Blender 2.7 Tutorial #6 : Box Modelling a Cartoon Head #b3d Video Lecture | Learn and Master: Blender (English) - Professional Skills

hello and 1:46 my video series how to
use blender 2.7 in this video we're
going to continue on from the last video
in which we use edit mode to create
custom shapes the last video we create a
simple chair and a house in edit mode
using the extrude tool and the loop cut
or Luca and slide tools in this video
we're going to create a simple cartoon
Bugs Bunny sort of a head like from
Looney Tunes so let's go ahead and get
started and I click on the splash screen
it'll disappear now we're actually going
to start making our character's head
from a cube you might think that because
the character's head is somewhere around
that we might start with a UV sphere and
you'd be wrong because a UV sphere if
you go and look at an edit mode at the
top and bottom of the UV sphere it has a
set of trying either faces now
triangular faces are okay you're just
working with simple objects but if
you're modeling especially for modeling
character's head or something organic
dragged their faces are to be avoided
let's go ahead and let's make this cube
round I'm going to select it and an edit
mode so I'll press tab to get into mode
I'm going to go into face select mode
and we'll zoom in on it I want to make
sure that all my faces are selected so
if you tap a few times that toggles
everything selected or nothing selected
so I want to all orange and select it
and I'm going to subdivide this cube up
so it has three cuts in all directions
the way you subdivide on blender in edit
mode is on your tool shelf under the
tools tab you need to find the add
section and click on the subdivide
button if you do that you will get one
cut in each direction through all the
sides on your cube so it's subdivided
now into four faces for each original
face but I want to make two cuts in both
directions so I'm going to change the
number of cuts here in my cell device
section up from 1 to 2 the other way I
could have done this I'm going to undo
this is I can go to my specials menu
with your mouse in the 3d viewport if
you tap W while you're in edit mode you
get the specials menu which gives you
kind of a list of shortcuts
common things you would do in edit mode
to edit what you're working on the first
option is subdivide so I'll just click
on that and then I'll turn the number of
cuts up to two there are more options
for a subdivide but we're going to do
this sort of manually to make this cube
round now I'm going to select all the
middle faces on all six sides so I'm
going to select the first one hold shift
select the other ones and then let go of
shift and orbit around to the other side
and bottom hold shift again to select
more and now I have all six sides
selected with all six sides selected
you'll notice that the gizmo your arrows
or whichever one that you're on move
scale or rotate they are in the middle
of your queue because when you select
multiple things
the gizmo goes in their median point and
that's how it is by default the median
point of all these cubes is in the very
middle of the cube and if I scale each
feet one of these faces will become a
little bit bigger but they'll also scale
apart so I'll tap s and you'll see that
it'll now look like the cube is being
expanded by a growing ball from the
middle of the cube so what I'm going to
do is I'll actually click to stop that
for a sec I'm going to press 1 and then
5 to go into orthographic front view and
I got tap s and kind of make it as round
as possible now some people have told me
this looks really confusing if you're in
perspective mode so if I go down to the
view and change it from orthographic to
perspective so it'll say persp
it looks funny especially when you're up
close because you know one of these
angles looks like it's coming to the
front of the cube and the other one
doesn't and that's just because of the
distortion of being in perspective mode
so I like to take an orthographic view
when I'm modeling and I'll stick to the
front view so I can see it kind of
straight on I in a scale he's a little
bit more to make it the way I want it
make it as round as possible but it
still looks like my cube has pointy
corners from the original cube on it so
I'm going to select those vertices on
all eight of the corner
and I'm going to scale them inwards and
that will look very very round so I
selected most of them I'll just warm it
around hold shift again and select the
last one and now I'll tap s and pull
inwards and we have a pretty well round
object to make a head from so if you
actually want to practice that that's
fine it won't turn out right possibly
the first time you do it but it is quite
simple quite fast with practice to turn
a cube into a rounded object to start
modeling from I need to start modeling
the facial features now and the first
thing we're going to do is the
character's nose I want to find the
front of the characters face so wanting
to press one to add a front view and
then I'm going to go into face leg mode
