If you have truble with unwraping try the following. Instead of pressing U, press alt+n and select "set from faces". Now some blue lines should apear on your model. Press alt+n again and select "merge". After this your model should unwrap nicely.
For those who don't have a numpad -> go to preferences -> input -> and check the top box that says "emulate numpad" now your top number keys can be used for those shortcuts :D
18:58 for newer Blender version (Feb 2024), color picker is shift+x somehow. You can change it to S by Edit>Preferences>Keymap>3d View>Image Paint>Sample Color. Click it, change to S
Im an early beginner, when I heard you say "were going to move some vertices to fix the topology" I was like "pfffftt, I dont have to do that, shes being extra", Halfway through the modeling of the arms I realized I was severely wrong and i had to start over, you taught me a powerful lesson about having beautiful topology. Thank you so much!!
I'm having my students do this tutorial. It's taken us a solid month. We're all beginners. Moving forward, I'm going to adjust this to have the arms stick out because we all had lots of problems at the armpit area.
9:50 change mesh color in viewport Notes: Preview model on separate window -> Material Preview + disable Toggle Overlay Use round cube instead of UV sphere to avoid triangles Modifier Mirror -> turn on Clipping Image texture interpolation from Linear -> Closest to make the texture sharper Save the texture, please Shortcuts: Double G - move vertex without changing the mesh shape Ctrl+R - insert edge loop Ctrl+E - mark seam / - local view F12 - render
My first model a while back was an Animal Crossing character and I couldn't find any tutorials for the sort of thing I wanted to make at the time so I just kind of winged it. This would have saved me so much time! I would love to see a rigging tutorial, I found it so hard to translate the generic rigging tutorials I found to a character like this.
Funny you mention Animal Crossing characters. I assigned this Froggy tutorial to my high school students and as a follow up / application to this wonderful tutorial I'm having them design their own Animal Crossing character.
I tried rigging an orc character that was very round and chubby. I had trouble with the first rig because the bones were pulling on a lot of unexpected parts, adding more smaller bones to the second one gave me a lot more control and made weight-painting a lot easier too.
Finished & Final Thoughts: I'm straight up new to Blender, and I would say this tutorial is for "Beginners who already know the basics of Blender". This is a, "Beginner to Intermediate" tutorial. I am strictly speaking from a totally new-to-Blender viewpoint: ▪ This needs to be a 2 part video - Creating the Model and UV Mapping. ▪ Speeding up your voice (or talking fast?) with no short pauses is not good for newbies. ▪ There were a few areas where parts were not explained or glossed over (ex. how to lay the image flat 'perfectly', what happens when Proportional Editing doesn't work, the middle mouse double click that I never used and needed to be slowed down, 15:15 Viewpoint Shading, how lighting and proper placement to maximize your render should work during the UV Mapping stage, how to rotate the camera around your model for a different angle...); corrections via annotations or subtitles would easily fix this without making an entirely new video. ▪ Alternatively, creating a new Top Comment with fixes of common problems people are having and pinning that instead would also be helpful if annotations or subtitles aren't able to be implemented. ▪ It needs an official transcript from the creator. ▪ Keyboard strokes need to be more visible with alternatives for those working on Mac. I started this on Jan 30th, and finished today Feb 4th, but taking breaks out from becoming frustrated in some parts, this took me ~3 days to make even though I thought this would take me about 4hrs to make (coming from a total newbie point). Yes, it is easy to create this model and UV map it, but the being taught process was where the issues arose. It's still a good tutorial, don't get me wrong, but it's not one I would recommend right off the get-go.
what would you reccomend off the get go? i am totally new and all the buttons are overhwelimg. and i agree with your points. the going super fast is a bit frustrating and i dont wanna be fustrated at someone who is teaching me but yeah it is. i put the video to 0.5 speed after 15 seconds cause i knew it was gonna be a problem and it is. i was three minutes in and she went silent at a part i was not sure how to do and i have a touchpad not a mouse so she was using like a scroll wheel and it would have been nice to know what that was cause i pressed one thing and messed up and just had to start over again cause idk if there is a undo button and ITS FREAKING ME OUT PLS OH GOD.
@@saiyanknight1 control + z is undo. Control + Shift + Z is redo. Like the other person said. Most people start with donut tutorial (get the latest version of the tutorial). It has 16 parts with minimum video length of about 10 mins, but it has all the basics.
@@May-rk3sl I just finished and rendered my donut from blenderguru yesterday. After 8 days and completing all 16 parts of his tutorial, this one def is super easy to follow. I would say check out his video. His first video is just getting to know blender and learning shortcuts. You don't even need to watch all 16 parts. He has all those partns for beginners to learn all the different functions and possibilities but it's def not required. I recommend checking how his first few vids for the donut tutorial and following along. And then when you go back to this, it's pretty easy to follow along.
This is one of the best blender tutorials I've ever come across! I cannot believe it's only half an hour and you show us how to model the froggo, uv map, paint, and set the scene! I've never gotten as far as texture painting before, and I'm over the moon with how the little frog came out! Thank you so much for sharing
Great video! However from UV mapping and onward it gets confusing. She went from explaining everything well to fast forwarding parts that as a beginner I wouldn't know. Also I wish there was an indication of when she clicks on something, like in 15:19 I have no idea how the colorful map appeared and I can't figure it out, its a little frustrating for me, hopefully I can get to the end of this tutorial.
i have never done any 3d modeling, i have never even watched anything related to 3d modeling, but this video keeps showing up on my home page. the frog is so cute. i cant believe i'm gonna spend 30 minutes just watching this frog come into existence, with no plans to learn anything from it.
