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Initial Blocking

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Dikko

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good everyone dico here with another

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kick-ass walk through this is video 2 on

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a multi-part series that covers modeling

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for animation in this video we're going

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to spend some time blocking out the

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initial forms of the arms legs and torso

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so if that brief intro out the way let's

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jump right in shall we

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alright so we're just gonna start off

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with a brand new file we could probably

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keep the cube keep the light keep the

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camera so we're just going to move that

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into their own little collection because

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we can use that in the future for um you

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know rent the previews that sort of

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stuff so I'm just going to move those

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into place and it's all good to get

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organization up and running as soon as

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possible so sort of hide those for now

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and I'll hide this collection as well

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call it geo and turn that off for now

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alright so now what we're going to do

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we're going to bring in some reference

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images orthographic images for us to

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trace basically or out early blocking to

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do that but it's going to add an empty

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to a C and select image alright make

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sure that that sentence this to the

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world space as well we're gonna add a

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image to that empty so just go to our

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resource folder

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all right so I got my little image here

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and you might be wondering why I'm using

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an empty instead of like a background

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image plane in the viewport settings so

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it can actually add background images in

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the viewport I personally don't really

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like doing that because I like the

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flexibility of being able just quickly

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move things around without really

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worrying about it so I have my image

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here and I want to kind of get it up

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until to the right scale first so we

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talked about that in the last video so I

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want to make sure the scale is up and up

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to scratch the moment I start modeling

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with this character so let's get at

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quick let's bring back our little cube

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just as an example so our cube is at the

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moment two meters squared so this

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character I want to be around

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[Music]

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yeahwhat 1.55 meters tall something like

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that maybe 1.6 meters tall so I'm just

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gonna squish this down until I get

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around that point in my dimensions and

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that will give me a good idea of what

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scale this character will need to be so

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I can sort of line up the top of this

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skull with the top of this cube

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basically so just scale it up you can

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also scale it on the empty as well so if

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I click on this and you go to size

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without affecting the scale you can

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actually affect the size as well

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[Music]

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so just bringing that up to place

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so I certainly get there and you can

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also bring it out in front as well so

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you can just see it overlap with in the

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empty settings so she oh she's a little

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bit too tall actually not that's about right that's

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about the right height so notice I'll

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line up the bottom of the foot there

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with my front view and then I'm just

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going to pull that back actually I'm

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going to duplicate that first left side

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for now and then I'm going to pull the first one

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back for my front view and then I'm

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going to rotate the second one for my

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side view so when I go to side view I'll

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just line up the center of my world with

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this character with this one and then

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move that to the side there so now I

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have a nice clean front in side view and

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if I want to do some align my realign

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thing so it's a bit more centered so in

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this case it could be a little bit

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off-center let's have a look that's

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that's actually pretty good it's pretty

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centered there I don't have to worry

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about going to my viewport settings and

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also the and fixing that up so yeah

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let's get blocking but before we do all

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that let's sort of analyze this image

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and see what I aim to do with this early

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block and how we can save some time as

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we build out this model without really

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relying on you know too many like fixing

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ups and you know going back tracking the

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street like that so I'm just go to my

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front view grab my grease pencil so what

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I want to do when I'm blocking because

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I'm I'm plan I'm just modeling out the

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body at least the base mesh rather than

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sculpting because I find that when you

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have an orthographic image like this

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ready to go there's not much point in

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just going straight into the sculpting

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and then just sort you know fiddling

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around with the brushes and stuff if you

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end up adding complexity way too quickly

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and you're better off starting with some

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sort of base mesh to work with so but

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the base mesh can be the basis for your

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retopo as well so we may as well block

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out some good edge loops from the get-go

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so let's have a look at what we can do

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so with that in mind let's grab our

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brush and analyze this image

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alright let's analyze this image and see

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how we can save some time

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by being conscious of where we place our

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extrusions in edgeloop so what I want to

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do with this model from the get-go is

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establish my major points of

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articulation as I build out the base

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fish so my major points of articulation

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are the shoulders the elbows the knees

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and the crotch area so the hips

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basically so from here to here the sort

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of bikini line where the legs sort of

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meet the hips so the hips are also a

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major point of articulation in terms of

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the movement of the the legs going back

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and forward or whatever so I want to

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establish those as early as possible

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in the early blocking stage so what

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would that look like

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as I draw work out our edge loops so it

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would probably look something like this

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so one we need to get that their curves

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in the shoulder we want to get a edge

