Hi! 3D-Artist student here! I think the main reason why your models look ''flat'' compared to the original references, is because there wasn't any lighting in your scenes. For your next Blender adventure, it could maybe be a good idea to tackle lighting and rendering, to really finish off your pieces. Aside from that, great work! I can see how this could be an inspiration to future Blender artists!

Seriously how did you youtube guys improve your blender skill so fast. Another youtuber made a freaking giant transformer in 30 days of blender. I think I'm dumb idk, great video! Welcome back

Your channel is super under-rated. Ive personally been watching pretty much since the beginning and you absolutely deserve more attention. I always get excited when I see a devlog for this game

The giraffe looks awesome. I dont know why you're so hard on yourself🎉

as an advanced blenderer, im telling u, the giraffe was ur best piece!

8:15 was crazy bro 💀

This was so good! I think adding slightly kooky and over the top animations would be a fun way to add more personality to the game. It would fit with how funny it is that the computer screen turns into a machine gun too!

Great stuff man! It’s cool to see how quick you can improve by just being consistent. Something you may look into in the future since you are working with game assets is topology to make sure that your assets are always game engine ready and don’t lead to any issues. Once again though great stuff keep it up🙌🙌

Everything is awesome, your skill progress was massive.I suggest maybe making fence doors have one more bar or maybe metal tops so they can be more distinguishable from distance

thank you for this video, I'm struggling with Blender and this helped inspire me to keep going

This is a HUGE improvement to the look of the game, keep up the good work!

HOLY- i swear it looks so good!! im suprised how much 30 days can get you!

Really entertaining and encouraging as well. Great improvement overall. Keep at it

Very professionally done! As someone who's also currently learning Blender, I'm familiar with the struggle lol. You're doing great!

This video got yourself a new subscriber. Really loved it!

First video I’m seeing from you, high quality video!

So glad to see you back! This was such a cool little challenge for yourself and it inspires me to hop back on blender LOL Keep up the great work!

Nice! This inspires me to try to do this!

Let's go! Makes me happy to see you're back at it. Please don't be so hard to yourself when it comes to "steal" ideas, art works like that, if you don't know how something is shaped, copy, copy and copy again until your brain is ready to create new shapes out of that copied image. Carry on! p.s: the new model look great!

Would love to see a video of you modeling something from scratch to get an idea on how its done

Happy to have you back

Blender in 30days is crazy. You are incredibly fast learner. My first two months wig blender were super hard 😅 nowhere near yours models

I really like your sense of humor

I started modeling a little less than a month ago maybe and I made a semi low polly revolver and I have a lot to go but hopefully one day it will all culminate to a base of a game I'm committed in the long haul to make. Anyway if there are small things you need help with I enjoy doing some of that stuff on discord, especially since I come from a very artistic drawing and story writing background

The scarecrow and axe models look like something youd buy in an asset store. Amazing progress🎉

shovel knight looking absolutely cheeked up!

Awesome video! I am considering something similar. I've done part of the donut tutorial, but I think going through something like the low poly playlist like you mentioned may be more helpful. If you have any good tips/resources on the texturing and having parts move, please let me know. I want to move my game to 3d, the models will be fairly simple, but I'll definitely need a few tricks to create different types. How did you setup the fence variants and bring that into your engine? Very cool idea.

Get this guy to 100k!

I was at this point as a game dev too. once you learn blender, you life becomes so nice

Yip I'm inspired to start blender now. Thank you dude!

Great progress! Very inspiring, keep up the good work brother!

Your models look really nice! I'm curious to see what they would look like in game :)

This game gonna be hella awesome, cant wait to play it

Yay overphill

You did killer man! For me personally its more inspiring than pewds, cause I know how hard 3d animation is, good stuff!

Thanks for sharing your journey. I'm curious if you used a lot of modifiers to do your modeling or if you just directly edited the primitives? I'm learning Blender myself and keep trying to remember how/when to use the more advanced modifiers so I can develop a more nondestructive, professional workflow, but it slows me down. I know I can model faster if I focus on just making vs. doing it the way a lot of books and courses tech it. Curious your thoughts on that.

You should make like 10000000 shorts of this video where in each one you render each of your models an a scene and just make a mini shorts series

you need to let that giraffe go. that giraffe has poisoned your soul.

Loved the video! Gave me some major inspiration for learning Blender, I’m trying to learn both Blender and GameDev… P.S. Didn’t know Shovel Knight was walking around with a whole bakery attached to his back!

I'm not sure what your day job is, but I can't imagine you couldn't do youtube full time, top tier quality content. Just upload a little more regularly haha

Finally! Someone appreciates Grant. He is underrated as heck

13:37 I really like the checkerboard you should keep it

This looks VERY good.

Holy shit he’s back

Didn’t know you work every day but let’s go a new video

What plateform you use for the dev developement ?