THE MOST HELPFUL THING IN THE WORLD I'm new to 3D animation, and since I've been doing 2D for four years now I thought I'd finally get into it, AND THIS VIDEO CHANGED EVERYTHING thank you so much this is so helpful!!!!
hi! i am trying to do this tutorial but i am confused about what she means when she says to press "set it" at 3.38. can you explain how u completed it if its not to hard?
@@leilamatias3567 hey, sorry for the late reply! didnt notice your message until now :3 she said "press z" - you can also see on the left of the screen all the buttons shes pressing, which is super useful! so yeah, "z" is the key that brings up the menu that she's talking about. hope i could help
Instead of deleting the starting cube, u can just select it and press ctrl + 1-4 to subdivide it. I like to start with a single subdivision on a cube and then adding loop cuts as I need them. This tends to keep my poly count low until I want to add more detail.
I don't know why I haven't found your channel sooner! I'm new to Blender and always wanted to model cute characters. Your tutorials are lovely and easy to follow
had A LOT of problems with the UV editing and the mesh, but i finished it, its not identical but its something, i'll get better at doing the mesh and i'll do froggy again until they look the same as yours! thank u for this tutorial! learned a lot
“Because there’s no reference for this angle, just make it as chubby as you want!” 🥺 I have to admit that was the moment I liked the video! UWU such a cute chubby frog This is a really great tutorial! Thank you for making it!
i loved this tutorial, i didn't actually make a frog but this helped a lot in making my character, and i could barely do anything in blender before i saw this video :') thank u so much!
Lovely video Mar! :D Think a lot of people will learn some great stuff from this! In Color Management you should try and set the "filmic" to "Standard" that way you get the same colors as on your texture, not sure why Filmic is standart it seem to watch out all the colors
Thank you both: MortMort and MAR, for making amazing tutorials! I now have awesome weapons/shield with pretty gradient colors and a cute little Froggo. I learned so much from both of you :)
@@Marcelaylucin It isn't annoying at all: Filmic is a lot better than Standard because it allows for a higher range of light - making the clipping range larger and more realistic. It has several contrast modes already, as well as the compositer, in case you do not want to use GIMP or Lightroom/Photoshop.
filmic is for a realistic render that calculate color of objects more correct when a light hits an object (based of physics of the real world). standard is from the older versions of blender. if you want fantasy, abstract, not-realistic renders and want to see colors as it is (even if it's more saturated than real world) then standard is the way to go for it.
Im in the minute 2:30 and its so easy to understand good quality video and no need to stay more than 1 hour if u have already done more than 1 tutorial before than doing this one thanks alot.
i am still pretty new to blender, but i just wanted to thank you for this tutorial! it was extremely helpful to me in the way you explained most things and i felt very proud of myself for being able to follow the tutorial and make a decent render :)
Did this tutorial in like 4h or so and i feel so lucky that this is the first tutorial i clicked on today. So much useful information, could understand almost every step. After the froggy I immediately jumped in and with some of my notes could create a cute little character right after! Thank you so much, seriously
S Z 0 (S for scale, Z to scale on the Z axis and since we dont really want to scale them up (we just want to place all of them on the same spot vertically) we type 0, so wherever the vertices are, they meet at the average 0 on the Z axis)
@@Marcelaylucin In the video at 4:16 you double click between two verticies and a looptools menu comes up, that doesn’t come up for me even though I enabled the looptool addon at the start and saved it. 😢
me: I have used blender for 5+ years I know everything there is to know about blender also me: cute frog! *learns basic blender tools that could’ve saved me hours of work if I had known earlier*
Ngl I was only trying to figure out how to paint the model, but this is an amazing tutorial for anyone just beginning! The only thing I have to complain about is how fast you go, I was having a lot of trouble keeping up, I had to restart many parts a lot of times.
saying zed instead of zee confused me so hard lol. Thanks for the tutorial! It is REFRESHINGLY FAST! I loooove fast paced tutorials because I don't mind having to pause and go back a lot, especially when everything is important and relevant. I'd much rather have that than 'hi guys this is chris here. we're going to go to object mode now- oh, by the way, incase you didn't know the year blender was invented, it was 1864 the same year that steve jobs was born and I think...' like stfu I just want to know what to do next.
So exciting!! I have been waiting for this, cannot wait to watch and try to follow the tutorial myself. Your content is amazing and I'm so happy you create these tutorials!
I'm so proud of myself! This tutorial is THE best of the best for beginners. I started off in blender with no knowledge and now I'm nearly done with my froggy! I'm so happy! There's hope for me yet! Thank you!
I love to watch your timelapses so I'm glad there is (finally) a realtime tutorial! I would suggest adding timestamps for each section just in case, other than that it was fun to watch 😊💜
I think you are my favorite tutorial channel, you explain things so so well, lots of other tutorials they will just say how to do something, and not why they are doing it. Good job! excited for more :)
Aaa this tutorial is so good! I've been wanting to get into Blender for a while but never had the right tutorial to start with! This really helped me out, thank you for making it!
I have been learning Blender from paid courses for a few months now, but your video is far better than all the videos I have seen ! Thank you so much for this, a wonderful video for all beginners with all the steps you need to render a 3D illustration. I love it.
Whilst I'm sure these types of videos must take a huge amount of effort to put together, please make more if you can. This was absolutely brilliant. I learnt so much. Thanks :D
You got me through an important university 3D computer graphics project with this video, I'm SO GRATEFUL! I didn't submit a frog but your teaching and instructions were amazing I was able to do my own unique character, a human man. Thanks so much for this video! truly a lifesaver.
