How to make PS1-Esque graphics with Blender 2.8 (Basic Character Modeling)
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- A lot of people were asking about character modeling. I hope this is exactly what you guys wanted and is as helpful as I hope it is! I do need your feedback to ensure that my videos are as helpful as possible. Otherwise whats the point of making tutorial videos, right?
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G.I.T.S Megatech Body - Spook & Spell
Sonic Mania - Chemical plant Zone
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me at 1am having never owned blender: yes youtube i would like to learn how to make ps1 style graphics.
great vid keep it up!
Im surprised the algorithm works that well XD. Im glad you liked it!
its free btw
Literally me yesterday
A little trick for mirroring that I've found handy- add a loop cut down the middle and delete the vertices of the lefthand side half, then add the mirror modifier
Yeah, this is elementarny technique.
@@narne3330 elementary?
@@555remidi Your stary elementary.
@@narne3330 ight bro
thank you you solved my problem
this channel is a gem
...an absolute gem and a half
I've been wanting to make a small animation/game for some friends in a server and I figured PS1 graphics would be the best and I found this tutorial and honestly it did no dissapoint. I love you.
At 3:18 when you're talking about Medieval cats, the two cat paintings in the middle are actually from a (currently still alive) Columbian artist called Fernando Botero! He does weird proportions as a conscious stylistic choice and has made some really fun sculptures too.
The modeling process was moving a bit too fast for me.
I'd love to see you make another in-depth tutorial on modeling characters/objects/terrains; or any other video but go slower as I couldn't keep up with some of your videos.
There's a really cool video on CZcams where they interviewed the creators of Crash Bandicoot and they talked about all the crazy ways they completely obliterated the hardware limits of the PS1. I think they found a way to talk more directly with the coprocessor so that they could push more polygons per frame. Also, they gave up on using any textured polygons at all because it would cause a 2x slowdown. Every thing you see in that game is flat shaded polygons, because they realized that the average rendered size of each of their polygons was 1.5 pixels anyway.
What about Crash Bandicoot's back fur texture?
@@sketchsskotch1073 His whole body and all the textures were just flat shaded polygons.
@@BrainSlugs83 His shoes and back are in fact textured
Would love a video that details how I should go about creating and applying textures for these models that suit the ps1 style.
Thank you for the great tutorials! I'm learning heaps!
i know i'm not him, but what I do is take pictures from google of the thing i'm texturing, scale it down to aprox. 256x256 pixels and then aply them into the material with the UVmap editor and some settings he gave in an older video.
@@_.gio_van Thanks for the reply! I'm going to try attempt that!
It's not really any different from normal texturing, you just want to stick to a roughly 128x texture size. The game engine you use is a bit more important there, you have to figure out which setting lets you turn off filtering and show off the textures in all their pixelly glory
I have been looking for a tutorial like this for quite a while. I'm coming from an artistic background trying to learn games. This is absolutely what I need and I can't thank you enough.
You're an underrated channel and I'll be sure to plug you in as many forums/subreddits I can.
Thanks i highly appreciate it :)
yo what sorta art u make? watching this now and i’m in ur exact situation, did u ever make low poly games?
Great video as always! Using the sculpting smooth tool is something I didn't consider and a game changer honestly.
I’ve been havin’ a lot of trouble with character modelling & this helped a ton! Keep up the great work!
Great work! I think it would be cool to texture this guy next time. You could make a poll, so people chose one of characters you'd like to model or texture
Words cant even describe how happy i am to have these tutorials and channel , thank you
I love the look and feel the graphics, because of limitations of the ps1 and older games had excellent music, e.g. Medievil 1 had a great look and the sounds, same said for the first 2 Oddworld games, great mood, the remakes are ok, but they have lost a good amount of the elements that made them iconic, I had a different vision of what the remakes should of been and I doubt i'm alone.
Vid was very inspirational :)
i avoided this video but now I realize its one of the best ones when i comes to character moddeling for ps1
This is very helpful for this project I'm currently making, thanks!
on the topic of medieval cats:
in illuminated manuscripts from the church prior to the reformation, monks weren't allowed to just go out, look at a tree, and paint it. it was considered sinful and not allowed. they had to dip into a prescribed and approved reference book to draw from, which they were forced to copy. so whatever the tree looked like in the book, they would replicate. now when duplicating these books, imagine a butterfly effect of subtle differences in each and every tree. over time, the tree looks nothing like its original intention! but unfortunately this is how it had to be copied. Now apply this effect to said cats, and voila! grotesque chupacabra :)
i use rounded cubes to get my geometry easier when working with low poly it saves time and allows me to start shaping things instantly .