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loop that kind of does this

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those sorta like this so like a wraps

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around the chest so we want to get an

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edge loop that kind of does this around

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the neck we want to get some loops in

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here and we can establish that that

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compression and elongation that I talked

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about in the previous video as early as

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possible as well so here as well so what

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we'd end up doing is getting something

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like this in the center and then we want

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to get the bikini line up and running as

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well so we want to get we want to have a

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sort of edge loop that kind of goes all

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the break of edge loops that go sort of

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like that so we have a salute to come

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down like this but then we have wrote we

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have

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[Applause]

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adjectives that kind of go from the

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bottom of our the crotch up to sort of

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mold with the hips

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and then they sort of travel around the

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back so what would end up having is sort

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of like a break in the elbow like this

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it doesn't apology as we get that

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compression in elongation in there like

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so we have the same thing here

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in its simplest form we'd have something

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like this that goes in like that and

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then these spans go down like so along

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the leg and the hip joint or the hip ha

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edge flow would be something similar to

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this where you have kind of goes up and

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then it can either wrap around the butt

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and go back down or it can wrap around

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and go around the back like so

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so that's basically how we're going to

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work out the overall flow of the zone of

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this object so what you would have here

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is for their shoulders you'd have edge

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loops that kind of go around the neck

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like so then there'd be some sort of

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break here for the arm as they travel

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down the arm like so with the face we're

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not gonna worry about too much because

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this is the only part really that we're

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going to really sculpt properly once we

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get the base mesh of our body up and

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running here we can sculpt on with a

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multi res or with a sort of proxy mesh

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and then project reproject our base mesh

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onto that but for the face because it's

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far more complex we're going to actually

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sculpt out this face initially and then

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we top it on top but what we were going

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to try and establish overall in the long

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term is some lips that go around the eye

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like so

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[Music]

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we're gonna have at least one loop that

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goes around like a little mask like so

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and then they'll break off there

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somewhere

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and then we're gonna have a spat a

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centerline span that goes through there

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like here and like here and for the

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mouth we're just gonna have loops that

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go around like so

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and then at least one or two spans occur

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around over the nose and past the mouth

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mm-hmm because that's sort of

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representing that nasolabial crease as

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she moves her mouth and smiles and talks

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and also the and then we'll

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probably have some just some grid line

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mesh down there so basically that's how

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we're gonna approach overall our our

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model today all right with that in mind

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let's let's jump in I'm gonna reduce the

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opacity on this character as well bring

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it down to about I don't know a 20% just

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so we have something or 10% just so we

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have yeah some transparency above our

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model so you can just work without

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worrying about it and then I'm just

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going to lock off those um lock off the

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selection of those so I can't

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accidentally around with them let's

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bring back our little cube I'm gonna

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reset to that but now and then I'm gonna

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go into my edit mode add an edge loop

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actually can actually do it it even

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simpler just gonna grab this face and

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then I'm going to shift control move

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control and then click and move that

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Center that face into the center line

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and then delete that middle face and

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this actual little cube is going to

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become the basis of our body as we start

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adding extrusions and stuff like that so

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yeah let's add a mirror modifier to that

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that cube and want to turn on clipping

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and the cool thing about clipping

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is basically if you overextend your

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boots like this they will just basically

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merge into the center and not be a pain

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so like you'll always get a nice clean

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centerline or verse down the middle of

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the down the middle of the body so

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you're not going to get like overlapping

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verts or anything like that like you

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would get another software if you're not

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being careful so that's really really

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cool all right so let's just scale down

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this little Cuban edit mode now we just

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want to get it down to there sort of

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parameters of our body just very quickly

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just get a very simple blocking going on

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so starting from the chest like so I'm

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just going to line up those initial

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verts with the body so now we know that

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the chest is sort of sitting in the

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front view like so so just want to get

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that in

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[Music]

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line up to her body and I'm also having

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to in their initially sort of imagine

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what this character is going to be like

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without clothes and where those whether

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that skin would sit on top underneath

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those clothes because this character is

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also going to be changing her clothing

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in my film as well so I got to be

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careful that where I place you know

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where I place the underlying physiology

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of this character all right so I'm just

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gonna actually leave that down there for

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now and then we'll clean up that after

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the fact all right cool and now it is

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basically going to end up extruding

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things and make sure that when you're

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playing with your initial shapes that

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you've got your scale applied because

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you'll get weird transforms if you don't

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have a uniform scale applied in your