Yay, I did it! If I hadn't already done Blender Guru's tutorial donut, this would have been a lot tougher. I copied this one-to-one, but I'm starting again from scratch tomorrow to make an original character, which I plan to animate for a cute little music video (: Thank you for the tutorial!!!
@@LmanRegular Hi! Around the time of my original comment, I completed an Animal Crossing inspired track just for this Blender idea, but I ended up dropping Blender to go back to working on my music and some audiovisual videos. I had created a model of a cat, a tree, and a small "world", all in the style of Animal Crossing just to give me a way to learn different aspects of Blender, but it was a LOT to do for me as a beginner, and I never finished it. Lost interest entirely. I might return to Blender eventually, but honestly, I consider my time with Blender a temporary break from arts/skills/programs that I am much more familiar with. I bother to mention all this because I know that someone might be beating themselves up for not being able to commit to Blender _or_ some other creative project. If you already have creative endeavors to fall back on, no worries, we don't _need_ to be a jack-of-all-trades, or the "master-of-all-trades" that perfectionism might suggest we need. We don't. If you don't have an area of expertise already and are just exploring creative outlets, that's fine too. Either way, just do what you feel like doing. Sometimes, especially if you have yet to call any area your calling, discipline _IS_ required to develop the skills you want to make the things you want to make, and I promise it's totally worth it. It's only hard in the beginning, but once things become habit, passion can *really* take over and before you know it, you can't live without creating what you love ALL the time. I didn't intend to drop all this text when I started this comment lol, but maybe someone in a certain place in their life will read this at a certain time. I 'unno.
THANK YOU SO MUCH Yesterday I was SO frustrated because I wanted to make a diamond ring and I didn't know where to find it. Your video opens exactly teaching how! I'm barely a beginner so I'm super excited by this detail. Keep up the good work and thanks again!
thank you so much this was adorable! i kept trying to jump into blender with these super ambitious ideas but this was perfect for me as a total beginner
I was scrolling and saw a comment she replied to regarding this, saying "Thats a default texture I used for doing some tests. Its not needed to complete this tutorial so don’t worry about it."
it took me 20 mins just to add the extra objects extension 💀(in the updated version of blender it is located in "Get extensions"--right above Add-ons--and it is called "Extra Mesh Objects")
I love how you give us the the keys you pressed and what side of the mouse you pressed in the little corner on the bottom! It helps so much, especially when I am not sure which key to press. And what I find interesting is that, I found your tutorial video because it is my very first time using blender. I am following along, and there is so much instruction, but you also get to learn by yourself! So you sort of have to troubleshoot with yourself, and it gives many opportunities to explore the interface and find your solution which I find pretty neat. Thank you so much for making blender so much more simple for me!
Thank you so much for your tutorial. I have tried to learn to work with blender before but I was too overwhelmed that i was not able to start. With your tutorial I was able to get confortable with blender and get results. And you explaine everything in detail even the small steps that make a big difference. Thank you ^^ Sending lots of love
youre one of the very VERY rare people on youtube who are kind enough to give tutorials on how to make cute and pretty stuff instead of idk, a rotating donut
Thank you so much! I;'ve been putting off learning blender for a while but this video taught me a lot today. I can't wait to finish my frog, I customized mine but it didn't come out as cute as yours. Thanks!
If you like me are stuck at the UV part and don't know how to move things around just deselect everything then point with your mouse what you want to select and press "L", it will select the whole part! then just use as always G, R and S to move things around :D Thank you to Mar for this tutorial by the way it made me love Blender instantly!
So helpful, after watching lots of other tutorials this one struck the right balance I needed to figure things out. I hope there is more coming since its been awhile since posting.
this was good, but a few things make it a bit more confusing for newbies: - the double click to select an edge loop add on is unnecessary, you can already alt+click, and the default is better for people to learn - you use hot keys a lot, when it would be better to show people where to find it in the menu, for example Edge>Mark Seam
thank you so much for your tutotiar! it is my first time using blender and I was kinda confused with the keys, having you putting them on screen helped me a lot!
Please slow down and leave the menu's up for longer next time you're doing a tutorial. Your content is amazing, you're just a little bit too fast on 1x speed. Remember, you know this program like the back of your hand, but the rest of us are clueless!
Loving this tutorial but at 4:10 I'm struggling trying to pan around the image to delete the vertices for the ears. Almost like it won't let me pan around the X axis if that makes sense. Any suggestions for a true newbie?
Got this randomly recommended to me and already this is such a better 3D tutorial than all the ones I've seen back when I even attempted to do any 3D modelling. Actually makes the process really not look that intimidating and you say everything clearly so nothing is confusing! Gonna try my hand at this, thank you :)
Thank you!! I just have a question! On texture paint everything works find but when I try to paint the head (checks and eyes) my brush looks so pixeled I don´t know how to fix it! I also try different brushes. I can draw over the body and clothes this only happened in the head, can somebody help me please? :( Thank youu
Great video but this goes WAY too fast. You shouldn't cut the breaths out of your audio otherwise I have to switch back and forth between blender and pausing the video for every single step.
@@criminechen nope, it works however the creator makes it. Yet there are preferences when it comes to tutorials. Beginner is automatically associated with S L O W. So, I agree
Ive been tossed around by so many blender tutorials (TxT;) this video really surpassed my expectations! This is the furthest ive gone making a 3d model and the most comprehension ive felt in how to apply blender to my own projects, thank you so much!!
i've been using blender for school for almost a year now (I study in video game) and from watching like 3 videos of yours I've learned so much stuff i didnt know about the software aaaa thank u so much. I jsut have a question, I dont fully understand what the 3 Button mouse add-on is for. Is it because you're on mac with the magic mouse or should I also activate it with windows? (I assumed you were on mac because of the overlay but I might be wrong)
Thanks for watching!! The Emulate 3 mouse button option is because I use a graphics tablet instead of a mouse, and the pen doesnt have 3 buttons, so when that button is on, I can select loops with double click. Someone in my previous tutorial mentioned the double click selection wasnt working for them, and I realised it was because the Emulate 3 mouse button was off. If you have it off, I think you can select loops with Alt+ left click, and its also fine!
