Modeling a character BaseMesh in Blender (Tutorial) 

Tools/shortcuts 00:00 Head 01:58 Neck 41:38 Top Chest 44:24 Sholder 46:44 Edit and fixing in between Lower chest/abdominal 01:02:38 Butt 01:06:56 Edit and fixing in between Legs 01:20:34 Feet 01:26:04 Arm 01:41:45 Rist/hand 01:53:17

1:57 If you're Round Cube is not spherical then you have to select the object, press F9, change Operator Presets to Quadsphere then change the Arc Divisions to 4 (if you want to stay accurate to the video)

This is the kind of video I want to see more of! The way it's unedited let's us see the problem solving side of Blender when he tries to make the topology flow. Getting inside that thought process is what really helps, not an immaculate, step by step tutorial that so many other Blender tutorials fall into. This is organic, slow paced, and refreshingly sincere.

50:16 "Here you have a small depression..." me: "Yeah..."

Oh God, I've been trying to create the mesh along with you. It's been about 6 hours and I've gone through exactly 23 minutes and 47 seconds of the video :P

The way you just so casually create triangles and 5 pentagons and within moments have them back to quads with perfect mesh interaction for loop interaction is mind boggling to me. I'm sure its not that hard when you know how to do it well, but as someone still in the baby steps of blender its amazing.

Learning graphic design, french and anatomy in a single video. My teachers thought I'd never learn anything useful if I dropped out

2:04 I'm already stuck, for some reason the "round cube" literally makes a rounded cube for me, and not this golf ball looking shape in his tutorial. Anyone have any tips on how I can get that shape?

Sociamix: Don't worry, It shows what keys I'm pressing in the bottom left so you can follow along. Also Sociamix: Uses keyboard at a speed the eye can't follow.

I can't believe you made that human in 2 and half hours. I'm on day two. One day I hope to be as skilled at modeling as you are. I watched you dismantle the neck and rebuild it like, "fill, fill, fill, create this line here." Credit it to you, I can now say that I modeled a human ear. I never thought I would ever tackle that!

This has got to be the most comprehensive box modeling character tutorial on youtube

I'm glad to see people still doing polygonal modeling. I prefer starting here before sculpting rather than starting out sculpting. It makes so much more sense.

To anyone watching, if following this takes you more than 1 day (for whatever reasons, I've done it in 5 so don't worry), just try to find some time to practice what you learned before, for example when doing legs on a given day, try to recreate head, and try to incorporate all the principles that went into it. I'm still at the point of practising this, but I find it way more convenient. Also if you are doing renders, try to make the part you put most of your attention to pop out, for example by making it clothless. Don't want to show face, but the abs you worked on for quite a while? Maybe a mask. Etc. This makes this practice a lot more fun.

*_newbies just staring at the lower-left corner and sweating_*

I really appreciate that you didn't cut out any of the mistakes/corrections you made throughout this video. Hearing you talk out why you would want to change something that, to me, looked fine, for better topology really helped me understand your thought process, and kept me engaged and thinking more than if I were just blindly following along. Thanks so much!

I put this on before I usually go to bed and half an hour in I was literally seconds away from falling asleep before I woke up and realised how powerful this is as a productive way to keep myself entertained before sleep

I am so glad to see a tutorial where real character modeling is done, i'm not a fan of sculpting character models.

The kindest blender tutorial I've ever seen. Thank you!!

Exceptional tutorial on modeling a human base mesh. The anatomy references are the best, and very helpful. No annoying music to distract. Thanks.

This was an awesome video. I had zero blender experience and followed along with the video for 15 hours over two days and I finally have something that looks decent! Not quite the model you made (especially not the hands LMAO) but I learned so many helpful shortcuts, techniques, and general approaches to modelling. I am forever grateful to you!

This really is the best human figure modelling tutorial I've come across. It explains clearly the purpose and construction of edge flow and loops to follow anatomy. I've heard it mentioned often in principle but this really shows you what is going on and how to achieve it.

Finally the tutorial I was looking for modeling a character. So much learned with this video : line flows, body anatomy, shortcuts... thank you very much , now I need to spend several days following along to learn modeling. Un grand merci !

This is actually amazing, the flow of the face has always given me trouble, this is a blessing!

Isn’t it crazy how many of us are finally trying out blender and finding ourselves here getting all our questions answered before we even think about them

A nice you use an early version of my VUr screencast keys addon, new version is available if you dont use it already.

For anyone struggling with learning shortcuts, sometimes the best way is just repetition. Throughout this video, he has the controls/shortcut keys that he uses to navigate the system. Additionally, he almost always explains how to do them which is frankly something you don't get from many tutorials.

I've learned a lot, not only about blender but also about anatomy

Every tutorial should be like this. Until now, this channel and videos by CG Fast Track are the best ones...

Despite the fact that you use the key binds faster than a normal human mind can comprehend, I got most of my model done in around 2 days. Great tutorial for semi-beginners!

Your tutorial is a real blessing ngl, this is the ONLY modelling tutorial that I can actually follow with!

