Get Good at Blender - Practical challenges to improve you skills!

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  • Опубликовано: 24 фев 2023
  • #blender3d #3dart #blender
    Get good at blender but trying out simple challenges to improve your skill level and learn new skills along the way.
    In this video I challenge you to make different models and then show you how I would have made them afterwards. In this video i focus on the spin tool for creating arches
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Комментарии • 222

  • @charmawow
    @charmawow Год назад +96

    As still a relatively new Blender user, these types of tutorials make for great refreshers…..thanks Grant!

    • @Mz-ty5lg
      @Mz-ty5lg Год назад

      are you good now

    • @Nmgoated
      @Nmgoated 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@Mz-ty5lg😂😂😂

  • @bjornmeh7771
    @bjornmeh7771 Год назад +50

    Just spent 40 minutes watching a 11 minute video haha, love this way of teaching, im new to blender and already learned a bunch of techniques i didnt know an hour ago :D great video

    • @andylastname566
      @andylastname566 Год назад

      This is why i love videos over sitting in a classroom. Learning at your own pace. :)

  • @laillaE
    @laillaE Год назад +13

    I absolutely LOVE the way you teach, I've bought a few courses recently from Polygon runway and others, and my biggest frustration is that they're 'follow my actions' type of courses, and don't really teach you fundamentals. Whereas you build understanding of why you should do things, give challenges and help people experiment, learn, fail etc.. It's such a fabulous teaching method.
    Would love to see more of these challenges!

    • @DeXTRONS
      @DeXTRONS 5 месяцев назад

      hmm thats exactly copy and paste without understanding the things
      but i have watched blender guru tutorials he exactly explain the things but i don t know why he is underrated for other tutorials

  • @windyindie9911
    @windyindie9911 Год назад +8

    PLEASE do more of these videos! this was extremely helpful and easily digestible compared to most other blender videos.

  • @dailycgi
    @dailycgi Год назад +15

    This is a great format! I basically play this challenge game with myself anytime I look for reference images online of things I want to create, attempting it with my beginner skill set, and then seeking out a good tutorial to learn a better or more efficient way of creating the object. It's a good way of learning.

  • @Time2Wonder70
    @Time2Wonder70 Год назад +11

    Rather than hiding stuff from the outliner with the eye, it's easier to hit forward slash on the number pad, that will hide everything in one go, and leave the selected geometry to work on, when done just hit forward slash again and everything hidden will be visible again👍

  • @etruedus
    @etruedus Год назад +4

    I found your channel during covid and modeled for about 6 months. Just now getting back into it, and I am glad to see you are still doing this type of tutorial! Thanks Grant!

  • @MartKart8
    @MartKart8 Год назад +76

    I still feel like a beginner and it's almost a year since I've used Blender.

    • @rtyria
      @rtyria Год назад +11

      My first foray into Blender was over a decade ago now. I'm still a beginner, mainly because I have so little time to develop skills and don't have the equipment to do anything serious with it anyway. These tutorials are always beneficial and because they are simple are probably the ones I get the most out of.

    • @BasedMando
      @BasedMando Год назад +6

      Bro, a year is definitely a beginner; though it's much better that the first few months where almost every idea is a tutorial lookup.
      I'd say after a year, we can at least drive without the training wheels.

    • @joseastigueta5714
      @joseastigueta5714 Год назад +3

      Muchas gracias, el mejor tutorial!

    • @Ayogenius67
      @Ayogenius67 Год назад +1

      Am few days but I feel like I haven’t learn anything

    • @MartKart8
      @MartKart8 Год назад +1

      @@Ayogenius67 having spent time watching, I've learnt to making some things into models and got them to work, like a bread bow and bread stick arrows, I imported them into Unreal Engine.

  • @insomniopolis
    @insomniopolis Год назад +5

    challenge-based learning is a definite yes for me. this is great. please keep going with it.

  • @Corb4l
    @Corb4l Год назад +1

    Been learning Blender for a few weeks, you answered precisely to a couple of issues I wanted to solve.
    Your channel has been incredibly helpful, thanks a lot for all that well taught, high value content :)

  • @frankb4793
    @frankb4793 Год назад

    Thank you for taking the time to help us improve @ Blender Grant, all your videos are very helpful and educational.