You speak in a way that's better for me to understant than any other RUclipsr, all of them speak in a technical way, but you seen to be just explaning, that's a lot better.
Whenever I do the shade smooth on the rounded cube, it makes this weird line down the middle of the object. Does anyone know why? My rounded cube doesn’t seem as round as hers, and It has 4 pointy areas on the top, bottom and both of the sides of the object. :(((
Hmmm...can you check the mirror modifier is first on your modifiers tab? What I think you are describing happens if you add the subdivision surface modifier first, and then the mirror modifier. Mirror modifier should be first on your list. Let me know if this worked🙏
I also had this problem so for anyone else struggling: I had to select all, go to mesh > merge > then "By distance". Credit to Moonboots on the Blender forum for this solution : )
Omg such a good tutorial! I managed to make my own cute character. If I want to try to rig and animate the character, is it best to join the head, body and clothes to one single mesh or should I keep them separate? I want to make it walk around in Unity in the end :D
A little late to this, and you may have figured it out but it's best to have them all merged for optimisation purposes! (unless you're planning to have dressup elements, that's a different beast entirely) you could even delete the areas hidden under the clothes too (i.e upper torso) to help with performance!
If you have truble with unwraping try the following.
Instead of pressing U, press alt+n and select "set from faces".
Now some blue lines should apear on your model.
Press alt+n again and select "merge".
After this your model should unwrap nicely.
Thank you!
Thank you so much!
!!!! SAVIOR !!!!!
Thank you!! I was wondering why my UVs were unwrapping perfectly well if I did one at a time but not multiple aaaa
Yes...this is what I needed! It was the one place I was going wrong! Thank you!
For those who don't have a numpad -> go to preferences -> input -> and check the top box that says "emulate numpad" now your top number keys can be used for those shortcuts :D
You rule. Thanks!
Thank you so much🎉 I really needed this
Thank you!
You’re an Angel!!!! Thank u so much
thank you :3
18:58 for newer Blender version (Feb 2024), color picker is shift+x somehow.
You can change it to S by Edit>Preferences>Keymap>3d View>Image Paint>Sample Color. Click it, change to S
3:40 if u can't find the "Toggle Overlay" option, press alt+shift+z❤
thank you i was so stuckk 😭😭😭
Thank you!!! I could not figure out what she was saying by "set it" button and I was so stuck
Glad to help y'all😻
tysm omg
what's the short cut for Mac?
"For begginers" Proceeds to explain things far better than anyone else. You blew my mind! Awesome tutorial
Totally agree
ikr
I completely AGREE! I've searched a LOT for intro to Blender character tutorials on RUclips and this was AMAZINGLY simplified!
really? i thought she didnt explain some things enough, like rotating the whole circle when extruding the arms and legs
Im an early beginner, when I heard you say "were going to move some vertices to fix the topology" I was like "pfffftt, I dont have to do that, shes being extra", Halfway through the modeling of the arms I realized I was severely wrong and i had to start over, you taught me a powerful lesson about having beautiful topology. Thank you so much!!
I'm having my students do this tutorial. It's taken us a solid month. We're all beginners. Moving forward, I'm going to adjust this to have the arms stick out because we all had lots of problems at the armpit area.
@@Droog75do you teach 3d animation at a college?
@@ithinkisawanangel High School
Yes, questioning something without proof is always a bad idea. Life lesson.
she could've explained the topology better. and done it alot slower.
9:50 change mesh color in viewport
Notes:
Preview model on separate window -> Material Preview + disable Toggle Overlay
Use round cube instead of UV sphere to avoid triangles
Modifier Mirror -> turn on Clipping
Image texture interpolation from Linear -> Closest to make the texture sharper
Save the texture, please
Shortcuts:
Double G - move vertex without changing the mesh shape
Ctrl+R - insert edge loop
Ctrl+E - mark seam
/ - local view
F12 - render
My first model a while back was an Animal Crossing character and I couldn't find any tutorials for the sort of thing I wanted to make at the time so I just kind of winged it. This would have saved me so much time! I would love to see a rigging tutorial, I found it so hard to translate the generic rigging tutorials I found to a character like this.
Funny you mention Animal Crossing characters. I assigned this Froggy tutorial to my high school students and as a follow up / application to this wonderful tutorial I'm having them design their own Animal Crossing character.
I tried rigging an orc character that was very round and chubby. I had trouble with the first rig because the bones were pulling on a lot of unexpected parts, adding more smaller bones to the second one gave me a lot more control and made weight-painting a lot easier too.
@@Droog75 I want that class o.o
Finished & Final Thoughts:
I'm straight up new to Blender, and I would say this tutorial is for "Beginners who already know the basics of Blender". This is a, "Beginner to Intermediate" tutorial.
I am strictly speaking from a totally new-to-Blender viewpoint:
▪ This needs to be a 2 part video - Creating the Model and UV Mapping.
▪ Speeding up your voice (or talking fast?) with no short pauses is not good for newbies.
▪ There were a few areas where parts were not explained or glossed over (ex. how to lay the image flat 'perfectly', what happens when Proportional Editing doesn't work, the middle mouse double click that I never used and needed to be slowed down, 15:15 Viewpoint Shading, how lighting and proper placement to maximize your render should work during the UV Mapping stage, how to rotate the camera around your model for a different angle...); corrections via annotations or subtitles would easily fix this without making an entirely new video.
