WEBVTT 00:00.120 --> 00:05.430 Welcome to the first class in 3D modeling, and the reason why I've structured it this way to have three 00:05.430 --> 00:12.090 modeling at the beginning of this complete beginner series is because simply we need something to work 00:12.090 --> 00:12.810 with later. 00:13.080 --> 00:18.870 So we might as well learn modeling up front at the beginning so that we can use models later down the 00:18.870 --> 00:23.910 course and have an understanding of what modeling is and why it's important. 00:24.420 --> 00:26.100 So to get going. 00:26.130 --> 00:33.240 I wanted first to describe some concepts about three modeling so you can begin to understand how to 00:33.240 --> 00:39.450 approach 3D modeling kind of from a theoretical standpoint so that you know what tools to use and how 00:39.450 --> 00:45.660 to approach whatever project that you come up with in your imagination and projects down the line and 00:45.660 --> 00:46.480 all that kind of a thing. 00:46.950 --> 00:49.770 So let's take a look at example that I've created. 00:49.980 --> 00:55.700 All of these seen files that I'm working on are available to you for downloads. 00:55.980 --> 01:00.870 So this one might not be that useful because it's pretty basic, but it's going to be made available 01:00.870 --> 01:06.850 to you to download so you can follow along or open it up and dissect it and see what is inside. 01:07.290 --> 01:12.450 So I'm going to show you an example that I made real quick so we can cover two important concepts, 01:12.930 --> 01:15.630 hard versus organic modeling. 01:16.290 --> 01:21.150 So when I first describe this, you can probably already guess what it means, especially by looking 01:21.150 --> 01:22.230 at these two examples. 01:22.710 --> 01:28.230 And let me first quickly cover a couple little tricks that I like to use in my viewport so we can look 01:28.230 --> 01:29.130 at this a little better. 01:29.520 --> 01:36.690 I don't know if it shows up in your video, but the edges of all of these polygons are not super smooth. 01:36.690 --> 01:41.060 They're kind of jagged and they're not anti aliased, as we like to say technically. 01:41.370 --> 01:45.450 So there's actually an anti aliased button here that you can turn on for the viewport. 01:45.450 --> 01:46.980 And it is this little one right here. 01:47.310 --> 01:52.200 If I hover over it and you can look at the bottom left and it says multi sample, anti aliasing, and 01:52.200 --> 01:53.840 then the tooltip will also pop up. 01:54.360 --> 01:59.670 So if we press that and you can follow along and do this in your viewport, you can see that this is 01:59.670 --> 02:00.360 just for us. 02:00.360 --> 02:04.750 This doesn't affect the final render or the model itself or anything like that. 02:04.770 --> 02:09.090 This is just kind of to make it easier on our eyes as we're using Maya. 02:09.450 --> 02:11.520 So I like to turn on anti aliasing. 02:11.940 --> 02:19.320 And I also like to turn on the ambient occlusion because you can't really see where these lines and 02:19.320 --> 02:22.130 gaps intersect on this model very well. 02:22.470 --> 02:27.780 So if we turn on ambient inclusion, watch this area right here where there should be lines popping 02:27.780 --> 02:30.510 up, but we can't see them because they're all facing the same direction. 02:30.870 --> 02:33.180 That's just how Maya's rendering it and the viewport. 02:33.690 --> 02:39.780 If we turn ambient inclusion, which is this little button up here, which is just next to the interlacing, 02:41.040 --> 02:48.900 we get ambient occlusion, which basically shows us areas of geometry that are close together and darkens 02:48.900 --> 02:52.190 those corners and inset areas. 02:52.740 --> 02:58.650 So now we can see that model a little bit better now that we have those to kind of viewport options 02:58.650 --> 02:59.130 turned on. 02:59.580 --> 03:04.890 So back to the topic at hand, hard versus organic models and modeling. 03:05.130 --> 03:06.310 And why is this important? 03:06.330 --> 03:11.910 It's important because we need to understand how we're going to approach a project or model and the 03:11.910 --> 03:13.300 tools we're going to use to create it. 03:13.560 --> 03:16.940 So let's first talk about what hard versus organic really means. 03:17.340 --> 03:19.740 So you can kind of get an idea from these two examples. 03:19.740 --> 03:22.800 Hard is kind of straight surfaces. 03:22.830 --> 03:23.970 They can be curved as well. 03:23.970 --> 03:27.450 You can see there's a cylinder here, so it has a rounded surface on that side. 03:27.900 --> 03:30.000 But there's patterns here. 03:30.270 --> 03:37.080 It's things, you know, mechanical things, you know, things that are bolted together and made by 03:37.080 --> 03:39.600 humans typically are hard surfaces. 03:39.600 --> 03:44.910 So imagine a transformer here and the organic shape on the right. 03:45.180 --> 03:46.800 There's no pattern really here. 03:47.070 --> 03:49.680 You know, there's a lot of kind of swooping shapes. 