Well done everyone who followed it this far! The studio lighting tutorial will be released early next week.

Fun fact: The guy "inventing" bump maps (James F. Blinn) made a donut to illustrate it back in 1978! Everything is connected I guess :)

My chair doesn't look very good, but I'm proud to be done. Chairing is caring, and I greatly appreciate you for both caring about and choosing to share your work, all for completely free. Chairs mate : )

This has 80% less views than the first one, congratulations, keep it going for everyone who came here.

Note about scaling multi-user objects (like the screws): you get an error message because you can't apply transformations to a set of objects with linked data ("multi-user objects"). You first need to disconnect them, and turn them back into "single-user objects". To do this: * Select one of the screws and press Shift + L (select linked), and choose "Objects & Data" * Now that all the screws are selected, go to the Object menu > Relations > Make Single User and select "Objects & Data" Now your screws will be disconnected again and you can apply your transformations with Ctrl + A

Why is it that Andrew is one of the only Blender tutorialists on KZfaq that I actually trust? I always feel better educated after going through one of these series. I'm going to choose to believe that it's related to how helpful the comments section always is on these videos. Y'all are the best.

Me: it's midnight I'm sure I can quickly race through the texture video.. Also Me: Spends 10 minutes trying to work out how to collapse panels...

if you're having trouble aligning the cube at 16:20 First click on the chair legs on object mode, then press Shift + S, then click Cursor to Active. this will set the Origin Point to the Object point like he has in the video Second you spawn the cube with Shift + A, then you change the snapping to increments like he did BUT then in EDIT MODE you move the cube up so the cube object point stays in the Origin Point then you go back to Object Mode and press ALT + G to align it to the bottom line like he did.

For those who are interested in the mathematics of the normal map: normal maps are stored in the "tangent space". The three color components correspond to the three axes: red for the X, green for the Y, and blue for the -Z. Which in the object's local space correspond to texture U, texture V, and normal based on the geometry. The vectors are encoded in the unit cube so the values range from -1 to 1. A 128 for a color value encodes a 0 in this coordinate system which is why the most common color is (128, 128, 255) or a light blue: it encodes (0, 0, -1) meaning that the normal derived from the geometry of the object should be used.

The non-color data setting just disables gamma correction, as the textures that use that setting aren't meant to be viewed and it's much more handy to have their luma data encoded linearly for performance reasons and also because otherwise most of the detail given by the texture would be concentrated in its midtones.

With Node Wrangler Click the BSDF -> Shift+Ctrl+T -> select maps Texture done

The material of the screw may be steel, but the surface of the screw is not raw steel. They have a black oxide coating, this is an extremely common coating put on screws to protect them from corrosion, for instance. This makes them much more matte and highly kills their reflection, so the material made in this video is not very reflective of real life conditions.

This workspace right here justifies my having multiple monitors.

This is why I watch all of these videos, I learned at least one thing I didn't know in every single one, then the whole last 10 minutes of this one blew my mind! Thank you so much for the excellent tutorials!

I started watching Blender Guru months ago, and now I'm checking in, and I'm glad to see he's still making videos!

Honestly the quality of your tutorials is mind blowing, you explain everything, and it's free. Amazing job !

After two years of using Blender as a hobby, I watched this entire series and absolutely no regrets! It was great to see all the steps of making a professional model. Thank you!

These multi-part tutorial are excellent. Please do more. It doesn't matter what it is there is something to learn with each new project. Thanks for all your effort, it is appreciated

Can't believe the amount of things i've learned in this tutorial, thanks so much Andrew!!

Please do series like this more often! I get so excited to get to the computer and get to the newest episode every day when you do a series like this!