▪ Alternatively, creating a new Top Comment with fixes of common problems people are having and pinning that instead would also be helpful if annotations or subtitles aren't able to be implemented.
▪ It needs an official transcript from the creator.
▪ Keyboard strokes need to be more visible with alternatives for those working on Mac.
I started this on Jan 30th, and finished today Feb 4th, but taking breaks out from becoming frustrated in some parts, this took me ~3 days to make even though I thought this would take me about 4hrs to make (coming from a total newbie point).
Yes, it is easy to create this model and UV map it, but the being taught process was where the issues arose. It's still a good tutorial, don't get me wrong, but it's not one I would recommend right off the get-go.
what would you reccomend off the get go? i am totally new and all the buttons are overhwelimg. and i agree with your points. the going super fast is a bit frustrating and i dont wanna be fustrated at someone who is teaching me but yeah it is. i put the video to 0.5 speed after 15 seconds cause i knew it was gonna be a problem and it is. i was three minutes in and she went silent at a part i was not sure how to do and i have a touchpad not a mouse so she was using like a scroll wheel and it would have been nice to know what that was cause i pressed one thing and messed up and just had to start over again cause idk if there is a undo button and ITS FREAKING ME OUT PLS OH GOD.
@@saiyanknight1 Most people start with the famous Donut tutorial
@@saiyanknight1 control + z is undo. Control + Shift + Z is redo. Like the other person said. Most people start with donut tutorial (get the latest version of the tutorial). It has 16 parts with minimum video length of about 10 mins, but it has all the basics.
i totally agree and felt kinda dumb trying to follow along :(
@@May-rk3sl I just finished and rendered my donut from blenderguru yesterday. After 8 days and completing all 16 parts of his tutorial, this one def is super easy to follow. I would say check out his video. His first video is just getting to know blender and learning shortcuts. You don't even need to watch all 16 parts. He has all those partns for beginners to learn all the different functions and possibilities but it's def not required. I recommend checking how his first few vids for the donut tutorial and following along. And then when you go back to this, it's pretty easy to follow along.
“It’s gonna pretend to be subdivided twice” is such a great sentence
This is one of the best blender tutorials I've ever come across! I cannot believe it's only half an hour and you show us how to model the froggo, uv map, paint, and set the scene! I've never gotten as far as texture painting before, and I'm over the moon with how the little frog came out! Thank you so much for sharing
Great video! However from UV mapping and onward it gets confusing. She went from explaining everything well to fast forwarding parts that as a beginner I wouldn't know. Also I wish there was an indication of when she clicks on something, like in 15:19 I have no idea how the colorful map appeared and I can't figure it out, its a little frustrating for me, hopefully I can get to the end of this tutorial.
same :(
I am also stuck on this part :(
Have you figured it out yet?
@@DeepDope_ oh my Goodness, thank you soooo much! I was stuck for a few days with that(
@@DeepDope_ You're a lifesaver, thank you!
me: clicks on this video, thinking 'FROGGY'
also me: but you've been using blender for nearly a year, you know how to do this-
me again: FROGGY
your name makes this comment better
@@kyonghuni lmao
Me who’s never used blender before: FROGGY
@@amandafox2734 I cant even make the eyes, congratulations
Same here. I’m having so much trouble figuring things out but FROGGY
Took me about 20 days to finish this 30min video lol But it was so so good. Thank you for posting and I hope you get to post more like these!
Strong will, good job
i have never done any 3d modeling, i have never even watched anything related to 3d modeling, but this video keeps showing up on my home page. the frog is so cute. i cant believe i'm gonna spend 30 minutes just watching this frog come into existence, with no plans to learn anything from it.
THE MOST HELPFUL THING IN THE WORLD I'm new to 3D animation, and since I've been doing 2D for four years now I thought I'd finally get into it, AND THIS VIDEO CHANGED EVERYTHING thank you so much this is so helpful!!!!
I love that you also included the short-cuts on screen! Super well explained, no words wasted! Thanks for such a great video :)
out of all the blender tutorials this one helped me the most! thank you so much for helping out beginners!
Thank you for the nice comment!!
hi! i am trying to do this tutorial but i am confused about what she means when she says to press "set it" at 3.38. can you explain how u completed it if its not to hard?
@@leilamatias3567 hey, sorry for the late reply! didnt notice your message until now :3 she said "press z" - you can also see on the left of the screen all the buttons shes pressing, which is super useful! so yeah, "z" is the key that brings up the menu that she's talking about. hope i could help
how did she get the colorful map in the texture painting part? :/
This has to be the best blender tutorial there is, not only did it teach me how to make a froggy, it also taught me some basic blender skills!
Instead of deleting the starting cube, u can just select it and press ctrl + 1-4 to subdivide it. I like to start with a single subdivision on a cube and then adding loop cuts as I need them. This tends to keep my poly count low until I want to add more detail.
I don't know why I haven't found your channel sooner! I'm new to Blender and always wanted to model cute characters. Your tutorials are lovely and easy to follow
had A LOT of problems with the UV editing and the mesh, but i finished it, its not identical but its something, i'll get better at doing the mesh and i'll do froggy again until they look the same as yours! thank u for this tutorial! learned a lot
“Because there’s no reference for this angle, just make it as chubby as you want!” 🥺
I have to admit that was the moment I liked the video! UWU such a cute chubby frog
This is a really great tutorial! Thank you for making it!
did you have to say uwu
its so cute- and this helped me a lot~!
