All language subtitles for 04 - Learn to 3D model in Blender

- [Instructor] Now that you've made a really cool concept

inside of Blender, let's look at how to 3D model it.

Come up to the top left and go to file Append.

Navigate to your exercise files

and go to chapter two, video four.

From here, open up your spaceship concept

and just go ahead and click on Append.

This opens up a new set of folders,

and from here, look for object.

Double click on it,

and you'll see two objects, a Camera or a Stroke.

Let's go ahead and left click on Stroke,

it adds this little blue bar, and click on Append.

Now that I've gone ahead and done that, you can see

that my 2D drawing from before appears right here.

One thing that I need to do is click on rotate,

and then hit N for numbers.

And I want to rotate on the Z or zed axis by 90 degrees.

So I'm just going to left click, type in 90,

hit Enter, and there we go.

Now we're facing down the Y-axis.

This will be important later on.

All right, we can hit N to hide this, and let's go ahead

and click on our cube and go into Edit Mode

and open up some of these tools.

I can also click on this little mirror icon

so that way when I, for example,

click on this vertice and move it,

everything moves along with it on the other side.

All right, now let's go ahead and click on face.

Click on this front face and bring it forward,

and we can scale it in a little bit.

If you find it scaling kind of weirdly, be sure

that you actually clicked

in this greater area here, see that?

Now let's come back to edge

and move these down a little bit.

For this back part, I'm going to select this face

and bring it right up to here.

Click on edge, click on my top edge and bring it down a tad.

And bring this one up.

Let's bring this one in a little bit.

Now click on face and click on this back face.

We need to extrude to get some more geometry back here.

So click on Extrude Region and just pull this back.

You'll see when you click Extrude Region,

you have this little yellow plus,

and at the bottom left there's this nice little pop-up.

It allows you to adjust it just a bit.

But be warned, the moment you left click away

or go to a different tool,

that popup is gone, and our little yellow tool disappears.

This is called a destructive workflow,

and many tools in Blender are destructive.

Once you let go from that tool, it's gone,

and you can make a brand new one,

but all the old settings aren't available anymore.

There's some advantages to this.

It keeps things very clean, and when you're using modifiers

or later geometry nodes,

you can have a non-destructive workflow

where you can keep changing those options

way after you've done them.

Each one has their own advantages,

and for now,

we're just going to use our non-destructive workflow.

All right, so with this, I'm going to click on edge, Move,

and I want to move this down a little bit.

Let's go ahead and click on face again.

Click on this outer face and Extrude Region.

And let's do that twice.

And then bring this front area.

There we go.

Next, I want to scale this in a little bit

And I'm going to grab these top edges, bottom and top here,

and I'm going to scale them down on the Z.

Same with this one back here.

Just scale it down a tad on the Z.

There we go.

Now the last thing I want to do is add a line cut

right down here.

To do that, I need a left click on Loop Cut.

And when I hover over you'll see that it's trying to guess,

where do I want this cut?

I want it right here, so I'm going to left click on it,

and the moment I do that, a little options area comes up.

If you don't see it, it's right here.

And I can change the amount of cuts.

I can even shape them a little bit.

There we go.

That looks pretty good.

All right, we have successfully blocked

out our little starship.

Now I know what you're thinking.

We still have this other side

for some reason it didn't mirror.

But don't worry,

we'll take care of that in the next video.