Just to tell people that the merge command is not "Alt + M" anymore. It's just "M" "Alt + M" is Split now

"If I can undo enough **Nervous laughter** " Story of my life.

When i mirrored the leg it made a leg on the opposite side of the x-axis, not inside the other Edit: To Fix this Undo the mirror until before the step, Next select all of it and Right-click and click "Set origin" then click "Set origin to Geometry" then mirror it that should fix it.

8:00 For people who has problem while using mirror modifier,(my mirror one is too far from the origin). So if you see a little orange dot on the grid, that is called as origin. Solution: go back to object mode > hit the horizon panel "Object" > set Origin > set origin to geometry

i cant tell you the number of times I went to 'ctrl + r' for an edge loop and accidentally restarted the video

Can we appreciate that Guru spend a lot of time doing these tutorials? i mean, the dude made tons of chairs just so we have a higher quality tutorial to follow, not a lot of people would do that.

love how you explain that you don't just "know" how to do the things you do and it is trial and error sometimes. very motivating

My 10 year old son is following along with your tutorials. He just finished lvl 3 part 2 of your donut course he loves it and does it instead of schoolwork. Keep on building!

Actually, learning from mistakes is highly educational. If I make something that works, I rarely have learned something in the process. No pain, no gain. You should make a video on what to avoid.

For anyone having issues with the mirror modifier: in edit mode, after you've deleted half of the vertices, select one vertex on (top left) on the side that's cut. Once selected, got to Mesh->Snap->Cursor to Selected. Go to object mode and select the entire geometry again, right-click and select Set Origin->Origin to 3D Cursor. After that, add the mirror modifier and you should see accurate results.

For those struggling, do not worry! I messed up so many times during this tutorial but I pulled through even though sometimes I didn't know what was going on. Just recreated the chair super quick compared to my first attempt. it gets easier, don't give up!

6:46 When using alt-click to get the selection to "follow the topology all the way around" if your selection goes in the wrong direction, make sure you click on the edge and not on the face (if you look closely at the video, you can see Andrew's cursor positioned on the edge).

9:26 Guys, remember to put the mirror modifier ABOVE the subdiv modifier. I had to do it all over again almost from the beginning until I found, why I am having some of my chair foot's faces split by curvy paths after deleting that face on the top. And it's really helpful to do backup copy layers of your object from time to time

4:59 For people using Blender 3.0

Its important to note that at 9:54 when he does this very subtle transition to the next step.. he's turned off Edit Mode on the subdivision modifier. If you look at the list of modifiers on the right side, the subdivision one has that square box icon with the highlighted corner, turned OFF. This is important because as you continue following the next steps, you're going to see extra weird lines trailing along and your leg has an addition loot cut that you never put there, which is super duper confusing. Also optimal display is checked.

For those having problem with clipping (they have the chair leg cut in 2) increase the value of merge. you find it directly on the buttom of clipping in the mirror menu

The best nugget of wisdom from this video, circa 14:30: Its ok to try something and then decide it doesn't work. I needed to hear that. thank you.

Blender guru is the only person to explain detailed information in 3d modelling. So I am watching his all tutorials.

For anyone watching this tutorial around June 2020 or afterwards, the Alt + M shortcut he mentions is now just M.

Petition for a Patreon. This much time, effort and quality content for free is making me guilty.

Actually the "bad topology" from the incredibles was specially made to control the crinkles on her cheeks :D

9:54 He deactivated the "show modifier in edit mode" of the subsurf modifier in case you wonder why it looks that way.

Pure gold. I don’t think anyone is teaching blender “better” than you. Your tutorials are full of such REAL, VALUABLE information on so many levels

Andrew, everything you do is instructive, encouraging and entertaining. I'm amazed and grateful for all that you share with the world. You have a lovely gift for language and the turn of a phrase, but it's one vertex, two vertices, full stop.

14:37 this is very important for people who are trying to learn 3D modeling to hear. even good people need to try and fail even though its an everyday thing for them. Thanks for sharing such information.

Corporate needs you to find the differences between the words *vertex* and *vertice* Andrew: They're the same word

His level of honesty is amazing! I love this.

