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For my needs thats the best fucking tutorial ive ever seen. I say it with full confidence, having 60k subs with this level of quality content is nearly insulting

for anyone wondering the 'F' key wont work until you enable it as an add on. search F2 and check the box for Mesh F2. edit>preference>add ons>search f2>check box = tada

I tried every method of face modeling. Box, sculpting, and poly modelling and I can say without a doubt poly modelling gave me the most consistent results. Far easier to get the topology out of the way early than try to get perfect topology of a human face starting with a cube.

3:53 i love how he gives us ideas on how to make someone a friend or whoever to help us make references

Hi, i just wanted to say thank you! U are really helping a lot of people, i would reccomend your channel to EVERY 3d modeling beginner

Just want to say thank you very much for sharing the knowledge for free. This is a massive gift to the community. Especially as a beginner I find there is so much that goes into blender and this type of art in general that takes years to get decent at.

I've been recently getting back into 3D modelling (thanks in part to your blender vids) and I've never really gotten the hang of sculpting - especially the retopo part - so a mix of poly and box modelling is how I still do it. I do use the sculpt tools in a non destructive way to nudge and smooth over things and I'm usually happy with my results. It might help that I draw all my character reference images so I have a pretty solid idea of what I want my character to look like from different angles and figuring out the loops etc. The advantage is clear - you tend to get much cleaner results out the box (heh) - which is especially useful for UV unwrapping and iterative animation testing. I also just like it the process of hacking away at low poly shit until it starts to resemble the character.

Calling the eye loop(s) “the Incredibles Loop” is smart. For expressive characters, thinking of the space around the face as a mask helps artists convey emotions better. I thought of this as soon as I saw the loops image!

I'm telling you all, thus guy is a god.

I love poly modeling, it feels much easier for me to make characters than sculpting, and as you said Dikko, it's pretty good for weak machines : ) Great video as always!

i tried every other youtube video but id never helped, I loved this video..... it helped me a lot, by using all this videos methods and using some of my own I finally made an amaizing face. Thanks for the help.

This was exactly what I was doing all along when I'm doing any sort of 3D modelling. Sometimes I have reference material at the ready, other times I just commit my character's look to memory.

Thanks man. Most tutorials I’ve found for this are people who are very soft spoken or can’t speak clearly off a script and they confuse me because they will go “oh wait no I meant [command]” Very well spoken. Easy to follow, you got a sub from me 🙇‍♂️

I love the methodology. It is so straight forward and simple compared to other modeling videos. I love the way you control the process as you work as opposed to modeling first and clean up later. As a newbie this is so helpful because it can be really confusing try to fix the mesh later and your process eliminates the need to keep backtracking. Thanks you for this.

This is fascinating. As a hard surface modeler, I would not have thought to construct the way you laid out.

Everything just makes so much sense. You've articulated your workflow so well I am able to follow along and keep up. So many sculpting tutorials I'm pausing, rewinding and getting annoyed. And the topology is so clean. Dikko you are a legend!

The lips study was honestly my favorite lesson learned . Thank you

I was so scared watching your "Modeling For Animation" tutorials when i reached the part of "Sculping the Head" but you saved me from my nightmare lmao

I noticed a few times that you selected one vert and hit F to make a face (49:35 for instance) where Blender adds an extra vert to make you a filled quad. When I do the same, I get a filled tri since there are only two faces. Is that a setting I can enable somewhere? I can easily extrude an extra vertex before filling to get a quad, but it seems like your way saves a ton of time!

I't been a long time since I modeled a face like this! But it is a fundamental skill to be able to do it right😁 Nowadays I just sculpt in Zbrush, but that comes more down to habit and preference. You're absolutely right that its easier to get the topology out of the way and that makes sculpting a lot cleaner and easier. All in all fantastic video mate! 🤩🤩

For real, THANK YOU for making this. For some reason, modeling a human head is just impossible no matter what other way I try it. This method worked wonderfully. Keep up the amazing work!

i really like your tutorials and the fact that you are orienting this too making animations is way better than so many others who just sculpt but there are sometimes in this tutorial where i wish you would explain a little more and maybe slow down.

This is almost identical to the approach we would use with “patch” modeling back in the day. It was tedious but we worked with what we had at the time. This is a really good explanation of where your edge loops belong and “why” they belong there.

So basically you form the model's ideal topology over the reference pictures and use the basic sculpt tools to morph and smooth the surface without the use of subdivision. Sick, in love with this technique.

