Beginner Blender Modelling Tutorial - Lightbulb Part 1 of 2

[WickedMuis]

I like the fact that even when yo explained certain things already in other tutorials you still treat many other tutorials as a new one and explain it again as if it's the first time on your channel. :)

[jacobsnedaker]

You've been really getting better at becoming beginner friendly. I feel like your explanations have become a lot better!

[tkojabroni]

The Glass bodge in the center of the bulb is to help retain the vacuum seal in the bulb. It lets the filaments make good electrical contact with the outside cathode/anode by being rigid, and maintains the seal on the internal vacuum by having very limited air permiability, like the rest of the glass in the bulb. Can't make it out of metal because it would short the filaments, and plastic would let in air.

[skipper]

Hey Andrew
This little hole in the glas at 19:55 is to put the gas (argon) into the lamp.Great tutorial btw =)cheers

[varundoshi]

Watching this 5 years after it was uploaded...still pretty useful

[quinten]

your tutorials are so helpfull!! i cant believe how much i learned in just a month, the scenes from my game look so cool now! :)

[honzanovotny]

I started modeling bulb in blender 2.3 after finishing all the other tutorials. I wanted to say thanks! This is probably the first tutorial where, thanks to the experience from the first tutorials and also thanks to the blender 2.3 (which is quite easier), I create a light bulb by myself! (I apologize for my poor English) ;)

[chronographie]

Hey Andrew, hey guys!
Thank you for your really great tutorials!
My very first render was the "water poured into a glass" tut and now I`m trying to do some interieur stuff.

I found a quite simple way to do the screw bayonett. Just use the bolt addon, that`s already built into the newest Blender 2.78 version (user preferences -> add-ons -> search -> boltfactory), tweak the screw in height etc, delete the head and here you go!

Greets from Germany!

[Sedaura]

for those who really want to have the screw type bit of the light bulb, there is an addon that can serve as a starting point.
first, go to File > User Preferences > Add-ons, type 'Extra Objects' and activate the addon called 'Add Mesh: Extra Objects'
then, do Add > Mesh > Gears > Worm, from there you can tweak the settings to get the desired result

[MyNameIsJeff-W]

Awesome teacher. I like how you go into tiny steps and key presses and tips. I don't even have blender installed but found the video interesting. Some tutorials, people just fly through it and you try to keep up and it's a pain because they go quick and miss many steps and tips.

Glass mount/stem: Holds the support wires and allows the electrical wires to run through the envelope without any gas/air leaks because the bulb is filled with an inert gas. It's filled with gas because if the oxygen of the air reached the hot filament, it would be rapidly oxidized and destroyed.
Support wires: As the name suggests, support the filament from bouncing and stretching to extremes when the bulb is moved or bumped or jolted. The filament can break easily.
Cap: The metal base of the bulb.
Glass envelope: Thin outside layer of glass which surrounds the bulbs mechanism and holds the gas.

Interesting fact: The filament in a average 60w bulb is about 2 meters long!

[pac]

19:50 if you look closely there's a tube inside the cylinder like thing and the hole is connected to that tube.That tube is used to draw vacuum and to fill the bulb with argon(or whatever inert gas they use).

[ChristopherHindefjord]

At 38:50 you could also use the Flip option in the Screw modifier to flip the normals. Easier and perhaps better than rotating the circle.

[haroldofuster]

Pleaseeee, make this tutorial for 2.8!!!.... yours tutorials are the best!

[rawtee]

1."mogul base" light bulb / Screw type
2. Simplified Explanation: The Filament is the working element of this bulb.

Thanks for another great Video Kind sir
PS
Thank You for the Blender Keyboard shortcuts PDF!
Very Epic of you Sir.

[WillArtie]

Worthwhile watching this all the way through! The Screw + Curve modifier demo is awesome and shows how powerful the non-destructive modifier stack really is. Nice one Andrew!!

[bandolin]

For 2.8 its even simpler: Shift-A > Image > Background

[Alphaa]

subscribed, Never seen a detailed tutorial like this and motivated teacher.

[Eldser]

32:55 The bulb you're modeling is a tungsten filament bulb, tungsten is really hard but cant resist stretching and bending that well, the extra struts (the small middle ones) are just there for support and do not conduct any electricity.

[TheLordStuff]

I loved how you just completely got off the point and talked about how you didn't manage to change the lightbulb in your home... Though I did skip it, it was very sympathetic :D Subbed!

Plus your tutorials are great!

[stumbling]

I'm totally blown away by the number of tools included in this software!