How to make PS1-Esque graphics with Blender 2.8 (Basic Character Modeling) 

me at 1am having never owned blender: yes youtube i would like to learn how to make ps1 style graphics. great vid keep it up!

A little trick for mirroring that I've found handy- add a loop cut down the middle and delete the vertices of the lefthand side half, then add the mirror modifier

At 3:18 when you're talking about Medieval cats, the two cat paintings in the middle are actually from a (currently still alive) Columbian artist called Fernando Botero! He does weird proportions as a conscious stylistic choice and has made some really fun sculptures too.

this channel is a gem

The modeling process was moving a bit too fast for me. I'd love to see you make another in-depth tutorial on modeling characters/objects/terrains; or any other video but go slower as I couldn't keep up with some of your videos.

There's a really cool video on RU-vid where they interviewed the creators of Crash Bandicoot and they talked about all the crazy ways they completely obliterated the hardware limits of the PS1. I think they found a way to talk more directly with the coprocessor so that they could push more polygons per frame. Also, they gave up on using any textured polygons at all because it would cause a 2x slowdown. Every thing you see in that game is flat shaded polygons, because they realized that the average rendered size of each of their polygons was 1.5 pixels anyway.

I've been wanting to make a small animation/game for some friends in a server and I figured PS1 graphics would be the best and I found this tutorial and honestly it did no dissapoint. I love you.

Great video as always! Using the sculpting smooth tool is something I didn't consider and a game changer honestly.

I’ve been havin’ a lot of trouble with character modelling & this helped a ton! Keep up the great work!

Words cant even describe how happy i am to have these tutorials and channel , thank you

Would love a video that details how I should go about creating and applying textures for these models that suit the ps1 style. Thank you for the great tutorials! I'm learning heaps!

Sweet videos man, looking forward to more!

Great work! I think it would be cool to texture this guy next time. You could make a poll, so people chose one of characters you'd like to model or texture

This is very helpful for this project I'm currently making, thanks!

This is perfect, just what I was looking for. Thanks!

I have been looking for a tutorial like this for quite a while. I'm coming from an artistic background trying to learn games. This is absolutely what I need and I can't thank you enough. You're an underrated channel and I'll be sure to plug you in as many forums/subreddits I can.

Excelent video, it deserves more likes. I like the retro style.

on the topic of medieval cats: in illuminated manuscripts from the church prior to the reformation, monks weren't allowed to just go out, look at a tree, and paint it. it was considered sinful and not allowed. they had to dip into a prescribed and approved reference book to draw from, which they were forced to copy. so whatever the tree looked like in the book, they would replicate. now when duplicating these books, imagine a butterfly effect of subtle differences in each and every tree. over time, the tree looks nothing like its original intention! but unfortunately this is how it had to be copied. Now apply this effect to said cats, and voila! grotesque chupacabra :)

This is great! Definitely will share with my friends

Great video as always!

I love the look and feel the graphics, because of limitations of the ps1 and older games had excellent music, e.g. Medievil 1 had a great look and the sounds, same said for the first 2 Oddworld games, great mood, the remakes are ok, but they have lost a good amount of the elements that made them iconic, I had a different vision of what the remakes should of been and I doubt i'm alone. Vid was very inspirational :)

holy molly this channel has what I'm missing.

i avoided this video but now I realize its one of the best ones when i comes to character moddeling for ps1

I've used this so much to help with my first game Can't wait to slice them in half

Loving this series btw, it's been a massive help to me!

Excellent choice of music

Super helpful man, many thanks 👍👍

Why am I finding this now, *exactly* a year after it's uploaded. And I've needed this for a while.

you deserve million subs, sick stuff :)

Thank you so much I’ve tried like 100 times to make a low poly model and I couldn’t put this tutorial help me a lot

i use rounded cubes to get my geometry easier when working with low poly it saves time and allows me to start shaping things instantly .

