Blender 2.7 Tutorial #3 : Building a Snowman #b3d Video Lecture | Learn and Master: Blender (English) - Professional Skills

hello our three video series and how to
use blender 2.7 in this quick video we
really practicing using all the things
that I've covered in the last couple of
videos in order to make a simple
character in this case a snowman using
primitive shapes within our scene in the
3d viewport let's go ahead and let's
click on a splash screen to get rid of
it I'm going to quickly go to my
properties panel with the n key and turn
on my screencast keys this is an add-on
for blender let me show you what I'm
pressing on my keyboard and with my
mouse um all within the 3d viewport only
unfortunately so down here you can see
what I'm pressing but I'll be kind of
talking as I do it I don't go to my
front orthographic view so I'm going to
press 1 divided by front view on v to
switch into orthographic orbit that if
you use the 1 3 and 7 keys and I
recommend doing that that'll bring you
to and keep you within your front right
and top views if you press ctrl + 1 3 or
7 again this is all numbers on your
number pad in the last video we set up
blender so that you can also use your
number row if you don't have a number
pad on the side of your keyboard that's
just fine if you hold ctrl and press 1
or 3 or 7 it does the opposite so
control 1 goes to the back view control
3 goes to the left until the right view
and control 7 goes to the bottom to the
top view so I'm just going to press 1
and go to my front view and I'm going to
delete this default cube so I'll press X
or delete and then select delete with
that selected now your 3 cursor is where
new objects get added so if you've
clicked to put it somewhere else other
than at 0 0 0 in our scene those are the
coordinates the very middle of the world
I'm going to press shift C and what
shift C does is two things it puts your
3d cursor back at the middle of your
scene at 0 0 0 and also kind of zoom so
you can see everything nicely in your
scene although I will pan over so it's
more in the middle of my screen and I'm
going to add a UV sphere which is a kind
of a mesh so the add menu and mesh and
I'll add a UV sphere now I don't
normally go down here to the add menu I
usually just go and press shift a that's
the keyboard shortcut for
or the add menu and you can see that
it's kind of reverse to actually mesh is
at the top now it's at the bottom which
I kind of like because mesh is the most
common thing you're going to add while
modeling I'm going to add a UV sphere
there we go now when you're adding any
default objects which is important to
know that you know not really default
objects but when you add any meshes they
have a default number of faces and these
faces are divided up by edges and really
we have to be thinking about if we're
making very complicated scene how many
faces or polygons that are on every
object as soon as you add an object if
you open up your tool shelf which is
this little plus a button if you click
it it opens up or you can press T and
that will show or hide it as soon as you
add a mesh and before you even move it
or do anything to it you get the options
for that mesh so this is where you can
change on a pair of segments so if you
click and drag you can see that we were
all the way down to a three in this case
but you can see you can simplify it and
segments are like the and I get this
wrong and my high school teacher in
socials is going to wash this and hate
me for the lines of longitude I hope
that's what these I felt really earth
that's what it would be decreasing or
increasing with segments rings are the
ones that go lies a latitude I I hope
and the size you can adjust the size to
so that's what you can do in there the
first two things are most important
because once you move or rotate or scale
this object this section goes away so
and there is no way to get back to it so
let's not leave it that simple I'm going
to shift again and add that UV sphere
again I'm going to add what actually
member what it was I'm going to do a 12
by 12 UV sphere but I think I'm going to
simplify it more for the Rings to make
those things more square in fact I'm
going to go up to 12 and then
try to make them as square as I can
there we go 12 by 20 works if you leave
it at the default I think it's 36 by 18
that's my guess let's hope totally okay
all right so go to UV sphere I'm going
to pretend that this red line for my
front view which is the x-axis or zero
on the x-axis or zero on the z-axis up
up and down if I move it down there it's
actually below zero on the z-axis but
I'm gonna pretend that that red line is
my ground because if I orbit around you
can see that you know there is that
ground right there
I'm gonna duplicate my UV sphere because
we're gonna make a three snowball
snowman
now you can use the duplicate in your
tool she'll remember that ever since to
plunder 2.70 there are now these tabs
within the tool shelf I'm not a big fan
of these tabs telling the truth I
would've rather just have everything
still there you can pin sections of this
tool shelf so if you right-click on any
of the headings transform edit history
and I I can pin that and then I go to
the create tab that transform section is
still there and I can move it around and
pin it to make sort of a customized I'm
gonna unpin that tool shelf but you know
what I don't use much more than the the
tools here if I want use my grease
pencil which I haven't talked about yet
in any video or my physics I might go
there but you know I use keyboard
shortcuts more than anything else um
with this UV sphere selected I'm going
to duplicate it twice now I could click
on the duplicate button in the tools tab
and what that will do is it'll make a
duplicate copy of that UV sphere and
attach it to my mouse right away but as
you can see my mouse is no longer Lea in
the 3d view poor at least on the main
