"If you're both poor and ambitious" fucking relatable

"if you're poor and ambitious like me" my dude. true words of a poor person who wants to look as cute as possible online. You're the fucking best and your content is literally what i've been trying to look for, probably for the past 2 years. and here you are. emerged from the 3D soil to tell me things you know.

This is such an underrated channel this should be more popular

Me: Drawing skills- pathetic (haven't practiced in years). Motivation- medium. Time- I have zero responsibilities Stubborn? - kind of... I'm the type to find something else in the half of it and go do something else. Okay, me this is plausible.

I'm not an artist in the slightest. I was born with tremors, so drawing is basically beyond me. But thanks to you I have managed to make a body, legs and arms. It may look like PS1 Lara Croft, but for me it is the most my hands have been able to create ever. Thank you for making this series. I'm looking forward to the rest of this struggle :)

One of the first things I tell new modelers: Your first model is going to be absolute TRASH the sooner you accept that the better off you'll be and the sooner you can focus on using it as a bench mark for making your next model better. Do something that will take few to no physics to require to function. (You don't need to deal with that on top of everything else.) And lastly, focus on your rigging ability over everything else. If you have a trash model but your rigging is beautiful, in my experience people don't tend to care about such technicalities due to modeling and texturing skills are kinda impossible to not improve over time. 🤷😜

I'm a college student learning animation and I want to become a Vtuber. 3D modeling takes a while and I'm still practicing, but I really love the flexibility and advantages that 3D modeling has over 2D animation. I especially love the motion tracking part with a full body control.

5:27 - Me as a software developer: Ah yes, I have already become numb to this pain u_u

Bro you got a cute voice

I'm a beginning Vtuber and I'm very interested in making a 3D model. I absolutely love your model it's so cute, and I really hope this series helps me!~ I'm too poor to actually commission someone to make a model for me, and plus learning new programs is really fun to me. Been working on my model for several months now, and I hope this tutorial gives me more insight on making models like this and will help me with future endeavors!

"making a 3D character is a very involved undertaking" eh, I can handle this... *cries in hours and days spent UV mapping and texturing PS1-styled models*

Another con to 3d is, that realtime rendering requires a certain pc performance, which can result in bad 3d game performance when done both. This can be the case if you have a bad gpu or the game you play is badly optimized (eg.Apex Legends)

it looks pretty good so far, even with those things you've pointed out. they're more like things you would notice but wouldn't degrade the quality overall. great work.

funny femboy man is here yes

Very excited to see where this tutorial heads in the future! I once tried this process myself but didn't get nearly as far, hoping to give it another spin again with your help this time!

This Part 0 was an excellent summary of the challenges, pros, and cons of different methods!

VERU WELL DONE! I wasn't expecting as in depth guidance and advice! You're amazing! Thanks for the help🥰

This one like hooked me. It was where you said, "If you would describe yourself as stubborn, with a one track mind, the kind of person the kind of person who will try the same thing over and over because you know you can do it, and you don't care how long it'll take," and I thought, huh, yeah. That's pretty much how I've survived in code my entire adult life. :)

thank you for making and publishing this wonderful series! it's very helpful and fun to watch, your hard work is appreciated 🥺 this is a real treasure in the sea of 3d model creation tutorials as I see it, haha

Really like your straight-forward talking style, and your sense of humour ^_^ Thanks for this series - I imagine it's going to be really helpful - even if that's to show how difficult it is so I maybe wanna rethink the whole vtuber thing. Thanks again xXx

this literally came when I just got into my peak interest in vmodels! Thanks so much!!

thank you for this it actually really helps me figure out what i want to get started

first video i found on this channel. Very helpful Also, your voice is really soothing :o

Im VERY happy I found mako. Every youtuber dabbles over the cons and long term struggles but nah here its just "its gonna take several months with no experience and its hard asf". Thank you for saving me weeks of fucking research my guy

I missed your tutorial vids! The music ones were a lot of fun.

im not even gonna do it , just happy with a mako vid

will never use this information will also watch every vid in the series

almost done finalizing my base model! with your help, it was much easier. thanks a bunch.