Awesome !!!! Thanks , Just found the Channel , i have alot to study here !! ⚡⚡⚡

My current understanding of smooth vs flat shading is that smooth shading is actually the cheaper of the two. Since for smooth shading the vertex normals of each vertices can be shared between vertices, while for flat shading the vertex normals are spilt and are not shared. Likewise UV seams act the same as flat shading adding to the hidden vertex cost with the vertices on the seam being spilt between the islands. I could be misunderstanding the information however, so feel free to correct me if I am wrong!

This is a amazing tutorial but there were some moments where the process went a bit fast xD! but keep up the good work!

Looking forward to when you get around to UV unwrapping and texturing.

wow mega-man x music. What a beast!

3:22 It's Vladislav from What We Do In The Shadows

Your vibe is 💯

thank u so much broooo

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Harry Masons model isn't segmented, most later PS1 games used skinned models, and all the Silent Hill characters were just that.

I know this is a late comment but your model is massive, probably around 600 to 1000 polygons, worked with the PS1 way back in the day, most hero models, that's the character the player plays had 200 to 600, Crash Bandicoot had 612 and Lara Croft just 260, this was because of the way the PS1 executed instructions, the system specs say 10,000 polygons per frame but the actual number was more like 3000, this was because of the system cache's and RAM, it wasn't just textures and polygons we were sending, it was data sets on raster's, this was to tell the PS1 how many polygons each model has, were it was and how far away it was from the player character, the PS1 didn't have a z buffer, we had to program our own, it also lacked floating point data, hence the wobbly graphics, all those instructions had to be executed before anything was rendered, notice the specs say in *hardware* , that means if the hardware was just making polygons, clever marketing trick from Sony, all the system information had to be written in machine code, just like any computer ever but the game code was written in C, the PS1 stores data from the disk into the caches on the board, then the CPU draws from those to organise and execute instruction sets, to draw frames the PS1 had a frame buffer that the CPU would call on to draw the polygons on the screen, the buffer was limited however and writing the code to call on those instructions, textures and game code was a nightmare, it was fast in hardware but slow in software, we got around a lot of these problems by reducing the amount called on the screen at a time, freeing space in the hardware to make the games run at a smooth 30fps, making low poly models leaves more polys for the environment, sound and effects, so Lara Croft was low poly to make the environments more transversable, whereas Crash Bandicoot needed to be higher in polygons because he took up much of the screen, blender can't replicate the effects of the PS1 graphics because it was hardware limitations that made the games appear that way, a good example is emulated games, same game, more likely crash dumped from the disk but the effects of z buffer wobble and dithering are not present, I suppose if there is a way to tell blender to randomly skip some frames in a render you might get closer to the original, we dumped loads of frames when making in game cutscenes, you can't even tell, Resident Evil has tons of them, which is weird because all the backgrounds are prerendered images!

Best intro.

Lmfao the cat reference was hilarious.

Sometimes I wonder how this channel doesn't have 12k subscriptions.

This is the easiesssst tutorial to follow

OK so im totally new to blender but everytime i loopcut and mirror my cube its like theres a second cube inside??? and idk what to do about it and it just doesnt move correctly

Photo references: Lateral head: (if link dies search for: head-geo-08.jpg) lh6.googleusercontent.com/-f0dnk5nEURs/TWxy8ubPeiI/AAAAAAAAAKM/bpTUCNzqqWI/s1600/Head-Geo-08.jpg Front head: www.istockphoto.com/en/photo/blank-white-male-head-front-view-gm182137797-27373893 Shortcuts he used in video: 4:26 -> Clear location -> Alt + G

Great tutorial! It's all very well explained. It's fast, but that's what the stop and rewind buttons are for haha If had to make a suggestion, I'd say displaying the shortcuts you use on the screen. Just a moment, but it really helps to see what you are doing. Keep up the good work!

I'd love to see you add ps1 hair to this!

Thanks i tried it and it looks good is there a video on how to rig it ?

how is it with trangles vs quads in case of PS1? Werent they using triangles as today in games?

