3D Modelling - Noob to Pro - Basic Steps 

I do indeed make blender tutorial videos :) check my website www.gabbitt.co.uk

@@grabbitt ow thanks it's a big help.

Love this tip too! As an overachiever and perfectionist student in college, I struggle to accept that failure is important in learning.

+LordSplash You're welcome, mate and good luck to you :)

Heads up, if you ever plan on moving to a studio that uses programs like Maya, and are a student, try to get a student license of Maya (wait until you know the basics of blender well enough at least, it does run out eventually). I used my student email to get a license for Maya for free (I'm take an animation class in high school right now), and I really do enjoy it. I don't want to get into whether it's "better" or not (because I have honestly never gotten far with blender), but I don't see expanding your skillset to Maya EVER hurting you. Even if you stick to blender, you can always use the knowledge and experience you gain in one on the other. Also, from what I can tell, knowing Maya almost seems like a prerequisite, because it's the program most of them use. This obviously isn't knowledge from YEARS of experience, but I've been doing as much research as I can about the industry and it seems like most studios do their character modeling in Z brush/mudbox/maya, and all of them seem to use Maya for hard surfaces, rigging, animating if they don't use some other separate program, manual retopology, etc. I saw that GAME FREAK (creators of Pokemon) had a job posted that said it requires knowledge of mudbox (and MAYBE maya, but I don't remember for sure), so that's also something to look at if you can get a student copy. If you get into sculpting like z brush or mudbox, I recommend at least being pretty familiar with poly modeling first. Most people will agree that in the gaming and animation industries, learn ALL aspects of it. Modeling, sculpting, retopology, rigging, animating, and deeefinitely texturing. If you REALLY want to get good, study anatomy, that'll help a lot. I've actually heard some schools REQUIRE you to take anatomy for animation/modeling paths because of the difference it makes. Honestly you might know half or all of what I just said, more even, but those are my 2 cents on why I think if you can in any way get a copy of Maya or Mudbox, definitely do so. I can pretty much guarantee (as long as it's free), you won't regret it.

+PluvioGaming You make some good points but I think the main problem with Maya is that if you don't want to work for a company and do independent work, you'll end up bankrupting yourself. Take me, for example. I'm learning animation not to work for a game/movie company but to make videos about my ideas. And I can't do that with a student license (or can I?). I'll need to pay upwards of about $6000 per year for a commercial license and there's simply no way I can afford that. So basically if you're thinking of making animation your profession, then Maya works good. But if animation is simply your hobby, then I think Blender is hands down the winner.

You can use maya for free as a student though. Most, if not all professional positions as part of a game development team require you to know how to use Maya and/or 3DS Max. I've never seen Blender mentioned anywhere so you'd instantly be at a disadvantage when competing with others that already know how to use those softwares.

Maya is great if you have 25+ staff and people to code and write shaders. Blender is the revolution

Thanks, and thanks for your videos they are very well put together with excellent content, very helpful indeed.

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YanSculpts & Grant, I think I want to learn Scuplting would u recommend Zbrush or Blender?

David Mclean You should do a bit of research. I don't think ZBrush has a student license like Maya or 3DS Max has, so getting your hands on it won't be very easy. Learning Blender would be a great starting point because you can do more with it and I heard modelling is better in blender or maya etc. and using zremesher isn't as good as a good manual retopology. ZBrush is the best for sculpting but it costs a lot of money and I heard ZBrush core isn't good but you might want to look more into that. Sorry if this is useless information, I'm not adept in the 3d modelling scene and most of this is what I've heard from other professionals like Flipped Normals and ssome others. ;)

David Mclean It's been a couple of months, what have you decided on?

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excellent good luck. I am sure you will do very well combining this with the skills and experience you already have.

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And add by 1 every 4 models

Parallax Tutorials true , but Maya is a pain in the back for modeling , compared to 3DSMax , I was shocked to see the mess that is Maya when I thought of giving it a try after using Max and blender

Very true, thats why 3DSMax is used a lot in the games industry, mainly for modeling and then Maya for animation. I don't know when you tried Maya, but they have improved things a little bit with the integration of the modeling tool kit.

I would agree that 3DS Max has a much less cumbersome interface than Maya.