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initial model because then you'll get

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like if you're trying to extrude or do

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insects or like that you're gonna get a

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lot of issues alright so I'm just going

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to add a centerline to begin with as

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well so I can bring down those shoulders

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so as you can see I'm already starting

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to block out the the the key principles

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I have about modeling characters into

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this initial base mesh so if you haven't

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seen that video I definitely recommend

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you check it out so we've got our basic

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sort of body for our chest and now I'm

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basically just going to start extruding

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out

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like so

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[Music]

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now you can see here we get into that

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part of the body where I kind of have to

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start thinking about where I'm going to

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place this geometry so I'm actually

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going to grab

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hips and as you can see I've got this

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merging issue here again because I have

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clipping turned on so I can actually fix

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that by either turning off clipping and

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see if it submerged turn off flipping

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temporarily and just remove those

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overlapping verse so if you scale too

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much in the center line

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you'll get that clipping issue so I'm

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just going to keep that center line running and then turn on clipping again

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so I'm just going to sort of estimate

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where that hip will sit like so

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[Music]

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and just sort of block out that

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centerline a little bit and it's it's

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best to start simple don't go with too

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many too much geometry from the

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beginning so just do your basic shapes

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where basically it is blocking after all

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so don't overdo it so I'm just playing

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with the original initial shapes that I

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have

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I'm only basically using one tool at the

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moment I'm just using the extrude tool

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and the move tool to get this initial

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block going

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[Music]

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all right so got our body in there like

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so and now let's have a look and see how

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that's looking so right now it's looking

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a little bit too empty there so I'm

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going to get that initial loop around

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the chest going so as you can see if I

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add that lip now just from that these

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basic shapes I can still add a loop

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going around her chest so I'm gonna add

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a single loop and I start filling out

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the anatomy of that body a little bit

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further so here the back is looking a

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little bit too flat so I'm just gonna

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bring that up like so mm-hmm all right

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if you also add a right now we have to

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add a center line down the middle of the

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body as well so we can add one just

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going straight down the middle like so

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and this will be to form the basis of

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our arm going forward as well

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[Music]

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so let's bring up this part to sort of

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settle the neck joint so where the neck

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meets we're just gonna flatten that area

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out a little bit so we know that it's

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going to be the neck the neck line and

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when I talk about center line it's

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always good to have at least some sort

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of a consistent center line down then

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this side of the body as well as well as

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the front because you get you'll get a

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much cleaner you'll be able to manage

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your model a little bit better as well

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overall doing that as well all right

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then so going forward let's try and get

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this neck up and running so I'm just

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going to select these two faces on the

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top here and then sort of drag out sort

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of a sort of spherical circular shape

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out of that neck just to get some

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semblance of consistency there in the

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neck get that center line up and then

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I'm just going to extrude out up the

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neck

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for the time being so have our neck up

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and running very simple and now we're

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getting those nice loops going on there

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and we can sort of adjust these verts as

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needed

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and you want to try and keep your edge

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flow looking pretty clean as well just

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keeping those you know the consistency

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of the lines are the edges as clean as

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possible all right so look that our neck

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so now we on to the the arms and the the

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legs so let's start with the arms so you

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may think oh let's just extrude out

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of arm like this and we'll get

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everything we need done not quite what

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we need to do is we want to preserve

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volume on the top of our shoulder here

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and reduce volume under the arms so we

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want to actually separate these faces or

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these edges forward and then pull down

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these faces to get the arm extrusion

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that we want so let me demonstrate I'm

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just going to grab this vert and push it

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beyond my keyboard and pull that up just

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separate it and then pull it out like so

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so we get a nice clean edge flow around

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the top of the shoulder and then going

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to pull down this vert so you get

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something like this going on for our

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middle of the for our forearm basically

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our arm hole if you want to call it

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anything else but we have one extra

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issue so if I were to extrude out an arm

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now like this we're gonna get one a a

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6-pole we're gonna get a star in the

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middle of this arm so we don't want that

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on either side so we need to do one

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extra thing with this area and that is

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add a little bit of extra geometry in

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the middle between our arms to reduce

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the likelihood of that happening so I'm

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gonna grab these edges here

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and just separate with V again and pull

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those up

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like so

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like this

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[Music]

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and then I'm just going to fill that

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back in so I'm going to fill that back

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like so and like so and then I'm gonna

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add an extra edge up there and extra

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edge loops there so now we have a nice

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opening for our arm and we have a moat

