Making a Low Poly Modular Monster in Blender

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This is how I made Barry the Modular monster. this video is an in depth overview of the creation process with lots of tips and tricks along the way which will help you when trying to make your own low poly characters. I also talk about the process and difficulties of going into unity or unreal but i'll talk more in depth about that in later videos.

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[mihaistanciu]

I just started your character course and I got to the modular modelling part and I hot to say that it is so pleasing to actually understand exactly what you are talking about, it is such a great video and also the course is great. Keep it up. 🥳🥳🥳

[mattwester]

Something I found a few years ago on some forum, when getting your models to a game engine like unity or unreal, make sure that you tick the little Legacy option for the rigify addon, and it will make the rig with no face bones, and work perfectly with most humanoid animations (mixamo included). Really great video!

[timarlow]

Would love to see your thoughts on pros/cons of this method (multiple meshes for different body parts) vs 1 mesh for entire body with regards to game models. Thanks!

[jhinns]

Hi Grant! Big fan of your tutorials on gamedev tv. I aim to land a job in the games industry as a character designer in the near future. You mentioned that you were a teacher at one point in the past, and it really shows in your courses and YouTube videos because you make it extremely easy to understand. I'm still a few months into learning, but I have taken big steps in terms of developing my 3D modelling skills thanks to the content you've provided.

[gabrielWachong]

Your tutorials are on another level 🤯🤯

[jellybean]

Another great video. I'd love to see more on making and attaching the armor and other clothing to the model and Rig. Loved you Courses on gamedev too. Not long finished three of them.

[shujauddin]

Easiest way to rig complex model ... we need more creative tricks like these !!

[AoBomberman]

I wish there were more guides/tutorials for making low poly monsters like this. There's plenty of info for making lowpoly humanoid models (especially anime-like ones), but there's very few documentaries for making lowpolys of more monstrous characters (that's not paywalled).
I find guides for making more uncommon designs a bit more useful for learning 3D modelling, as making such things tend to be better at breaking my "comfort zones" in regards to art.

[riccardoleone]

Exactly what I was searching for. Low Poly is so charming.

[lucasbittencourt]

Thank you for sharing another amazing tutorial!

[carlgreen]

I'm just about to start your character course! Finished your environment course not too long ago and just finished my own japanese alleyway scene using the same method and it came out pretty good. Can't wait to move into character design and then combine the two! Thanks for all your hardwork and for helping us along the way.

[AleksandarPopovic]

Very, very nice, special for artists who don made characters, this is fun and exciting start, and I love to continue this tutorial, lot of stuff you don covered in this video, and old public like myself won't more on this topics! Keep going ❤

[Jadebones]

Barry?
Berry?
Beary?

However you spell it...
I love you, you're an awesome monster!

[Legomaster]

Please make a more in-depth tutorial about rigging! I would definitely watch that, also thanks for being such a great help with blender, these tutorials are awesome!

[pixelsNbits]

Great fun. I’d love to see a tutorial series for this!

[jotarokun]

Hi grant, normally I don't really understand concepts easily, but your videos are kinda different, and are very very good for learning new and complex blender topics. Currently I'm working on a game but I'm struggling to create modular assets, i can create cliffs, rocks and trees easily (low poly, learned from your videos), but I'm unable to create modular assets like - house props, buildings and some others as well. A deep request for you to please create a low poly modular assets creation 🥹🥹, please 🙏.

[lucashaymaker]

Wow very good! I had never thought to parent some objects normally and others with weights.

[DLVRYDRYVR]

I call him Grunt Abhorrent, but Barry works also 😅

[darth_hylian]

Awesome 👌 this can be very useful for different classes and ranks with 3D prints for board games or models for video games

[SolearGnG]

Nice work, Grant. Just one question: do you have anything against the "shade smooth"?😉