In this 4th part of the Urban Stairway Scene tutorial we’ll review some of the most common techniques and tools used while modeling the scene.
Topics covered include:
- Snapping Basics
- Creating New Objects by Separating Geometry
- Bevel Basics
- Linking Object Data
- Aligning Objects using “Copy Attributes”
- Using Spin Duplication (or Spin) to Create Pipe Elbows
- Creating Custom Transform Widget Orientations
- Using Edge Loops to Control Hard Surface Edges
- Using the 3D Cursor as a Rotation Pivot
- Using the Array Modifier to Create Steps
- Using Tapered Extrusions and Imperfect Alignments for Increased Construction Realism
View Part 1: http://www.blendercookie.com/2009/11/24/creating-a-urban-stairway-scene-part-1/
View Part 2: http://www.blendercookie.com/2009/12/10/creating-an-urban-stairway-scene-part-2/
View Part 3: http://www.blendercookie.com/2009/12/15/creating-an-urban-stairway-scene-part-3/
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20 Comments
Dillon…I’m a big fan. Looking forward to the next part. Thanks for the detailed explanation of your techniques in this video. You are definitely helping me to better develop my Blender skills.
Thank’s VERY USEFUL !!!
Kernon Dillon the BEST tutor!
Happy 2010 to blendercookie…
Amazing! It’s great to have all these techniques together in a single video and be able to use them in the stairway tutorial. It’s like having many of Jonathan’s ‘tip’ videos put togheter.
Yes, thanks again. The explanations were very helpful because some of them went by pretty quick during the first tutorials. Thanks for the pause and refresher course.
Thanks a lot for this great quick tips’ tutorial.
very useful and appreciated as usual.
Thanks for the comments! I think having the review makes it easier to digest a lot of the techniques covered in longer tutorials. It’s better than having to scrub through several videos!
Have a Happy and Safe New Year!
I never knew about the custom transforms before this series. I always love learning about something I had no idea about before.
Dear Kernon,
Can you tell me one thing that you cannot do in blender,
everyone say that you cannot be goot at everything,
but it seems to me that you are.
This tutorial is indeed a treat!!!
Snapping
Auto merge
Modelling technique
it is all to good to be true!
Thank you very much indeed for that
Yeah, the custom transforms tip, is really useful.
This is all amazing. As soon as I get the funds I will be supporting you guys. There’s too much here to let money get in the way. =)
Great tut as usual Kernon. Thanks a lot and a very happy 2010 to you and all the team.
bernard
Thanks for kind and humbling comments. Believe me, there’s a mountain of things I don’t know. I just try to learn something new every day (or reinforce the things I do know). I believe we’re all “newbies”, it just depends on the subject in question.
Highly refined texturing is one of my weaknesses and I plan to use this scene as a laboratory to overcome many things. If the results aren’t too horrible, I’ll cover them in future “parts” of this tutorial.
BTW, the next part will deal with lighting the scene.
Clear and to the point. I mean, to the vertex. I enjoyed this rehearsal review very much, just as the whole series preceding. I find the custom transform orientation tip the most useful of all of them, although it’s hard to pick out of such an educational blast. Thank you part4 and hello part5!
Keep on Kernon.
Lighting a scene can be a pain sometimes, so I’m glad to see the next part
Kernon, Thank you so much for this great tutorial.
Kernon has the tutorials with the highest technical and educational value on BlenderCookie.
Amazing eye for details and modeling speed.Thanx to your lessons I continued to practice my modeling skills in blender3d.This tips and tricks will help me alot particularly align tool.Now I’m searching another cool features in blender and doing trials and errors to create great renderings.Again thanx a bunch.
Wow Kernon! you should have been a professor.
You have a natural talent for teaching. I know you’re a blender certified trainer, but have you ever considered approaching any colleges or university to start a Blender Course? that would be great. Are you involved with the mavenseed project yet?
anyway great job!
fantastic job..you gain a new fan.
I’m brazilian blender user and i didn’t known anything about you, your person, jobs, skills in blender, etc.
It’s was a great surprise for me found/sought your tutorials.
You and Andreas Goralczyk, for me, are the bests. But your didactic is incredible.
thanks a lot.
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This was a hell of a professional tutorial serie! Thanks a lot, Kernon, for sharing your knowledge with us newbies.
I’ll wait for any new blender’s class administered by you. Have a nice week.
Thanks, Kernon. This is a great follow-up to the tutorial. I know I’ll be using this as a reference for various techniques.