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we have eight edges for that to play

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with when we extrude out that arm so

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before we do that I'm gonna turn on make

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sure I I have this tool turned on

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it's called loop tools so jump into

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add-ons type in loop tools loop tools

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and just turn that on cuz it gives you

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some extra features that a total

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lifesaver in um in blender so if you go

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to tools also go to view doc where are

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they live tools

00:22:28

I don't view tool tool options snow

00:22:31

workspace snow edit yes in the Edit tab

00:22:36

sorry go to the loop tools and we can

00:22:39

circularize this selection so we get a

00:22:42

nice circular hole basically but before

00:22:46

we do that I'm gonna add two more loops

00:22:49

I think let's see one two one two so we

00:22:56

have twelve edges and this is really

00:22:58

important when it comes to making our

00:22:59

hand because with twelve edges or with

00:23:03

an arm that has twelve verts

00:23:04

we can easily create a hand that a

00:23:08

seamlessly joins with our arm and I'll

00:23:11

explain that later but I'm trying to be

00:23:13

very technical with the way I block out

00:23:15

this character because trust me by being

00:23:18

technical like this you really be able

00:23:20

to save time and grief with how we do

00:23:23

things so yeah let's circularize this

00:23:27

thing and you can see it's kind of

00:23:29

up our blocking a little bit but

00:23:31

we just have to scale that down pull it

00:23:32

out now we can sort of squish it down a

00:23:35

little bit and this will look a lot

00:23:38

cleaner once we add more geometry so

00:23:40

don't worry you can see we've got a

00:23:43

little bit of stretching going on so

00:23:45

just going to re distribute that so we

00:23:48

want to keep the top of the circle

00:23:51

relatively linear with the rest here and

00:23:55

just going up a little bit and what I

00:23:58

want to do is with this arm basically at

00:24:03

this point I'm the arms are too close to

00:24:05

the body in this sketch so I want to

00:24:06

just sort of trace the arm with as a

00:24:08

separate object to get the scale of the

00:24:10

arm right and then reattach it to the

00:24:12

body so for now I'm just going to

00:24:15

extrude out just another loop like this

00:24:20

and then I'm going to separate it using

00:24:23

two separated with the separated from

00:24:25

the rest of the mesh temporarily so I'm

00:24:28

gonna push set separate we're gonna

00:24:31

split the selection so that's now

00:24:37

separate okay and temporarily I'm just

00:24:41

gonna select everything in this center

00:24:43

line here this mesh and push hide and

00:24:46

just working with this loop I'm going to

00:24:50

line up this loop with my arm and block

00:24:58

out that arm in very simple terms so

00:25:02

just block out that like so I'm gonna

00:25:08

get that forearm shape in there a little

00:25:10

bit there like so and then just pulling

00:25:13

for the wrist Michael

00:25:24

we can add a little bit of mass there as

00:25:26

well if you want to add a little bit of

00:25:28

variation in the bicep and the tricep so

00:25:32

go out on there let's just line that up

00:25:34

as well with our image and as you can

00:25:36

see with my forearm and even with the

00:25:40

front and side view I'm not quite in

00:25:42

sync with the the lining up of our my

00:25:45

character but that's fine we just had to

00:25:48

sort of eyeball it then but let's just

00:25:52

grab these faces here

00:25:56

and just sort of rotate that into place

00:25:58

well actually I'm going to keep it

00:26:00

straight for now because um yeah it

00:26:03

makes sense at the moment to keep it

00:26:05

straight because we can put it back into

00:26:06

an a pose after the fact and we can be a

00:26:08

bit more technical about it so I'm just

00:26:09

going to keep it relatively straight

00:26:11

instead of conforming to the arm

00:26:14

conforming to the sketch basically so

00:26:16

I'm going to keep this as long as the

00:26:17

scales good that's all we need so I'm

00:26:19

just going to add an extra loop here and

00:26:21

actually live there and then we'll worry

00:26:23

about the adding that extra geometry at

00:26:27

the back of the elbow toward the end of

00:26:30

our blocking when we get to the next

00:26:31

stage of our modeling which is um just

00:26:34

refining near the block basically so it

00:26:36

can unhide that and now what I want to

00:26:39

do is just grab this arm and I'm gonna

00:26:41

actually make it into a tee pose for

00:26:43

time B so just kind of have it out

00:26:45

straight and what we can do to make sure

00:26:49

that everything is rotating in the right

00:26:51

spot just put the 3d cursor over at