and select the front of the characters
face this is where the nose is going to
be extruded from we're going to kind of
model an Elmer Fudd nose in other words
a nose that's shaped like a light bulb
so I'm going to extrude from this phase
but it's way too big right now so I'll
tap s and make it smaller this will be
the base of the nose where it's extrude
from and it will extrude out from here
and then scale and extrude and scale I'm
sure the scale to make the nose the
right shape so I'm going to tap e pull
out and then tap s so as you can see I'm
going to keep doing that again E and
then maybe I'll pull that back a little
bit and then E and then s if you are
extruding by the way I'm going to undo a
few steps the common thing for beginners
to do is to extrude from like this sort
of an angle it's very hard for me to
tell how far I'm extruding right now
because I'm looking at almost straight
on that's not a good idea of course
you'll want to extrude from sort of like
a diagonal user orthographic perspective
so I'll undo that and go back out
they both there and E and then click and
then s now if I look at my face straight
on the nose is square I don't want that
I want to be rounded on all sides so I'm
gonna have to make some loop cuts and
then I can pull on the extra edges I get
so I'll tap control R
or alternatively of course I can press
on loop cut and slide that does the same
thing and I'll make a cut right there up
and down across the middle of the
characters face and I'll grab these
three edges and pull up on them then the
bottom three edges and pull down on them
to make it rounded on the top and bottom
same thing side to side control our
click right click this time though I'm
going to select all six edges on both
sides and I'll just scale them out on
the x-axis so I'll select all six click
on my scale gizmo and drag out and that
way each side will be a little bit more
rounded the top and bottom were when I
just move them rather than scale them
all right that looks pretty good to me
what I might want to do is adjust these
a little bit now let's say I wanted to
slide all these edges back I don't have
to do this manually I'd have to select
edges manually if they form a loop the
quick way of selecting an edge loop in
other words edges that are connected
around an object that are kind of end to
end is I'm going to go back to my move
gizmo if I hold alt and right click on
an edge it'll select all the edges in
that edge loop so it's very easy just
holding down alt and right clicking on
my edge to select an edge loop you can
think of an edge loop as being like a
loop of string around tight under your
finger it's a very thin narrow thing
that goes all the way around an object
now just keep in mind though edge loops
are can be interrupted by extrusions and
intersections of edges that don't have
four roads essentially coming off from
them if I hold alt and right click on
this edge it'll select the edge loop
that goes all the way around the head
but I've my right-click on this edge
because there is an intersection of only
three right there
and what works not for it gets
interrupted so the edge loop only goes
from there this 3-point intersection to
this three points
if you have anything other than four it
won't work so if you have a five-way
intersection that will work either it
only works when you have a consistent
set of four-way intersections around a
mesh so this is an edge loop otherwise
if I want to select let's say all of
these edges oops just the ones that are
parallel you can do that as well very
easily if you hold ctrl and alt and
right click on an edge it'll select all
the parallel edges around an object and
that's called an edge ring you can think
of that as being like a wedding ring on
your finger it's thicker than just a
loop of string around your finger all
right so I'm going to take this edge
loop and I'm going to move it back a
little bit maybe I want to make a loop
cut around the whole knows maybe I'll
scale it maybe this one yeah I like to
better forward but maybe a little bit
smaller and be I want to be faces on the
front of the nose to be a little bit
smaller as well now it's looking pretty
good to me
I'll make a loop cut around the top of
the head right about there because I
want to give this character some
cheekbone shape and some eyebrow shape
if you study character design especially
in cartoons you'll know that eyes are
the most expressive part of a character
and eyebrows if you've ever watched
wallace and gromit
that's a claymation set of animations
from the 90s and early 2000s you'll know
that the character grommets eyebrows are
his most expressive part because he
doesn't talk all the way that he
expresses what he's feeling is through
his eyebrows and eye movements so I'm
going to pull up on these eyebrows as
well and maybe I'll make them a little
bit bigger by skinning them out and that
looks okay to me let's go ahead and
scale these two vertices towards each
other to make them a little bit longer
and these ones together to make them a
little bit more of a whoops more of a