section so I don't like using these
buttons especially not for you know
rotate or translate you know something
likes to have my mouth so close to the
edge of the screen um so I'm just going
to use shift D and shift keys
just as good or better for duplicate
because I can put my mouse right over it
and then I can move it now if you grab
something after pressing shift D so what
shifty actually does rest shifty it
makes duplicate a copy of this the
effort you have selected and it attaches
it to your mouse until you click but if
you press what are the three letters of
the axes either X Y or Z in this case
I'm going to press Z it's going to
constrain the object to going up and
down so what I did again is I press
shift D duplicate and then I can move it
anywhere I want so I decided down while
I pressed Z and now I can only go up
okay I click to let go of it and I'm
going to scale the S key I'll move my
mouse closer to the middle of that
object that's good shift D and then Z
move it up there and click ask the scale
scale it in and click and then I'll move
it down great I'm going to add some
eyeballs to my snowman so I look at my
3d cursor rate off to the side of
snowman and because that's where I want
to put the eye and I'm going to add a
new again the add menu is just a I'm
going to add a new UV sphere and it's
that same twenty by twelve that I
customized earlier let's go ahead and
scale that down so I'll press s when
you're pressing s here's tapping s by
the way you're not holding it at all
ever so I'll make it about that big
great and I got a G to grab it and put
it in on the front of the head but
you'll see that it goes into the middle
of the head
that's actually not behind that it's in
the middle of it
if I go for my top view you can see that
you know it was over here because I
think a 3d cursor was exactly still
lined up with the middle this is the
front of the snowman this is the back of
the snowman so what I need to do is I
need to you know I can move it in there
but then I want to bring it forward so
it's kind of sticking it over the
snowman's head and do it right there
so now I know it's about right if I
orbit around that's pretty well what I
want I'll move it back a little bit
great back in the front of you now I'll
duplicate that I so I'll press shift D
and now I only want to move it side to
side so I'm going to press X
now we'll constrain it to the x-axis
movement only so there we go
I'll zoom in a little bit so we can see
that a little better maybe I can shift
select the second one maybe I want to
move them both up a little bit
great all right let's go to the front
view again and I'm going to add a comb
so I'll click to add my 3d cursor right
there shift a I'll add a cone now this
cone is you know obviously too big but
if I just scale it down
if I press s and scale it down you know
it's still too wider it's too tapered or
not tapered enough I'm not sure I would
say that but it's too big at this end
and of course it goes down to my point
that's about the length that I want to
be and it has one circle on the bottom
but what I wanted to be is more like a
carrot shape or at least you know not
quite so wide at the bottom the way I do
this is not justice grab your scale
gizmo and then scale it like that
because then it's just squished the way
that I recommend scaling things is you
know I want to make the end Isco this is
true for cylinders and cones I want to
make that circle the right size first I
don't care how tall it is because it's
going to be very easy for me to scale
the cone up and down but I'm going to
press s and then move my mouse to make
that circle the right size so right
about there that's the size of the base
that I want and now I can use my scale
gizmo and drag up on that cone just to
make it taller notice how I didn't
rotate it ahead of time because that
would distort potentially this yeah you
can see it got stretched a little bit
this bottom is now an oval so before you
rotate or do anything like that you'll
want to scale that uniform and to make
the circular right size and pull it up
by the way you can press if I had
pressed s to scale this to the code to
make the circle the right size and I
didn't want to be using my gizmo I can
press s and then just press Z and it'll
only let me scale it on the z axis to
make it the right size and if you're as
nutty about keyboard shortcuts as I am
you can even I'm going to undo a few
times you can press s to scale but if
you want to scale on the x and y axes
and just not the z axis you can press s
and then shift Z and what that'll do is
it'll allow you to scale on the x and y
basically shift Z means negate Z or
don't scale on the Z but scale on the
other two axes so again that was s and
then shift Z and that will only scale on
the x and y axes so I'll do that and
that's just as quick if you are more
comfortable using the the s key and then
just the scale gives no that's totally
fine by me I'm going to press three
glower my side view maybe I'll scale
that up a little bit longer maybe press
s and Z and scale it to make a little
bit shorter and press R to rotate my
cone to be pointing forward although
I'll rotate it exactly be pointing to
the front of the snowman so I'm gonna
press R and then I'll type negative 90
and then press enter when you type r you
can then type a number of degrees in
this case I want to rotate 90 degrees to
left which is negative 90 so I typed are
negative nine zero and then I press
Enter
let's go ahead and I'll move the cone
right about there I'll go to the front
view again remember that when you're
positioning things in 3d space you have
to look at it from at least two angles
usually the front and the side or the
front and the top / whatever makes sense
now I don't quite like how pointy this
nose is I want the base to be a little
bit bigger so what I'm going to do is
I'm going to scale it on the Z and X
