Blender Beginner Modeling Chair Tutorial - Part 5: Curved Surfaces

Blender chair tutorial continues! This part is a slight detour, instead of step by step, I'll be showing you how to solve for common problems when modelling curved surfaces. It's niche, but hey, you're here for the long haul now.

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[marcifabri]

This is probably the only homework that I did because I wanted to and not because I needed to

[JacobDoehnerOfficial]

Blender Guru: CG Cookie made a car tutorial with over 20 parts, well I'm not gonna do that...
Also Blender Guru: Makes a 23 part tutorial about how to make a Donut.

Love you man :)

[ShantanuBaviskar]

0:00 when the creeper is about to explode

[Zonda]

4 years into Blender, and actually working in the industry, and I just found that you can disable the clamp option for the vertex slide. That's why I always watch your beginner tutorials even if I'm more advanced, there're always little tips like this one that I would miss otherwise!

[feroake]

Me: spends 1 hour to make the perfect back
Guru: makes a wrong one and corrects it in 17 mins
Me: "I've won, but at what cost..."

[jessart]

I really liked the homework idea, I think it should be included in every tutorial at least once, to let the people learn by themself little by little.

[senhor]

i always start laughing when Andrew suddenly starts to talk about some random topics while doing stuff

[jacob.h]

10:49 instead of having to change to local, you can press g, then double tap z (or whichever local axis you want)

[pratibhapopli]

Srsly Andrew this format is best... The problem solving technique is the best for learning and growing in blender. Keep this up !!!!

[SmallerLives]

'Double-Tapping G' sounds like a long lost Dr. Dre single :-)

[pandapoggers]

I just duplicated the base and used it, but that didn't feel right (even though it looked perfect), then for the sake of learning I made the thing on my own five 12 times, then saw this video and it feels like Andrew knew exactly where people would go wrong, amazing tutorial I can't believe how far I've come by just watching your tutorials, I'm really grateful and thank you again. :)

[gold_spin]

For anyone else really struggling like myself, I think I’ve just had a breakthrough as to why I’m having a lot of trouble.

Take a look at how many vertices are on your mesh, now look at how many are on BG’s. You may have overdone it on the loop cuts while getting the general shape and that’s making what’s already a tricky thing to model even harder.

Remember what BG said an episode or two back, you might have to scrap what you have and give it another go. With the tips from this video though, it shouldn’t take too long and you’ll create something far more satisfactory in the end.

Don’t let a simple snag like this completely halt your progress, it’s these kinds of experiences that are going to really teach you.

Edit: after going through and redoing the back with knowledge from this video it was way easier and came out way better. Don’t be afraid to start over.

[RichardDegenne]

Andrew: "I failed the homework..."
Me who got it right: *S M U G*

[spiritwolf]

7:40
also, if you double click the axis (for example "G + Z Z" instead of "Z" once) will do the action on the local axis rather than the global.

there's also a "smooth" function.

[ThePongles]

When you were talking about having to balance between showing how things are done and showing how even professionals have issues and are still learning themselves, I was honestly thinking of suggesting streaming you working through the tutorial and then you suggested it yourself. lol

I do think a long-form stream tutorial would be an interesting idea. Not only would you be able to show your own failures and problem solving, but also answering questions from the viewers about why you are doing things one way or the other, which at the moment gets asked in the comments here instead, generally going unanswered because it's hard to explain out of the moment.

[jinkstacks]

"If this was a car, it looks like it had been in a wreck."
*Andrew casually describing all of my models*

[jehaanslab]

everything i ever learned from blender, this man is the one behind it
even made my own blender youtube channel!

[mc]

Honestly. I didn't know a thing about Blender couple days ago. I joined u and finished the first tutorial, now going with the chair simultaneously hitting other project just for fun. You're an amazing teacher. Thank you.

[littleloz]

... i just duplicated the arse bit and re scaled it till it fit into the right shape.

[stevehtml]

Guru, PLEASE keep teaching JUST THE WAY you're teaching, that's the whole point of learning, to go beyond the basics & apply to other efforts. Yes I still REALLY suck at Blender after all these years, but I'm better than I was . So just wanted to say THANKs