Glad to hear that!!!
i loved this tutorial, i didn't actually make a frog but this helped a lot in making my character, and i could barely do anything in blender before i saw this video :') thank u so much!
Love this tutorial! Would you consider making a tutorial for sculpting humanoid characters? (such as the miku sculpt you did)
definitely! but Im still learning, so once I get confident with it I will share the knowledge :)
Lovely video Mar! :D
Think a lot of people will learn some great stuff from this!
In Color Management you should try and set the "filmic" to "Standard" that way you get the same colors as on your texture, not sure why Filmic is standart it seem to watch out all the colors
Thank you both: MortMort and MAR, for making amazing tutorials! I now have awesome weapons/shield with pretty gradient colors and a cute little Froggo. I learned so much from both of you :)
Ahhh just seeing this!!! thanks MortMort!! so weird/annoying that Filmic is there by default!
@@Marcelaylucin It isn't annoying at all: Filmic is a lot better than Standard because it allows for a higher range of light - making the clipping range larger and more realistic. It has several contrast modes already, as well as the compositer, in case you do not want to use GIMP or Lightroom/Photoshop.
oh my god thanks for the tip this drove me crazy
filmic is for a realistic render that calculate color of objects more correct when a light hits an object (based of physics of the real world).
standard is from the older versions of blender.
if you want fantasy, abstract, not-realistic renders and want to see colors as it is (even if it's more saturated than real world) then standard is the way to go for it.
Im in the minute 2:30 and its so easy to understand good quality video and no need to stay more than 1 hour if u have already done more than 1 tutorial before than doing this one thanks alot.
i am still pretty new to blender, but i just wanted to thank you for this tutorial! it was extremely helpful to me in the way you explained most things and i felt very proud of myself for being able to follow the tutorial and make a decent render :)
Did this tutorial in like 4h or so and i feel so lucky that this is the first tutorial i clicked on today. So much useful information, could understand almost every step. After the froggy I immediately jumped in and with some of my notes could create a cute little character right after! Thank you so much, seriously
How did you straighten/flatten the vertices at 10:13 ? Awesome vid, thanks for sharing.
S Z 0 (S for scale, Z to scale on the Z axis and since we dont really want to scale them up (we just want to place all of them on the same spot vertically) we type 0, so wherever the vertices are, they meet at the average 0 on the Z axis)
@@Marcelaylucin Thank you!!
@@Marcelaylucin thanks，u good~~~like you
@@Marcelaylucin In the video at 4:16 you double click between two verticies and a looptools menu comes up, that doesn’t come up for me even though I enabled the looptool addon at the start and saved it. 😢
I finished the froggy! Thank you so much! I had always wanted to use Blender, and now I made it thanks to you! Thank you, thank you!
me: I have used blender for 5+ years I know everything there is to know about blender
also me: cute frog!
*learns basic blender tools that could’ve saved me hours of work if I had known earlier*
Ngl I was only trying to figure out how to paint the model, but this is an amazing tutorial for anyone just beginning! The only thing I have to complain about is how fast you go, I was having a lot of trouble keeping up, I had to restart many parts a lot of times.
saying zed instead of zee confused me so hard lol. Thanks for the tutorial! It is REFRESHINGLY FAST! I loooove fast paced tutorials because I don't mind having to pause and go back a lot, especially when everything is important and relevant. I'd much rather have that than 'hi guys this is chris here. we're going to go to object mode now- oh, by the way, incase you didn't know the year blender was invented, it was 1864 the same year that steve jobs was born and I think...' like stfu I just want to know what to do next.
This is one of the most useful Blender tutorials I have seen for character modeling. Really good content
So exciting!! I have been waiting for this, cannot wait to watch and try to follow the tutorial myself.
Your content is amazing and I'm so happy you create these tutorials!
Thank you so much!!!
I'm so proud of myself! This tutorial is THE best of the best for beginners. I started off in blender with no knowledge and now I'm nearly done with my froggy! I'm so happy! There's hope for me yet! Thank you!
I love to watch your timelapses so I'm glad there is (finally) a realtime tutorial!
I would suggest adding timestamps for each section just in case, other than that it was fun to watch 😊💜
ahhh!! I was gonna add timestamps and I totally forgot! thanks for reminding me!
I think you are my favorite tutorial channel, you explain things so so well, lots of other tutorials they will just say how to do something, and not why they are doing it. Good job! excited for more :)
Aaa this tutorial is so good! I've been wanting to get into Blender for a while but never had the right tutorial to start with! This really helped me out, thank you for making it!
Thanks for watching!!
Normally I hate having to re-learn programs or when they update / i just forget but this made it a lot more bearable, thank you!
the edge loop menu thing killed me. where have you've been
No because I've actually learned from this. It's hard looking for tutorials that explain things the way you do. Thank you!
I think it's even better than the donut tutorial. Lol. Thank you so much! Hope there are more tutorials like this!!
Finally completed this tutorial and made a little goth frog🥳its a bit choppy but thank you for this tutorial, Blender seems a little less daunting now
BLENDER HAS DEFENITLY CHANGED OVER THE YEARS HAHAHA I AM HAVING TROUBLE
I have been learning Blender from paid courses for a few months now, but your video is far better than all the videos I have seen ! Thank you so much for this, a wonderful video for all beginners with all the steps you need to render a 3D illustration. I love it.
This has been the best tutorial. Holy shit this is great. U sound so nice and patient and u explain every little thing. Thank u so much
awww thanks!!!
Whilst I'm sure these types of videos must take a huge amount of effort to put together, please make more if you can. This was absolutely brilliant. I learnt so much. Thanks :D
I wish I'd seen this video just a week earlier it would've improved my assignment workflow so much better! This was a really great tutorial!