I’ve learned so much from this tutorial series and i just wanted to say thank you Andrew! If it weren’t for your tutorials I don’t think i’d be into 3D modelling/graphics. Hope your day is great as it’s 1:30 am in Vancouver, Canada right now haha.

who was waiting for the "non color Dahtah"?

every time i think "ok, this is maybe totally finished now, maybe i should skip the next step and go do another tutorial instead" i force myself to continue and you blow my mind every time....opacity and bump maps are incredible :)

The efforts that you put in is really commendable !!!

Your courses are such high quality. Thank you. I wish all KZfaqrs were as professional as you!

This whole time I felt like an idiot for adding in a cube as my object when scaling. I'm glad I'm not alone.

I have been mostly following these tutorials because I find it fun, but what clicked for me at the very end of this video is this: If you followed these tutorials you have made a high quality asset that is worth something. This is a real tangible thing you created and people will pay money for it.

Your tutorials really are awesome :) The way you cut them into parts (and publish them **so fast**), your explanations and the little funny stuff, that's reaaaaally nice to watch! Thanks a lot!

12:33 this actually isn't quite true. While you may be right about most materials, metal alloys are more reflective because of the way metallic bonding works. Reflections are caused when rays of light excite electrons, causing them to vibrate at the same or a very similar frequency and magnitude, which warps the electromagnetic field to cause light rays of the same sort moving in a different direction. Because metal bonding utilises a sort of electron cloud to hold nuclei together, (meaning the electrons are unusually free to move around), the electrons can vibrate at a frequency and magnitude that is much more similar to the exciting light wave. THEN roughness comes into play.

I just did a speed viewing of all 9 parts, I might go back and step thru this. Man, going from 2.7 to 2.8 is almost like relearning everything, but I'm slowly getting there.

I feel regret when don't find this Channel earlier. Bc It is really really good. I missed great something from Blender Guru. So now I will work harder to get knowledge. Thanks for everything.

Grazie Guru ;) Per tutti coloro che cercano un chiara e approfondita descrizione del processo di creazione di un render in blender dalla A alla Z questa serie di video sono il contenuto giusto, buon diveritmento.

I started donut tutorial on the 19th of April with zero previous experience, then I did anvil and now this. I was doing it almost every day and believe me, it's been only 2-3 weeks, but I already feel so confident in blender I've actually made a realistic looking horse and with a good topology. Andrew's tutorials are the absolute best!

I'm so glad you showed the normal map vector. I had been having issues with black stuff being there and I had no idea what I was doing wrong.

The amount of stuff i have learnt about blender about 70 percent stems from you!Thanks a tonne!

I like very much when you walk to yourself, very good teacher, takes a bit longer than needed but all is fun. keep this good action

Your videos are the only software tutorials that I actually found fun to watch

In my four years of poking at blender this is the first time I've ever completed a tutorial end to end thank you

So excited to see the Gumroad file and where your seams were placed. That is one of the hardest things for me to understand right now. Thanks for this series. I've learned some new short cut keys and see why scaling is so important to good design. Bravo!

Thanks Andrew for keeping me entertained in lockdown for a few days! I haven't played around with Blender for about 4 years but I think Ive just caught the bug again..! thankfully not THE 'bug' though! I've relearned loads already and learnt a lot of new tricks too. Looking forward to part 10! 👍

If you find your screws jumping off the chair when you apply Object Data of the first screw, make sure the origin for each screw is set to the geometry! Retry and it should work.

thank you for explaining the cursor functions, that's what majorly got me stuck on my last project before coming to this video.

I appreciate you using the default screen layout for the tutorials. It's much easier to follow what you're doing that way. However, a future video covering the screen layouts that you do use, how they're set up and your reasons for doing so would be very interesting.

The screws are a perfect example of why you should teach us object instancing workflow where editing one object will edit all it's instances. Could be nice to see this in the next tutorial, thanks!