00:26:53

around the elbow area so probably around

00:26:55

here go to 3d cursor

00:27:00

use the 3d cursor as a reference point

00:27:03

for rotation and just bring that out

00:27:05

straight like that and that gives us our

00:27:08

arm blocking good to go and now let's

00:27:12

just grab these this connection here so

00:27:16

I'm going to use soft select

00:27:20

bring down that soft selection a little

00:27:22

bit and just sort of line that up like

00:27:28

so you can bring that arm in a little

00:27:30

bit turn it off so I'll select here I'm

00:27:35

going to straighten that out with the

00:27:37

scale and then I'm just going to fill in

00:27:44

an edge loop here basically like so 1 2

00:27:51

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 cool all right

00:27:59

and the cool thing now is that we can

00:28:00

have we have our clean edge loop for our

00:28:02

upper body and we can now start to flesh

00:28:06

out the rest of the chest and the chest

00:28:09

and the the torso so add a few more edge

00:28:13

loops like so and now I'm just going to

00:28:16

refine this selection so the cool thing

00:28:18

as well is that because we got this nice

00:28:20

clean topology going on at the moment I

00:28:22

can add an edge loop down the center

00:28:23

line here of this mesh here and it will

00:28:25

travel through the body without any sort

00:28:28

of spiraling or re so yeah cool

00:28:33

and this is where we can probably use

00:28:36

the sculpting tools to sort of smooth

00:28:38

out things so jump into Scot mode and

00:28:42

then with a really soft brush just like

00:28:44

a super low strength

00:28:46

just tap away a little bit to get the

00:28:50

form of our body in into that and

00:28:56

because we were the nice thing about

00:28:57

this is because we're using the mirror

00:28:58

modifier we know that that even if even

00:29:01

if we have mirroring turned on in scope

00:29:03

mode without mirror modifier is there

00:29:06

guarantee that you'll get a perfect

00:29:07

mirror scopes but in mirror mode you can

00:29:10

in with the mirror modifier sorry so we

00:29:14

got we're basically smoothing out the

00:29:16

distribution of those faces now to allow

00:29:20

us to do some extra sort of volume

00:29:24

looking of our body or the character so

00:29:29

not notice how I'm not really a fit I've

00:29:31

not playing with the arms at the moment

00:29:32

I'm just playing with the body because

00:29:34

that's a really important component you

00:29:36

can add a few more edge loops to the

00:29:39

neck

00:29:40

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00:29:42

and we're getting a very decent look of

00:29:45

the body very quickly like so all right

00:29:52

let's have a look at the legs

00:29:57

so what we want to do we want to create

00:29:59

that um we want to create that loop

00:30:01

right that there's fantasy loop that

00:30:03

goes down the legs and we have a nice

00:30:06

loop that goes along the crotch so this

00:30:08

is a very fairly straightforward way of

00:30:10

doing things so similar to the arms I

00:30:12

want to create some extra geometry down

00:30:14

at the bottom of the crotch so notice

00:30:16

how I've so by sculpting it Arcanum its

00:30:19

kind of reduced the distance of this

00:30:21

bottom faces so all I'm going to do is

00:30:24

basically extrude out a crotch line like

00:30:29

so and then I'm going to see how about

00:30:34

how we can establish that initial loop

00:30:37

that goes around the leg so we can

00:30:44

actually do that just by extruding

00:30:45

basically so select all those faces and

00:30:48

extrude

00:30:53

and then I'm just going to bring that in

00:30:55

I'm going to smooth that out a little

00:30:56

bit with the smooth tool just so we get

00:30:59

that loop up and running so straightaway

00:31:02

we're already establishing the hips

00:31:03

quite nicely with this initial loop so

00:31:08

we got a loop it goes up and around the

00:31:10

hips like so and then we also have let's

00:31:16

see

00:31:20

how many faces do we have we have four

00:31:23

teenagers that's okay

00:31:24

we can live with that

00:31:28

normally I try and establish a 12 loop

00:31:31

leg as well but it's not as important as

00:31:34

the hands in my opinion so we can get

00:31:35

away with that

00:31:39

and we'll probably have to add a second

00:31:41

centerline to those legs anyway and I'll

00:31:46

explain that later all right so let's

00:31:47

just extrude out some legs now so we got

00:31:49

that lip going on and we're probably

00:31:52

gonna break this loop for the back

00:31:54

because once we do the but it's gonna

00:31:56

we're gonna redirect some of these this

00:31:59

some of this direction but for now let's

00:32:02

just grab these faces that form the

00:32:06

initial shape of our body and basically

00:32:13

extrude out those legs

00:32:16

ever can circular eyes that as well and

00:32:20

shrink that down

00:32:27

so we go somewhere along the knees we're

00:32:30

going to sort of rotate that a little

00:32:32

bit as well for the knee line and then

00:32:36

extrude out again getting those shins

00:32:39

and those cuffs and extrude once more

00:32:46

downfield the feet and the ankles

00:32:56

[Music]