You got me through an important university 3D computer graphics project with this video, I'm SO GRATEFUL! I didn't submit a frog but your teaching and instructions were amazing I was able to do my own unique character, a human man. Thanks so much for this video! truly a lifesaver.
Yay, I did it!
If I hadn't already done Blender Guru's tutorial donut, this would have been a lot tougher. I copied this one-to-one, but I'm starting again from scratch tomorrow to make an original character, which I plan to animate for a cute little music video (:
Thank you for the tutorial!!!
Hey, how is your music video going?
@@LmanRegular Hi! Around the time of my original comment, I completed an Animal Crossing inspired track just for this Blender idea, but I ended up dropping Blender to go back to working on my music and some audiovisual videos.
I had created a model of a cat, a tree, and a small "world", all in the style of Animal Crossing just to give me a way to learn different aspects of Blender, but it was a LOT to do for me as a beginner, and I never finished it. Lost interest entirely.
I might return to Blender eventually, but honestly, I consider my time with Blender a temporary break from arts/skills/programs that I am much more familiar with.
I bother to mention all this because I know that someone might be beating themselves up for not being able to commit to Blender _or_ some other creative project.
If you already have creative endeavors to fall back on, no worries, we don't _need_ to be a jack-of-all-trades, or the "master-of-all-trades" that perfectionism might suggest we need. We don't.
If you don't have an area of expertise already and are just exploring creative outlets, that's fine too. Either way, just do what you feel like doing. Sometimes, especially if you have yet to call any area your calling, discipline _IS_ required to develop the skills you want to make the things you want to make, and I promise it's totally worth it. It's only hard in the beginning, but once things become habit, passion can *really* take over and before you know it, you can't live without creating what you love ALL the time.
I didn't intend to drop all this text when I started this comment lol, but maybe someone in a certain place in their life will read this at a certain time. I 'unno.
THANK YOU SO MUCH Yesterday I was SO frustrated because I wanted to make a diamond ring and I didn't know where to find it. Your video opens exactly teaching how! I'm barely a beginner so I'm super excited by this detail. Keep up the good work and thanks again!
thank you so much this was adorable! i kept trying to jump into blender with these super ambitious ideas but this was perfect for me as a total beginner
this was awesome! i was afraid it would be too advanced at first but i went slow and understood well on what to do :)
15:17 you skipped the video there and I cant figure out if it was important or not. how did you get that color palate in the UV port?
I was scrolling and saw a comment she replied to regarding this, saying "Thats a default texture I used for doing some tests. Its not needed to complete this tutorial so don’t worry about it."
OMG, things u make are so cute and have your own style to them that I just love! This makes me enjoy blender more as a beginner!
it took me 20 mins just to add the extra objects extension 💀(in the updated version of blender it is located in "Get extensions"--right above Add-ons--and it is called "Extra Mesh Objects")
Thank you! Literally came back and sorted the comments here by newest in the hopes somebody gave a heads up because I was strugglinggggg :')
@@bunnyears23 same lul.
I love how you give us the the keys you pressed and what side of the mouse you pressed in the little corner on the bottom! It helps so much, especially when I am not sure which key to press. And what I find interesting is that, I found your tutorial video because it is my very first time using blender. I am following along, and there is so much instruction, but you also get to learn by yourself! So you sort of have to troubleshoot with yourself, and it gives many opportunities to explore the interface and find your solution which I find pretty neat. Thank you so much for making blender so much more simple for me!
How did you equal out the legs when scaling at 8:25? Finally got to trying this tutorial and its really exciting to learn thank you!
I'm also stuck on this part!
help me too
Thank you so much for your tutorial. I have tried to learn to work with blender before but I was too overwhelmed that i was not able to start. With your tutorial I was able to get confortable with blender and get results. And you explaine everything in detail even the small steps that make a big difference. Thank you ^^ Sending lots of love
youre one of the very VERY rare people on youtube who are kind enough to give tutorials on how to make cute and pretty stuff instead of idk, a rotating donut
Don't poopoo the donut, it serves a purpose. It's not meant to serve your own tastes, it's there teach you the basics.
Thank you so much! I;'ve been putting off learning blender for a while but this video taught me a lot today. I can't wait to finish my frog, I customized mine but it didn't come out as cute as yours. Thanks!
About to make this! So cute :D
I loosely followed this and ended up making a lil' Dog-Bear, very helpful and learned a lot, thank you! Officially finished my second 'project' lmao
The explanations you gave are very helpful. Thank you for sharing your process ^-^
Bro, I'm 2 minutes in and I've already learned so much from the amazing way you are explaining it! Thank you so much for the tutorial!
hi, when i double click to try to select the loop of vertices at 4:20 i can't seem to get the loop to be selected, only the one im clicking
I had this problem and I resolved it by pressing "Alt" while I was clicking. Hope it helps! :D
@@claudiacasado716I had this issue and saw you comment and it really helped. But when I right click, no looptool menu comes up.. 😪
@@claudiacasado716rightclicking for me just deselects the whole loop..
If you like me are stuck at the UV part and don't know how to move things around just deselect everything then point with your mouse what you want to select and press "L", it will select the whole part! then just use as always G, R and S to move things around :D
Thank you to Mar for this tutorial by the way it made me love Blender instantly!
Seasoned blender user and you still taught me some things! Thanks!
Thank you for making this tutorial, I used this to create my first Blender-made 3D model!
After dozens of donuts, and chairs.