Photo references:
Lateral head: (if link dies search for: head-geo-08.jpg)
lh6.googleusercontent.com/-f0dnk5nEURs/TWxy8ubPeiI/AAAAAAAAAKM/bpTUCNzqqWI/s1600/Head-Geo-08.jpg
Front head:
www.istockphoto.com/en/photo/blank-white-male-head-front-view-gm182137797-27373893
Shortcuts he used in video:
4:26 -> Clear location -> Alt + G
For bends in arms and legs I think it's essential you use collapsible joint topology. Especially for characters like this Its a well known thing so you can search it up and find quick tutorials on CZcams but it looks so much better
Why am I finding this now, *exactly* a year after it's uploaded. And I've needed this for a while.
I know this is a late comment but your model is massive, probably around 600 to 1000 polygons, worked with the PS1 way back in the day, most hero models, that's the character the player plays had 200 to 600, Crash Bandicoot had 612 and Lara Croft just 260, this was because of the way the PS1 executed instructions, the system specs say 10,000 polygons per frame but the actual number was more like 3000, this was because of the system cache's and RAM, it wasn't just textures and polygons we were sending, it was data sets on raster's, this was to tell the PS1 how many polygons each model has, were it was and how far away it was from the player character, the PS1 didn't have a z buffer, we had to program our own, it also lacked floating point data, hence the wobbly graphics, all those instructions had to be executed before anything was rendered, notice the specs say in *hardware* , that means if the hardware was just making polygons, clever marketing trick from Sony, all the system information had to be written in machine code, just like any computer ever but the game code was written in C, the PS1 stores data from the disk into the caches on the board, then the CPU draws from those to organise and execute instruction sets, to draw frames the PS1 had a frame buffer that the CPU would call on to draw the polygons on the screen, the buffer was limited however and writing the code to call on those instructions, textures and game code was a nightmare, it was fast in hardware but slow in software, we got around a lot of these problems by reducing the amount called on the screen at a time, freeing space in the hardware to make the games run at a smooth 30fps, making low poly models leaves more polys for the environment, sound and effects, so Lara Croft was low poly to make the environments more transversable, whereas Crash Bandicoot needed to be higher in polygons because he took up much of the screen, blender can't replicate the effects of the PS1 graphics because it was hardware limitations that made the games appear that way, a good example is emulated games, same game, more likely crash dumped from the disk but the effects of z buffer wobble and dithering are not present, I suppose if there is a way to tell blender to randomly skip some frames in a render you might get closer to the original, we dumped loads of frames when making in game cutscenes, you can't even tell, Resident Evil has tons of them, which is weird because all the backgrounds are prerendered images!
My current understanding of smooth vs flat shading is that smooth shading is actually the cheaper of the two. Since for smooth shading the vertex normals of each vertices can be shared between vertices, while for flat shading the vertex normals are spilt and are not shared. Likewise UV seams act the same as flat shading adding to the hidden vertex cost with the vertices on the seam being spilt between the islands. I could be misunderstanding the information however, so feel free to correct me if I am wrong!
3:22
It's Vladislav from What We Do In The Shadows
Excelent video, it deserves more likes.
I like the retro style.
I've used this so much to help with my first game
Can't wait to slice them in half
This is great! Definitely will share with my friends
Thanks i appreciate it :]
Loving this series btw, it's been a massive help to me!
Glad to hear it!
@@TheSicklyWizard Really looking forward to the clothing part of these character creations - I'm really struggling to come up with something myself at the moment.
I'd love to try and emulate the kind of textures from Resi Evil 2 but my art skills are basically nonexistant
Sometimes I wonder how this channel doesn't have 12k subscriptions.
Its cause im lazy XD
Sweet videos man, looking forward to more!
Thank you so much I’ve tried like 100 times to make a low poly model and I couldn’t put this tutorial help me a lot
This is perfect, just what I was looking for. Thanks!
holy molly this channel has what I'm missing.
Excellent choice of music
YOU NEED MORE VIEWS, THIS IS HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTION VALUE YOU HAVE HERE.
Thanks, i appreciate ir
@@TheSicklyWizard You're welcome, it's really good stuff you're putting out here. I'll like and share what I can to help you in the algorithm. Best of luck my dude!
Great tutorial! It's all very well explained. It's fast, but that's what the stop and rewind buttons are for haha
If had to make a suggestion, I'd say displaying the shortcuts you use on the screen. Just a moment, but it really helps to see what you are doing.
Keep up the good work!
Ive tried doing that using the screencast keys addon, and often times it breaks or doesnt work. Id have to do them manually and thats alot of work im nkt wanting to do :(
Add a loop cut in the middle of the neck and bevel it so it doesn't appear broken when rigged
Harry Masons model isn't segmented, most later PS1 games used skinned models, and all the Silent Hill characters were just that.
