56.380 And now when we scrub, we'll see that it's not twisting anymore, so it's doing what we expect it to 07:56.380 --> 07:56.530 do. 07:56.530 --> 07:59.720 It's still deforming it, but it's just not freaking out and twisting. 08:00.340 --> 08:07.780 So now we can apply and we'll, of course, the cylinder selected and head apply and we'll see that, 08:07.810 --> 08:09.370 you know, they're too far apart. 08:09.880 --> 08:15.950 So we can just start dialing this down seven and they're still too far apart. 08:16.900 --> 08:18.730 So when I hit undo, it actually undo. 08:18.750 --> 08:21.090 And it depends on where your cursor is. 08:21.100 --> 08:22.450 So I had to do here. 08:22.450 --> 08:23.710 It actually made it back to eight. 08:24.250 --> 08:31.510 So I need to hit undo in the viewport for that to work because something a lot less like five and that's 08:31.510 --> 08:33.040 getting pretty darn close, actually. 08:34.660 --> 08:38.080 So it looks like we're going to need like five and change on this. 08:38.960 --> 08:40.510 Still like five point five. 08:44.370 --> 08:48.740 Apply, and that's pretty darn good, actually looks like a spine to me. 08:51.030 --> 08:58.950 So now we can rotate this thing back up, let's go to the curve of the curve in the outliner and turn 08:58.950 --> 09:07.080 this to zero and we'll bring all this stuff back up if we go into our right view and it freaked out. 09:08.610 --> 09:10.110 So now we rotated back up. 09:10.110 --> 09:11.420 It still freaks out the twit. 09:11.430 --> 09:13.100 A twist some of these pieces. 09:13.110 --> 09:18.600 So we're we're going to need to break that down before we rotate that back up. 09:18.600 --> 09:23.890 So let's go to the snapshot and it looks like we made two at some point. 09:23.910 --> 09:25.440 So, yeah, that's that one. 09:26.140 --> 09:32.750 So let's select all of these spine joints or group them and I'm going to shift peed on parents. 09:32.760 --> 09:35.310 We can also just middle mouse drag it out of this snapshot group. 09:36.090 --> 09:42.750 So the group selected I'm going to go to edit delete by type history and now I can just rotate this 09:42.750 --> 09:52.680 group back up so we can go 90 here and throw the curve back up just for fun. 09:54.860 --> 10:02.600 And it's enough, and now we have all the twists out and we have a spine now, the one interesting thing 10:02.600 --> 10:11.420 we can do is in case we want to adjust all of these together is do a wire to form or so let's learn 10:11.420 --> 10:16.730 another deform or I'm going to hit six here just to see our reference and I'm going to hide the cylinder 10:16.730 --> 10:19.340 and these lattice petrovitch. 10:20.060 --> 10:22.910 So the wire tool is kind of are the wire to form. 10:22.940 --> 10:23.590 It's kind of unique. 10:23.930 --> 10:30.270 We need just like the curve and go to deform and go to wire and it'll stay down here in the bottom left, 10:30.290 --> 10:31.970 select shapes of the form and press enter. 10:32.390 --> 10:34.300 So we need to select all of these shapes. 10:34.730 --> 10:35.180 So. 10:36.150 --> 10:38.700 I'm going to shift select all of them. 10:41.030 --> 10:47.240 And then hit enter select wire curves and press enter to finalize the operation. 10:47.270 --> 10:50.070 So now he just like the curve and hit enter. 10:51.470 --> 10:56.120 And so now when we isolate like this so I can kind of. 10:56.120 --> 10:56.450 Right. 10:56.450 --> 10:58.760 Click on it a little easier and go to control vertex. 10:59.780 --> 11:08.150 When we select a CSV in here, we should be able to move the spine and this will just give us the ability 11:08.150 --> 11:12.030 to adjust the spine later in modeling if we need to. 11:12.410 --> 11:16.150 And so that each one of these pieces aren't independent from each other. 11:16.610 --> 11:23.090 So that's one really quick way to be able to adjust the spine, which is going to be nice because I 11:23.090 --> 11:28.940 can't really tell if this is actually a good path that was actually drawn here in mind to adjust things 11:28.940 --> 11:29.520 a little bit. 11:30.020 --> 11:31.590 So this will give us that freedom. 11:32.570 --> 11:33.080 Awesome. 11:33.290 --> 11:37.970 So we learned about the wire to former and how to model things quickly along a path. 11:38.480 --> 11:39.230 Thanks for watching.