I now choose you FROGGY
So helpful, after watching lots of other tutorials this one struck the right balance I needed to figure things out. I hope there is more coming since its been awhile since posting.
this was good, but a few things make it a bit more confusing for newbies:
- the double click to select an edge loop add on is unnecessary, you can already alt+click, and the default is better for people to learn
- you use hot keys a lot, when it would be better to show people where to find it in the menu, for example Edge>Mark Seam
THANKS FOR THE ALT THING I WAS GOING INSANE WITH THAT XDD
Este es el mejor tutorial de Blender! Es la PRIMERA vez que uso el programa y todo me quedó muy claro! Todo súper bien explicado Se los recomiendo!
thank you so much for your tutotiar! it is my first time using blender and I was kinda confused with the keys, having you putting them on screen helped me a lot!
Please slow down and leave the menu's up for longer next time you're doing a tutorial. Your content is amazing, you're just a little bit too fast on 1x speed. Remember, you know this program like the back of your hand, but the rest of us are clueless!
I love the title 'Easy Froggy'. I keep giggling at it like a maniac.
Gonna def try this tomorrow!
Loving this tutorial but at 4:10 I'm struggling trying to pan around the image to delete the vertices for the ears.
Almost like it won't let me pan around the X axis if that makes sense.
Any suggestions for a true newbie?
If I’m understanding you correctly, holding the middle mouse button (scroll wheel) will help you pan around your model
Got this randomly recommended to me and already this is such a better 3D tutorial than all the ones I've seen back when I even attempted to do any 3D modelling. Actually makes the process really not look that intimidating and you say everything clearly so nothing is confusing! Gonna try my hand at this, thank you :)
Thank you!! I just have a question! On texture paint everything works find but when I try to paint the head (checks and eyes) my brush looks so pixeled I don´t know how to fix it! I also try different brushes. I can draw over the body and clothes this only happened in the head, can somebody help me please? :( Thank youu
I rarely subscribe to a tutorial channel, but this is so well done i had no choice. you've made my blenders SO much better thank you!!
I’ll be back!
why is this so harddddd
This tutorial literally just solved all my problems at once. Thankyou
Great video but this goes WAY too fast. You shouldn't cut the breaths out of your audio otherwise I have to switch back and forth between blender and pausing the video for every single step.
isn't that how tutorials work?
@@criminechen nope, it works however the creator makes it. Yet there are preferences when it comes to tutorials. Beginner is automatically associated with S L O W. So, I agree
just change the playback speed in the video settings :) helps a lot
Um no . They can do what they want❤
@@florahorvath6794 nope.
This was really helpful and I already feel so much more confident with Blender, this was only my 2nd time using blender too!!
If toggle overlays doesn't show up you can do "ALT + SHIFT + Z"
tysm
What’s the shortcut on a mac, please?
I'm literally such a dummy with art programs but I am so excited to use this tutorial and try blender
This should be in animal crossing, good tutorial
I started learning Blende at the beggining of this year thank to this tutorial, Im really gratefull for your work here, Thank you Mar
my texture brush isnt working???? im trying to draw but nothings showing up. this is super frustrating. i did exactly what the tut said :(
Ive been tossed around by so many blender tutorials (TxT;) this video really surpassed my expectations! This is the furthest ive gone making a 3d model and the most comprehension ive felt in how to apply blender to my own projects, thank you so much!!
i've been using blender for school for almost a year now (I study in video game) and from watching like 3 videos of yours I've learned so much stuff i didnt know about the software aaaa thank u so much. I jsut have a question, I dont fully understand what the 3 Button mouse add-on is for. Is it because you're on mac with the magic mouse or should I also activate it with windows? (I assumed you were on mac because of the overlay but I might be wrong)
Thanks for watching!! The Emulate 3 mouse button option is because I use a graphics tablet instead of a mouse, and the pen doesnt have 3 buttons, so when that button is on, I can select loops with double click. Someone in my previous tutorial mentioned the double click selection wasnt working for them, and I realised it was because the Emulate 3 mouse button was off. If you have it off, I think you can select loops with Alt+ left click, and its also fine!
@@Marcelaylucin I see I see! Thank you for your answer
You speak in a way that's better for me to understant than any other RUclipsr, all of them speak in a technical way, but you seen to be just explaning, that's a lot better.
Whenever I do the shade smooth on the rounded cube, it makes this weird line down the middle of the object. Does anyone know why? My rounded cube doesn’t seem as round as hers, and It has 4 pointy areas on the top, bottom and both of the sides of the object. :(((
Hmmm...can you check the mirror modifier is first on your modifiers tab? What I think you are describing happens if you add the subdivision surface modifier first, and then the mirror modifier. Mirror modifier should be first on your list. Let me know if this worked🙏
I also had this problem so for anyone else struggling: I had to select all, go to mesh > merge > then "By distance". Credit to Moonboots on the Blender forum for this solution : )
@@Comic_Slams Thank you so much
@@Marcelaylucin I have this problem but fixing it with putting Mirror first.
Ive been wanting to make something in Blender for months now and had no idea what I have doing. Thank you for this awesome tutorial!!
this is not a starting tutoital. more medium/ adavcned, and the pace is wayyyyyy 2 fast for me lol. still following along.
Complete beginner here, thank you so much for making this! Also gotta love a cute froggo
Omg such a good tutorial! I managed to make my own cute character. If I want to try to rig and animate the character, is it best to join the head, body and clothes to one single mesh or should I keep them separate? I want to make it walk around in Unity in the end :D
A little late to this, and you may have figured it out but it's best to have them all merged for optimisation purposes! (unless you're planning to have dressup elements, that's a different beast entirely) you could even delete the areas hidden under the clothes too (i.e upper torso) to help with performance!