Amazing i've finished this serie. Thank you very much! Lots of pro tips and fun challenges. Great Work

Thank you for the tutorial. Not only a was able to learn typology and UV unwrapping, I was also able to pick up a huge number of tip

thank you Andrew! had a lot of fun modeling this chair with you:)

Dude, I am from Argentina and I just used to model staff in Blender as a hobby, but if I could be paid for doing things in Blender and I had access to a steady amount of dollars for it, I would just purchase everything that you guys produce in Poliigon, I watch and enjoy your videos for a long couple of years already I love your work :)

Material node tip for when you have a group of textures (diffuse, roughness, normal etc.). With Node Wrangler installed, click on the Principled Shader, then press CTRL+SHIFT+T. An explorer window will pop up, choose all of your texture maps. NW will apply all of the textures with their respective settings too (like, non-colour data) plus normal map node etc. Very cool.

I've learned a lot by watching your videos. Thank you.

You can save your own shader layout as a new workspace. Or use more than one Blender, one for your daily work and one for tutorials. Great tutorial series, thank you for sharing.

just a month in blender and I learned a lot from watching Andrew's tutorials

Thank you so much for this series Andrew. I've learned a lot of very useful stuff from it.

With furniture the origin point is general in the center f the world, on the floor. So when you place the assets on a floor, it just aligns perfectly.

Thank-you for these tutorials. Really well explained and I've learnt so much from them.

Best chair. Best tutorial. Thank you.

Thanks! Great, mine looks like yours I'm happy with the result. Can't wait for the next part to give this piece of furniture proper render!

Thanks so much for the tutorial!! the hex screws by the way - yes they are made out of metal but they have a black oxide finish on them like many factory hex bolts do - so just a matte black finish (which is what black oxide looks like) works perfectly for that - if they were just solid stainless steel or mild steel with no black oxide coating - then giving it a metallic material would be appropriate - but as they are just mild steel with an black oxide coating (which is a deep blue/black matte color) i went with that. A small thing - but just figured id share! thanks again!

Thanks so much for this course! It sure was a challenge but I'm proud for completing it :)

Thank you Blender Guru. Awesome video series!

This felt quite easier to model after doing donut and anvil, so now I'm able to follow the Blender 2.6 tutorials on cg cookie and other channels, Thanks Blender guru

This tutorial series are amazing! Love it

"Yeah I convinced myself" *I go to thumbs up the video to appreciate Andrew's personality*

thank you a lot i did all the other parts yesterday and they helped me a lot and now i can finish it :)

Thanks so much Andrew! Going to binge this course this week jajaja

Very excited to finish up next vid, already selected my Mogensen table to practice what I've learned :)

13:23 not only talking but within feeling it for us. Thank U , Great guy

I've never been so proud of a chair before. But I'm proud of it, and of myself

It's a good thing I saw your BSDF video like a year ago, I can vividly remember how confused I was by different texture maps. Watching that video and tinkering around with Materialize helped significantly! Great stuff and I hope to see more content coming your way Btw. I use Pie Menu add-on which enables the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+X What this does is bring up a menu to set the origin point to the bottom center of the mesh. I use this very often with face snapping on (and set to center because closest is quite clunky) to get precise contact. Enabling Rotation is also useful for curved surfaces. I did have to disable the pie menu for A (select all), ctrl+s (save), X for delete and a couple others. Really the only useful one is Ctrl+Shift+X. Maybe there's one other but who knows.

Thank you for this tutorial. Lots of good modeling techniques that I will use. On to the Anvil now!

Annd save. Chair done ! Many thanks for the fantastic tutorial!

For measurement in Blender look at an in built add on called MeasureIt. It helps calculate vertex to vertex length, edge length, angle between two edges, face area, object volume, and even distance between two vertices on two different objects. Always use it to keep a track of measurements.

Thank you so much. After the Donut tutorial this is my second one. Two years later since you recorded this video it is sometimes a challenge to find the right menu options. So at the end I watched each video at least three times. In this video I have the problem of scaling the chair. Even after pairing the mirrored leg moves around. So I applied the mirror and it worked. However I don't know what effect this has, but the chair still looks good.

excellent tutorial series, thanks for sharing you're knowledge with us.

