To move camera
Spin: alt and left mouse
Zoom: alt and right mouse button OR scroll wheel
Pan: alt and middle mouse
Return to grid: F
Super Camera: Spacebar
H: Hide(Enter outliner to see again)
6: Texture map with shaded display
7:see light
To move objects
W: Basic XYZ movement as well as free movement
E: Rotation
R: Scale
Wireframe:4
Regular view:5
Object stuff
Duplicate: CRT+D OR shift then pull
CRT E: extrude
Group: CRT+G(NOTE, use modify<center pivot for group ease)
(Move groupo is select crt, remove is shift P)
Soft select: B
Curve creation
Curve to plane:Select curve, surfaces< plane trim<options box, enable polygon and
quads, apply is editable, trim is non editable, after you can select plane and delete its
history as editing curve will edit plane otherwise. In order to make 3D just extrude, it's
now a polygon!
Good for round objects(bowl, can, ect) Only draw half of your object!
Surfaces<revolve<options, turn on polygon and quad, make sure it revolves around the
correct axis. If black instead of gray(inside out) mesh display<reverse. Delete history
after like other curve.
Lofting(Nive for frosting, plants, curtains, ect): select two curves(or more)(select curves
in order!!!), surfaces<loft<options, set polygon and quads.
Make a curve, create<nueve primitive<circle, aline circle at one end of curve,select
circle then curve, surfaces<extrude<options box, turn on polygon
NOTE: You can create objects in new planes and import them into your main one!
Texture Stuff
Lambert:Flat, no shine
Blinn:Semi Shine
Phong:Glass, metal, super shiny!
3D texture: Create any one thing, add a file over colour, adjust UV texture(make it equal
in both boxes), add bump map file using the same image, all values must be equal
between file one and two(UV, ect)(id white is back, black is front set bump depth to
-1)(Image texture can also be applied to colours!)
AI standard surface shader is a light texture, using emission settings to create light.
Noise Grain makes anything bumpy!
UV Editor
UV automatic(use if problems as step 1)
UV cylindrical(Use on cylinder objects)
UV sphere(Use on Spheres)
UV camera bases: Select faces you wish to edit and aim camera in a way that faces all
objects in as flat of a view as possible(adjust as needed), repeat until all areas look as
intended(No matter how many faces or how few make sure all are correct)
(Make sure if you are fixing one face on a wall that all faces on that wall, even if already
correct, are also selected)
Save a UV map to import: UV editor<Image<UV snapshot<image folder, go to other
software(photoshop, drawing, ect), image is guide do NOT edit(Make a new layer and
edit on that!), save a PNG/JPEG/TIFF, make a texture using the new file, in order to
create a bump map for texture: take image and remove anything non bump(stamps, ink,
dust), desaturate image and use as bump map after saving to image folder.
Render
Lights
{
Use directional light
Day:Light is yellow(sun), Shadows are purple
Night:Light is greyish blue(moon), Shadow are dark blue
Sunsets are gradient colours(colour option is ramp)
Intensity for moon and sun is around three
}
Point light mimics a lightbulb or candle. Put on linier.
Spotlight is a spotlight(used for flashlight),
Area light is a box shaped light(stick points in outwards direction)(good for windows)
Neon lights can be replicated using surface shaders(found in hypershade), add point
light to the center area and set to low intensity(must be the same colour!)
Select an object and add a mesh light to make it glow!
Paint FX and Content Browser
Select Terrain or other object<make paintable(this lets you put paint objects on pre
existing objects)
modify<convert<paintFX to polygon(This lets paint FX appear in final render(and you
can adjust everything about them!))
WARNING:Paint FX generates a lot more textures, faces, ect. Clutters things. Make
sure to delete weird paint items in view!
Skybox
Arnold<lights<skydome light. To add an image use the attribute editor, override the
colour setting with the chosen image(Only HDRI image types work with the dome!)
Ramp is great for sunsets and stuff!
Render
Place camera where you want it, make it a nice view
For a final render:
-Preset W:1920 L:1080 Resolution:72
Save all renders as: PNG, JPED, TIFF. Save with colour managed, not raw!
Animation
Always set frames per second to 24x1(option found in animation preferences<playback)
Key Frame: These are important poses
You can click S to KeyFrame everything
Always select a frame and then make your movement!
Use break connections to destroy ALL connections(Use it to delete Z, all Z moves are
lost)
Right click on frames to delete keyframes
Shift+ left click on timeline to highlight frames(center arrows move, outer
lengthen/shorten)
Hold down the middle mouse button to copy paste frames.
Father frames move faster, frames closer together move slower. More frames is slow,
less are fast.