bridge of the nose maybe I'll pull this
one in a little bit as well the next
thing I'll do is I'm going to add AI
sockets now I saw guys need to kind of
have a set of concentric circles that
kind of go inwards and inwards gradually
towards the middle of the
or the back of the eye to do that I
first want to make this area that are
these two faces around as I can so I'm
going to make an edge or a loop cut up
and down through the middle side of the
head ray there and I will go to my front
view and I'm going to grab the vertices
around the edge and just kind of grab
them and make that section as round as I
can without disturbing the head too much
so I'll go right about there that's
about as good as I'm going to get in
this short of the video so now what I
want to do is I want to inset these four
faces inwards
all so that they go more inside the head
and we're going to fix it to be a little
bit more round as well as we go to inset
faces the way I used to do it is that
used to and you do not follow along with
me for this part is if you tap e to
extrude but then you right-click there
is still an extrusion there but it's
totally flat with the original set of
faces right there now that's normally a
dangerous thing but if I then tap s to
scale down I then get these inset faces
in which I can pull inside the
characters face to make that sort of an
eye socket and I can keep on doing that
but there's a faster way
so I'll undo so I no longer have those
extra dots there back to my original
four faces to insect quickly and this is
a fairly new tool in blender you tap I
with basis elected and we tap I you can
inset basically a smaller version of the
same original faces and you get a ring
of edges or a ring of faces around your
original that makes an inset so I undo
it do that again I'll tap I and move my
mouse but you'll notice that as soon as
you tap I and you click you have an
inset face of section like you often get
a section when you first do something
that give you options for your in set by
default select outer is checked which
means you get these one selected rather
than the inside for I usually uncheck
that because I we should want to start
working with the inside ones immediately
so I would have select that too now I'm
going to make this a little more rounder
because we want the I saw to be as round
as we can so I'm going to grab some of
these edges or vertices rather and play
with them
you want your up and down lines to be
generally as up and down and set aside
or straight as you can otherwise the
more you go in words the more they'll
become distorted your made about there
there okay let's leave it read about at
that
I'll do the inset one or two more times
so I'll select these four I'll tap I
move my mouse inwards and you'll see how
they'll kind of get distorted a little
bit I'm going to pull this inwards a
little bit as well that looks good to me
and I'm going to correct some of the
distortion right about there let's make
it as round as we can now I'm going to
do it one more time but you could leave
it up that that's not a bad shape I
socket but I'll just do one more just
for practice I click and then move them
back and I would spend some time fixing
the way that looks but that's okay for
me for now we're not going to do both I
thought it's in this video because again
in the next video we're going to cover
the mirror modifier which allows you to
model both halves of the character at
the same time but it's important to know
how to do these steps first let's go
ahead and us adds some bunny ears to
this character I want to extrude them
from these two faces but they're too
wide or too deep right now so I can do a
loop cut around the side of the head but
I want not just one line I want to so
I'm going to scroll up on my mouse or
down if you're on a Mac with natural
school direction in fact you can go
crazy with this but don't just use two
cuts and then I'll click and right-click
and so the faces that are going to be
extruded for the bunny ears are these
two but I don't want to make them a
little bit more round first or oval so
I'll scale that edge and that edge maybe
like that and I'm going to scale them
both down because the base the bunny ear
is going to be smaller than that in
what I'm going to do is I'm going to
inset them you'll notice by the way that
inset has an option for depth and that
makes it kind of do an extrusion I don't
want any depth there so let me turn that
back to zero
and I actually probably want a little
bit of extrusion so I will turn it up
just a little bit there we go so that
will be the base of my buddy here I'm
going to zoom out and we'll extrude with
the e key of course to right about there
I want the end of the money here to be a
little bit smaller than that and now
we'll do some loop cuts across the
circumference of the ear to make it
about the right shape and vote there I
want this one to be a little bit bigger
actually so I'm going to hold alt and
right click on it so I'll select the
whole edge loop again and I'll scale it
up to what they are same thing with this