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Your game asset series is next on my ‘work through’ list. I’ve only been using Blender for a few months and I’ve already felt I’ve come reasonably far, (I work in post-production so it’s not like many of the terms or workflows were new and scary to me which I believe helped me to be able to jump in at the deep end) but I still need to become a better modeller. Starting small and learning the basics is a must. Short and to the point tutorials such as yours are a godsend for me. P.s. Also good to finally be able to put a face to the voice.

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The best type of 3D animation I would say :)

Sounds like Tiny Tina to me.

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What bout explosing teddy bears🙂

@@shreyshrivastava240 or head burning monkeys

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@@grabbitt your welcome

You had better watch the rest of my videos to make yourself feel better :)

Grant Abbitt i have planned to make a video game with someone else. Me in 2D, he on 3D.

@@melody_is_dead If youre good in 2D then atleast you can do Items, HUDs and textures

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It was in my recommendations today. And I know I watched it, because I already up-voted this comment before.

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Writing down hotkeys that you discover is a good way of learning them and getting them to stick, and then learning through repetition. It really only takes a few weeks and you'll be flying around the interface. The hardest part is the first few days where you cannot do things until you look it up! (but this is the same for any advanced software) I think people expect that they should just be able to snap their fingers and instantly use a software... but this is just not how things work in reality when you're trying to do complex creative things. Weeks or months to become competent, and decades of learning!

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very true

Yeah, that's why not many people have the skills to be in the video game industry.

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Same! It was the second model I did second to the cup from the same guy lol.

Ollie haha the cup was the first thing I did too!

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TimTube give it a few years and I believe everyone will use blender, the higher ups in maya only care about money.

temp I feel like the companies think "It costs money so it's better" lol

Mainly because of "teaching ressources", Autodesk made sure that their softwares are what students learn when they go to college, 3DsMax for modeling, Maya for Animation, AutoCad for "technical architecture" etc... Which then when those students graduate, it make more sense for the hiring studios to use the softwares in which their employee are best at. The same thing could be applied to any other tool or programming languages, its mainly because of "the number of people who already know how to use {the thing}", which will eventually encourage more people to start using {that thing}, since it has been tried and proved that it works, and it has a huge user base behind it. Also when you say Blender and Maya don't have a huge different, yes you're right, they don't now, actually at the moment Blender is much more complete than Maya and it has tons of feature that Maya would never even look at (cause it's not supposed to make them) however, if you go years back, say 2005, 3 years after Blender 1st release, comparing that to Maya which has been around since 1998, which is already building over the familiar interface of its big brother 3D studio which has been around since 1988 (though MAX official release was in 1996), if you just go now and download the 2005 version of Blender, and compared to 2005 version of Maya, or most importantly to the package of 3DsMAX and Maya all together, then am sure you'll notice the differences. Add to that the huge lack of learning ressources Blender have, i mean, till today, Blender doesn't have an interactive "walkthrough" when you first open it, am not saying these are necessary, but almost all other commercial softwares does, its just in the past couple of years +2010 that Blender community start to get as big as it is now, which resulted in much better tutorials and ressources available to everyone, and eventually colleges and Studios will catch up and Blender will be used just like the other industry standards, but you simply can't compare a 30 years old steady and great software like 3Ds Max, and most importantly the huge number of people and studios who are "locked to it", to Blender which is 16 years old, literally still a kid xD a very promising and ambitious kid, and that's why am learning it, but still it's not as popular as the 30y.o pop star (i said "popular", not "good" or "bad") (i think i wrote my longest youtube comment lol)

Marketing: Nobody can use Blender if they don't know about it. I constantly need to explain that I'm not talking about the kitchen appliance.

TimTube Maya was arguably the best character modeling and rigging program some 20 years ago. Lightwave and 3dsmax we're there too, but maya worked well with schools. It's what most schools taught for non-engineering modeling and what most studios standardized on. It's still really good, though the difference is a lot less significant. It's like the Photoshop of modeling; good now, used to be amazing.

Well that's what a professional is. The word nowadays means someone that is really good at what they do, but the real meaning of professional is someone that gets payed for their work.

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thanks. I think Blender guru is an excellent teacher just that beginners should keep away from the advanced ones to start with :)

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