03:49.680 --> 03:54.810 And it was made clearly not in the same way or the same tools that the one on the left was made. 03:55.110 --> 03:57.770 You can see there's two very different type of models here. 03:58.110 --> 04:03.150 And just to kind of drive this point home, it's probably already pretty clear what these two things 04:03.150 --> 04:03.480 are. 04:03.750 --> 04:08.240 But it's good to just drive it home at this early stage of learning about modeling. 04:08.250 --> 04:10.440 So I have a couple of pictures here that I wanted to show you. 04:10.590 --> 04:14.850 Just take a guess at what this would be, hard or organic models. 04:15.330 --> 04:18.960 And you can kind of tell it's organic kind of shape. 04:19.320 --> 04:25.830 There's a lot of branches and a fine texture and bark and leaves. 04:25.830 --> 04:28.650 And so, of course, this is going to be organic. 04:28.980 --> 04:34.050 And the type of tools will use to model something like this will be much different than modeling a hard 04:34.050 --> 04:37.590 surface like me wearing the Darth Vader helmet. 04:37.980 --> 04:41.760 It has some curved shape to it, but it's a hard surface. 04:41.760 --> 04:46.260 There's not fine detail and texture on the surface itself. 04:46.260 --> 04:47.790 For the most part, it's glossy. 04:47.790 --> 04:49.890 It's it's like a hard plastic. 04:49.890 --> 04:55.770 But if we're looking at this and looking at my hand, the hand would be on an organic model because 04:55.980 --> 04:58.620 it has very unique shapes. 04:58.860 --> 04:59.670 There's no. 04:59.910 --> 05:02.320 Pattern or uniformity to it at all? 05:02.700 --> 05:07.830 So it depends on what we're looking at in this picture, if it's my hand or the helmet on, what's going 05:07.830 --> 05:10.590 to be organic or considered hard surface? 05:11.590 --> 05:16.230 And just as another example, here are some more helmets that are all hard surface models. 05:16.710 --> 05:24.960 And for a kind of more historical example, you can see there's both in this as well, the kind of statues 05:24.960 --> 05:32.190 in the middle, in the foreground and the inset on these at the front of this building are organic models. 05:32.220 --> 05:34.020 They have musculature. 05:34.020 --> 05:38.970 They have, you know, flowing robes and there's horses. 05:38.970 --> 05:44.790 And but when you look at the building itself, it has very flat surfaces, very smooth. 05:45.210 --> 05:51.000 There's no kind of organic detail unless we look at the top of the columns, we can see the kind of 05:51.000 --> 05:53.020 floral patterns that are incorporated there. 05:53.340 --> 05:58.040 So this is, again, marrying those two types of models in one example. 05:58.800 --> 06:02.790 So this is also a famous sculpture that's in the Vatican. 06:03.210 --> 06:08.370 And you can see the robes and all that type of thing would be considered organic, even though, you 06:08.370 --> 06:11.340 know, organic you might think of like nature or something like that. 06:12.090 --> 06:17.610 You know, clothes can be considered organic because they have these kind of flowing irregular shapes 06:17.610 --> 06:20.110 in the folds of the model. 06:20.130 --> 06:27.240 And again, lastly, we have both together where this kind of structure on top of the mountain is a 06:27.240 --> 06:28.080 hard surface. 06:28.440 --> 06:35.190 And then when we look at the rock, we can clearly tell the difference between the pattern and the type 06:35.190 --> 06:39.510 of surface that this building has versus the kind of irregular surface of the rock. 06:40.050 --> 06:43.320 OK, so I think we understand what hard versus organic means. 06:43.620 --> 06:50.040 And I'm going to mess with this little cluster handle to show you also that, you know, this is important 06:50.040 --> 06:54.240 to understand for later down the road when we're talking about rigging and animating. 06:54.570 --> 06:59.970 If it's a hard surface, we're probably not going to flex from the middle of this object. 06:59.970 --> 07:02.160 It's probably going to move all together. 07:02.670 --> 07:08.940 And that's going to, you know, affect how we're going to do things later with rigging and animation. 07:09.300 --> 07:14.460 Whereas if it's organic, you know, this this thing could move all kinds of different ways. 07:14.730 --> 07:21.860 And we would need to rig and animate to reflect the type of organism this is or shape or model. 07:21.870 --> 07:26.380 So it's also important to understand later on what this implies for other aspects. 07:26.400 --> 07:30.840 So in this course now we're going to jump into actually making things now that you have an understanding 07:31.140 --> 07:37.410 of how to use Meiwes interface and how we're going to approach modeling, we're going to make one hard 07:37.410 --> 07:40.350 surface model that we're going to continue to use throughout the course. 07:40.350 --> 07:45.990 And then we're going to model an organic character, a skeleton guy, and we're going to use to animate 07:45.990 --> 07:49.980 later and make a pretty cool animation so far along in the next lesson. 07:49.980 --> 07:51.870 And we'll get to creating stuff now. 07:52.050 --> 07:52.770 Thanks for watching.