Making Family Guy Realistic in Blender 

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"Hey Lois, this is just like the time Blender Guru recreated our house."

The fact that andrew owns up to instances where he knows something is beyond him is something people really should learn

The characters are nightmare fuel but the living room is a dream! Incredible job!

Downloading other peoples models is a good way to learn how to fix bad geometry. I cant say how many times I thought I was going to save time only to spend hours fixing someone else's mess.

Amazing how much content you can "cram" in just seven minutes! Great work!

1:07 Oh noooooo, he got trapped in there!😭😭😭

Every time I watch a video on this channel, I feel inspired to learn more about Blender. I love working with Blender and creating 3D models, but sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the amount of information out there. It's like I'm facing a huge mountain, and every time I try to climb it, the mountain gets bigger and bigger, and the top seems farther and farther away. I start to question whether or not I really want to learn Blender. Then I come across a video on this channel, and it reignites my passion for learning.

"Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, its probably crap." - Peter! And i loved this like a fart

I think the night one is better. The day one sort of looks like it's underground or something, because of the lack of different light sources. It just feels too dark. I think there should be more spilled light from outside on the stairs, inside the opened door etc. as if there is multiple windows in the house instead of just few in the actual modeled room

Blender Guru is one of the best when it comes to tuts. Explains well and isn't afraid to reveal he's always learning -- just like me!

Damn! Although Family Guy is not my cup of tea, your realistic creation of it most definitely is. Outstanding job Andrew... Perfectly magnificent!

This is cool. I remember the first tutorials you started making about 2 decades ago. You have definitely improved a lot and you definitely have quite the success story :)

that was honestly so entertaining watching how you went about creating this. The one thing I noticed with the character creator models is the uncanny valley feeling imo kind of came from how they appeared to look more like wax figures from something like Mdme Toussauds. Perhpas no subsurf scattering on the skin? Can't really tell though. Amazing scene in any case, lots of super handy tips and tricks for modelling too.

Simply beautiful. This man inspired me to switch from graphic design to 3D modeling and animation and I can say I'm glad I discovered him two years ago.

That is so good! Both the room and the characters!

The Blender legend is back at it! Your videos are amazing!

man that shear tip is great! I have been using blender for years and I still learn new tidbits every time I watch a video like this!

Dude's a beast. I think a lot of professors could learn from his conciseness. He packs so much useful, easy-to-understand information into the video.

1:06 I like how he just trapped the random figure inside the stairs

your ways in talking and organizing the information is soooo nice and encourage us to figure out more info, I am watching your videos from 2018 till now and truly no one on the RU-vid has the same power of inspiration you have that made people fall in love with blender, thanks Andrew and keep posting

Who else loves watching things that they barley understand😂

That is so cool, that you turned the Family Guy living room into a realistic one! I like the night one slightly better! Awesome job and great instructions on how you did it! 🧡

I had some good luck creating those foam cushions by modeling the internal foam shape and then just using cloth shrinking factor to essentially shrinkwrap that with the actual cushion mesh. You can (and probably should) add extra tension creases with sculpting or normal maps though, so it's not a totally one-and-done technique.

To solve the issue of your uncanny valley situation with the character, you actually do have to model them in a cartoonish way to match the cartoon, like you have with everything else. It needs consistency, but then you can use realistic textures on the character to match your environment. With the realistic lighting, but obviously basic looking scene and character, it will come together nicely as all the textures are consistent too. They're realistic but quite plain. So your character needs to match this

So much respect for trying something out, knowing its a dud, then retracting it while acknwoladging somethings just don't work. Thats the reality of being an artist! Great work, much love Andrew!!

LMAO!! How you made Meg look had me dying! Great work as always!

if you made this into a series, I would tune in every time

Lois looks awesome, and Chris looks like an overweight chad. Good job! haha

One important thing to note is that after you place the camera inside the cube, go to edit mode and select all the faces and hit shift + n to flip the normals.

7:19 I think this is the best scene with the realistic human models.

Your videos are like therapy for me. You're so calm and collected, and I'm a C4d user 🤣. Great stuff as usual.

We need to talk 🤨

Hey andrew, i'm from sudamerica but i love to watch your videos i have 13 y/o and you helped me so much thank you. :)

I think the sofa cushions still do work because they are photoscanned out of position and so they look like intersecting individual cushions rather than multiple cushions squished together. Maybe it would be better if you photoscanned it in place.

Thankyou gamoco bhai

👌Hindi voiceover was great, it's great for people like me, who doesn't know English very much

Common Andrew!! Where are those 10 parts modelling tutorial series? We want more of them!!!

Wow, this is like stepping into the Griffin household! The attention to detail is uncanny - from the quirky expressions to the spot-on voices. Truly impressive work!

This is a lot of fun, inspires me to try to recreate a living room from a different show like Spongebob or Rick and Morty or something. I wish you could post more often, you always have awesome content, but I also understand you've already shared a wealth of information and are also busy with Polygon and other things. If you need video ideas, I'd love to see a series talking about the processes you guys use at polygon for your assets. They're all super nice quality and I'm always impressed. Obviously you don't have to give away all your secrets, but I just wonder what your process is for capturing or generating high quality textures, getting clean photoscans, capturing your own surface imperfections, and maybe even how you guys make HDRIs. I know you've made a couple videos about some of these things in the past, but it'd be cool to see the workflows now that you've had a few years with your own asset company, perfecting that process.