Thank you for these tutorials.

Something you may wanna show, and truthfully I’d love your take on it. I usually center my origin to the center of the object. The reason I do this is so when I rotate my object it’s rotating from the center of the object and not from a chair leg. I’m sure there’s a better way to do this but you could take your cube ruler, have half of it sticking out of the floor and half of it sticking below the floor, grab the chair, pull it through the floor on The Z axis, then 3D cursor to center, set origin to 3D cursor, and now the chair will rotate and scale on all Axis’s just like when you add a new object. I’m sure you already knew that or maybe you didn’t but for my channel, it makes it easier for me to import my object into something like element 3D for example and use for dialing rotations for animations. Also, if you were to use a particle system to drop a bunch of chairs, the animation would look a little odd because the origin is slightly off from the center of mass. I have my way of trying to center it but I model for fun, I’m more of a grip and electric guy so I’m sure you might have a better way to do it? Love your channel btw, you’ve taught me everything I’ve wanted to know so far. Thank you

Awesome tutorials!!! I dindt know anything about modelling and now I can do it :)

Thank you so much for this series tutorial

If you don't want to use the polygon add-on, node wrangler has a nifty shortcut to speed up your PBR texture workflow. Select the Principled BSDF shader in the shader editor, then press Ctrl+Shift+T, it will open up a file window where you can shift select all your textures, click the button labelled "principled texture setup" and bish bash bosh all your PBR textures are imported connected to the correct nodes with the correct shaders in place (Note: this will only work if your textures have a valid PBR naming convention, ie: texturename_metallic, texturename_gloss, texturename_rougness, texturename_normal, texturename_specular, texturename_height, and so on).

Blender Guru, your the best guru. Thanks Andrew sir.😊

Awesome tutorial! Thank you my friend! I learned a lot!

Thanks Andrew , very entertaining....

Just finished! Thanks Andrewwwwwwww, it was reaaly cool!!! I will do the lighting now :)

Awesome man I definitely learned allot this week thanks

Thanks for a great course !😀

Thank you, you are a great teacher.

Rendering aside, you scrub up well! I think you've found your style! Although I personally cannot grow a beard to save my life. Thanks for your tutorials!

It's been a long road... Getting from there to here... Thanks for providing the final model! I've been a 3D model artist for almost 20 years now so I know how to make all that stuff but kinda trying to work out UVW unwrapping in the Blender interface LOL.

This is the end of another great tutorial.

You can use polligon addon if you use polligon textures all the time or you can just select principled bsdf then press Ctrl+Shift+T (Node Wrangler enabled) then select all textures and then open it. It automatically connects all the maps to principle bsdf.

Thanks this was a great tutorial now I know how to follow blueprints

When you change the sRGB to non-color, I think it adjusts the gamma values so the colors wont be artificially saturated.

I 100% use the Cube-becomes-scale trick in every model I do - when you did that I was thrilled that it wasn't just me :P

Please consider a reaction series to old tutorials!

coming from sketchup, surprised that accurate measurement is so difficult. I've been looking for reasons that blender can't replace it for accurate architecture model. Guess this is why. Must also be why cad folks don't switch as they surely need accurate intuitive measurements. Great series - I've learned a ton either way.

Didn't follow along but I watched to learn how to improve my own stuff and I learned lots

Thank you for this, I learned a lot, and your App is great.

18:35 Putting the origin on the ground is perfect for placement. But you really should have placed it in the center, so it can be rotated more easily. However, in case you want to use it for rigid body simulations, the origin needs to be at the center of mass AFAIU. But that is easy to change after the fact, with _Set origin to center of mass_ (assuming the density is homogenous).

Hi Andrew brother. I learned many things from you.Especially sauing something that makes anyone laugh.😊😊😊

Very helpful, thank you very much!