  • @GinoZump
    @GinoZump Год назад

    I'm real glad You started these videos again. I really like the practical approach of actually making the viewer figure out how to make the object before You explain how. These videos rock!

  • @kristenthomasson273
    @kristenthomasson273 Год назад +2

    this is brilliant. love how you give us things to scratch our brain over rather than just showing us what to do immediately!

  • @timarlow8007
    @timarlow8007 Год назад

    I'm glad these challenge videos are back - these are the best!

  • @billthornhill1921
    @billthornhill1921 Год назад +3

    Great way of getting it all across. Thanks for posting

  • @keepitsimpleforreal295
    @keepitsimpleforreal295 Год назад +1

    Thanks Grant! This type of video is exactly what I have been looking for to learn quickly.

  • @amigoface
    @amigoface Год назад +2

    I really love the format

  • @GaryParris
    @GaryParris Год назад +1

    well done Grant! these are a great way to re-enforce learning, which is very similar to the classroom!

  • @dreamisover9813
    @dreamisover9813 Год назад

    So much to learn just from you explaining your steps here, great stuff!

  • @thisisshadow64
    @thisisshadow64 Год назад

    Honestly thought when I got to using the spin tool that I was overthinking it and then you did it that way and was very satisfied with myself. Thanks for the challenge.

  • @markiobook8639
    @markiobook8639 Год назад

    Brilliant again Grant- this is a wonderful series.

  • @Mdoraz27
    @Mdoraz27 Год назад +1

    I picked up your Blender Beginner Courses on Gamedev and have been loving them! Your teaching style is fantastic and easy to pick up! I'm going to use what I've learned from your courses to begin developing my own models for a portfolio. I'm really hoping to get hired in an entry level position modeling assets at a game studio soon.

  • @pradyutmukherjee1110
    @pradyutmukherjee1110 10 месяцев назад

    You are the best, Grant! Almost every RUclipsr creating videos on Blender is showing some over-the-top crazy stuff all the time, but most of us forget that these basics are what will make you a master at any craft. Thank you so much for making such videos that help us build the basics.

  • @craigbaker6382
    @craigbaker6382 Год назад +3

    Thanks. I am a middle / total newbie, so this kind of exercise is well formatted and quite useful.

  • @LiMaking
    @LiMaking 3 месяца назад

    Grant, I love you. You make modelling so much easier and every word you say is a piece of information and no side quests. fantastic

  • @rofgar
    @rofgar 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you, as always, the density of useful information per minute is really good :)

  • @StevenDiLeo
    @StevenDiLeo Год назад +1

    great content and exercises as always, thanks Grant! :)

  • @Severely_Distracted
    @Severely_Distracted Год назад +1

    I love this series and all the videos you make!

  • @derekmoore1387
    @derekmoore1387 Год назад

    I'm excited to practice this after work. I purchased the environment course on your website, which had been helpful and fun! Lastly, I like the newer format where I can see you. It's like seeing the wizard behind the curtain!
    Thanks, Grant!

  • @jim-wallace
    @jim-wallace Год назад +8

    I like the rythme and the tone of your voice 👏 👏 no need backwards or slow-motion !
    It is really enjoyable 🙏🙏🙏

    • @asthalis
      @asthalis Год назад +1

      Agreed ! Lots of youtubers speak waaaay too fast or not clearly enough in their tutorials. I appreciate this a lot as a non english native speaker.

    • @jim-wallace
      @jim-wallace Год назад

      @@asthalis I'm a native english speaker, but nonetheless, a Tutorial is a Tutorial not Indianapolis 🙏🙏

  • @bagpipesedderkopp717
    @bagpipesedderkopp717 Год назад +1

    Really enjoyed this!
    Much better than trying to blindly follow instructions fluctuating wildly in volume at 0.25 speed while the 'basic' tutorial sets up 90 procedural nodes, glonks the prongle, overbastulates the wizboglin and then selects hyperfrist while using an environmental spilby to hurl the grass of spading.