one control our scale control our scale
control our scale the end of the bunny
ear is too pointy for me right now so
I'm going to take those two faces and
I'm going to drag them or grab them and
pull them kind of like that I suppose
I'm not super happy with this but I
gotta leave it as it is in terms of its
shape but I want to create that sort of
inset area on the front of the bunny's
ear that has a different color so I'm
going to select the whole set of front
faces just with the shift key and I'm
going to tap I and I think I still had
some depth for notes we'll turn that off
just by entering in zero there and maybe
help pull them in a little bit and now
I'm gonna do another eye they look there
but I want some negative depth
I want to go inwards so I'll adjust my
depth like so okay so that is the bunny
ear the next thing we'll do actually
before we do the mouth let's go ahead
and make
neck for the bunny so I'm going to take
the four corners of this very square
looking neck base I'm gonna scale them
inwards and again because they're all
equidistant they'll scale towards the
middle of themselves which will make
somewhat of a circle shape
maybe I'll scale them a little bit more
together like that and maybe a little
bit out there we go
with those four faces select or those
six faces selected rather I'm going to
do our inset and I'll change the depth
so that it actually goes out a little
bit it looks okay to me and then I'll do
an e to extrude the neck out and so
that's the character's neck the last
thing we'll do is we will extrude the
characters mouth or make it inset and
then extrude it inwards to make the
cavity or hollow of the mouth from the
front view I'm going to actually space
these out a little bit more they're
looking kind of funny to me how they go
out and then in again right there so
I'll to scale that in let me make these
to go up and scale them out a little bit
that looks pretty good to me let's go
ahead and select all five or six Oh the
reason why it is uneven is because we
don't cut right there and again if
you're using the mirror modifier which
I'll show you the next video that won't
be an issue let's go ahead and select
all of these six faces and I'm going to
inset again so I'll tap I and I want a
little bit of depth here so I'm just
going to adjust it I want to kind of
stick out if there's no depth it's too
flat right there so I'll just adjust it
like so maybe I'll scale it a little bit
too okay I want to make some sort of
sort of a lip or edge here to make give
some thickness to the bunny let's one
get another inset I but I want to go
inside this time so I'll turn the depth
down to negative something and I don't
want very much thickness at all because
I want to sort of just be a an edge kind
of like so we go in a little bit more
bunny a little bit thicker skinned okay
so there's the mouth but we want to
extrude inwards to make kind of the
hollow of the mouth so what I'll do is
I'm going to tap Z on my keyboard and Z
toggles between solid view and wireframe
view so I want to extra in words so I'll
tap E but it's going up diagonally so
I'll tap Y that looks or constrict it
he'll only be y-axis so I'll pull it
back to about as far as I want to go
you'll notice though that it kind of
maintains that shape on the front of the
face but ideally I actually like it to
be the other way I'd like it to be kind
of bold this way so I'm going to use my
move or scale gizmo rather and I'm going
to pull back and scale this set of edges
on the y-axis to actually be a flip in
the opposite direction okay so we just
dragged it in the opposite direction to
make it kind of go the other way and
from the side view I'm going to rotate
them to kind of make them go straight up
and down from that angle and I'll do one
last loop cut around the kind of
circumference of the cavity of the mouth
and put it about there and I'll scale it
to make it bigger just make sure that
you don't go outside the bunny's face
like that if you accidentally do that
you can always go back to your side view
and go to edge select mode and I'll
select that edge loop and scale it on
the x-axis to make it fit in the bunny's
head so in this video we've reviewed how
to get into edit mode at a selected
first use faces and edges how to use
extrude how to use the loop cut and
slide tool how do you subdivide to round
out a basic default cube and the process
you would take to make a character or
it's a character's head I could keep on
going and I could extrude out the bottom
of this neck to make part of the body
and then extrude sideways out to make
kind of shoulders and extrude down more
and it's true
arms and legs but we're not going to get
there in this video in the next video
again we'll be talking about two
modifiers the first is how to create
both halves of the character at the same
time using what's called the mirror
modifier and then we'll talk about the
subdivision surface modifier which will
make your character look all nice and
smooth but that's gonna be it for this
video thanks for watching and I'll see
you next