Regardless if you parle Français, your tutorial is tres helpful. Je suis glad that you brought up how to fix the Round Cube option not being available. Merci beaucoup dude

That whole neck/throat rebuilding was butter for my soul. That's what makes topolgy such an interesting and fun topic.

This is the tutorial i needed 15 years ago lol

Sociamix, you actually made a human modeling tutorial rather than a sculpting tutorial and I am impressed. Keep up the good work!

I basically walked through the head(improvising a little as I go) and then I went through the rest of it without a guide. As soon as you know the basics, modeling becomes very easy. Thanks for making this video! It gave me a better thought process while modeling.

j'ai appris plus en 49 minutes (je n'ai pas fini) qu'en heures carrées ailleurs merci beaucoup, c'est super. vraiment passionnant.

It was the best tutorial ever! I've never tried organic modelling before and this helped me a lot. Thank you very much, sir!

Thank you very much. I think it took 14 hours to finish. After Blender Guru's Donut tutorial this was amazing to follow. I learnt a lot. You are a great teacher.

never made a human mesh before, the workflow of this one worked out well for me while using the unreal mannequin as a reference

Months later and I've finally finished it... great tutorial thanks for making it!

That was a long and patient tutorial! Thanks for all the help! I loved it thoroughly!

What a magnificent tutorial. The best, from start to finish, that I've ever seen.

I'm really impressed that you mesh modeled that entire base mesh in like a little over 2 hours!

been going through this video in cinema4d for about 2 weeks now and i havent even moved past the head yet! i really appreciate you. this video is incredibly, incredibly helpful

As a game design student myself, this tutorial was extremely helpful in showcasing a workflow similar to Zbrush but in low poly. I loved how you showed the 3d highlighted muscles areas as reference to what you were talking about very helpful. Knowing the muscles of the body is an extremely difficult and long process to understand but the way you show cased it was extremely helpful in how you went about creating your model, would absolute love more and more videos like this!!! If you are into creating animation riggs and models for animation would be helpful as well! Thank you!

I've been studying Riven Phoenix's box modeling for years. I've always instinctively deviated from his formula based approach, it's nice to see a full intuitive way of box modeling.

Love how you sketch the bigger shape than delete some polys and draws a better definer topology. Thank you for sharing!

I swear I’ve watched so many tutorials and this one is the best for people just figuring blender out! Thank you for the great content! :)

Cette vidéo m'aide énormément, merci beaucoup ! C'est dommage que tu te sois arrêté là car j'aurais apprécié voir comment peindre sur le personnage, lui donner vêtements et cheveux, l'animer,... Tu montres bien chaque étape de ta création de personnage et tu expliques pourquoi tu fais les choses sans en faire trop. J'apprécie beaucoup ton travail Merci encore du temps que tu as consacré à faire cette vidéo :)

I just spent 4 days following this tutorial and I learned so much! Thank you!!

I'm only 1min in on the video and I just wanted to comment and say thank you. You got straight to the point. You didn't waste time doing a bunch of talking like the majority of the videos I've come across. I appreciate you! Subscribed

Best tutorial I've seen. Very detailed. Hands and feet were my problem,but thanks to you not any more. Thanks once again for sharing this information for free !!!!!

Amazing. I like how you every step talk about shortcuts, really nice.

To those who end up with too many vertices with multiple faces on their round cube [1:58] when creating it, to get the same results as him you can press F9 to open a drop down menu which will display "Segments", "Rings" and "Radius". Make sure the values are as shown below: Segments = 16 Rings = 8 Radius = 1

Started this video w/ blender opened but got lost in the beautiful workflow.... great modeling w/ explanations, shows how to think about working in 3D. A+ great video. I salute you sir!

THANK YOU SociaMix... I'm new to blender and have learned so much from this tutorial, I'm doing one section a day and am really happy with the progress. Following peoples' workflow has been the greatest challenge, and yours makes sense to me. I leave each day thinking Blender IS my friend and I can model in three dimensions!

I really enjoyed this, speaking out the muscles, tendons, and forms, as well as getting a slow methodical build up of the decent topology was really helpful! Also its nice to have a base mesh to start my sculpting with that I made from scratch, It took me a long time to follow along with you lol, but its because I was really wanting to pay attention to every detail, and the wisdom you shared. Cheers!

I was looking for this a few weeks ago, great tutorial!

This is a great tutorial. not enough content about modeling like this as opposed to jumping straight to sculpting

Your Blender Skills are unmatchable, learned so much from you.

It tooks me 7 hr per day for 4 days, but i made it perfect THNX

The only channel that not timelapse for character animation.

Great tutorial! I learned more about topology from this video than all the others I've watched. Thank you 👍

I can't believe how much easier your way of modelling is compared to many others I have watched, also love some of the tricks you used for making the with the snap tool, thankyou and keep up the good work, well worth subscribing to.

This is what i've been waiting for. Thank you mate.

Thank you so much! this is one of my favorite tutorials!

The best head and body tutorial I never seen, your technique and exlanation make it sample.