00:33:06

[Music]

00:33:09

and make sure you keep looking at the

00:33:12

front and the side at the same time to

00:33:15

make sure everything is lining up

00:33:16

properly

00:33:20

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00:33:25

so you can see here that the ankles are

00:33:29

looking a bit wonky so just got a rebase

00:33:32

achill II just rotate that to fit like

00:33:34

00:33:39

all right they make that little smaller

00:33:44

in the knee and we can add a little bit

00:33:46

of more volume into that knee in the Y

00:33:51

like that and in the front

00:33:57

helped flesh out that shape so we're

00:34:01

getting a pretty good blocking of the

00:34:03

body in about what 20 minutes half an

00:34:06

hour so not bad and now we're just going

00:34:13

to extrude out the feet so pretty simple

00:34:18

just select those faces

00:34:22

pull the feet straight down grab these

00:34:31

faces at the back to flesh out that that

00:34:34

heel so this one this one and this one

00:34:43

and we're not going to worry too much

00:34:45

about this topology at the moment we'll

00:34:47

fix it out after the fact all right so

00:34:52

just going to choose wisely our faces to

00:34:55

extrude out the actual structure of the

00:34:57

feet so I'm going to go with these four

00:35:02

actually before I do that I want to

00:35:06

establish a center line for my leg and I

00:35:10

think I should only got one so just kind

00:35:12

of rotate these a little bit so I have a

00:35:14

clean center line for the leg so whether

00:35:16

the center of the knee will sit

00:35:23

[Music]

00:35:27

so this will be the center line of my

00:35:30

leg here

00:35:35

okay

00:35:37

[Music]

00:35:39

and actually let's smooth that out and

00:35:42

have a look again

00:35:49

yeah what can work with what we've got

00:35:51

for now if we have to add an extra

00:35:53

Center a new center line we can do that

00:35:55

after the fact but right now this will

00:36:00

be fine so let's select this these 1 2 3 4 5

00:36:04

faces and eventually apply out to put a

00:36:06

center line down the middle here so if I

00:36:08

add one there let's just add it now just

00:36:11

to make sure and I'll go right around

00:36:12

the body and be a nice clean loop to

00:36:14

begin with so we have a nice center line

00:36:15

for the foot so now we're going to

00:36:19

select these six faces 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3

00:36:23

4 5 6

00:36:25

yep and just extrude out straight get a

00:36:30

scale down and just a little bit out

00:36:36

further just for the toes and if you

00:36:39

plan on having individual toes for your

00:36:40

model we'll talk about how it can create

00:36:43

those that structure as well in the next

00:36:46

video add a few loops and a few loops

00:36:52

and now we have a pretty good structure

00:36:56

for the foot so I might simplify that

00:36:58

that loop structure first and just make

00:37:01

sure I get the overall structure of the

00:37:04

foot looking ok first so something like

00:37:07

that would be fine I'll smooth that out

00:37:12

once we scope within scoped in some

00:37:14

smoothing the sculpting that smooth in

00:37:17

the mesh with a little bit of sculpting

00:37:20

so just with these loops that should be

00:37:23

good enough to just do a bit of a sculpt

00:37:24

you turn on wireframe if you like as

00:37:28

well and notice how I haven't put on

00:37:31

smooth preview smooth shading or

00:37:33

subdivisions yet because you want to

00:37:36

work with as much simplicity as possible

00:37:39

so adding smooth shading will not give

00:37:42

you the right sort of color information

00:37:44

when it comes to where you've placed

00:37:46

your um your verts and your faces and

00:37:49

your edges and having subdivision at

00:37:52

this stage will only make life more

00:37:55

complicated so and also slow down your

00:37:57

process because it actually takes a

00:37:58

performance hit so

00:38:01

just sculpt out this stuff a little bit

00:38:04

just using the smooth brush and that

00:38:08

should do for now we can clean up this

00:38:10

part now as well so what we got

00:38:13

got a little bit of a problem here we've

00:38:14

got a lift going around the foot and

00:38:19

then turning it at the heel so I mean if

00:38:22

you wanted to have like a realistic heel

00:38:24

to some degree this could be a good idea

00:38:26

but I want to have make sure the loop

00:38:28

goes around the foot totally so I'm just

00:38:30

going to delete these at bottom of the

00:38:34

foot for now

00:38:37

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00:38:39

I should also select these faces first

00:38:41

and then I'm going to do an inset and

00:38:42

then I learn delete whatever isn't

00:38:44

whatever it is inside that inserted set

00:38:47

of faces

00:38:50

[Music]

