Here is a tip for people making video game assets. You're probably working with a poly budget, so keeping the polys reasonably low while having enough detail to look good matters. For each curve you can lower the resolution to get less polys. I like to make a low poly version, then add a multires modifier and sculpt detail, then bake the multires into a normal map and apply it to the low res model. Looks good at a fraction of the rendering cost.

It's crazy to me that in a community with the best tutorials and teachers, you STILL stand out with your incredible quality, clarity, density of info, and universally useful tools that almost no one else covers. Thank you SO much for sharing your incredible knowledge!!

I've been using blender for nearly 10 years now and I learned some new stuff from this video. Not only a great technique, but you explain it wonderfully. Thank you so much!

the fact you point the concept behind the building process is the best part of your tutorials! keep the excelent work

Incredible tutorial 1 year later, super comprehensive and easy to understand the reason things are done!

OMG i have been 3D modelling in Blender for over 1500 hours now and you just showed me so much new and fantastic stuff. Thank you so much! This was one of the best tutorials i ever watched!

Instantly subscribed after you explained the taper object and how it functions in relation to the world origin. This is the type of tutorial I was always looking for. Clear concept explanation rather than showing just techniques!

Man, this is not a simple tutorial, you have saved me a lot of time with this, it's time to create complex shapes!... and more horns yeah

this is amazing! the teaching comes so natural from you. thank you!

Thank you for this amazing tutorial. So well explained and informative!

Ton of new tricks, thank you!

This is one of the best 3d tutorials around, and you illustrate some powerful techniques, and do so with clarity & brevity. Excellent work, mate. Cheers :)

Well explained, covers a lot of problems you can have and what is happening. really super cool thanks. I just needed that

This was a life saving tutorial especially for me new to blender and im a game modeller so this is amazing.

Amazing, I was looking exactly this kind of horns to make a "skeletor havoc"!! Thanks to youtube suggestions!! ...and thanks a lot for your great videos!! :)

WoW! Live and learn! 😉👍 It seems to be a simple topic, but not quite. You did a great explanation the effect of the curve on the shape.

This was a very easy to understand, useful and helpful video. Thank you.

I like how detailed your tutorials are ! They are so good thay they make the process of modeling look easy . Eccellent work !

Subscribed, Liked, and Saved this video for later! I'm just starting to teach myself 3D modelling 28mm scale miniatures. This is exactly the tutorial I need. Perfect.

Your lesson helped a lot, after that i wrote my first lody. Thank you very much.

A useful and competent explanation, so I tried it and it turned out that everything works fine. Special thanks to the author for such useful content.

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Interesting video, and I might use it to create shells of unusual sea creatures like the prehistoric trilobites.

I freaking love your tutorials, dude!

I have learned to much things.. Thank you so much..

Fantastic tutorial. Learned a lot from this.

I almost spent hours trying to make proper horns 😂 Thank you for this outstanding video

Excellent tutorial!!!

So many great tips in this short tutorial.

Again a very useful and very good explained video. Learned alot as usual. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, this makes things alot easier for me.

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helped me more then any other curves tutorial tysm

Great tutorial - very useful !

Learnt a lot, really informative video. Thanks.

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s and a couple EDM and Dubstep goals for myself, and I guess I better start learning sowhere. Thanks for the great vid!

As always, crystal clear tutorial with useful tips. Thanks and keep it up!

Excellent, thank you

Great video! Learned a lot!

Very useful information on curves. im trying to model victorian woodworked furniture that involves a lot of curves. and this video has been my ticket in simplifying the process. i was just spamming bevels until i was sick of it until now.

Thanks! Another great Guide.

OMG it's crazy how they made sin/cos dependent forms

That was very informative and well explained, thx

hey this video was VERY helpful, there is a lot you can do with curves

This is really useful, thank you so much for this video

The weld modifier will close those non-manifold edges without a fuss. In addition to the techniques featured in this video, displacement maps are easy to set up with a beveled curve and accomplish much of the same effect as the arrayed object method. I would also suggest trying out a very very low resolution bevel with a weld and subdivision surface modifier. It will get you great rounded tips and bases that you can then sculpt, displace, or even curve like your segmented example. Sometimes all you want is a rounded horn, so you can skip adding details.

Thank you, it works perfect!

It was wonderful...thank you so much!

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Just brilliant! Thank you! Dg

Valuable Information for 20 min straight🔥

amazing content. thanx

very cool, didn't realize how those proportional editing options worked before

that very powerful tutorial

thank you very much for the nice tips!! I realized we can do some of these 2nd type horns with the taper shape as well. it's time consuming for this one but it can be very useful to vary the shape in a non-repetitive manner.