Super helpful man, many thanks 👍👍
7:50 I'm a beginner, so correct me if I've misunderstood your meaning, but lowering the focal length definitely seems to INCREASE visual distortion, like a fisheye lens. Take it down further to 10 and see what I mean. As you raise the focal length you get closer to orthographic view.
It's been a long time since I made this video, I don't remember what I said. But you have it right. Lower focal length = wider fov / more distortion. Higher is closer to orthographic
wow mega-man x music. What a beast!
3:05 That would've been medieval times. The Renaissance was when people actually developed the "rules" for things like perspective, and proportions, and started to actually pay attention to people's facial features, rather than subjects suffering from more same-face syndrome than an Akira Toriyama series.
Thanks mate, that makes a lot more sense!
Your vibe is 💯
Thanks :)
@@TheSicklyWizard I mean it. You have just the right amount of epic maymay humor factored into your videos
Great video as always!
you deserve million subs, sick stuff :)
Looking forward to when you get around to UV unwrapping and texturing.
The ps1 graphic is the next gen
I’m really interested in the part where you focus on coloring and detailing the face. Like making eyes that blink and a mouth that opens and closes
Awesome !!!! Thanks , Just found the Channel , i have alot to study here !! ⚡⚡⚡
I m glad i clicked on this video
I'm glad that you can do this kind of low poly rendering. I have an Intel UHD G1 Integrated GPU with an i3 1005g1 1.2ghz dual core CPU. I'm hoping that rendering wouldn't take forever with this kind of style. Also, shouldn't it be like rendering in the late 90s early 2000s?
4:50 is the most confusing part cause theirs information he missed. One he puts the mirror modifier the next he controls all the vertices to one point then seperate the mirror objects away from each other like its nothing without any context?
make a full chracter rigging video please
This is a amazing tutorial but there were some moments where the process went a bit fast xD! but keep up the good work!
modelling these hands is going to be the death of me
This is the easiesssst tutorial to follow
Lmfao the cat reference was hilarious.
The pink Model just looks like Cerberus from Ultrakill
I often had problem when texturing (UV) is that they not pixel perfect, like triangle pixels etc. But I get more hang of it
I mean the Egyptians managed to draw/sculpt cats pretty well. Maybe medieval European artists just collectively agreed that they couldn't be arsed to learn how to draw cats.
Honestly, i think it was some sort of cultural joke. There's also apparently a lot of depictions of cats liking their butts too. Not sure why.
Great video! I'm interested in making a kind of anime style model, so something along the lines of final fantasy 9, Persona, or maybe even Jet Set Radio just to name a few. Is there a secret you know of to achieve the style of these or will what you've detailed in the video suffice for what I'm going after?
Hmm, I'm not entirely certain if there are really any "Secrets" to achieve that style other than studying it. I'm not familiar at all with Anime styling, although if you know a lot about anime and the kind of aesthetics that use, it should translate to modeling and especially texturing. at least I would think so.
Sorry if that isn't so helpful, I could always make a video about it sometime in the future!
@@TheSicklyWizard Thank you! I will look into a little more then. I think it's just the blockiness that has me concerned, but I'm looking at a low poly model right now and it seems similar to me, so maybe it's just a matter of texturing to give it a smoother/rounder look?
Yeah, Texturing will definitely help. Also, I think often times PS1 models faked shading, so the models aren't actually lit, they were just textured that way. so that would remove some awkwardness/blockiness of the model
@@kawaiichan9747 Just to add on to this - you can maybe check this site www.models-resource.com/playstation/finalfantasy8/
download the models and study how the form and shape in more detail in blender/maya etc
@@Hennejoe Thank you, I will try that!
Best intro.
that sonic music though
where is the model's link tho?
I'd love to see you add ps1 hair to this!
I intend to :)
12:17 for me it was right click
That is what I ment when i said click, flub on my end that i missed
@@TheSicklyWizard no problem, i have a lot of fun with your tutorial.
We not gonna talk about the frog being held at gunpoint? #freethefrog
I haven't watched this video in a year and no idea what this means
@@TheSicklyWizard when you go to pull up your references there are 2 pictures 1 with a frog and 1 with revolver, thay are next to each other and the revolver is pointing at the frog
16:17 When you say "LMAO" too much.
I can't figure out how to separate the mirrored cube into two cubes like he does at 5:00 any help would be greatly appreciated.
Same here!
@@dynamiczero Just using one cube instead now. Works fine for what I'm making.
thank u so much broooo
Will you texture the character ?