  • @jackmakmorn
    @jackmakmorn Год назад

    Awesome video, I really appreciate when you go about basics again and again.
    Although I got everything working pretty fine and fast (except for arch with the circle tool (which I only know of thanks to this video :)) it feels like there is always still some little thing to find to sharpen the skills on the basics and get better results; this time for me it was the scaling on the normals.
    Well, it is always good to get over the basics once again, it is simply the most important part; thank you a lot, Grant! :)

  • @toddhansson1613
    @toddhansson1613 Год назад

    Great tutorial Grant... keep them coming. Thanks

  • @gatofuji7410
    @gatofuji7410 Год назад

    Fantastic. Good exercises and very instructive. They are simple, even for beginners like me, but to try first and see where you could have done better or more efficiently is great. And, of course, you also learn something new, some use for a tool that you already knew and used before. Great!

  • @bradmoffat9884
    @bradmoffat9884 Год назад

    This is a great refresher, thanks Grant. I would love to see some retopologising challenges next.

  • @negativecharisma7583
    @negativecharisma7583 Год назад

    Coming from your courses, I'm loving these tutorials!

  • @jamaicster
    @jamaicster Год назад

    Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
    This kind of giving of information is the easiest to understand for newbies!
    Thank you Grant!
    You're making a very good and helpful stuff!
    Keep it up! Newbies as me need it indeed!

  • @eZTarg8mk2
    @eZTarg8mk2 2 месяца назад

    Grant, sending a heartfelt thank you for these videos. I've been finding so many tutorials that really don't make the UI for Blender any less opaque XD I've worked on and off as a digital artist, using various different painting softwares, for over a decade. I'd put off trying to decipher Blender for way too long, and had a few attempts over the years before giving up after just getting lost in the UI.
    Your chess piece series was so carefully presented, giving concise and precise steps, time to apply my own interpretations to the challenges, and then learning a more efficient way to do the same thing. It's a fantastic way to learn, try and apply that knowledge then reinforce that information and correct any misconceptions.
    I'm very glad I found your channel

  • @Yumemocchi
    @Yumemocchi Год назад

    Now that's a cool tutorial ! Love the format

  • @coreys2686
    @coreys2686 Год назад +3

    Another way of using the inset tool is to hold the [CTRL] key to increase the depth without actually insetting, it'll basically combine extrude/scale.

  • @radoslavkasabov7330
    @radoslavkasabov7330 Год назад

    This was wonderful! Thanks for the great video.

  • @user-bt5mp4gx9m
    @user-bt5mp4gx9m 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you very much , I love your tutorials . Very helpful !

  • @SolearGnG
    @SolearGnG Год назад +1

    Good to see that you use Blender the same way I've learned it from you years ago. There are multiple ways to do things but this specific way you do it reminded me of the early YT texture painting courses. Ideas for the next one: Cut-outs (Booleans) and making sellable assets.

  • @saylurrodriguez3315
    @saylurrodriguez3315 Год назад

    This really got me comfortable with modeling things in general. Big thanks my guy 🙌

  • @the_tunez
    @the_tunez Год назад +2

    Finally someone has done it! For years I've been trying to improve my knowledge of which tools to use to achieve results. For the same amount of years, I've been asking some people who are good in modelling to help me with things like this, if possible. Every single time the only answers I got were "just follow any beginner tutorial" or "just start modeling", which really doesn't cut it anymore: I may be a pro at modeling cups or glasses from tutorials, but what about other things that use the same tools but aren't really cups or glasses? How could I use said tools? Etc... Anyways, this is pure gold. You're the best of the best, man! Thanks a LOT!!

  • @rilleyblazer2330
    @rilleyblazer2330 4 месяца назад

    Very helpful and fun tutorial! Thank you so much for making these!

  • @helziephoton
    @helziephoton Год назад

    I really love this video thank you so much ❤

  • @SlyNine
    @SlyNine Год назад +1

    I think this is the best way to learn. So many times when I was new I would watch a tutorial, only to finish with a nice object but unable to employ anything I learned.
    Tho I just chalked it up to me being slow lol.

