Tutorial: Making a Mechanical Creature in Blender
Let's go through the entire process of modeling, rigging, animating and rendering a mechanical creature, in less than an hour!
Project file on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70374076
Discord server:
https://discord.gg/polyfjord
Mentioned tutorials:
15 min Character Animation - https://youtu.be/imbIsNAvUpM
Real Time Animation - https://youtu.be/eoSRMxMDYsk
Robotic Arms (Part 2) - https://youtu.be/5Wn7gSTay0Y?t=316
Cinematic Lighting - https://youtu.be/si7UAgvBd4Y
Software used:
Blender (Free and open source!) - https://blender.org
Assets used:
Ground texture (Creative Commons 0: Public domain) - https://i.imgur.com/soXtB7C.png
Follow me on instagram:
https://instagr.am/polyfjord
Thanks for watching!
00:00 What we'll be creating
00:34 Modeling a joint
05:59 Modeling the leg
09:04 Modeling the body
13:16 Modeling cable hooks
15:17 Making cables using curves
17:53 Assigning basic materials
19:43 Creating armature and IK rig
23:27 Attaching the leg to the rig
26:40 Tweaking the IK rig
29:35 Connecting the legs to the body
33:36 Animating the legs
37:44 Animating the body
39:47 Animating the ground
41:12 Shading and lighting setup
46:42 Making a vignette for the ground
48:00 Preview renders and post processing
50:16 Additional minor tweaks
52:35 Final result and cinematics
#opensource #modeling #creature
Music used:
(Affiliate links - Purchases made through the links below may provide compensation to Polyfjord).
Intro song - https://shutterstock.7eer.net/Ea6mGP
Outro song - https://shutterstock.7eer.net/Xxaboo
Project file on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70374076
Discord server:
https://discord.gg/polyfjord
Mentioned tutorials:
15 min Character Animation - https://youtu.be/imbIsNAvUpM
Real Time Animation - https://youtu.be/eoSRMxMDYsk
Robotic Arms (Part 2) - https://youtu.be/5Wn7gSTay0Y?t=316
Cinematic Lighting - https://youtu.be/si7UAgvBd4Y
Software used:
Blender (Free and open source!) - https://blender.org
Assets used:
Ground texture (Creative Commons 0: Public domain) - https://i.imgur.com/soXtB7C.png
Follow me on instagram:
https://instagr.am/polyfjord
Thanks for watching!
00:00 What we'll be creating
00:34 Modeling a joint
05:59 Modeling the leg
09:04 Modeling the body
13:16 Modeling cable hooks
15:17 Making cables using curves
17:53 Assigning basic materials
19:43 Creating armature and IK rig
23:27 Attaching the leg to the rig
26:40 Tweaking the IK rig
29:35 Connecting the legs to the body
33:36 Animating the legs
37:44 Animating the body
39:47 Animating the ground
41:12 Shading and lighting setup
46:42 Making a vignette for the ground
48:00 Preview renders and post processing
50:16 Additional minor tweaks
52:35 Final result and cinematics
#opensource #modeling #creature
Music used:
(Affiliate links - Purchases made through the links below may provide compensation to Polyfjord).
Intro song - https://shutterstock.7eer.net/Ea6mGP
Outro song - https://shutterstock.7eer.net/Xxaboo
Polyfjord
My name is Asbjørn, I'm a digital artist from Norway. My pipeline currently consist primarily of Blender, DaVinci Resolve and Soundly, and I enjoy exploring workflows that use open source, free and/or freemium software.
Since the summer of 2021 I've been...