I'm probably going to do more, I'll texture them probably give them hair, some accessories, and rig them as well. I want this character to be a full production that looks good. Anything you would like to see me tackle :)
@@TheSicklyWizard oh nice, thats pretty much what i wanted
@@TheSicklyWizard Please make a tutorial on that, using a photo of an actual person, how to put this on the head of the character? I can do the clothes decently well but I can't figure out how to UV map and texturize the head :S I'm getting quite frustrated hahaha. Thankssssssss
@@DutchVikingGuy21 i do intend to do that
@@TheSicklyWizard will you cover the japanese style of uv unwrapping? or will it something be like ian huberts style of U -> project from view?
exactly what i wanted. cant fucking believe it. thanks
I know judging by the oldness of this video my question might be useless but why is it that every time I try to merge the cubes I end up with a jumbled mess of vertices? Apologies for my lack of skill but I am in quite the predicament. My blender skills are far from up to par. Love you ailing wizard man.
OK i figured out why my mirror wasn't working, delete half of the box before you add the modifier, bing bang boom, presto, now it works!
Half watch half just doing what feels right
It's 90K/second textured, lit and Gouraud shaded, so 3K/second and 30fps or 250 cubes @12 tris per cube, still naff, given the texturing was not perspective corrected and it's pretty tough to create a character even out of ~1K quads and it not look awful
The sonic music in the background.
Una pregunta por que tu video, ¿cuando quiero traducirlo automáticamente dice que estas hablando vietnamita?
I find fingers and head the most challenging to model ( I am a 3d model noob)
Yea, those are definitely complicated
Rad
Thanks :)
Thanks i tried it and it looks good is there a video on how to rig it ?
No matter what I do, I can't get the mirror modifier to work any way comparable to how yours functions in this video. As someone who comes from Maya, Blender's controls are the most obtuse and frustrating thing about the program, and while this tutorial is classroom level stuff, the glossing over of the controls that seem to "just work" in your hands is rough.
I mean, what issue are you experiencing with the modifier?
@@TheSicklyWizard Well, I've got my cube and I put the modifier on it, and I can't really get it to drag into two mirror versions like you have, but I obviously have a "second" cube kind of inside of the first.
@@SerenadeURA The mirror modifier mirrors the cube relative to its object origin point., when you first create a cube, or when using the default cube, the origin is at the center of said cube. So when you give it the modifier, it creates this "internal" cube as you called it because it is mirroring this cube that is already crossing over the point where it is being mirrored. so you need to loop cut it down the center and delete the half you are going to mirror the other to.
Does that make sense?
@@TheSicklyWizard That's a bit different than what you showed in the video, but it is working much better. I appreciate your taking the time to clarify.
@@TheSicklyWizard Yeah, that isn't at all how you showed it in the video.
i forgot to save my human in blender so here i am again
Missed the oportunity to model Billy Herrington...
OK so im totally new to blender but everytime i loopcut and mirror my cube its like theres a second cube inside??? and idk what to do about it and it just doesnt move correctly
Wahoo I like video
that's can be a dumb question but, how did you copy that face (12:10)? Ctrl+c and ctrl+v ? Because I can't copy like you :(
Lol, that was a really dumb question. The answer of my question in this video: czcams.com/video/tMusU0Vvbto/video.html
would be great to know what shortcuts your using to loop cut like that
it's Ctrl + R
how is it with trangles vs quads in case of PS1? Werent they using triangles as today in games?
I don't know why but blender 3d always makes me want to have a heat attack with how weird it works.
The brick effect
having keyboard shortcuts and name of them on the screen helps a ton!
Why are you using rectangles and not triangles for your faces?
As i understand it, triangles are the best way to get the most geometry with the least vertices, and thus video games, especially from this time used triangles exclusively.
all quads are just a pair of 2 tris, they just arnt excusively called in modeling, but thats all it is. im using quads because its also easier to edit and manage as i work, i can edge and ring select faces and manipulate them this way, which wouldnt be possible if i had strictly worked in tris. while i never actualy got to it, this was ment to be a series and i got distracted, the next step would be triangulating the face to get the most out of the volume of the shape.
If you smoothing the model and add low(not too low like PS1) texture, it became PS2 character
tell more about texturing please
those cat paintings tho.
Why arent they memes yet?
about texsturing, how do i texture properly without having to deal with the mirrored texsture?
You would have to apply the mirror modifier and if map it from there
am i the onl one where when i click mirror the cube does not epratate but is still one cube mirroring both sides of itself
Yea, the mirror modifier mirrors relative to the origin of the object. Since the cube is centered on the origin it just mirrors itself without actually separating
wheres pt2