How to create PSX Low-Poly Pixel-Art style models in Blender

hello everyone today I've decided to give a quick tutorial on how to make this sort of low poly PSX pixelated style model if you don't know what those words mean don't worry I don't either I'm not going to go into specifics with this video but feel free to ask questions in the comments there's like a 99.4% chance I'll answer don't ask about the other point 6 firstly the most important thing to making any model is having a good turnaround reference oh my God it I can't stress that enough it doesn't need to be perfect it just needs to have a solid side view and front view that's proportional to the character you can add back or diagonal views if you feel like it but it's not really necessary I've decided just squ Squatch sketch this quick vampire girl for you today kind of dooo but it doesn't really matter if you aren't great at drawing you can always find turnarounds online you can save and use you won't have the added benefit of your characters details to look off of though all right the next step is modeling my least favorite part w w shut the [ __ ] there is one crucial part of the modeling process that will mess up the rest of the tutorial if you don't follow it please make sure each of your body parts are separate if you don't the whole thing will [ __ ] the bed it won't work out right it's very necessary for the for the ricking of the model and can force you to restart the whole thing again which is not preppy cppy in here you should at minimum have the head neck torso waist upper arms forearms hands thighs calves and feet separated moving on now hair can be a bit of a finicky little [ __ ] but what I usually do is I take a plane and I just kind of stretch it over the head it can usually look pretty good but it's a bit tougher to achieve with shorter and more te Ed [Music] hair excuse me Michelle salawa has a video where I got the inspiration for this method it will 100% be linked in the description I love her art luckily for today our character has pin straight hair cut into bangs this definitely wasn't uh because I was feeling lazy it was 100% a design Choice moving on now this is optional but I tend to shade all my objects smoothly I don't like seeing the flat edges but if you don't like it you don't have to there definitely won't be a pipe bomb in your mailbox if you shade flat the only other thing I can say is to try and keep it low poly kind of Blocky most of the details can be added during the texture painting stage now on to rigging the Armature now unlike most models where the Armature stretches and pulls the vertices the individual Bones on this Armature are linked to each part of the body think of it like those shitty wooden mannequins every artist has but doesn't use hate those things if we select the object in object mode and then shift select the skeleton going over to pose mode we can hit contrl P to assign parent to Bone and voila an individual Armature now it does take a while doing every piece can be tedious but it's worth it in the end like most things in blender you just got to trust the process now it's on to my favorite part texture paint to emulate this sort of Pixy style you're going to want to change the fallof to constant and turn off anti-aliasing we hate anti-aliasing around these parts as well you're going to want to go into the shaders Tab and change linear to closest now you can go crazy draw whatever you want okay maybe not that like I said earlier try to draw the details here instead of modeling them it makes the whole process like two times faster and once you've finished the textures we can move on to the final stage of shading don't worry it's nothing complicated you're going to want to change the resolution to something small I usually do something around 500 to 600 and then turn the film down to zero this gets rid of blender's automatic Edge blurring when exporting now I like to turn my animations into gifts because they're eye-catching but you can leave them as a still image or a video if that's what your part truly desires and with that I've covered mostly everything thank you for watching please like And subscribe for more blender ramblings if any of you turn on anti-aliasing I'll [ __ ] end [Music] you

Channel: Expired rice

Views: 1,262

Keywords:

Id: noMfh34BuJs

Length: 4min 27sec (267 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 20 2024