WEBVTT 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:07.393 Hello and welcome to my Animation Master tutorial about how 00:00:07.409 --> 00:00:14.205 to model texture, rig, animate and finally render this tank. 00:00:15.065 --> 00:00:18.265 I am Geralt Sunga and I will give you a 00:00:18.305 --> 00:00:20.885 step by step instruction on how to do that. 00:00:21.185 --> 00:00:24.765 My tutorial will be separated into several parts. 00:00:25.475 --> 00:00:29.827 These parts are the first part modeling the head and 00:00:29.851 --> 00:00:30.575 the body. 00:00:31.355 --> 00:00:34.083 The second part connects the head to the body and 00:00:34.179 --> 00:00:35.535 to model the muscles. 00:00:36.635 --> 00:00:41.227 The third part on how to model the track and 00:00:41.251 --> 00:00:44.867 the fourth part on how to model the wheels and 00:00:44.891 --> 00:00:45.695 the brake. 00:00:46.275 --> 00:00:49.735 And after that we will just finish up our model. 00:00:52.325 --> 00:00:56.101 This will be the modeling section of this tutorial and 00:00:56.133 --> 00:00:58.905 after that we will go on with the texture section. 00:00:59.645 --> 00:01:03.925 Ok, so before we can start with the first part 00:01:03.965 --> 00:01:06.317 of this tutorial, we have to have a look at 00:01:06.341 --> 00:01:08.025 our file structure first. 00:01:08.845 --> 00:01:11.661 So I provide a file structure to you which is 00:01:11.693 --> 00:01:14.225 highly recommended to be used in this tutorial. 00:01:14.645 --> 00:01:17.685 And you just have to copy this file structure to 00:01:17.725 --> 00:01:19.305 anywhere on your hard drive. 00:01:20.675 --> 00:01:22.603 One folder isn’t needed though. 00:01:22.699 --> 00:01:28.267 It is a HXT folder here which contains a plugin 00:01:28.331 --> 00:01:29.995 file of Animation Master. 00:01:30.155 --> 00:01:33.715 The plugin file is a several plugin from Master Brickman 00:01:33.835 --> 00:01:36.575 which can just bevel an edge. 00:01:37.595 --> 00:01:40.531 And to install this plugin file we just have to 00:01:40.563 --> 00:01:46.717 click on it, do a copy command and copy it 00:01:46.821 --> 00:01:50.865 to your Animation Master install folder, wherever that is. 00:01:51.365 --> 00:01:56.185 Go to the HXT folder and just paste it here. 00:01:58.125 --> 00:02:02.149 After you pasted this you have to restart Animation Master 00:02:02.197 --> 00:02:05.105 and after that you should be ready to go. 00:02:05.525 --> 00:02:09.997 You just have to start Animation Master now and what 00:02:10.021 --> 00:02:13.115 you can see here is the interface I am using. 00:02:13.285 --> 00:02:16.623 If your interface isn’t looking like that, you should have 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:20.191 a look at my website again and download the tutorial 00:02:20.263 --> 00:02:22.655 on how to set up the interface in the way 00:02:22.695 --> 00:02:23.835 I have it here. 00:02:24.295 --> 00:02:27.927 To start with, we have to create a new model 00:02:28.071 --> 00:02:31.875 for this we have to go to the objects folder 00:02:32.255 --> 00:02:34.655 and for example double click on it. 00:02:34.815 --> 00:02:36.807 That will create a new model. 00:02:36.951 --> 00:02:42.649 You could also have just right clicked on this folder 00:02:42.697 --> 00:02:43.097 here. 00:02:43.201 --> 00:02:45.085 Go to New Model. 00:02:45.785 --> 00:02:48.897 Okay, I will now just rename it by right clicking 00:02:48.921 --> 00:02:53.365 on it, choosing rename and rename it to Tank. 00:02:55.305 --> 00:02:57.593 After that we are ready to go. 00:02:57.769 --> 00:03:00.105 So the first thing we will have to do is 00:03:00.145 --> 00:03:04.593 to create a Rotoscope I provided in my file structure 00:03:04.649 --> 00:03:05.445 to you. 00:03:05.805 --> 00:03:07.941 And to do that just right click on the name 00:03:07.973 --> 00:03:08.621 of the model. 