How to Make Low-Poly Models with Pixel Texture

How to Make Low-Poly Models with Pixel Texture | Blockbench Tutorial

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Күн бұрын

Let’s try out the low-poly modelling software Blockbench! This is an information-rich tutorial for beginners (of which I am one!), because I wanted to explore the fundamentals before revisiting Blockbench for some more ambitious work in the future!
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Special thanks to the Pokémon Wiki (pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Pokem...) for being a useful resource of information and reference visuals!
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0:00 Intro
0:44 New Project / Adding Shapes
2:08 3D Workspace and the Object Controls
5:55 Creating the Pixel Texture
9:35 Exporting a GIF
10:42 Making the MYSTERY Object!
11:22 Creating Groups and Setting the Pivot Point
12:31 Loop Cut
14:00 Finishing Details
14:36 Scaling an Object
15:16 Texturing, Round 2!
15:59 FINAL ARTWORK
16:42 CRT Time
17:13 VID OVER
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Software used: Blockbench (Version 4.6.5, on Mac)
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@_Guigui Жыл бұрын

hey, nice to see you try out blockbench! just wanted to add a quick tip from someone that has used blockbench often: You can hold shift for .25 increments, and hold both ctrl/cmd and shift for .025 increments

@BJGpixel Жыл бұрын

Ooh thanks for the tip! Wow that gets to some incredibly small increments! :o

@_Guigui Жыл бұрын

@@BJGpixel yup; i mean, it's just combining both! Also might as well add: for cuboids, you can just create a normal cube then scale it to any size you want with the button next to the "create mesh" diamond (also if you right click, you can later convert it to a mesh, if needed!)

@AxionDiscipleofStasis-we5zs 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this! I'm in the process of creating my first project in blockbench, and this has been a huge help!

@user-ti6vv7yj1c Ай бұрын

I have a problem in blockbench, when I make a cube smaller than one, it gives an error, and when I set the error to per view, I have a problem with the texture. Pls help me

@pretzel1313 Ай бұрын

Besides this video, do you know any good tutorials for blockbench? I'd love to start using it!

@DeltaDebug Жыл бұрын

7:44 - The reason the gird didn't look pixel perfect is because the old UV map was showing, you crunched a 5 pixel tall wall into a 2 pixel tall space (when making one half of the pokeball at 3:19). When you create a new texture, the texture density is recalculated via smart UV-ing but doesn't automatically update the grid on screen which might actually be a bug.

@BJGpixel Жыл бұрын

Ah interesting, that makes a lot of sense - thanks for the insight! I'll have to keep an eye on that, and the other thing I realized later (which I didn't try yet!) was to also adjust the coordinates of the mapped faces on the UV map if I wanted to change the mapping

@juanse1907 Жыл бұрын

More than a bug it kind of make sanse too you know? Imagine one of that satisfying slime videos where the slime has a stamped image in it, if the slime gets squished or stretched the stamped image will stretch/squish with the object so, take the image as the mesh representation.

@7hroomy 4 күн бұрын

Based LBP Enjoyer

@realGeorgelucas18563 Жыл бұрын

One thing I really love about the end turntable is the slight texture warp on the pokédex. Really reminds me of those wobbly textures in PS1 games

@Yous0147 Жыл бұрын

Exactly, this is so Ape Escape it hurts

@pewter_wiz Жыл бұрын

Are you referring to the flickering of certain parts of the model? It looks like a case of the phenomenon called "Z fighting" and definitely adds to the retro aesthetic!

@stevethepocket Жыл бұрын

Looks like Z-fighting to me. Which is weird since I'm pretty sure none of the pieces are overlapping, unless he accidentally duplicated those buttons and then only painted one of them properly.

@alu2901 Жыл бұрын

@@stevethepocket Pretty sure he is talking about the CRT time turntable but ok.

@TofPlays Жыл бұрын

Its the gif optimization, not z-fighting

@user-ik8vy1rg8f Жыл бұрын

Never would have expected you transitioning to 3D tools, but it makes sense seeing it in action. Great job!