  • @oscarchavez8527
    @oscarchavez8527 Год назад

    Good gravy, man! This is just one awesome video. Thanks alot, specially for me, since I lack imagination at the mechanical level and I would have done everything manually by messing with the vertices or going along the longest possible route. This helps me a lot. So thanks again, and I mean it.

  • @vizdotlife
    @vizdotlife Год назад

    Super helpful! Thank you

  • @tempofugace9955
    @tempofugace9955 Год назад

    Super concept, thanks👍

  • @bluesun7777
    @bluesun7777 3 месяца назад

    thank you for this! it really helped!

  • @Rowan308
    @Rowan308 Год назад

    I would love to do more of these to keep my touch with Blender. Maybe something a bit higher level but on this scale as I really dont have much time for Blender as a uni student. Do keep up the good content, Grant!

  • @golemtabak1183
    @golemtabak1183 Год назад

    Amazing. thank you Grant!

  • @chriswebb945
    @chriswebb945 Год назад

    Terrific. Thanks for thinking up a new way to teach Blender. Very effective.

  • @Radheradhe13338
    @Radheradhe13338 Год назад

    I watched your video for the first time and I was very surprised how easy and cool you explained using all small commands. I've watched a lot of Blender user videos but I haven't seen anything like what you've explained. Congratulations and may God's blessings be with you always…. 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

  • @adamjohnantonio
    @adamjohnantonio Год назад

    Great format, would love to see more

  • @mwparker1969
    @mwparker1969 Месяц назад

    Excellent demonstration for inset(i), extrude(e), scale(s), the spin tool, and proportional editing(o). Watched it a few times to catch all of the details. Awesome!

  • @sobreaver
    @sobreaver Год назад

    How I love practicality and scrambling things together :P
    Thank you for this exercise.

  • @LoneAdventurer730
    @LoneAdventurer730 Год назад

    this is really intresting and having fun to follow along. please make more video like this

  • @olegb2177
    @olegb2177 2 месяца назад

    Thanks! This is the best and usefull format ever for practicing

  • @jackcleveland1175
    @jackcleveland1175 Год назад

    Good stuff, Grant! Thank you.

  • @WelshGuitarDude
    @WelshGuitarDude Год назад +1

    This is a great way to learn you should do more of this with ever more advanced things

  • @skeletonking4119
    @skeletonking4119 Год назад

    Always learning something great ! And easy guide and 100 % learning and improve one self! You have our great thank my good sir!

  • @sumanth3036
    @sumanth3036 Год назад +1

    How awesome. Please keep doing these basic stuff.. I did some Belnder a few months back in RUclips and your lighthouse Island. Now forgot most of the things. Started with this again.

  • @xavierchavezm.3240
    @xavierchavezm.3240 Год назад

    Thanks Grant!

  • @amitbt69
    @amitbt69 Год назад

    Great tutorial! thanks.

  • @thedudewhostalkedbjork121
    @thedudewhostalkedbjork121 Год назад

    I took your beginners course at the beginning of the pandemic! Best money I ever spent.

  • @bardeauxblack
    @bardeauxblack 10 месяцев назад

    This was so informative and easy to follow.

  • @SlothFang
    @SlothFang Год назад

    I will always highly recommend ANY and EVERYTHING from Grant Abbitt! I went from not knowing anything in blender to being able to craft my own worlds and everything in them thanks to Grant!

  • @maryelljazz
    @maryelljazz 10 месяцев назад

    I absolutely loved this video!! Thx so much

  • @fpatrocinio
    @fpatrocinio Год назад

    I like these challenges. Always learning something new. :)

  • @KlaudiusL
    @KlaudiusL Год назад +2

    I've really never grasp the "scale" function .. but that move @3:28 was genius! .. Thank you !!

  • @JoeQuinn-vm5li
    @JoeQuinn-vm5li 4 месяца назад

    Fantastic video, thank You

  • @riuken1234
    @riuken1234 Год назад

    First tanks for the video, I being having problem on how to use the spin tool, thanks for the excellent explanation.

  • @theman7050
    @theman7050 Год назад

    Brilliant!