00:38:52

I'm gonna push in set just a little bit

00:38:55

delete these faces that exist there and

00:39:00

because we have an even amount of edges

00:39:04

at the bottom here if I just push ctrl F

00:39:06

and go grid fill we should get a pretty

00:39:09

clean grid fill just out of the box but

00:39:13

doesn't look like quite work so I might

00:39:17

clean that up manually just like so

00:39:23

yeah that looks okay and then we'll just

00:39:26

fill in those with quads so we tryna

00:39:33

keep we're still trying to keep that

00:39:34

geometry nice and simple

00:39:37

[Music]

00:39:47

let's go with that instead

00:39:52

that looks much better

00:39:55

[Music]

00:40:06

his face should leave both

00:40:13

[Music]

00:40:16

so now we have a much cleaner set of

00:40:18

topology from the beginning with the

00:40:20

feet so the now that loop is now you

00:40:23

know stay within the the structure of

00:40:25

the foot we have lips that going around

00:40:27

in some car around the body still a

00:40:29

little bit but it's still cleaner than

00:40:31

it was before but the loops around the

00:40:33

feet now I must clean it as well and the

00:40:36

only reason why we're getting a loop

00:40:37

going around here is because it's

00:40:40

actually going a ride around the bottom

00:40:41

with base of the foot so it's not

00:40:42

actually a bad thing because it's not

00:40:48

spiraling or if like that so that's fine

00:40:51

so as you can see we've already blocked

00:40:53

out most of the body structure now if

00:40:58

you do a few little switch there changes

00:41:00

here get those thighs a bit closer in

00:41:02

the center and can even use sculpting to

00:41:06

do this as well so sort of bring those

00:41:08

in so gonna bring in

00:41:16

this topology first then bring in this

00:41:22

topology

00:41:25

like so and widen up those thighs a

00:41:28

little bit and then we can add a few

00:41:32

more spans along the thigh and the shin

00:41:43

all right so let's just do a little bit

00:41:46

of sculpting again this is the cool

00:41:48

thing about blender you can jump in and

00:41:49

out of sculpting really easily and just

00:41:54

smooth out that body so we just want to

00:41:58

make sure that that quad structure is

00:41:59

nice and even across the board and again

00:42:03

I'm not with the arms right now

00:42:05

because the arms we have to give it some

00:42:08

special treatment as we get into more

00:42:12

detail with the hands all right so now

00:42:16

we have a bit of a pancake butt going on

00:42:18

there's no mess there so we need to

00:42:20

actually even create some extra mass

00:42:22

there because there is a lot of

00:42:23

stretching going on as character walks

00:42:26

jumps and you know moves around so we

00:42:28

got to add that structure as well but we

00:42:34

have a nice base to work from going

00:42:36

forward so that will be what we will be

00:42:40

covering in the next video so we're

00:42:42

gonna add some volume in the butt we're

00:42:44

gonna add her chest we're going to sort

00:42:46

out these elbows and knees we're gonna

00:42:49

fix up these feet because if you look at

00:42:50

the front yeah they're kind of at

00:42:52

the moment they're bit too narrow and a

00:42:55

little bit too small so next video is

00:42:59

all about adding volume to the body but

00:43:01

even though we haven't really got that

00:43:03

volume in there yet we can still test

00:43:05

out this this match to see if it's

00:43:07

working alright in terms of its topology

00:43:09

and the easiest way to do that in my

00:43:11

opinion is to actually export this out

00:43:14

and bring it into a website called mixer

00:43:17

mode which is a sort of library of

00:43:19

motion capture stuff that lets you

00:43:21

project that motion capture onto your

00:43:23

own mesh so let's have a little bit of

00:43:25

fun with that before you wrap up and

00:43:27

export this out so to export this we're

00:43:30

going to select our model we're going to

00:43:32

go to file export FBX and then we're

00:43:36

going to export this file as an FBX file

00:43:39

with selected objects turned on so you

00:43:42

only want to export the mesh we're gonna

00:43:45

have everything else turned on so we're

00:43:47

gonna apply all our geometry in terms of

00:43:49

modifiers so that mirror modifier will

00:43:51

automatically apply and then just push

00:43:55

and then just push export and it's

00:43:58

exported and now let's just go to mixer