@MrSirSquishy Жыл бұрын

I'm quite impressed with how well you explained it being a beginner. Lots of useful features that took me a long time to figure out myself when I started using blockbench explained very simply for beginners. Wish I had this when I started.

@Erect_Spaghetti Жыл бұрын

Cool to see you coming back to the 3d modelling, I really like the pixel art texture look

@dangerouscolors Жыл бұрын

glad to see a video on blockbench!! ive tried modeling in it several times before, but was unable to overcome the extreme poly restrictions after using blender. thanks for showing us this workflow!

@datscrazy4095 Жыл бұрын

This is gonna be my new favorite tool. I love how you made the models in the style of the OG Pokemon Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow texture style. This can legit be put in a Pokémon 3d game

@jarkide4392 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your awesome videos! You’ve been a massive inspiration for me and I’ve learned so much from your channel. After being introduced to Aseprite and now Blockbench, I’ve spent a lot of time with them and I’ve made some stuff I’m really happy with from the advice you’ve given in your videos. Your stuff is seriously underrated. Keep up the great work!

@mistergriimm Жыл бұрын

Love seeing more Blockbench Tutorials! Thanks for expanding the community!

@PhantomEye11 Жыл бұрын

Great video! As a low-poly pixel artist I have been using blockbench for a while now, and it’s really interesting to see your approach! The end result looks great

@zackpi7874 Жыл бұрын

the end result is super cute. Would love to see more of this!

@ruslan_kasimov Жыл бұрын

Wow, that's a very cool tool to use! Thank you for sharing this and giving short and packed tutorial! Hope to see more vids on this

@tymekx014 28 күн бұрын

I think this tutorial is really well done. I appreciate that you've edited in extra clarifications and information. You've pleasant demeanor and explain your process well, this makes it hard to get bored throughout!

@mayke_arth Жыл бұрын

I love your videos! I started using blockbench literally a few days ago, it's great to see you doing some tutorials for it!

@_js Жыл бұрын

Dude, of all the years on youtube, how did I not find you any earlier. This is awesome! Keep up the good work. You’ve finalized my decision on pixel art-style for my game. Cheers!

@ShuShuShop Жыл бұрын

Loved the vid, love Blockbench, would love to see more videos on it! When I started using it finding videos on the program was pretty difficult. Glad to see more people checking it out and making content about it!

@HE360 Жыл бұрын

Gosh, I've seen this channel a long time ago and finally got a chance to subscribe. Thanks for all of the material.

@nitrohite Жыл бұрын

Dude you're so talented, honestly, love your channel

@thebreadhead2000 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! You were my inspiration to getting into pixel art and now have been on the fence about 3D modeling but thanks to this video, I know exactly where to start

@DesiraiX16 Жыл бұрын

Just tried Blockbench after watching this video, and I have to say your tutorial was immensely helpful for a beginner!

@TheRealKwisty Жыл бұрын

Finally, always wondered how these amazing styled 3d models were made, blockbench all along +_+

@_Jarkor Жыл бұрын

Thanks man, and great as always!

@skellix_ Жыл бұрын

ive been using blockbench for about a year and i still didn't know you could do some of the things you did, great video

@Syeno Жыл бұрын

I needed this excitement in my life. I havent felt this excited to try something in a while!

@paranoidpumpkin98 Жыл бұрын

I installed blockbench a few months ago but never used it much , This video gave me some inspiration to try it again

@creativecipher Жыл бұрын

Amazing work as awlays! I'd love to see more 3d modelling from you :)

@NathanHedglin Жыл бұрын

What a great Birthday present 🎁. Happy Easter!

@faridkemyakov2645 Жыл бұрын

With your skills in pixel art, models look awesome. Hope to see more videos from you using Blockbench 😄

@junkeyz Жыл бұрын

i've been using blockbench for low-poly modeling recently and was surprised to see this! great video!