  • @gregq8
    @gregq8 Год назад +1

    I like moving the center of the spin tool around (in this case further right) and cutting off the arch with a boolean to make those cool pointed gothic arches. I used to make the points with proportional editing but I didn't like how it distorted the cross section of the arch.

  • @khalidhashimeh
    @khalidhashimeh Год назад

    Best video ever..thank you so much

  • @Snorth_3D
    @Snorth_3D Год назад

    The spin is insane.

  • @mee6945
    @mee6945 Год назад

    Finally a simple tutorial i can handle. Thank you Mister Abbit

  • @DimoPoland
    @DimoPoland Год назад +1

    Amazing. Wainting for more.

  • @aliceleblanc7318
    @aliceleblanc7318 Год назад

    Nice teaching approach and I really do like your voice! It's soothing to listen to it 😃

  • @projekt3100
    @projekt3100 10 месяцев назад

    Nice 👏 Beginning to love and get a hang of Blender really fast thank to you. Although I saw your video about how easy it is to get 3D job opportunities…aking me think twice in a way

  • @agyabcg1999
    @agyabcg1999 Год назад

    please continue doing videos like this

  • @kulewa1
    @kulewa1 Год назад

    I did learn a few things I did not know. Good job.

  • @Psilohighbin
    @Psilohighbin Год назад

    Excellent!

  • @rajismhr9898
    @rajismhr9898 Год назад

    This is a gold mine for beginners like me

  •  Год назад

    Completely new to blender, I do not understand all but it works fine. It's really satisfying yet. Thanks.

  • @ABlueThing
    @ABlueThing Год назад

    Feels kinda nice that i knew everything but two things of what was done here

  • @hotsauce7124
    @hotsauce7124 Год назад

    THESE ARE GREAT!!!!!!

  • @3d.artsoul
    @3d.artsoul Год назад +1

    Thanks.

  • @Sam_Simon_
    @Sam_Simon_ Год назад +1

    Wow! You are awesome!

  • @CleverGirlAAH
    @CleverGirlAAH Год назад

    I love this series, cause sometimes you just need someone to walk you through the best way to construct odd but common shapes. LIKE ARCHES. I can't tell you how many times I've extruded and extruded and extruded lol

  • @mschulmeister6519
    @mschulmeister6519 Год назад +1

    Great video as always... I've been using blender professionally for some years now so i think i know it all, but by watching all your tutorials anyway, i usually find something new :)

    • @grabbitt
      @grabbitt  Год назад +1

      I think they meant they know everything I went through in the video

    • @mschulmeister6519
      @mschulmeister6519 Год назад

      ​@@grahamnichols1416 Yeah, it wasn't literal hehe

  • @salvadormarley
    @salvadormarley Год назад

    Splendid.

  • @chromaweaver
    @chromaweaver Год назад

    Great exercise for a lazy Saturday!

  • @Kio_Kurashi
    @Kio_Kurashi Год назад

    Yeah I like this style. While, I didn't do any of the tasks (Too lazy to open blender right now) I did think through what I'd do, and even learned about moving things by Blender Units.

  • @hugoembien
    @hugoembien Год назад

    maannnnnn, Grant why are you so good!??

  • @AndrewWeirArt
    @AndrewWeirArt Год назад

    this is a great way to do tutorials! nice :)

  • @WesleyOverdijk
    @WesleyOverdijk Год назад +2

    I really liked this video. Great format! Some stuff I did differently:
    - you can also extrude along faces using alt+e and then f.
    - you can isolate instead of hiding the other pillars by pressing forward slash (/). Press it again to exit isolation mode.
    - I never used the spin tool before so consider my mind blown by how stupid my approach was. I used an empty and an array modifier with object offset to duplicate it around. The other approach is using a curve and following along curve. This I actually learned from you in the character creation course when making the tanks.
    Edit:
    For the interior faces you can use “select interior faces” and dissolve them. It’s not needed with just the one face, but I found it invaluable in my hard surface models.

    • @Sharivah
      @Sharivah 4 месяца назад +1

      Thank you so much! Extrude did not work for me. It reacted like the movement tool and I was getting desperate. When I activated Alt - E - Faces along normals, it finally reacted like in the video :D Thank you thank you!