I had to sculpt a character for an assignment that I had to complete for the first term. After we sculpted our character, we had to retopo it and I hated every single moment of it. Now in the second term I saw your video and decided to follow along, using my own references, and I can say without a doubt that poly modelling is A LOT more enjoyable and faster than sculpting, retopoing, shrink-wrapping the retopologized model to the sculpt and then fixing the weird deformations after shrink-wrapping. You've earned a subscriber, sir

This way of character design makes you not retopoligize it, very nice!

This is old school character modeling. None of this newfangled sculpting kids today are into. Dang kids.

Thanks to you I can poly model literally anything at all.

coming from hard surface this and the body modeling tutorial helped so much, really appreciate it.

Hi Richard, I were your RMIT classmate，🎉 so surprised to found your great tutorials here today when I was searching for a detailed blender character modeling tutorial all around the web, and I found yours and you did a really good video which exactly is what I am looking for！ 😊😊😊

youve taught me more about retopology than university.

love poly modeling

This is awesome. And you are very brave for going so far without saving. Good job

This is fantastic. Thank you so much for explaining this beautiful method!

So I learned of different way of modeling bodies, but this one is pretty good and mapped out with polygons how I was looking for it to be mapped out specially in the groin area because that's the hardest part for rigging. Thank you!

This is great stuff. I'm not 3D artist. I am just interested in. And I've got a great pleasure from so completed explanation of so complicated theme for me. It's really cool!

Great tutorial, it even works for more realistic characters. Thank you for making this!

These videos are great for blender newbie like me

Your character design vids are super useful, helping me to create my own high quality models. I think it would be really valuable to put this onto artstation, they just released a "learning now free for all" thing and they have no character design tutorials on there for blender, you could be one of the first, just an idea. Thanks for the high quality content!

Best poly modeling video I've seen in a while. Used to be called box modeling right? Was never that good at it so I just gave up. This video is a nice work flow. +1 for starting with the default cube. You get a sub/like just for that ;-)

Is this part 1 of a future series? If so, I'm so looking forward to this.

I think sculpting mite not be for me. So glad you made this one. I was trying to keep up with the last head tutorial. Thanks so much

Someone gives this man a medal!!!

I love this tutorial! Really helps beginners trying out animation for the first time!

While this is very interesting it would really help beginners like myself if you stated what buttons you were using to do things as you were going through it, I have been learning them but I will freely admit I majorly screwed up and had to start over again a few times when I found one button you pressed that I had missed in a section.

the amount of loops makes me want to cry

Incredibly well done video. So clearly and concisely explained. Best face topo tutorial I've come across.

Oh my god, i needed it this weekend. Now i have to wait for next weekend to try it.

Thanks Dicko

Great video. Nicole pace and breakdown of how to make good face tops from scratch. Much appreciated.

The early parts of the sculpt giving me the big Hexadecimal in ReBoot vibe. 😜

Eu não falo inglês, mas a didática é tão que consigo absorver o conteúdo. Ótimo trabalho!

Excellent tutorial. very well explained. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

best tutorial ive seen yet! Used this with 3ds Max and it worked really well

This video has me going Dikko Mode with modeling. Good shit fam.

This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks man!

The lips and the ears are always the hardest to get right imo I guess ill be watching and rewatching over and over hahahaha! great tutorial as always

For anyone wondering how he is making quads by pressing "F" and cannot find the f2 command in newer versions of blender…you just need to install it from edit>preferences>get extensions>f2>install. Then go to add ons and check if it is selected

Thank you for these amazing tutorials, a huge help!

I love you Dikko. Thank you for this tut.

FINALY!!!!!! FINALLY SOMEONE DO NOT OVERRATE SCULPT MODE 😭😭😭

exactly what i needed thank you dikko!

I only have just gotten into the world of 3d blender, and your videos have helped the most from all the ones available on here. Also, i really enjoy you swearing a fuck ton in these videos, makes it feel more genuine lmao

I hadn’t considered the topological features of the face. The parts of the face where loops are needed line up with some interesting regions: 1️⃣ anatomic regions where facial muscles are found, which correspond to areas with motion. 2️⃣ regions for which it is tough for the brain to develop a static representation (as the loops in the front of the face are where motion occurs) 3️⃣ regions that are hard for the brain to perceive because we never see the contours of these region (as the concavity/convexity of the face doesn’t allow a perspective that shows the curves of these areas like we see the curves in a jawbone) This would explain why these ares are difficult to model and why the loops would prevent someone from overworking their model.

Great series! You offer enough guidance but leave us to figure out some details for ourselves. Well done!

Build the known, solve the unknown, thank you sir, got it!

