6 Blender Hard-Surface Modeling Tricks I Wish I Knew Earlier

CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:22 - Hard Surface Curves
03:58 - Pin Modifiers
04:34 - Quick Cables
05:38 - Right Angle Pipe Join
06:07 - Mesh Decal
07:43 - Transfer Normals
08:54 - Outro

MY SYSTEM
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900x
GPU: GeForce RTX 3090
RAM: 96 GB

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[troll_kin]

Fantastic. I'm pretty sure for every one of these tips, I said to myself "ahh, I know what he's going to do." And then every time you surprised me with some new feature or workflow I didn't know existed.

[KnapfordMaster]

Transfer normals blew my mind. I always thought you had to get it all lined up and shrinkwrapped, and then do a remeshing to properly join them. A non-destructive shrinkwrap intersection that just fudges the perfect transition is incredible.

[ludnix]

Just wanted to say I really like the thumbnail showing what kind of tips would be inside. It’s a great solution for a hard to summarize video topic!

[domoremos]

The best 10 minutes of blender content on all of youtube, no exaggeration.

[fruitfruitfederation]

omg the cables, THE CABLES i could have been drawing them this whole time!! thank you!!! thank you so much!!!!

[christophsinging]

Man, that's 9 minutes, 31 seconds full of learning about solving common modelling difficulties. Thank you so much! 🙂

[periapsis]

I got up out of my chair and left the room multiple times watching this. I am so mad that I took some of these features for granted (the transfer normals thing is CRAZY dude I have never used Data Transfer) and so thankful to you guys for making this video.

[menein]

Loop tools, shrink wrap, angle joining and curves for cables have floored me in this video. I've been avoiding making so many models for years because I didn't know those techniques existed. Thank you so much.

[WaterGuuru]

every now and then one tutorial teaches you more then about 20, these were all so useful, great video!

[singanddance-qb]

This was one of the most important modeling videos I’ve watched.

[mohamadrezamoradi]

The best 10 minutes of blender content on all of youtube 👌👌👌👌

[JoshuaM]

This video shall be saved to a playlist and revisited many times, as I am sure to forget all these amazing tips during a project! Thanks! :D

[bobmcboblin]

This is easily the best video about hard-surface modelling I have ever seen, everything blew my mind.

[kruth]

The last one feels magical, never even imagined something like that could be done! The approach is simple and intuitive yet the result is amazing.

[themysteriousfox]

Felt like I was missing something in my knowledge of hard-surface modelling, and these really clicked into place for me! Thanks.

[HandsOfTitan]

I've been searching for a nice tutorial that would give me the "basics" or the standar process for Hard surface, this might be just a nunch of tips, but man, this is one of the best hard surface tutorials I've found so far. amazing.

[medinfo]

This is the best blender video I have seen in years. Please, please. More of this. Thank you so much

[juancinOwo]

As a junior Hard surface artist, last one got to be one of the most game changer tip that i've learned in the past 3 years, you deserve the best my man.

[kagunslinger]

So many great tips, presented in a very clear and efficient way. One of the best Blender trick video I've seen. Thank you !

[TheAnimeist]

7:30 I love the way you explained that you can limit a modifier to act only on a group of vertices. Good stuff!