Excited to see the new main character soon

Here is something extra you need to learn as a game dev. Bake normals. It's not something complicated, but some of your low-poly assets can be even lower. You don't need (or want) each brick on that wheel in game, all you need is a cylinder with the lighting from your original wheel baked in. The same goes for the rooftop. A giraffe was one of my first projects. Not the one from Grant Abbitt because I started before his channel existed. My first project was an alien, which is something very complex for beginners, but I always start learning something with a difficult project. At first glance it looked fine, but with the topology I set a new low with how horrendous it was in reality. Then I started following tutorials (I'm still doing sometimes) and improved my modeling. My giraffe ended up fine because I was used already with how Blender works. You can always improve. And follow tutorials, you learn more stuff. Don't copy everything from them, try something else based on what you see there. Funny thing, you struggled with round objects, I struggled with sharp ones due to the ways we both learned.

The laugh I just let out when you turned the shovel knight and all I saw was cheeks 😭😭😭

That shovel knight is a thicc knight

You could bevel the sides of Hollow knight character to make it more round looking, Ctrl B in edit mode. For the Shovel Knight, I'd probably use a sphere for the head, then delete half of the sphere, and extrude the bottom part, sorry , just a lot of the time, I tend to look at the shapes of objects, and think which mesh works best for it. Great video.

bro whats with that obsession with rocks🤣🤣that part was hilarious🤣🤣

Me: in my first project I made a sword with lights! OverPhil: mE mAdE rOcCkK

you should smooth shading so it doesn't show the edges every quad.

3D is my biggest fear, I don't even know how to move the camera in Blender. I believe the models will look 100x better with lighting and post processing and maybe some shaders

we gon talk abt how that giraffe was sick

12:46 is just karen.

anyway, i'm noticing there are a lot of small details on these models that would be better accomplished via texture than geometry, such as the grains on the wood on the scarecrow [13:28] and the small gaps between planks on the chest [9:07]. but otherwise, this is great.

you should add the giraffe as the final boss

I like that giraffe though.

What industries are Blender artist making decent incomes? What are the average salary expectations for Blender Artists?

Do we all learn textureing with steve?

Washing machine that shoots lost socks could be fun. Could walk on arms similar to your sketch.

hey, your giraffe looks alright :)

i too really was inspired by PewDiePie's vid, it really makes me think that we can do anything if we put our minds to it

you're probably gonna need more rocks than giraffes in this game anyway

Would have killed me if there were rocks in the chest 😂

Same cadence as Chef John Food Wishes.

How many rocks have u made? Haha, nice video ^^

*Before watching the video* "What!? You learned everything there is to know about Blender in 30 days!? You must be some kind of super genius!" *After watching the video* "Oh. You meant to say that you learned Blender FOR 30 days."

Man.. been a long time 😂...

The models are great but you should probably render your models

This video rocks.

Well done....badabooosh

THE MAIN CHARACTER OF HOLLOW KNIGHT THAT U DREW ISNT CALLED HOLLOW KNIGHT THAT’S THE FINAL BOSS

I would suggest adding post processing to your game. Right now it is looking grey and bland, maybe some bloom can help? idk just a suggestion

You should add some better lighting to your game, your game would look 1000000x better if you made the lighting good

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Hey can you make a vid where you show when you makeing a model you can for ex use something from this vid 😃

Bros back its been so long

A good giraffe ❌ A simple rock ✅

He is alive! I was quite worried, looked at the discord to see if there was any news, and saw porn spam bots, so thought that this project was over and done

Hey nice vid

Rock :)

thats tuff

8:16 bro gave him model mad cheeks 😂😂

"So I made a rock" 😂

8:17 giyatt

Rocks

It has been 8 months and you give us a deformed giraffe

Rock

A comment to boost your yt algorithm :)

Some personal advice, don't stop watching tutorials. As in, you don't have to recreate/follow every tutorial you make, and can just watch it for the process. Programs like Blender have many many MANY tools, hidden or in plain sight, oftentimes when you see a seemingly complex model it can actually be really easy to model, only if you know the right tools. Remember, you don't know what you don't know, so you have to find a way to know.

Wow, you really improved quick! It's inspirational how fast you can learn a skill when you really set your mind to it. All these models are great, your game is going to look way better following this, I think. Also, Shovel Knight's 'back' got a genuine snort out of me. Maybe you could make different outfits for the scarecrow? Either just for variety, or to denote different upgrade levels or something. Just a suggestion. And... I gotta be That Guy and point out that the main character in the game Hollow Knight isn't called 'The Hollow Knight', that's actually a different character (it's a lot like calling Link 'Zelda'). The main character that you play as (that you made a model of) doesn't really have a name other than just The Knight (or sometimes the fandom uses the nickname Ghost). It's also not a 'he'... although there's no real consistent use/official source for its pronouns, so 'whatever' on that part. Can't help myself, pedantry is my nature lol.

only a quarter through the video, and think you should make a pet rock game

i thought that literally everybody learnt blender in under 30 days

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you are biting off more than you can chew. It's awesome that you are learning stuff but what I mean is that your game's scope is too broad

That bootie

Bro how