Just starting the series tonight! Its really well explained. I am the type of person who really likes to know why I am doing things instead of blindly following along, so this series is amazing. Blender is very cool

*For those on Blender 2.83 or later* The merge shortcut changed from *Alt+M* to only *M*

13:27 For Blender 3.5.1 Mac users, the shortcut for Select Circle has changed to W (shortcut cycle) or Tab + Spacebar + C.

I love how sincere you are about the boring part of try>fail>try again>fail again part of modelling. Make me fell a bit less shitty. Thank you, Andrew!

i miss these tutorials

"This chair is pretty tame. It's not like a tank..." Me: "OR AN ANVIL!" Lol I just finished the Anvil, but MAN was it a big jump from the donut tutorial. I'm so glad you're making this series for additional and deeper modeling fundamentals :) Side note: this IS a fantastic bridge to that tutorial. He doesn’t go as step by step into the modeling as this one so that’s why this is a better next step after the donut, but after this, go to Andrew’s Intermediate Modelling Tutorial which is the anvil. I did that WITHOUT this and although I had some slight issues, I was able to finish it. So after this one, I’m sure you could do that one a lot easier.

After the Donut Madness and now the topology madness, it is still refreshing and surprising to realize how amazingly easy to follow the instructions are! Great video, Andrew :) I'm looking forward to the Anvil series after I finish this one!

I enjoyed your comment about how these tutorials are mostly problem solving small things, and by that, about learning how to model anything by learning all the small tools you're teaching us. I'm coming to enjoy making mistakes as I go when I miss something you do, because I learn a lot in correcting my own problems that you don't make. My origin wasn't centered so I kept mirroring at weird spots, and I didn't have my xray on for the second half of the tutorial so the second chair leg kept coming out funny. I've done the first half of this video maybe twice and the second half three times, but I keep a pretty detailed document on all the skills I learn as I go.

So good! I finally decided to start to learn how to model, after 10 years in the VFX industry and this is perfect: principles to apply instead of mindless procedures to follow, I'm having so much fun modeling my first chair!

I really appreciate your hard work in providing high quality tutorial like this one, hope you are going to share your knowledge to us forever!!

Honestly, I would love a long video where you model something harder. Not in a tutorial format, but simply a video of you solving things, going back, seeing if something works... Because most of the tutorials on youtube are rather "easy" and are deliberately avoiding some harder stuff. Most things have multiple approaches and when modeling more complex stuff, one is bound to find some problem. Often times (when boolean, bevels, subsurf and bad topology come together) there are tons of issues and most people make the bevel smaller, move something problematic elsewhere instead of tackling the issue. I would love to see you doing exactly that.

Thank you for this series. I used 3d Max in my childhood. This series is helping me to get back to 3d design after so many years as an adult using Blender.

Just another comment to pay a legitimate tribute to sir Andrew whom Blender beginner's community owns so much. Thanks to his personality and his sense of pedagogy, learning is a pure pleasure. Without doubt, the best way to tame the beast.

Interesting to watch. I used to use TrueSpace back in the late 90's. Using the same methods of course. Seeing how Blender has developed is amazing! After years of modelling, rendering, writing articles on it, giving lectures on it I completely dropped it all. Everything I need in 3d now is in CAD where edges need a perfect radius, everything needs to be spot on. It's refreshing to see 'It'll do' visual modelling again. I'm watching these to try get back into modelling for organic and non CAD designs that I want for 3d Printing. Right now though it's all a bit like using right handed scissors in my left hand, lots of tongue chewing as I know what and how by just have no idea where all the tools are :) Thanks for the vids, I'm going to push on with it.

For anyone else whose curve bends inward after mirroring and deleting one half, increase the merge distance in the mirror modifier.

Probably the best way to present tutorials I've seen on youtube. Great personality. Makes you not want to rush through the tut. Nice one matey

Hey Guru Andrew. I never thought I would give 3D modeling a try. You have some of the best tutorials ive ever seen on youtube. you are doing a fantastic job so keep it up! ive been through endless tutorials for Premiere, Photoshop, Ableton, etc. These are by far the best. Congratz on your success and hard work.