@pristine_gg Жыл бұрын

Hey, Brandon! Super excited to finally see you try out this amazing application! I started off playing with Blockbench about 2 years ago and in the process, I was hired by a big team as a Fulltime 3D Modeler. There's so much more you can do with Blockbench and the community is fairly big. I hope to see more work from you with Blockbench!

@MortMort Жыл бұрын

conviant, I just started to learn this myself, thanks for some new nsides!

@mimisaiko Жыл бұрын

Fell in love with this art style since I played Mega Man Legends. Thanks for sharing this beautiful video😍

@SlycEilidh Жыл бұрын

This is great ❤ I’ve been looking at this software

@foxtorche Жыл бұрын

I love it! Thanks for introducing us to such softwares. I loved playing around with PicoCad, and I'm definitely going to give this one a go too. 😊

@Glitch-Gremlin Жыл бұрын

Absolutely awesome work dude!

@newvagabond1375 Жыл бұрын

I only recently started using Blockbench 3 days ago and now I get to see my favorite artist start working on this program as well, its really cool to think about what you'll make in the future

@npcminus Жыл бұрын

this is so rad! been wanting to get into 3d modeling for a while, have dabbled very very lightly with magicavoxel and recently blender, but this is right up my alley! definitely gonna have to give this a whirl soon. great video and art as always man!

@Spykles Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this one homie. I get a bit overwhelmed everytime I try a new 3D app and this was a really perfect slice to get my feet wet.

@DarkChaosMC Жыл бұрын

I’ve been using blockbench for ages, really nice to see you using it.

@YoYork Жыл бұрын

My god, I love using Blender but I hate doing these types of designs with Blender even though I love the 3d pixel art look just cause of how tedious and how many plugins I needed to do literally what looks to be base features in block bench. Simply wonderful, will try it out.

@Val_Cla Жыл бұрын

wow ! Thanks so much for making me discover this software ! i've been intimidated by blender, but this looks perfect for the low poly style i wanted to make ^^

@fahimation4870 Жыл бұрын

Wtf I JUST downloaded the software and was looking for tutorials when i see this show up in my feed. What are the chances! Thanks for the awesome tuts as always ^^

@adventurousash 4 ай бұрын

I just started using this tool! Didn't know you did a tutorial series on it. I'll have to watch it. Thanks!

@brunch1572 Жыл бұрын

I really love how this looks!

@Streisand114 9 ай бұрын

thank you so much for showing how to create textures! ivw been struggling to do it since i started, and this helped so much.

@Varchesis Жыл бұрын

Wow! I did my first Blockbench model thanks to you. I appreciate it!

@leobrenes4917 Жыл бұрын

Wooow, I love the result :-O !! This program have a lot potential

@hackticdev Жыл бұрын

Dang it man, I was planning on doing a Blockbench video myself :D great tutorial!

@realMenta Жыл бұрын

This is a really interesting tool. Thank you for sharing!

@markmorgan6067 Жыл бұрын

This is awesome I was looking for something that would let me not only create but animate low poly models

@anthawnmcfarlane4567 Жыл бұрын

Amazing been looking for something like this hope for more

@nakano15 Жыл бұрын

This will be handy for my game project. Thank you and my friend who recommended me this video for this.

@0ion 8 ай бұрын

This was incredible, and really inspired me to pick up blockbench!

@agustinxflores Жыл бұрын

Good video! Thanks for the information.

@bendoge3607 Жыл бұрын

I love you’re videos keep up the great work! You inspired me to start pixel art when I watched one of you’re videos thanks for the great content!

@noxabellus Жыл бұрын

yo'rue*

@saltedmutton7269 Жыл бұрын

@@noxabellus y'our

@Pompy129 Жыл бұрын

That looks amazing!

@opalpersonal Жыл бұрын

thanks so much for introducing me to this software! i tried blender many times and found it so complicated and difficult to use.. this is much simpler and allows me to much more easily access the tools i want to use to make models!

