All language subtitles for 07_04_yourself_in_cubic_worlds

- [Zach] In this video,

let's do a little fun exercise
by turning the base human

character into the cubic
world version of ourselves.

So, attached to this lesson,

you find the male and
the female base human.

I wouldn't recommend to use these two here

because they are rigged already.

And this can cause some issues

which I will address later on.

But for now, let's keep it simple.

So, either use one of
the two attached files,

depending on if you're a male or a female,

or just recreate a character from scratch

if you want to practice a bit more.

So, and I just look at myself right now,

what I'm wearing, and
I will recreate myself

using this character here as basis.

So, first of all, let's
adjust the colors a bit.

So, I'm wearing a dark blue shirt.

So, let's change the male
sweater here to some dark bluish,

something like this.

However, we have short sleeves,

that means let's switch to edit mode

and select these four cubes here,

go to the skin color and hit assign.

Then let's enable X symmetry here,

Alt+A, deselect everything,
and then select this here.

And with Alt+S I can shrink/fatten this

so, I shrink this down a bit.

So, I don't have this big, lower arms.

Well, my belly is a bit

(laughs)

wider I think.

Let's push this a bit to the front,

then let's grab this one
here, move this to the front.

Let's grab this one,
move this same over here.

Then I wear a black belt.

So let's go to the belt and backspace,

the color to gray and make it pretty dark.

And since it's summer time currently,

I'm wearing short pants,
with a light blue color.

So, let's go to pants,

make this brighter and
color is a light blue.

And here, since the pants
are not going to the knees

they are somewhere above
here, what we can do,

let's simply select these two, shift+D,

Alt+S to shrink/fatten this,

make it a bit bigger.

Then with the face selection,
let's select these two

and press double G to slide this up here,

something like this.

Then I can select these here
and apply the skin material.

And again was Alt+S, let's
shrink fit this down a bit

and scale it a bit longer.

And for the shoes, I also
wear like dark blue shoes,

and these shoes have some
pretty strong wide soles.

So, let's simply grab this
cubes here. Disable X symmetry,

scale them down, make them a
bit wider, move this down here.

Shift+D, move this to the
front. Scale this a bit.

Something like this.

Then let's create a new material.

Search for the male shoes,

duplicate this and just
call it "male shoes two",

and then give it a whitish
color and hit assign.

Maybe let's move this down a bit.

Something like this.

Maybe this sweater is a bit too dark.

So, the hair color is pretty much correct.

However, there are two things missing.

I have a beard and I wear glasses.

So, let's start with a beard.

Let's go to our edit mode let's with L

Select one of these cubes up here,

Shift+D, move it down.

And although my beard is not that intense,

let's say we can only
work with cubes here.

So, I think it will
look a bit more intense

than in the real world.

Then there's a connection line

between the beard and the hair.

Maybe let's put something like this here.

And very important the height
should not be the same here.

So, we don't have this weird clipping.

So, let's scale this
one here a bit further,

something like this,
then let's duplicate this

place it somewhere here to add
a bit variation to the beard

and a little patch over here and Shift+D.

Let's move this to the side here.

Move this app up a bit,

and let's move this
also to the other side.

Sometimes when you do this
stuff on the other side,

it doesn't have to be
like perfectly straight

and mirrored in any way,

because humans are a bit more
organic and non-symmetrical

so, that's totally fine.

And now, all there's left
to do is adding the glasses.

For that, let's add the empty,
let's call this mirror and

let's go with a cube bottom here.

Alt+G scale it down
add the mirror modifier

and the mirror empty object.

And then we can easily create the glasses.

And the glasses are dark
blue from the outside.

So, let's use a base material
here, duplicate this.

Call this "male glasses blue".

Let's use a default
diffuse cubic world shader.

Make this darkish, bluish,
something like this.

And then let's rotate this,

place it somewhere here
closer to the body of course.

Then from the top, Shift+D,
let's duplicate this.

Let's go with a global
transform orientation.

I think it's currently,
but easier to work with.

Scale this down.

So we have this tiny part here.

Then Shift+D move it over here.

Always change the size
of these cubes a bit.

So, I have this metal frame,
which is only on the top.

And then let's add one cube here.

And here I just removed
the mirror modifier

because it's in the center,
right click, set origin,

origin to geometry.

Then let's press N and
set the X value to zero.

So, it's exactly in the center.

Move it up here, scale it down.

And then let's grab
this one here, Shift+D.

Make it a bit flatter, a bit
smaller and scale this up.

This would be the glass.
So let's duplicate this.

Call this "male glasses glass".

Change this to be a transparent shader.

Here let's use a very light
bluish color specular.

Let's set this to white. Let's
give it 0.1 transparency.

And of course, under settings

change the blend mode to alpha blend,

shadow mode to alpha hashed.

Then we can look through
here and maybe let's to save

the gradient button and reduce
their gradient edge here.

Then I have the glasses here and actually

let's duplicate it this one here,

we have this thing going on here,

and a similar thing on the other side.

And the glass is slightly
shaped like this.

So, the edge selection,
let's slide this over a bit.

So, now we still have some
separate objects here,

but in this case,

I would just select
everything from the glasses,

Control+A and then visual
geometry to mesh to apply

all the modifiers.

And then just join this to the body here

then here in edit mode,

let's select everything
one more time, press U

and click on reset to reset the UV map

and make sure that the scale is applied.

And to make everything correct here,

let's rename all the materials to "Zach".

So, what we can do,
let's press Control+F2,

to open up the batch rename menu.

Here, we want to rename the materials.

Of course, the character
needs to be selected,

find "male" and replace
it by "Zach". Hit OK.

Now you can see all the "males"
were replaced by "Zach".

Up here, let's call this character Zach,

and then we can remove
the mirroring empty.

And voila, here is the
current version of Zach.

Yeah, I hope this was
a fun little exercise.

Now, you know how you can turn
yourself into a cubic world

version and I would really
love to see your results.

So, please post a render or a
screenshot of your cubic world

version down below in the comment section.

And if your cubic world version
don't look ugly as hell,

then don't forget to save.