Character creation
Torso
Set up a side view and a front view on the X and Z axis then move off the grid. Create a
3x3x3 cube and place on one side of grid over two quadrants,A line cube with it
covering half the torso in front view and the whole torso in Side view, delete faces in the
center torso(the faces closest to center),duplicate special(set Xscale to negative one,
and make an instance), adjust body to fit torso using vertex movement in both side view
and front view, the cube has three faces in height on each side so take the top vertexes
on the central face and frotate on the X axis clockwise to make rib cage and then for the
pelvis just do the opposite of all instructions in this step, ass edge loops as needed from
side view(add as little information as possible but don’t be afraid to add if you need it,
Legs
Adjust six out of the nine faces of the base of the torso(farthest from central bottom)
making sure it is less boxy, extrude downwards(end at ankles) and rotate to flatten the
bottom of the leg(adjust as needed), do three multi cuts in the knee area making sure
they are all level and have equal spacing, flip top multi cut upward and bottom
downwards, adjust knee to appear more like a knee, create multi cuts for leg
muscles(rotate tso they are straight) and adjust as needed,
Arms
Select four faces close to the top area of the torso, make less boxy, extrude and then
enter movement(w), if in A pose move arms downwards, extrude up to the wrists and
make sure the actual wrist is an oval shape, elbo is same as knee but inverted,
Head
Add an edge loop at the top if needed(this will loop cut the entire character so be ready
to adjust it!), prepare neck area(try to be rounded!),extrude then move(w) all the way to
the top of the head, separate the two halves of the body and delete the inner faces of
the neck(put body back together after), make one loop cut on the neck for: a jaw-below
jaw, scale side to side on the jaw cutloop-adjust so sections aren’t crossing-fit to line of
character, make an edge loop for the upper skull and scale to fit both the length and
width of skull but you will have that same intersection issue, adjust as needed, add edge
loops for the rest of the skull if needed,
Hand
Extrude move(w) faces on the end of the arm then scale a bit to start off, extrude move
again in the length of fingers and round it out a bit, add an edge loop either in between
the two you already have or between the future thumb and finger area(or both) and
adjust palm a bit, select four faces(closest to the wrist on the thumb side of the hand)
and extrude<scale it down a bit<then move it(round as needed), extrude move again as
it creates a joint, just the extrusion to make the actual thumb, make an edge loop in
front and behind the knuckle and make another joint like it farther down the thumb, nails
can be made by selecting faces<extrude<scale downward<move<extrude<move, for
fingers you may not have enough faces so if you don’t then manually create some loop
cuts that don’t go past the half of your palm, fingers can be made by extruding then
moving faces on the hand, after moving it scale the end in a bit as fingers get smaller as
they go, fingers have three joins(make them just like the thumb), basically the same as
the thumb for all steps
To get more fingers you can either build more or duplicate, if you are duplicating delete
the instance half of the character, duplicate the original half and on the new half delete
everything BUT the finger you wish to duplicate,modify<center pivot(this makes life
easy), delete faces on the hand where you wish to put the finger then aline finger with
the hole left over(make sure to duplicate the finger before the next step if you need to
attach more!(shrink pinky finger a small bit BUT not too much!)), combine the parts and
then target weld them together, once done get the half you deleted back
Feet/shoes
Go to the bottom of the leg and extrude move the faces a bit downwards, rotate it a bit
so toe side is a bit up and back side is a bit up, scale to fit foot, extrude move the faces
again and adjust to fit the foot size(every tool and add multi cuts if needed), if you need
toes you can multi cut the front sections into at least five rows(up and down rows) of
faces at the front of the foot(if you have shoes then your fine), this can be done by multi
cutting manually from one corner off the top to a corner of the bottom(make sure there
are NO triangles after all is cut), creating toes is just like fingers(but toes have two joins
not three) and has the same steps to add more toes(just like fingers),
Face
Eyes and nose: Create an edge loop or two from the neck to the top of the head in case
you need more data to work with(you most likely do), make sure you have room for
eyes(eye sockets are 4 faces recommended), adjust vertex points as needed to give the
eye socket a more rounded shape, select faces of socket area then extrude and scale
down a bit then extrude and move back into skull, eyelids are made after the eye has
been, select lid area(above eye and a bit beside it) and extrude ove it forwards and
down a bit(adjust),
shape nose area, extrude ove nose and adjust as needed,
Eyeball:create a sphere and rotate it 90 degrees in the X axis, insert eye into socket, for
eye texture create phong and set colour to ramp and set reflectivity to low, set ramp
colour and make the right side black and the left side right then add intended eye color
in between(adjust as needed as well as add other colors)
Moth: delete entire moth area below and nose and to the side of mouth a bit, select all
the edges around the new hole extrude and scale it downwards first and then make a
mouth like shape, create loop cuts around the mouth to help fix the face(if needed),
select all mouth edges and extrude move into the head then scale, do multiple extrude
moves rotates in order to kind of make a throat/mouth interior, lips are constructed by
making a two multi cuts close to the outer mouth in the inner moth, the father one if
extruded out and the closer one is adjusted to give the outer and inner lines a face in
between them, the lip part of the lips are made basically like the eyelid
Ear(human): select around three faces and shape them in a sort of ear shape, extrude
them move out of the side and back a little bit, shape to your liking(do multicuts if
needed),
Clothes: clothes can be made my making cuts onto the body and scaling etc,
Eye lashes/hair: eye lashes are made my extrude moving edges of the eyelids
outwards,
Rigging
To add clothes to a body first elect clothing then body, deform<wrap