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World Building: Designing Your Town

🕑 Added 2024-10-21 07:44:43 +0000 UTC

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Michael Holtz

I started doing some world building a little like this in blender. I made a bunch blobs for all the different districts and I just shift them around to see where I like them. I got a plan to build my city in cities skylines to get an idea of infrastructure placement and a more solid street layout

Jay Bellecoix

As a DM, I love hearing about how other people worldbuild. My main problem is knowing when to stop! Btw, two robots kissing is never a bad thing

CriticGhoul

Hey Ian! Easily the best patreon I've ever supported. Amazing to watch you work, it's refreshing to see a results first approach and leveraging the tools to make them work for you. Inspiring way to learn so thank you for all your efforts with this stream of content. I'm giddy every time I see a 45 minute video upload! Had a question, if you ever have had to confront lens distortion workflows in blender tracking and in compositing to make everything marry up with the lenses you're shooting on..or if it's never a concern? I'm talking STmaps and tracking drift due to lens distortions etc. seems like a rabbit hole and id be keen to see your two cents on it! Appreciate you greatly, you're a rockstar of VFX circles and your narrative works with dynamo are fantastic and inspiring.

Sameer Uddin

dear ian , i am a hobbyist , an intermediate blender idiot at best , But thanks to your projection node and all the other monster tuts , i got the courage to make a music video with three big chunks inside of blender , i am no expert or a VFX artist by profession but your tutorials gave us the hope that maybe we can pull this off, i am leaving a link below of the video we did , apart from the opening and the ending car shots , everything was done in blender and of course ,except chroma key and later graded in resolve. This is nothing close to what pros pull off but the results were satisfying ..thanks to you for what you do for the community https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB1DSHtUgM4

João Henrique De Jesus Gomes

ALMOST A MODERN ERA PLATOS REPUBLIC!

Logan Gardner

Bro did world building with raytracing turned on. What a time we live in.

Destrier

Agreed! Just watching Ian build a "fun thing" on the fly, even if it's something he's done before, is an amazing pleasure!

Daniel Smith

Man I would love some more videos on the Patreon, even if it’s unpolished just watchin ya work

max pirrit

this was such a fun one, would love to see more of this!!

Amit Jayakar

I would love more content where he talks about topics like this

Øyvind Wallentinsen

Nice vid. I like the process of just creating a world starting out with a map or flowchart or whatever, it can be such a relaxing and cosy way to get started.

Paul McBryde

ted danson, billiam hanson, timly tanson

Thomas Sturm

So many great insights on how to go about world building - and creating the map in Blender and shape it into what is needed and to feel out which area of the map will create focal points for the story - that is an excellent idea. Very inspiring!

Platyelf

If you haven’t seen it yet, you might be interested in Lux’s YouTube channel where he’s documenting his building process of the spaceship set https://youtube.com/@luxtaylorart?si=WRujqroeIA9PS-ni

Karl Poyzer

This would be a good way to start the world building of a game!

Sybren Lukkien

Would love too see that spaceship set that's being build in the church one day! Awesome content as always Ian thank you :)

Max Kowalewsky

Now -that- is a list I would like to see Do you mind sharing it? :D

Ian Hubert

I copied instead of cut :(

Tommy Shades

came for the egg ghosts. stayed for the .... egg ghosts..... encore

Ian Hubert

Ah!! Thank you Paul!!! I hate having to go down to those little panels hahaha

Timothy J. Aveni

haha, wow -- around 7:45, you say "Sometimes I'll read a book ... and you go, how can *one person* have written this thing? This is incredible!" I started a list, a couple years back, of artists who make me feel this way, called "artists that just do not seem imitable". douglas adams is my go-to example. it's not one of my longer lists, only has five artists on it. and I just went to the list to add a link to that timestamp in this video, and it looks like the last time I edited the list, some seven months ago, was to add *your* name, but with the qualifier: "but also, something about his work feels aggressively accessible." and I can't tell you how much I appreciate that! this video, but also all of your patreon work, is a peek behind the curtain that inspires the crap out of me. I feel that wonder, like, "how does one person come up with all this depth", and then I get to watch you do it and it makes me want to just go try it for myself. it's so rare for me to find an artist who makes me feel both of those things at once. thank you!

Paul and Anna Spooner

28:20 shift-N to recalculate normals... But did you know CTRL-shift-N recalculates normals on the inside?

Ian Hubert

THEYRE NOT DOING TOO HOT LUKA!!!!

Ian Hubert

Maybe the real blockchain was Robot Makeouts all along

Luka Hrgovic

I really hope we will get to revisit this town at some point and see how the inhabitants are doing.

Ian Hubert

Yeah! Or even if it isn’t specifically “fun”, I think it’s gotta have *something* that makes it feel interesting enough to you that it needs to exist!

ConorsVFX

34:48 i think you unintentionally made the landscape into the profile of a horse. Definitely need to name places like the horses snout or the horses eye etc

Blake Rizzo

Checks notes: Making out Robots as financial transactions is proper world building. I've been doing it wrong this whole time Ian!

Lloyd Drake-Brockman

Thanks Ian! really fun video. reminds me of how Julien Gauthier developed numenor for the rings of power. I have such trouble deciding on just one idea to devote a large personal project to. I feel like it has to be so extremely cool to outweigh the cost of putting off other projects. thanks for sharing your thinking process.

Zach Hoy

I really liked the part where you described how if a scene isn't inspiring fun, it's not a fun scene, and maybe reconsider the scene.

Juan Romero

I was waiting for a merge and then remeshing and adding procedural noise displacement and voila! but that wouldn't serve the purppose of a schematic map and you'd have to beging modelling each building to the detail 😂

Ian Hubert

Ah yeah that's true!! I just also realized there wasn't any benefit to having them as separate objects anymore.

Juan Romero

you don't really need to join objects to use proportional editing, you can just select them all and enter edit mode, then activate proportional editing and move vertices, they will be afected even if belonging to different objects

Ian Hubert

auuuuuugh hahahaha I recorded it after the fact and then pasted it in earlier! But hahaha thank you!

Alex Handjiev

The egg ghosts story is so good, it had to be in the video twice 🙌🏻. Tbh that’s a very important video to watch for a concept artist, I’m happy you made it right when I am creating a worldbuiøding project 😅

skes

Aah thats it! Youre great Ian, thx

michael w honsinger

Another fun video Ian!

Ian Hubert

Oooooooooooo- maybe the "Making a big shot" post? Let me see- yes! https://www.patreon.com/posts/completing-big-47229715

skes

(This looks cool btw!! Thx)

skes

Hey, maybe Im just dumb, but I remember you doing a patreon video about the stuff that inspires you (looking at photographs from Kowloon among other things), but now I cant find that video anymore. Any idea what that post was called (or did I just dream that)?