00:03:08.693 --> 00:03:10.745 Go to New Rotoscope. 00:03:11.205 --> 00:03:16.265 Now import both of the rotoscopes here to your file. 00:03:23.165 --> 00:03:26.957 Ok, as you can see, both of the rotoscopes are 00:03:26.981 --> 00:03:30.637 now shown in this front view, which isn’t what we 00:03:30.661 --> 00:03:31.729 are looking for. 00:03:31.877 --> 00:03:35.897 We are looking for the first rotoscope to be shown 00:03:35.921 --> 00:03:37.801 in the front view and the second to be shown 00:03:37.833 --> 00:03:38.937 in the left view. 00:03:39.081 --> 00:03:43.257 I press the fourth key on my keypad and go 00:03:43.281 --> 00:03:44.297 to the left view. 00:03:44.441 --> 00:03:47.161 And as you can see, this one is empty. 00:03:47.313 --> 00:03:49.953 So we have to tell animation master that it should 00:03:50.089 --> 00:03:55.249 just show us the second rotoscope here in the left 00:03:55.297 --> 00:03:55.721 view. 00:03:55.833 --> 00:03:58.753 To do that, just open up the properties, go to 00:03:58.809 --> 00:04:01.405 view front and click on left. 00:04:02.025 --> 00:04:05.765 So you can see we now have our rotoscope here. 00:04:06.225 --> 00:04:08.729 The second thing we will have to do is to 00:04:08.857 --> 00:04:11.665 make this rotoscope not pickable again. 00:04:11.785 --> 00:04:15.001 Because I can now just grab it by accident, for 00:04:15.033 --> 00:04:16.841 example, and drag it around. 00:04:16.993 --> 00:04:19.485 And that is not what we are looking for. 00:04:20.345 --> 00:04:26.683 So just to make it not pickable, we can just 00:04:26.739 --> 00:04:28.655 click on these two icons here. 00:04:29.035 --> 00:04:33.611 And now I can’t select it anymore, as you can 00:04:33.643 --> 00:04:34.215 see. 00:04:35.795 --> 00:04:39.655 Okay, so let’s start to model this tank. 00:04:41.835 --> 00:04:44.787 The first thing I will model is the head and 00:04:44.811 --> 00:04:46.855 for that I will just draw a line. 00:04:55.725 --> 00:04:58.693 As you can see, I am trying to give every 00:04:58.749 --> 00:05:04.785 edge in my rotoscope here one point and connect it. 00:05:05.325 --> 00:05:10.389 Ok, so I will select everything of that and just 00:05:10.437 --> 00:05:11.385 peek it. 00:05:12.165 --> 00:05:17.137 Peak means that the splint will have edges and is 00:05:17.161 --> 00:05:18.245 not rounded. 00:05:20.105 --> 00:05:23.137 Okay, so the second thing we will have to do 00:05:23.161 --> 00:05:27.489 is to align this splint on the other axis. 00:05:27.617 --> 00:05:30.009 To do that I will go to the front view 00:05:30.057 --> 00:05:33.245 by pressing the 2 key on the keypad. 00:05:34.785 --> 00:05:38.485 Okay, and now I will realign this splint here. 00:05:39.185 --> 00:05:42.245 That can be done by just using your arrow keys. 00:05:43.935 --> 00:05:47.407 And if that just takes too much time, you can 00:05:47.471 --> 00:05:49.975 go and click on the shift key. 00:05:50.135 --> 00:05:55.703 And using the arrow keys again, this will be a 00:05:55.719 --> 00:05:56.555 bit faster. 00:05:57.215 --> 00:06:01.595 Okay, so if you have a look at this now, 00:06:02.215 --> 00:06:03.595 it’s not rendering. 00:06:04.615 --> 00:06:07.503 So what we want to do is to give it 00:06:07.559 --> 00:06:10.765 some kind of geometry informations. 00:06:11.265 --> 00:06:15.465 And this information can be added by just extruding this 00:06:15.505 --> 00:06:17.529 splint on one axis. 00:06:17.697 --> 00:06:19.641 To do that, I go to the front view again 00:06:19.673 --> 00:06:22.965 with the two key and extrude it. 00:06:23.545 --> 00:06:29.045 I will realign the new splint here to a reasonable 00:06:29.505 --> 00:06:31.765 position, for example, like that. 00:06:32.225 --> 00:06:38.091 And if you now render it, you can see we 00:06:38.123 --> 00:06:40.535 have some sort of geometry here. 00:06:41.675 --> 00:06:44.579 What we have to do with this geometry is to 00:06:44.627 --> 00:06:46.895 close the edges here. 00:06:48.115 --> 00:06:51.891 So how to do that, we will just draw a 00:06:51.923 --> 00:06:58.579 line from this point to this point and from this 00:06:58.627 --> 00:07:00.295 point to this point. 