I like the chill step music beat and you have it turned down enough where we can here you. Plus seem like your turturials make alot since. So thanks for this I think it be helpful In the future when ever I can get my hands on a laptop 🤔

I want to make sure I have this correct. Ultimately, what matters most in this process are the locations of the poles and primary loops. The actual face count and number of loops only impact the mesh's face density and level of detail. Other than that, this method can be used to model all sorts of humanoid faces. Right? I'm still learning and there are soooo many more resources for sculpting than poly modeling. I'm not a good sculptor so poly modeling seems to be my way forward.

True Christmas gift... thank you so much!! subscribed, and have a wonderful new year!!

Thank you, I have been learning to do this since it's easier than sculpting for a beginner. That's why when I go to iPad 3d Apps like Nomad. It's really frustrating that it doesn't have a feature like this as in Blender.

Excuse me... Did you just extrude the nose!? O.o THIS IS GENIUS WTF.. my noses always look like crap (I've been modelling kinda like this for ages) .. going to watch this video later and yes it will save my butt!! Thank you 😍

Dikko university 💪🏾 you the truth man fr.

I realised after trying other methods of poly that seemed easier at the start cuz i thought going from x axis to y axis to align verts was slowing me down...but now i realise u work in 2 viewports for this

25:45 I'm struggling to get my lips to extrude like it's shown in the video. The edges of the top and bottom lips don't line up like yours, my bottom lips end up much further inwards. The faces also aren't ending up as nice straight squares, some are real squished and stretched after scaling. I ended up spending a lot of time messing around with the verts to get them like yours, but I was wondering how you did the extrusion/scaling in more detail so I can do it more quickly in the future. Thanks!

This is truly the most painful way to model heads and faces yet I continue to see tutorials like these. Many of us have not used this method since the early 2000s. It's slow, tedious and inefficient.

This is how dad did things! And it works effing miracles. 😁

I really needed this video, thank you a lot

how do you do that extrusion so that the top and lower half of the lip aligns

I prefer poly modeling over sculpting. I just can wrap my head around having to basically do this TWICE. Im basically "retopologizing" from the start instead of having to model and then do this . Def a time saver. Plus i can always sculpt details onto the mesh after. People keep saying , standard this and standard that. You put a sculpt and a this version of the same model right next to each other, you wont be able to tell the diff. Just saiyan

Thanks again, this is perfect timing. I'm starting a new animated short story that's going to need at least three new characters. This time I think I'll use your rigging course and try and build the rigs myself. Good topology makes rigging so much easier.

Ha WOW I can’t believe I never thought of this, awesome dude

Great! This is exactly what I needed! Thanks

I'm trying to learn how to do 3d character modelling because I want to get into game development. I for some reason, from the start was really adamant that I had to start with polymodeling even if I would use a pen to tweak things or add extra detail. I watched so many tutorials, any tutorial I could get my hands on a lot of the methods worked and each one I tried gave me better and better results until I landed on a method that gave pretty good results but just wasn't giving me the results I wanted. I felt like I hit a ceiling. I wanted the defined jaw line but also the crease where the mouth area met the cheeks. I kept trying and trying, trying to synthesize all of those techniques into the one I needed, starring at people faces intently trying to figure out how they're put together. I kept trying but all roads kept leading to failure. I was running out of time, I have to go back to work in January. I felt like I had failed and I wondered how my family would question my use of my time. I thought that I should have just settled for the method that was giving me good enough results. Imagine my relief when one the 26th of December I finally find your tutorial that makes sense of it all.

16:11 How did you do that? I tried pressing F and it gave me a completely different result

loved the video.

great job Dickko! Love your vids. :)

Good on you for making this. Today too many people rely on programs that do everything for them, then have no idea how to fix errors. It's like hiring the chick who looks good in a bikini while lounging on the hood of your car as your mechanic. Nope. Allegorithmic, Pixologic and Qixel are the CG equivalent of 'no child left behind'. They are mass producing said chicks who look good in a bikini while lounging on the hood of your car by the thousands, and it shows in the industry. Bad. If you can't do it without third party tools, you have no business getting into the business.

This is Perfect For Me!!!, you got My Sub Friend

Can you show us how unnecessary loops that wrap around the whole mesh. how does it affect can you pls do an animation of such a faulty model so that we can see what is exactly happening?

You are the best, thank you so much for sharing this technics for modeling.👍💕

Thank you for sharing, can wait to try your method..

Noob question: After you build this topology, do you apply the subdivision before you rig & animate? ...Or do you rig and animate first & then apply the subD before rendering?

You just added another subscriber here. Fantastic video!

Daenerys! The Homie Dikko came through!

Could you make a video about box-modelling hands because that's what I struggle the most with and I imagine I'm not the only one.

this is going to be a fun time

amazin' i hate sculpting thank you for this

Great tutorial. Thank you.

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