WORK WITH BASIC POLYGON TOOLS IN BLENDER

It can be a real challenge for someone new to modelling to know where to even begin. Do you start with sculpting, then retopologise your model? Do you begin with Boolean tools like Hard Ops or Box Cutter and use cutting tools to make your models look amazing? Or do you perhaps poly model them in a way that’s been very common since the industry began?

This tutorial will help you start your journey by exploring a very basic polygon workflow. If you grasp all these basics, you can move onto the more challenging topics listed above. You can then begin to combine the different types of modelling and start to expand your skills in new and exciting ways.

We will start here by making a little robot with a core body, four legs and a single eye. It’s going to be suitable to take into a game pipeline and at the end we can look at it in a 3D painting program like Substance Painter from Adobe.

If you learn some of these basic techniques, you can create assets for games, TV and film and even for 3D printing, and it may help you move to those higherlevel workflows as you further develop your skills.

01 START WITH PRIMITIVES

Blender is a very complex program now and you'll have to get to grips with the basics before you can get stuck into the more complex stuff. There are many ways to create models and a wide range of techniques to use, but let’s focus on a very basic polygonal