Thank you so much for this video! I have been following it for a few days now. Stopping and going. Really informative, and I have learned a lot already! I cannot wait until I reach the others!

This was a great tutorial I have no experience with art and this explained the basics of male anatomy pretty good for me

Bravo! Such a wonderful tutorial. You are a Master. Merci beaucoup!

Thank you so much for posting this tutorial. It has been a blast following along and I've been learning so much from you. This video is such a gem and I thank you for taking the time for making it for us

Thank you for your tutorial. I picked up Blender again due to the issues I have with Maya on my computer and so far I'm loving how flexible it is once I got through my issues with the interface and I'm learning so much that I can translate to Maya.

Tips: Week one: do the head only, again and again and again, make a head erase it do it again, 3 /4 everyday Week 2 : the head and the torso. By week 2 the head will be a joke to you Week3/4 : rince and repeat the same process. At the end of the month you will do a full body without thinking. Most important in the video is the topology, not the shape. That you can fix or modify as you go since it is the purpose of a perfect base mesh it will be your own base mesh, you wont need to do it again after you tweak it with some more technic from the web PS: in big studio then dont redo base mesh and they often take an ear or something from another model for base. A human is a human

Awesome! Im going to use this tutorial to make my character (its a child, but with a bit of proportional changing I can probably still make it using this tutorial) and it just might be the one after all my failed attempts! I also admire how you sort of explained how everything works, so this is a beginner friendly tutorial as well!

Hey i got say, this is the best character modeling tutorial i've ever seen! And let me tell you, i have been looking for quite some time! haha You really know how to explain the process, even though you said your not looking for some specific. Thanks again and keep up the great work

This video somehow simultaneously demystifies modeling a base mesh AND makes me feel like I'm watching a magic show.

This was fantastic! Thank you for sharing your methods!

hey, your accent isn't that bad, and it gives the tutorial that kind of classy feel :D

Wow, what a great tutorial! Thanks so much for showing the workflow and all the details.

3 minutes in and already you have saved me time before even starting. thank you :)

Thanks, now I know that hearing the word "loop" with a French accent makes me happy for some reason.

You're a madlad with these keybinds o.o Good tutorial! I look forward to learning how to do this soon

Oh this is hardcore. Thank you for sharing. Your understanding of anatomy coupled with topology is enlightening

love this video! its great to see a completely workflow, incredible anatomy by the way!

I've been looking for this during all my life, thank you so much ! Et vive les baguettes, bien sûr Do you know whether you will make a tutorial about the rigging (and weight painting) part for your character ? I will personnally find it very useful. I am not a weight painting lover. At all

A quick sculpting tip is to press Shift + F to change the strength of a brush (F alone changes brush size)

Wow I just looked at your channel. I knew I should have taken French in school, Dang! I'm glad you have this one in English.

I rarely leave a comment, but now I want to say you thank you for your useful and informative tutorial.

i want to say you Thank you with the deapth of my heart 🥺 Thank you ❤️

@ 7:41 If anyone is having issues with boundary [B] not working, It is an issue with the round cube object (at least in v2.83) where there are duplicate vertices along the middle of the object. This can be resolved by: Edit mode > Vertex mode [1] > Select All [A] > Merge Vertices [M] > by distance. It should clean up the duplicates for you.

I've been at this for at 3 hours real-time, I'm 22 mins into your video. 10/10

You are really good at making tutorials and explaining this. Thank you

I got lost in your silky smooth french accent and accidentally made my base mesh out of cardboard, styrofoam and an actual blender

couple of things u may find useful(I will update more, cause i am not done yet lol): 3:32 to change the radius of G, you can scroll up and down 4:35 to select plates, not nodes press 3 4:57 to come back from plates to nodes, press 1 9:06 to work with eyelid(make it smaller, bigger) press E then S 9:36 to add eyeball be sure to be in object mode 10:34 to work with face, but not eyeballs, make sure to select your face and only then go back to Edit Mode 16:29 I tried to follow tutorial, but my nodes duplicated. Idk maybe I did smth wrong, but I got angry and tired, and decided do this: select 5 plates -> G (move closer to center to create "nose") -> E and pull ( pull of the nose itself). It worked...

i wasnt planning to follow this tutorial, i wasnt really gonna do anything. but i just had this playing in the background cz boy i love your accent combined with your voice. so nice

i was following this step by step to make a base for my vtuber model, it was honestly so easy to follow even while doing in a completly diffrent artstyle, you are amazing dude, keep it up

Thanks a lot, Great tutorial. Are you going to do a rigging video for this?

15:11 im pressing B and it is toggling the boundary, but for some reason it's still not coming up to the edge of the face and i end up extruding like two flaps instead of one symmetrical nose. anyone know whats going on? i'm sure i must have messed up somewhere lol. great tutorial though :)

thanks for the absolute phantastic tutorial!! ...a littel note for everyone having difficulties to smooth the centerline of the obejct, deselect the "mesh boundary" in the advanced section of the smooth brush.

I can feel my brain expand just listening to this. Dank