Your voice is SO dang pleasing to listen to. Normally I kind of scrub through videos because I'm annoyed by the talking but for your's I watch through the whole thing lol

You drew me in with being so chill and I too am ambitious~ Thanks for being awesome. c:

Thaaank you! I’m excited to watch this series. Mostly concerned about the rigging stuff since I’ve made a few character sculpts before in maya and zbrush .

Out of all the bullshit I've looked through for getting an idea of how to do this shit this video is probably the one to actually catch my attention. It covers some basic info in the introductory shit. Even covers the pros and cons of 2D and 3D stuff. Forewarns about the time consumption and openly points out their own mistakes with shit that are seen IN THE VIDEO as well. Great job and I'll most likely continue watching through this series because of these things.

I think I can afford to commission a 3D model but as an artist myself, I want it to look as close as humanly possible to my reference sheets and add my own touches, so I decided to make it myself. So far I got nearly the base model done after 2 months, granted, I have a full time job and some playtime. Even though this is my first time using Blender at all I am very thankful for the tutorials I found, I am genuinely surprised I am still at it at this point. I was gonna do the donut thing first but I got too ambitious and impatient, but still committed to take my time on it despite that. A long journey for sure, adding texture paint is next which I am going to enjoy the most for sure, I love coloring! Ya'll got this, I find it fascinating how I was looking at minecraft graphics for tens of hours start taking shape and bringing my character to life. This all started when someone told me I can't just jump in to it and should take it easy by retouching pre-made models, my motivation is from defiance lol

"all the difficulty is upfront" that bout sums up my entire expereince with blender so far

Thanks dude. I've been thinking about making a vtuber but now I'm gonna be thinking even more about it. I appreciate the help!

Wow! Your character model is very well made! This such model as a certain style to it that helps make it not feel like some generic anime character. It feels more like a US cartoon's spoof of a Anime Character. When the first thing I see is very well made, I know for sure that this series will be great! =D Keep up the good work!

Your presentation skills are really good man,keep it up your inspiring people.

absolutely adore your model oml.

i loved it lol i laughed at the little things that may or may not have been intentional. @mako great job

“I’m not gonna waste your time with a proper intro” I love u.

nice, yesterday i was playing Majoras Mask, it pretty neat find bits of it here and there. very usefull video congrats mate

Dont know where my original comment went Thank you for the videos on making the 3D model, doing UV unwrap and texturing I cant wait to see rigging and the making it actually move video’s looking forwards to them Keep up the good work

Intro 17 out of 10. Absolutely amazing

I dream of doing this someday. I'm not at a good point in life right now but later on, when I am I want to do this and after watching your video I might watch the others but I think I would want to go the 2D route. I'm happy to see this video and have a better idea of what I want, thank you so much.

Great job on your avatar ! you look good ! I haven't started blender yet it looks complicated... you are very skilled !

The most important thing is to make an interesting design and you did it perfectly

I loved every second of this, it gave me a great insight on the routes to take. Although I'm gettingninto Game Design I'm mot fully familiar with rigging and all the different abilities of unity just yet. Maybe 2D was the destined path, but 3D definitely in my future!!

Simping for your avatar

I'm not even getting into v-tubing I just want models of my oc's to trace from for my art but this is super helpful

Mako has a precious voice owo. Also thanks for the tips.

Great intro, thank you.

as someone already comfortable with blender and trying to weigh my options, I think Cubism 2d seems really time consuming to learn. If you already have the basics of blender - sculpt, retopo, texture... it seems like you're golden. The part that's always messing me up is how to export and getting everything right when leaving blender. there doesn't seem to be any simple solution, that's the point in the pipeline where I keep getting stuck.