00:07:01.235 --> 00:07:04.715 And if you now render it, you can see that 00:07:04.755 --> 00:07:08.011 there’s some kind of connection there. 00:07:08.163 --> 00:07:10.355 And the geometry is now closed. 00:07:10.475 --> 00:07:15.615 But it’s looking more or less wrong. 00:07:19.235 --> 00:07:22.019 So what we will have to do is to just 00:07:22.067 --> 00:07:33.517 add another splint at this point, for example, okay, and 00:07:33.541 --> 00:07:38.941 the second one down here, for example, like this. 00:07:39.133 --> 00:07:42.589 And if you now have a look at the rendered 00:07:42.637 --> 00:07:50.453 image, you can see that this is looking much better 00:07:50.509 --> 00:07:51.105 now. 00:07:53.415 --> 00:07:55.375 So I will go to the front view again with 00:07:55.415 --> 00:08:01.839 the two key and just realign these points to what 00:08:01.887 --> 00:08:03.515 I want them to look. 00:08:04.295 --> 00:08:09.555 For example, something like that. 00:08:15.815 --> 00:08:17.315 I will peek this. 00:08:19.255 --> 00:08:25.495 Okay, so we have closed one side of our object 00:08:25.575 --> 00:08:26.195 here. 00:08:26.975 --> 00:08:30.995 If you render again, you can see that. 00:08:31.695 --> 00:08:36.407 Okay, so we have to do this for the second 00:08:36.591 --> 00:08:37.915 side here too. 00:08:38.535 --> 00:08:43.795 You could use a copy command which is called copied, 00:08:44.405 --> 00:08:45.545 paste, attach. 00:08:46.605 --> 00:08:50.125 But I think for just a few clicks I won’t 00:08:50.165 --> 00:08:57.285 do that because it can create some side effect I 00:08:57.325 --> 00:08:59.261 don’t want to risk here. 00:08:59.453 --> 00:09:02.213 Okay, peek it again. 00:09:02.389 --> 00:09:04.665 And as you can see, that was very fast. 00:09:08.325 --> 00:09:14.305 I realign the points again to wherever I want them. 00:09:16.245 --> 00:09:17.785 For example, like this. 00:09:20.525 --> 00:09:31.565 And as you can see our head is getting in 00:09:31.605 --> 00:09:32.185 shape. 00:09:32.485 --> 00:09:36.041 Okay, so the second thing we will do is to 00:09:36.173 --> 00:09:38.565 add some sort of a bevel line here. 00:09:38.865 --> 00:09:42.165 And for that we will need the plugin we installed 00:09:42.785 --> 00:09:43.525 earlier. 00:09:44.305 --> 00:09:47.445 So I will just click on one of the splints 00:09:48.545 --> 00:09:51.305 and as you can see there’s a BIOS handler. 00:09:51.465 --> 00:09:54.601 If your bias handler isn’t showing up, you have to 00:09:54.633 --> 00:10:01.649 activate it at this point this bias handler will just 00:10:01.697 --> 00:10:05.667 indicate that we are we have selected the splint. 00:10:05.811 --> 00:10:09.171 In Animation Master there is no way to select for 00:10:09.203 --> 00:10:11.699 example just one point. 00:10:11.827 --> 00:10:21.615 You always select a splint and this is reasonable because 00:10:22.035 --> 00:10:26.955 we now can see which splin ring will be beveled 00:10:27.035 --> 00:10:28.135 from saddle. 00:10:30.205 --> 00:10:34.341 So the splint ring which will be beveled here will 00:10:34.373 --> 00:10:37.985 be this one going around here. 00:10:39.285 --> 00:10:44.037 So just select the splint you want to be beveled, 00:10:44.141 --> 00:10:48.269 right click on it, go to plugins wizards and use 00:10:48.357 --> 00:10:49.413 SAVL on it. 00:10:49.549 --> 00:10:52.185 Savel will now ask for a distance. 00:10:52.605 --> 00:10:57.001 That means at which distance should the new splint ring 00:10:57.073 --> 00:11:00.609 be added to this one And I think I will 00:11:00.657 --> 00:11:03.485 use a distance of null point 1. 