@Rarts Жыл бұрын

Best tutorial for sure, thanks!

@hahasansfunny9895 3 күн бұрын

Wonderful tutorial, very concise and clear

@CKTDanny Жыл бұрын

Awesome introduction to Block Bench, I've never heard of this one before but it looks really nice, I like how modern the UI looks! Coming from a small Blender background, it looks like it has all the tools you'd need for making the assets it specializes in. It's incredible how great software like this are made available for free (and open source too!!) I really wish more industries with expensive software solutions would follow. 😌 The Pokeball & Dex came out looking great too! The detail with the sphere & tube is a very cool addition indeed! Also, the wireframe looked pretty crazy on the CRT! Was that the same clip earlier in the video? 😱

@BJGpixel Жыл бұрын

Thanks dude! Yeah I was impressed with how accessible this was - and fills an interesting space between picoCAD and Blender :D And yeah, that was the same animation sequence - the wireframe version has really thin lines and ended up with artifacting from filming - I was hoping to recover more detail in post-processing but really ended up being a cool effect either way!

@CKTDanny Жыл бұрын

@@BJGpixel Season 2 of PicoCAD to Blender sure is off to a great start! 🤩 I'm glad the wireframe recovery on the CRT didn't work out cuz it ended up looking rad as heck! 😎

@cihankaya8949 Жыл бұрын

I've always wanted to learn this program. I started thanks to this video and I had a lot of fun

@Rynax- Жыл бұрын

Dude! This was amazing! It's like "What if Pokemon was a 3D PS1 game?" 😍

@Marco-L 6 ай бұрын

Thank you very much - really nice tutorial 😁

@Kinoko21042 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the Tutorial, Brandon! I can finally start doing low-poly models :D

@zm0rc Жыл бұрын

Brandon continuing to be an inspiration to me. Love your videos man, keep it up. Love from Niagara Falls!

@DrStone-rw3ct Жыл бұрын

Great vid as always, I also stated using blockbench recently

@ghost_vana46 Жыл бұрын

Finally Blockbench gets more attention that he deserves!

@moonblaze2713 Жыл бұрын

I'm indebted to you for introducing me to this.

@PutriAlisyaZh 8 күн бұрын

THIS IS SUCH A GOOD TUTORIAL T___T YOU TEACH HOW TO SHADING TOO ILY TYSM

@helloworldsev Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the lesson!

@mugitchi Жыл бұрын

I've always wanted to try out doing low poly!! thank you for this! i finally have a reference/ guide to look at when i eventually do low poly!

@BJGpixel Жыл бұрын

No problem, happy it could help! Would love to see how your designs and style translate to low poly ✌️😊✨

@xRedSenju Жыл бұрын

Estuve esperando un tutorial asi desde hace mucho tiempo. Gracias.

@suyuro_ Жыл бұрын

I think you are reading my mind! I was just thinking about getting into making low poly models

@hudsonator7259 Жыл бұрын

Oh. My. God. I am so glad I watched this video. I am so glad I got to 15:00 right in the middle of going through the positions and adding *2 to the end and then scaling everything up after. This is going to halp making my data pack so much easier

@LuxurioMusic Жыл бұрын

This looks really interesting! Just downloaded it, really glad it's got a desktop version.

@VC-cx8gf Жыл бұрын

this looks fun to play with, i might try it out

@MangoJones139 Жыл бұрын

Thank you (and the YT algorithm) for introducing me to Blockbench. It seems to be exactly what I was looking for to create some low poly models for my projects. The only other option until now was Blender, which is way too much overkill for that kind of stuff.