This actually was such a encouraging speech

Laughed hard at you showing the issues on the model.........never seen my models show me the janky areas on themselves. Thanks for that, I will now continue to the rest of the tutorials thanks!

this is the first time I've ever even heard of this dude and I'm already subscribing

I’m in love with your avatar

Super helpful video, thank you :)

My brain feels much bigger now with all the knowledge this person just spilled. I deeply appreciate how they were like “alright forget the intro you know what you came here for.”

Thank you very much

well there goes the next few months of my life. Thanks for being upfront about the struggle :3

Ayyy thank you ❤️

I watched all parts and they helped out a lot, ✨New sub✨

Currently in an animation class that focuses heavily on Blender and I recently finished a stupid easy model..... Rigging was the bane of me and my teacher's existence, one of the hands was perfectly fine! it was rigged using automatic weights, but the other hand, no matter what I did kept messing up with borh Mixamo and Blender (even though, the hands were literally the same and made using a mirror modifier) and it took me hours to rework the weight maps for the hand to even consider working right

Thank you for the helpful video

obsessed with the hair.

Stubborn ✅ One track mind ✅ Hyper focused ✅ Let's do this im gonma try to make my protogen(profile pic) in 3d. I'll see you in an eternity when I complete it

I'm attempting a 3D avatar for VR-Chat thank you for introducing me to VRoid Studio

That gamarax thumbnail lmfao. This helps. as soon as i upgrade my computer, this will happens. i'm currently a youtuber now.

That voice is so genuine

I know! Since I suck at drawing I'll make a full 3D model in Blender, take a screen shot of it from the front, print out the image and just trace over it with my drawing tablet! That way I don't have to spend years developing my drawing skills to draw a 2D model from scratch and can essentially have both a 2D and 3D model to work with depending on the scenario! Of course I would have to rig both models if I wanted to use both but that's fine. I can learn rigging.

I’m not even gonna be a vtuber, I just like hearing you talk lol

I've been 3d modeling since 2003 or so, but hella outta practice. Time to see what I can remember.

I wonder how many people will recognize the thumbnail is referenced from? 😅 Great information by the way 😃👍

Thank you for the tutorial :)

This is gonna take awhile 🤣 I'm gonna follow your steps to see if I can make a 3d avatar for myself but I'm okay with that 😊 Thank you for everything!!!

I cant believe im actually considering making a model from scratch. i already have a vroid model but I've been somewhat fed up with some of the model's kinks and stuff. i do know basic modeling though since I modeled a witch hat for the character. but yeah. I'm still not 100% sure I'm committed but damn am I considering it

You are doing god's work. Thanks in advance.

thx ur the best vtuber in the world

Thank you

Thus began mako's career as a blender tutor

Thank for this my friend ive been looking to pick up a craft and i kinda hope this one does kick my ass XD

3:59 what a fun combination

Thanks!

Nice!

I got nothing to lose, let's do this!

as someone who already has a decent library of custom mechs to choose from, i think i'm covered model wise. just gotta figure out how to puppeteer them

Oh boy! A reason to actually try Blender!

Your awesome man

I like the collar thing. 😺

I love your channel ❤️

If I can learn to mesh hair for the Sims 4, I think I can learn this... like it took a few time until the hair actually stayed on the models head. I made Piers' hair from pokemon too so that that was fun to mesh. Not perfect, but it's good enough.

lets go grind time

If you want to save time and stress, there is the option of creating your character, hair, clothes and all, in Daz Studio and use the Bridge to bring it into Blender. Daz models are already rigged, as are the clothes. The Bridge is constantly being improved upon.

I hope one day to make my character into a vtuber.

i don't know why i watched this, i have no intention of making a 3D model, you're just really entertaining lol.

oh thank you ... i m trying to get in there XD

i love your avatarX3

This looks like a very interesting series. But... it something that i would never get to do myself.

HOW DID I MISS THIS VIDEO YESSSS

im gonna be doing my best to follow along on maya. hopefully all works out well for me ahaha