Tutorial: "Fly"

[Hecatomb]

Words can't quite explain how much I'm looking forward to this. Keep up the awesome work man!

[NicolasJordan]

I watched the first few minutes of the tutorial and it looks like I am going to have to finisgh watching it later when i have some time. I have been really curious about the modeling workflow in Blender especially coming from a modeling background in Lightwave.

[Ian Jones]

Excellent tutorial... I had a little trouble reading some of the prompts (too fast) but its easy to rewind of course. Some great tips in there regarding setup and modeling work flow, you are very generous to share your methods here and this helps greatly.

[sebastian-koenig]

thanks a lot guys, i am very glad you liked it!!

[Alekzsander]

good model and composition and great tutorial . Blender looks very good


greetings

[Ayreon]

Very nice! I've wathced it three times already, just understanding your flow. Can't wait for the others parts :)
Thanks a lot for making these!

Ayreon

[Lighthead]

Its great that you made a tutorial but it would be better if you used voice and went slower for beginners, but I understand this can take a lot of time and effort.

[Hecatomb]

Actually I prefer text over voice. It's way easier to pause the thing and carefully read (if needed), than having to rewind all the time to hear the whole sentence.

Looking forward to the next vids, especially the rigging and fur.

On a sidenote, where do you get these vector-like reference images from? Noticed one on your "Wasp" timelapse too.

[fktt]

On a sidenote, where do you get these vector-like reference images from? Noticed one on your "Wasp" timelapse too.

I'm guessing you mean the grease pencil feature?

http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-248/grease-pencil/

[Ayreon]

the links to the reference imagesmy guess is that Hecatomb means the images you see in the background that are traced with the grease pencil feature.
Just search for wasp reference and housefly reference in google images and they both show up on the first result page.

Here's the reference for the fly in svg format:
Fly reference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/December-2007#Anatomy_of_a_Housefly)

[Hecatomb]

Yeah, that's what I mean Ayreon. Cheers mate!

[dAfTiE]

Really awesome stuff Sebastian.
Gonna have to show this off to some of my friends who are still blender skeptics, hehe.
Can't wait to see the next parts, especially looking forward to the shading, that's really where I feel like I'm hitting a wall recently.

[ysvry]

great tuts, you must have studied biology to make such good, insect models , chapeau.

what i liked best was the way how you textured the fly.

[Bliz]

I watched the firstpart of your tutorial last night and was stunned with how useful it was. You really took the time to go through the basics.
I'd seen the grease pencil before but assumed it was used to help animators, seeing you using it as a modeling aid was an 'eurika!' moment for me.

I'm migrating from Maya & Lightwave to Blender and your tutorial so far (and the wasp timelapse) has inspired me to push full steam ahead into Blender.

One small question though, when you are dragging verts around (i.e. as when showing us the automerge function) how are you actually moving the verts? I know you can use the 'G[rab]' key but you seem to be directly clicking on the verts and dragging. When I try this I get the hotbox menu (the alternative to pressing the spacebar).
So far I've been using the manipulator to move verst but something a bit more freeform would be great.

Keep it up, I can't wait to see the other parts.

[fktt]

One small question though, when you are dragging verts around (i.e. as when showing us the automerge function) how are you actually moving the verts? I know you can use the 'G[rab]' key but you seem to be directly clicking on the verts and dragging. When I try this I get the hotbox menu (the alternative to pressing the spacebar).
So far I've been using the manipulator to move verst but something a bit more freeform would be great.

just right click(hold down) & drag.

if you have the 'Drag Immediately' setting on, you wont need to click to confirm the move,
so its like the tweak mode in silo/wings.

http://i40.tinypic.com/2vwffbb_thumb.png (http://i40.tinypic.com/2vwffbb.png)

[Ayreon]

@Bliz:
To drag vertices around, like the drag toolin Lightwave I believe, just right-click the vertice and immediately drag. So click-and-drag. If you wait before dragging, you will get the tool box.

Ayreon

[Bliz]

Awesome! Thanks for the tip guys it works great.

[Ayreon]

Also, I just now discovered that you can skip the left-mouse button confirm click by enabling 'drag emidiately' under Edit Methods in the config Panel (don't know how else to call it :) ) Now the drag tool works just like the one in Lightwave (I was a former Lightwave user too ;))

[Ayreon]

not to be pushy, but any indication when the next part will surface?
I can't wait!.

Greetz,
Ayreon

[sebastian-koenig]

hey!
yeah, i know it should be ready by now, but unfortunately i broke my spine a week ago so i have been a while in the hospital and could not work on it. right now i am home again, but my medication makes me feel real dizzy so i am afraid you guys just have to be patient ;-)

i'll do my best to finish it as soon as i can.
best regards and happy blending!

[Ayreon]

Sorry to hear about your injury. Just take your time, we can wait. I wish you all the best and hope you will get well soon.

Greetz,
Ayreon

[ogrfuat]

Thanks a lot for making these!

[BubaBrown]

Simply amazing. And what will new Blender 2.5 bring all this is already possible. Excellent. Keep posting the tutorials. Thank you very much.

5 stars from me.

[Bliz]

Damm! Really sorry to hear about your spine Sebastian. Hope you recover soon mate.

[Alekzsander]

well, i dont know what to say only you get well very soon :)

take care man

[Liquidape]

I wish you a quick recovery!

[sebastian-koenig]

thank you, guys!
it's getting better every day, so i hope i can start the missing parts of the tutorial soon :-)
thanks again and
happy blending!

[ysvry]

take your time health is more important then the fly tut part 2.
be well and thx again for sharing your knowledge. btw how did you injured your spine?

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