00:11:04.345 --> 00:11:07.257 Click on OK and as you can see there is 00:11:07.281 --> 00:11:09.601 a new splint ring which was added. 00:11:09.793 --> 00:11:12.153 I will have to peek it again to have a 00:11:12.169 --> 00:11:13.005 better look. 00:11:14.705 --> 00:11:19.577 And if I now render, you can see there is 00:11:19.601 --> 00:11:22.577 some sort of a new line here or new geometry 00:11:22.721 --> 00:11:23.805 which is added. 00:11:24.465 --> 00:11:27.873 And now I will just do that for more or 00:11:27.889 --> 00:11:30.165 less every splint here. 00:11:43.345 --> 00:11:47.885 It’s a bit annoying, but several can’t do a whole 00:11:48.425 --> 00:11:52.679 selection of splints but only one splint at a time. 00:11:52.847 --> 00:11:54.515 So we’ll have to do that. 00:11:55.695 --> 00:12:02.031 In reality it is often better to model this in 00:12:02.063 --> 00:12:07.431 reality it is often better to model the bevel in 00:12:07.503 --> 00:12:13.191 before you do anything else because it can just prevent 00:12:13.263 --> 00:12:14.527 some problems here. 00:12:14.671 --> 00:12:17.155 But for this model we can use it. 00:12:18.715 --> 00:12:21.175 One more splint to go. 00:12:27.475 --> 00:12:31.571 So, okay, I will pick it again and as you 00:12:31.603 --> 00:12:36.815 can see, yes, we got every splint. 00:12:37.835 --> 00:12:41.867 I go to the shaded view down here and you 00:12:41.891 --> 00:12:45.625 can see we have more or less a nice looking 00:12:45.925 --> 00:12:47.025 edge there. 00:12:48.165 --> 00:12:52.357 Okay, this could be our head, but I will add 00:12:52.461 --> 00:12:56.565 a little bit of curve to some of the surfaces 00:12:56.645 --> 00:13:02.425 here to make it just a bit more nature, like 00:13:03.325 --> 00:13:07.917 so I will go to the wireframe mode again and 00:13:07.941 --> 00:13:13.765 I will go to this point and realign it. 00:13:14.105 --> 00:13:17.565 Or better to say, I will realign the bias handler, 00:13:18.305 --> 00:13:20.325 for example, like this. 00:13:22.425 --> 00:13:25.205 And I will do that for both sides. 00:13:30.905 --> 00:13:33.045 And down here I will do the same thing. 00:13:41.835 --> 00:13:48.083 Okay, as you can see, some of the points here 00:13:48.179 --> 00:13:49.615 are not aligned. 00:13:50.075 --> 00:13:55.015 I will do that again by hand. 00:13:55.995 --> 00:13:57.295 Something like that. 00:14:01.525 --> 00:14:03.345 Something like that. 00:14:12.485 --> 00:14:14.145 Okay, reasonably good. 00:14:19.685 --> 00:14:25.025 And I will do that for the sides here to 00:14:25.895 --> 00:14:54.325 it, for example, like this. 00:14:55.945 --> 00:14:58.805 Ok, so we have our head ready. 00:15:02.385 --> 00:15:03.765 Looks OK to me. 00:15:05.305 --> 00:15:08.085 Now just have a look from the side view again. 00:15:08.705 --> 00:15:11.265 And as you can see, the head is more or 00:15:11.265 --> 00:15:13.205 less the same shape as the body. 00:15:13.585 --> 00:15:16.881 So what I will do is to just select the 00:15:16.913 --> 00:15:24.465 head, do a copy command, do a paste command, realign 00:15:24.505 --> 00:15:30.685 the head, the copied head and just go to the 00:15:32.425 --> 00:15:35.885 scale handlers here and rescale it. 00:15:40.985 --> 00:15:44.349 I will have to align a few points, but in 00:15:44.357 --> 00:15:47.865 the end it should save me some time here. 00:15:53.405 --> 00:15:56.305 These ones here. 00:15:56.925 --> 00:16:02.637 Ok, so what we have now is the head and 00:16:02.661 --> 00:16:04.705 the body of our tank. 00:16:06.965 --> 00:16:10.185 That would be the first part of the tutorial. 00:16:11.635 --> 00:16:15.171 In the second part we will handle to connect the 00:16:15.203 --> 00:16:19.055 head and the body and how to model the muzzles. 00:16:19.595 --> 00:16:20.355 So see you later.