If you have problem on seeing the right wireframe in 10:06 and you still see the detailed wireframe, disable the third icon near the camera and pc icon in subdivision modifier panel. I spent a day figuring out why i didn't see his same wireframe.

If your mirror is showing up on the other side of the center point of the scene, you need to move the origin point of your object. Specifically, for the mirror modifer, you need to set the origin the the left face of your leg object. Hitting [ ctrl ] + [ . ] will allow you to select the origin point. Hitting [ G ] will allow you to move it; make sure you turn snapping on.

For various reasons, I`ve been away from Blender for some time now and have got a bit rusty. This is a perfect little refresher tutorial. Not too complex but enough to get me going again with modelling and UV mapping. Thanks Blender Guru.

These tutorials are just amazing, not boring, learned a lot and just super easy to follow, I did the donut tutorial completely and it also amazing! Thanks

Thanks for improving my quarantine! Also if anyone have troubles during the mirror modifier, make sure you have the origin (the orange dot) in the center of ur leg,

9:20 If you have troubles with wrongly rounded edges try to increase "Merge Limit" in mirror modifier.

Thanks so much for taking your time and energy to provide these tutorials for us! It makes such a difference in learning!

I muck around in blender casually, I've gone through a lot of your donut tutorial and others. Always really well explained, engaging, useful. Thanks!

appreciate your tutorials practicing this stuff til you just naturally remember key bindings helps a lot and now it's not magic to me anymore. I can actually do this stuff. And the more I do it the more I learn. And yea I only recently learned about good topology like a few days ago And I definitely needed to know about this alternative to beveling

For those who are having issues with "Merge-By Distance" just press "A" to select everything before. Hope this helps :3

I didn’t know I should’ve done this tutorial before attempting the sofa tutorial, and I’m learning a lot of things I was wondering as I made the sofa! This is great knowledge for making clean shapes

This is actually the best tutorial series you made so far.

7:30 There is an auto mirror addon that does the same job as the mirror process. Instead of needing to use a loop cut and deleting one side before hand, the auto mirror does it... automatically. Just enable it and open/use it from the edit & tools menu (N)

i wonder what transformation his beard is gonna go through in this series

Thank you for this tutorial series, so many new tricks I haven't known about! I have something to look forward to tomorrow, especially at this time.

Thank you for your time & most straightforward and easy to follow tutorials man! Love it! Please keep on sharing the knowledge and keep doing what you do. Cheers!

10:59 If your wire frame has significantly less polygons than in the video, go to your subsurface modifier and uncheck 'optimal display.' This should solve your issue and the wire frame should look the same (excepting small variations in how close you made your loop cuts).

to use the mirror modifier to mirror the object properly, you must have your objects' origin set according to its geometry. I ran into some issues when the objects origin (shown as a little orange circle with black outline) was set at the center cursor. This meant my objects' mirrored counterpart was far away from the original object. To fix this, go to object mode, select your object, then in the toolbar select object > set origin > origin to geometry. You must do this ~before~ deleting half the vertices otherwise the translated origin will be off-kilter in the x axis. (He addresses this in episode 4)

The lesson on making mistakes toward the end of the video is very true. I tried modeling my bed frame for 2 hours only to delete 90% of it and restart with a much better method that took 15 minutes. The trick to 3D modeling like a pro is getting the experience to figure out how to model anything.

Ok, the bevel edge thing here solved like 70% of my present and future problem in blender.

Great tutorial thanks ! 3 tips: * put the images for reference into a collection and then you can use the eye in the right to remove and put again in the scene as you wish. * you can click in each image and in the item menu click in the locks to avoid move them by mistake. * instead of scale the cube just move the cube to be one side on the reference of one line of the leg and then you can move only the opposite 2 vertices to have a better adjustment to the image of reference.

was waiting for this, thanks mr blender, you're too wholesome

Thank you for another series I always look forward to them, and also very true about not worrying about technically wrong methods if they work. I've slowly had to learn this. As long as the result is good

Thank you for taking time to explain us step by step these small tricks. Helps a lot !

at 9:57 if you don't know why the mesh looks different after the video cut, he disabled the edit mode from the subdivision modifier (near the name of the modifier u have 4 buttons just press the one that has a square with 4 squares in the corners)

Sometimes i forget you live literally on the other side of the world, its 4:40 am and I can't sleep

Edit: I was having problems, but due to this person being such a great teacher, I used what he's taught me and was able to correct my mesh and get it looking much better!