axes and I don't care how you know how
I'm scaling it on the or don't want to
scale at all actually on the y axis now
because I don't want to make it longer I
just want to make it wider so I need to
press s and then shift Y so now I'm not
scaling on the Y I'm only scaling it on
the Z and X ax easin
there we go it looks pretty good to me
let's go ahead and I'm going to add a
mesh we're going to add a ecosphere
Uggla spheres more like kind of like a
soccer ball although a soccer ball is
made up of what is it hexagons or
Pentagon's I can't remember right now
but it's a different way of making a
sphere instead of having squares or
rectangles you have triangles I'm going
to scale that down this is gonna be the
little pieces of coal for the mouth also
I'll scale it down I'll go to my side
view or right view put that right about
there for the mouth I'll grab it with G
key and I'm going to do some duplicating
shift D whoops by the way if you ever um
I press kin or shift F there if you ever
get into some sort of a mode that you
don't know how to get out of it or you
press P and you don't know what's going
on you can always press escape and
escape will get you out of any kind of
weird mode that you're in let's go ahead
and grab this okay maybe I'll move it
over there shifty shifty
oops shifty I keep pressing shift F by
accident that's what I get when I switch
between different keyboards on different
computers all right I don't like how
some of these how far some of these are
sticking out so I'm going to move these
in a little bit I'll grab those two with
the shift key and with min with my gizmo
great looks pretty good to me let's go
ahead and add a top hat so I'm going to
click my 3d cursor above the head I'm
going to put shift a and I'm going to
add a cylinder and now I want the
cylinder to be like the brim of the Hat
this top hat so before we do that though
I'm actually going to increase the
number of vertices around that cylinder
again this is in my tool shelf and I can
only do this before I move or rotate or
scale that cylinder I'm going to scale
us on the z-axis so I'll press s then Z
or I could just use my my gizmo good I'm
going to make it a little bit bigger
than that maybe a little bit smaller
than that and I'll squish it down to
make a little bit flatter great I'm
going to move this down we're going to
add another cylinder I'll scale up to be
both the right width I'll move it up and
that's about the right height actually
actually so I'm going to select both of
those things move it down a little bit
now my snowman has a top hat good same
thing with the arms we're going to make
one arm down and we're going to
duplicate it so I'm going to add a
cylinder will scale it down again I want
the circles to be the right size I don't
care how tall it is because I want to
get the circles the right size first
before I rotate or do anything like that
and then I'll scale it I can use my
kids'll and drag up or I can just press
s and then I only want a scale on a
z-axis that can pull Mouse away away
away from the middle of that object to
make it longer great now I could rotate
it but before I do that I'm gonna make
some fingers so I'm going to shift D
duplicate that cylinder and then I'll
drag this down to make it much shorter
for the fingers I'll grab that with the
G key rotate with the R key so I hope
what you're getting here is practice and
if you follow longer you'd make a
snowman after me practice doing these
things and getting comfortable selecting
and moving and rotating and using your
gizmo using the fact that you can you
press the X Y or Z buttons after you
press you know R to rotate or even G to
grab or s the scale
getting comfortable navigating in the 3d
viewport and using your hotkeys like
shift a and R and s and G and to
shift-click to select multiple things
now the last kind of thing I'm going to
show you or less keyboard shortcut it's
new in this video is if I want to select
a bunch of things at once I can select
one thing and then hold shift and select
you know the additional things
afterwards but there is a faster way if
i press B on my keyboard B is in box
that's the box select mode or that's how
you get into box like mode so if I press
B you can see these lines coming off at
my mouse cursor if I now click and drag
around objects that's how I can make a
selection block so I can select you know
whole groups of things together just be
careful though that you're not selecting
extra things you can see how I
accidentally select the head and the
body there by the way the a key selects
everything or deflects everything it
kind of toggles between so you want to
make sure that nothing is selected you
can press a and a a few times until you
see there's no orange or red outlines
and now I can press B and box select
I'll now press R to rotate the arm I'll
put it right about there make sure it
looks good from my side view in front
view and I'll duplicate my whole
selected for peace arm with shift D now
I could rotate it and but what I'll do
instead is I'm going to mirror this arm
so what I'm going to do is I'm going to
go to object mirror and X global and
what this will do is it'll flip it or
mirror it on the x-axis in our whole
global world so I'm not sure that this
is going to work but nope you know what
it's not we're not going to touch upon
that in this video though why I didn't
work I will explain it later but not for
now let's go ahead and let's press R to
rotate and then I'll put this right
there what else should we add just for
flourish let's go ahead and add another
set of ico spheres I'll scale it out
with the S key
grab that put that right there go to my
side view go there are there duplicate
it whoops that shift F don't do that
that's a bad habit it up just started
doing alright so I've got my three
buttons I got my snowmen there it is
orbiting around that'll be it for this
video thanks for watching and I'll see
you