@hubster3055 4 ай бұрын

Blockbench is a fantastic program for low poly modeling and with new features like mirror modeling its constantly getting better! Recently I even made a model for a Mario 64 PC mod with Blockbench

@pauloheres Жыл бұрын

amazing work

@chumon1992 4 ай бұрын

I had no idea this existed omg, this is perfect for not just minecraft, but any ps1 aesthetic, or late DS

@Sir_Lucas 8 ай бұрын

That is epic, learned something new! I will try some things out like masks, helmets and swords, I will see what I can create

@IanCelo Жыл бұрын

Wait, don't all digital artists technically make images out of tiny squares? You're the one that makes pictures out of bigger squares

@palmossi 3 ай бұрын

OMG YES

@mirndalink0911 3 ай бұрын

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@sujimayne 2 ай бұрын

Achtually! ☝️ It's triangles. 🤓

@spindash64 17 күн бұрын

@@sujimayneBut if you're working for the Saturn, it's still squares

@Arcade3145 Жыл бұрын

I love your videos great job 👍

@SuperProxyma Жыл бұрын

Awesome video ! I tried multiple times to make low poly models with pixel art texture with blender but everytime having a bad time ! Thanks for sharing this tuto on Blockbench I'm downloading it to try asap !

@Rafix 11 ай бұрын

GREAT VIDEO!!!

@SchizoetryOfficial 3 күн бұрын

About to use this for the first time. This seems like it's going to be exactly what I needed. Takes a weight off my chest for developing games. Blender is way to complex for me. Great video, liked and subbed. :D

@tylermorrison9775 Жыл бұрын

I literally juat learned about this program yesterday from mortmort and i sooo wanna try it! I love making low poly pixel art in blender but this looks like a fun program to experiment with

@Snowfax14 Жыл бұрын

yep i saw mortmort's model too and was like " I wonder if Brandon has seen this software?" sure enough there is a vid up 😄

@roxy3083 Жыл бұрын

CRT Time usually isn't the highlight of a video for me, but this one was particularly beautiful! Those wireframe textures at the start reminded me of the Sonic OVA

@MondayHopscotch Жыл бұрын

Yo! I had already downloaded and started using this before you even got started on the Pokedex. I've been wanting to fiddle with low poly stuff for a while, and Blender really wasn't hitting the spot. I also tried PicoCAD, but to similar disappointment. This tool is intuitive and very streamlined for exactly what I want to practice. Great little video. Thanks for sharing!

@chuk_udi 5 ай бұрын

I have been dreading learning blender to make low poly assets, but block bench looks so much simpler to use, I have to give this a try.

@V_C_C Жыл бұрын

This was very helpful... more helpful than the other tutorials. Keep Pixel arting

@jkljosh7392 Жыл бұрын

Thank God I decided to click on their before giving modeling a go because I know for a fact I would of malding about why the origin point was still where i spawned the image, hope you make one for animations too

@HumanoidBoogie 3 күн бұрын

This is brilliant! I'm working on a retro game engine (think early 90s amiga style 3D) - and I've been crying into my Cornflakes trying to wrestle blender into just letting me do flat solid shaded polys. This might just fit the bill.

@net2924 Жыл бұрын

One thing I would to add. You can turn off the shadows in the upper right corner by clicking on the light bulb, this will allow you to better see the original colors when painting

@Zakronyx Жыл бұрын

Oh wow I was having troubles with the workflow of blockbench so seeing this is pretty inspiring (i was too lazy too look up tutorials lol)

@hongkongdad928 Жыл бұрын

I remember back in highschool, the first thing we were tasked with making in our tech class was a Pokeball. Good model for learning the basics of a program

@ryxrr7207 Жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff, I just finished my own pokeball following your video, already started messing around with the settings and looking what else I can try. Already grabbed some plugins that looked useful too. I like blender, but I'm learning to make stuff for fun, you know? This one is perfect, blender gives me too many "I don't know what this does, nor I need it, I think" moments.

@josip_anton_bilic Жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@goblinphreak2132 3 ай бұрын

I'm going to be honest, I learned more on how to use this app from this video than actual tutorial videos. I don't know why. I feel like I can start 3D modeling right now and just go fucking ham. And I'm going to starting tomorrow.