I'm glad that you can do this kind of low poly rendering. I have an Intel UHD G1 Integrated GPU with an i3 1005g1 1.2ghz dual core CPU. I'm hoping that rendering wouldn't take forever with this kind of style. Also, shouldn't it be like rendering in the late 90s early 2000s?

For bends in arms and legs I think it's essential you use collapsible joint topology. Especially for characters like this Its a well known thing so you can search it up and find quick tutorials on RU-vid but it looks so much better

exactly what i wanted. cant fucking believe it. thanks

3:05 That would've been medieval times. The Renaissance was when people actually developed the "rules" for things like perspective, and proportions, and started to actually pay attention to people's facial features, rather than subjects suffering from more same-face syndrome than an Akira Toriyama series.

where is the model's link tho?

I often had problem when texturing (UV) is that they not pixel perfect, like triangle pixels etc. But I get more hang of it

Una pregunta por que tu video, ¿cuando quiero traducirlo automáticamente dice que estas hablando vietnamita?

dont wann reinvent the wheel, ny chnce one can grb this model?

modelling these hands is going to be the death of me

I m glad i clicked on this video

4:50 is the most confusing part cause theirs information he missed. One he puts the mirror modifier the next he controls all the vertices to one point then seperate the mirror objects away from each other like its nothing without any context?

make a full chracter rigging video please

is there by any chance can i download the model?

that sonic music though

Can you post a download link for the basemesh?

The ps1 graphic is the next gen

I’m really interested in the part where you focus on coloring and detailing the face. Like making eyes that blink and a mouth that opens and closes

how do you use the tweak with a large radius, I can only grab one vertice or edge at a time and it makes modeling characters extremely difficult

16:17 When you say "LMAO" too much.

Great video! I'm interested in making a kind of anime style model, so something along the lines of final fantasy 9, Persona, or maybe even Jet Set Radio just to name a few. Is there a secret you know of to achieve the style of these or will what you've detailed in the video suffice for what I'm going after?

do you have a link to download these characters?

would be great to know what shortcuts your using to loop cut like that

that's can be a dumb question but, how did you copy that face (12:10)? Ctrl+c and ctrl+v ? Because I can't copy like you :(

Wahoo I like video

about texsturing, how do i texture properly without having to deal with the mirrored texsture?

I can't figure out how to separate the mirrored cube into two cubes like he does at 5:00 any help would be greatly appreciated.

7:50 I'm a beginner, so correct me if I've misunderstood your meaning, but lowering the focal length definitely seems to INCREASE visual distortion, like a fisheye lens. Take it down further to 10 and see what I mean. As you raise the focal length you get closer to orthographic view.

I know judging by the oldness of this video my question might be useless but why is it that every time I try to merge the cubes I end up with a jumbled mess of vertices? Apologies for my lack of skill but I am in quite the predicament. My blender skills are far from up to par. Love you ailing wizard man.

Add a loop cut in the middle of the neck and bevel it so it doesn't appear broken when rigged

am i the onl one where when i click mirror the cube does not epratate but is still one cube mirroring both sides of itself

It's 90K/second textured, lit and Gouraud shaded, so 3K/second and 30fps or 250 cubes @12 tris per cube, still naff, given the texturing was not perspective corrected and it's pretty tough to create a character even out of ~1K quads and it not look awful

I mean the Egyptians managed to draw/sculpt cats pretty well. Maybe medieval European artists just collectively agreed that they couldn't be arsed to learn how to draw cats.

The sonic music in the background.

The pink Model just looks like Cerberus from Ultrakill

Smol question; Why not start by just making a loopcut and using the global mirror tool? Just seems a lot less convaluted for beginners.

Will you texture the character ?

tell more about texturing please

did you ever click apply the mirror modifier or no?

GG

link to the model? 🤔

where are the rigging/animation videos mentioned?

wheres pt2

i cannot find a good reference image bruh

i forgot to save my human in blender so here i am again

what about mario 64?

Every time I click to drag a verticy it just highlights it please help

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