Thank you BlenderGuru! Your tutorials are much needed for a beginner like me!

If your mirrored mesh is "pulling apart" after you delete the faces on top, try selecting all your vertices in edit mode and shifting them out and back (essentially widening and then narrowing the leg of the chair). This fixed it for me. (Also could be a 2.9 alpha bug).

Hey Andrew! I think you should mention that in future versions of blender we will be pressing M instead of alt+M to merge vertices, so your videos won't outdate so fast

extremely helpful, thanks for all of ur videos

Thank you so much for making these tutorials! This one and many others allow me to really easily make the models in Blender I need to make games which is a dream come true!

I thought I was following his Blender tutorials, but actually it was the beard that I was following all along.

4:50 The new shortcut for merging duplicate vertices on Blender 2.83+ is now only M, while Alt+M does the inverse operation (split). This was done because it is such a common shortcut that it got a brand new, easier shortcut just for that and because the Alt key is usually used to invert the command, so there's that.

You are the best 3D teacher I ever meet! I want to be a 3D and 2D animator. Thank to you. You help me to learn Blender. Thank you I always love your tutorial and other content.

Thanks for keeping it real at 16:30 good thing to remember. It's easy to think the process is supposed to go as smoothly as it seems to in a tutorial.

Please Andrew I request you from the depth of my heart make a beginner's nodes tutorial, I cannot find a complete one throughout KZfaq, plus you teach very well......

In case anyone (like me) couldn't find the automerge button, you have to switch on "Tool Settings" under the "View" menu of the 3D Viewport.

I am very new to modelling in blender and this helps a lot. It is a lot like drawing where you shouldnt follow it piece for piece but rather find the little tools and try them out yourself. Even a bit of remodeling after learning just one thing can really improve how something turns out.

It's hard to believe these lessons are free. Well the reward is i guess an ever growing subcribership

I'm glad you said, "Zed" instead of "Zee".

Nice I needed this tutorial, hopefully after this one we will get an ADVAAANNCeee one =]

Had to drop the video speed to 0.5x at one point and Andrew started to sound pretty relaxed

I have been using Blender as a hobby for years and still learning new things from this

If there's other noobs out there wondering why their wireframes isn't looking like Andrew's while modeling the back part of the leg; check to see if you've got "Display modifier in edit mode" checked in the Subdivision Surface modifier - if you do, uncheck and it'll look correct :)

double G for edge slide ? You just divided my modelling time by two, and I've been using Blender for three goddamn years

I'm watching this after making two different donut tutorials. In the first ever donut tutorial we made a cup and added loop cuts to make the edges more refined. Back then I couldn't entirely understand what we were doing but here with a more rectangular object it makes perfect sense :)

I’m more or less a complete beginner with modelling and I'd always wondered how people made such complex things when I struggled to make even basic things. It seems it's like anything technical: you "just" have to learn the what tools are available and how to apply them, which of course means a whole ton of practice. In a way, showing how complex it is to make even a seemingly simple thing like a chair is actually encouraging, as it shows there aren't any secret magic shortcuts the pros use - they work just as hard as anyone else.

Can we get a Tesla Cybertruck tutorial? That will be fun and easy

2:51 - Just in case anyone is having trouble with ALT + Click not selecting the face loop, make sure "Emulate 3 Button Mouse" is disabled in preferences!

Really never under stood sub surface modifier like this ever before.....beautiful...

Bro you are my inspiration. Thanks for making tutorials.

Drinking game: Take a shot every time Andrew says _verticey_ instead of _vertex._ This could get expensive.

I'm going insane, the mirror modifier keeps placing the mirror across to the other side of the reference photo even when I set it to the X axis. Anyone know why? Edit: If anyone else runs into this problem, select the chair arm in object mode and click object in the top left, go to set origin and select "Origin to Geometry". My origin point was still in the middle of the scene lol.

my deepest thanks for your helping the community.

I really like that he questions what and why of the tools usage. Lots of thanks.