If your 3D Family Guy characters look weird, you Probably did it right

any plans on making another fixing your renders vid? loved that vid a lot

Cheers Andrew! Happy you still making tut and fun to learn a few things after all these years.👌

Amazing hindi voice over brother

If you guys wondering why the character looks weird in the couch it's because its very hard to pose a character. There is a wonderful program cal Cascadeur it makes animation very easy using ai.

Wake up babe, new Blender Guru shitpost just dropped

So much fun watching you work on a project. Also seems so easy...

I like the music in background and your pleasant voice. thx for the video 🤍

This has a huge work behind, wow

good to see you blender guru after along time

This inspired me to try blender

Holy actual damn- This is so incredibly impressive-

"You don't know what you don't know" - ancient type wisdom straight from BlenderGuru. That's so rad. Thanks for ur tutorials!

LOVE THAT YOU'RE BACK BROTHER! Please do some kind of tutorial :)))))

Although i don't use blender, I enjoy watching your videos a lot. Always learn something, thank you

🎉🎉🎉Nice work pankaj bhai ❤❤❤ keep it up full support from UP

Thanks! And I am so glad you can slow video down in RU-vid..

this part: 6:10 makes it look like your looking from a security camera. but its crazy how he turned a small cube into a living room

The only thing I'd change is how fluffy those pillows are. I'd imagine those cushions would be rather.. flaccid, given Peters girth.

No one can beat your explaining way, such a good teacher

In my opinion the "uncanniness" made the scene way funnier

This is so cool ! it has that look of the scene art in "the adventures of gumball" where its cartoony-ish but pretty photo realistic at the same time !

The background sound gives a perfect experience to me.

The tip with the bool tool is awesome!

Came for a family guy vid, left as a full time senior 3d developer

Horror films need to take notes.

You make this look so easy.

HE DIDNT DELETE THE DEFAULT CUBE 😭

This is so fascinating. I'm glad YT's algorithm did its thing and I found your video 😁

“Hey lois, remember that one time i was made in blender?”

And I'm still at learning the UI. Amazing video!

OOOoooh. I see we've finally found your weakness magic donut man.

awesome! its amazing how instantly beautiful the scene was when using all that high quality ray traced(?) lighting!

I don't even own a computer, but I'm mesmerized by this.

Nighttime feels cozy, the daytime one feels familiar (Like a memory). idk if that makes sense. Theyre both cool this nice work!

How many of you watch these while knowing full well you'll probably never even install Blender? 🙋‍♂️

As someone who appreciates, but knows very little about this type of thing, this was incredible to watch, your skill is insane!

Character Creator looks so cool! I wish I could afford to buy it somehow so that I can use it to create 3D models.

Even though I miss the Andrew Price podcast, it is still a win-win to have you back here sensei. GG

Great Video!

You have shown small but very effective hotkeys and methods for modeling and assigning textures in a short time. It is necessary to slow down and watch the video again. We thank you.🏆

Are ye to gamoco bhai

Thanks for not deleting the default cube and add a new one...legend

Incredible. Just got to episode 13 of the Donut Tutorial, which is Lighting! I'm just at the beginning. Can't wait till I can make stuff like this!!

For Stewie's head, just use an American Football, and put skin and eyes on it :P It all look so easy when you do it :)

"It looks weird" literally looks like a triple a this man is a wizard

Glad to see you making more videos again

I just got your channel recommended to be on youtube. I love them, its so fascinating. I'd like to see you try to recreate Godzilla (either Legendary's one or the one from Minus One). Maybe you already did it so I'll check your video just in case.

"Check it out Lois, Blender Guru realistically portrayed our house in 3D Software."

This is surprisingly one of the best blender tutorials I’ve seen on the internet.

They are definitely the type of neighbors I would sell my house to move away to another city.

This needs to be featured in the actual show during one of Stewie’s and Brian’s trips to the multiverse

your channel is the most fascinating thing I have ever seen I am literally in tears

Love the Toonstruck like Background music :D

Okay the realistic Lois can get it, any time, any day ngl.😂

That Lois Character makes me wanna act up

Note the shear tool is in the tool bar on the left, so you don't have to memorize anything if you use it once a month.

Character creator is meant fro 3D artist, the sofware is only good if you know how to use it and can do 3D models andtexture by yourself. you can real life-like characters in CC if you know how to work it around. Ive been using CC for years an im still learning even now. Not venting myself but my CC stuff look very good and quality

yes the realistic family guy models looked weird, but they do look weird in the cartoon, so i think it fit perfectly just my 2cents

lol, baluster only took 5 minutes to model. probably for some one experienced . I could probably do it in 15 to a 30 min. but I think for me I would have drawn a profile and rotated it 360. I've been using cad sketcher for a lot, but I'm drawing for 3d printing. so that's more of my experience and I have less mesh problems for printing. Love your videos and you helped a lot for me to get where I am now.