00:44:01

mode so just go to mixer mode calm or

00:44:04

just type it mixer mode into your search

00:44:06

parameter let's go to mixer Medicom and

00:44:10

this is a sort of a company owned by an

00:44:14

Adobe so you need an Adobe account to

00:44:17

00:44:19

account not now that off

00:44:29

and it's really easy to use mixer MO and

00:44:33

it's a great way to test out the

00:44:35

topology and the and the efficiency of

00:44:39

your rig so you have tons of different

00:44:41

emotions to play with so let's just

00:44:43

upload our own character we're going to

00:44:46

choose our exported file it'll process

00:44:50

that character as you can see we have

00:44:55

our mesh ready to go so just follow the

00:44:57

prompts add ourselves our fictional chin

00:45:00

add our fictional wrists so just at the

00:45:04

edge there elbows so that's where our

00:45:07

bows are sitting at the moment

00:45:12

knees and the groin so that's where the

00:45:18

groin is sitting so around that point

00:45:21

there and then basically just push next

00:45:24

you'll process that for a few minutes

00:45:28

and we'll be able to see this little rig

00:45:30

in action even though it's just a really

00:45:32

simple mesh you'll be able to see how

00:45:34

efficient this edge flow is going so far

00:45:40

Oh a.m. there would go we could see it

00:45:46

working already if we push next we could

00:45:50

test out some cool animations just with

00:45:52

this basic topology we can get to dance

00:45:56

ooh damn there's some eddy gordo

00:45:59

going on right there man we can get it

00:46:02

too let's see what else we can do use a

00:46:09

fax machine and the cool thing about

00:46:15

this is that you actually test to see if

00:46:16

the arms are too short or too long at

00:46:18

the moment they look like they're just

00:46:20

about the right length if we add the

00:46:22

hands so I'll probably be the right

00:46:23

proportions and we just play with this a

00:46:27

little bit more just to see how it's

00:46:29

going so right now it looks like the

00:46:30

shoulders are looking pretty good the

00:46:31

arms looking pretty good and you can see

00:46:33

the hell-like we need to add that extra volume in the

00:46:36

elbows because we're not getting that

00:46:38

right Bend it's looking a little bit

00:46:39

spaghetti like in those corners there so

00:46:41

we're gonna add that volume in in the

00:46:42

next video saying goes with the legs

00:46:44

we're gonna see a little bit of

00:46:46

spaghetti night like you see like it's

00:46:48

not really that um not really

00:46:50

maintaining the volume that much but you

00:46:53

can see how efficient this setup is

00:46:57

already just with this basic topology

00:47:01

and as we flesh this out even more it's

00:47:04

gonna get even better

00:47:10

let's do one more animation let's have a

00:47:13

look

00:47:16

[Music]

00:47:22

ooh see look at that we're getting some

00:47:24

really cool defamations already just

00:47:26

with this basic mesh not bad eh and as

00:47:37

we get that face in there we'll get

00:47:38

those elbows properly in there get that

00:47:39

butt in there we're gonna have a really

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cool mesh so I'm just going to ignore

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this for the rest of that just gonna

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ignore this and you don't have to pay

00:47:49

any money for using mixer mow this for

00:47:51

the base mesh the base software so just

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00:47:56

email and just test out your rig so yeah

00:48:01

next video we're gonna cover that volume

00:48:03

issue we're going to add the butt now

00:48:06

add the breasts get those elbows up and

00:48:09

running get those knees up running and

00:48:11

fix up those feet so till then I'm gonna

00:48:13

say caches and have fun

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In this video, we set out a game plan on how to approach the blocking of the body, including setting our scale, where to place our key loops of articulation, and capping it off with some quick and dirty articulation tests using Adobe Mixamo! Intro (00:00) Setting up our Reference Images (01:00) Planning our Approach (04:25) Initial Blocking (11:30) Blocking out the Shoulders and Arms (19:30) Blocking out the Legs and Feet (29:50) Testing the Articulation with Mixamo (43:00)

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