Don't know how you manage to do tutorial on things I'm just about to try, but here we are again.

Great tutorial, should have found this 3 days ago :-)

OMG, this is the video I have been looking for a very VERY long time Subsribed

Great tip! I have trouble understading how the bevel object wored until this video

Amazing tutorial and information shared! Instant sub! Thank you for sharing!

greatly explained!

wow, amazing❤

That was seriously good

Almost a year later, but I've finally got it! One thing I learned that is going to bug me, is that ALT + S means "scale along normals" and there does not seem to be any button for it in the user interface/menu. It is _not_ the same as the scale tool. I seldom use shortcuts because they are confusing and hard to remember, so I do almost everything from the UI and the drop-down menus, but ALT + S is one shortcut I will _have_ to remember.

Muito bom! Saudações do Brasil!

Nice and compled

Something that I discovered recently after getting frustrated with booleans creating intersecting faces and then subsequently not working because booleans don't like intersecting facesyou don't actually have to merge objects. You can just select a load objects that are intersecting and export them as one stl and it's fine, it does sometimes try to place supports through your outer object but it's totally fine. Obviously if you want to hollow your object it's no good for that. Although it is possible if you have an inner object that has a solidify modifier on (or hollowed in Meshmixer or where ever else) and then make sure your outer objects only stick through less than the wall thickness. It may not be "correct" but it does work. I've only used lychee slicer so I cant say it will work with all slicers, but works with lychee.

I had to find the plugin in my preferences to apply my modifiers. Still a good tutorial.

You just gave me a great idea for a halloween freebie for an up coming event and how to make it. You should definitely make more video's like this (I personally don't do 3d printing), I'm kinda new to Blender since my old modelling program creators decided to no longer work on it years ago and now won't work on my computer at all lol

thanks so much man

Worked, thx

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thanks bro!

Works well!! DANKEEE

nice!

very goood tut, thank you

for the last part, you can use geometry nodes. you just need to add a mesh boolean between input and output and apply. Unlike regular boolean, geo nodes doesn't need seperate objects.

Good tutorial bro 👌

Pretty cool!!! :)

good tip

Nice tips. For the horn meshes that you have arrayed, what I prefer doing instead of using proportional editing on the curve (which can be unpredictable and non parametric), I use an object offset on the array modifier. Use an empty as the offset object and move and scale it down so every subsequent arrayed iteration is translated and scaled down by the same amount as how you affected the empty. If you have used this trick before in other instances you'd know ehat I'm talking about.

Found this very detailed and helpful, would be interesting how to model a simple goat or bulls head to go with horns

thats how you use the Taper Thank you very much took me a Week to learn Something Woo! (i learn A lot from Blender its fun)

NICE

Love the channel! Working a demon making horns

When I saw this video and the usual color of your meshes in plain mode, two things came in mind: the Tiefling race and a name in particular: Zahra Hydris (kuddos to Phil Bourassa for her chara-design in season 2, btw!).

Hey, loving the videos. How do you get the apply all button on your modifiers menu?

awsome video! I've been wondering about a simple thing. How did you set up blender to have your objects brown in the viewport shading?

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This is SO helpful! Thank you! I have one question - when you hid the cutter objects after the bool tools step, it appears that each segment is smooth, like shade smooth is applied. That's not happening on mine (Blender 3.3, bool tools - 0.4.1). I still see all the faces, and if I shade smooth, of course exporting to an STL, the faces all show up again. I tried adding a sub-surf modifier, but get weird separations between the segments. Also - my bool tools didn't create a "cutters" collection like yours did. Is there a setting I'm missing?

Hi Niel, When you create the archemedian curve, at 40'ish seconds, a small info window appears bottom left on your blender interface that says "Curve spirals" that allows you to manipulate the radius, height, and the rotation. etc. I'd like to use that but I don't get that small drop window in my version. Could you explain where yours comes from? Thanks!

Another good video, although the process/setup for creating these types of curves with the extra taper object off to the side is a little unintuitive. Would like to see some of these deforming options for stuff like this in the dialogue or panels or a curve editor panel instead of having a bunch of spare parts all over the 3d editor... seems old school to me.

Hello, on this video you said that hardops has a quicker way of applying the step "applying visual geometry to mesh/overall method uses on that part of the video". Is there a short video of that? or in which other video you discovered that?

This tutorial suddenly makes sense now that tieflings are here...

Blender curves are something like quantum physics to me, if not harder....

Some people do have hard ops... What's the faster way of doing that mesh conversion in hard ops?