Cat Sculpting when you're bad at Sculpting and Cats.

Ian Hubert

Ahaha, thanks! And yeah sort of!! It's just me turning on auto keying and dragging stuff around as the song plays- I get into it a bit more here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorialish-fake-45384968

Magnus Møller

Loved that intro animation!! Curious how you animated that? Live VR pupeteering or something?

Just found this via 2 Minute Papers (worth checking out). Instant janky cats and heaps of other cool monsters. It's a research project currently but you can see the potential. http://monstermash.zone/#

I know right? It's such a Blender thing

Ian Hubert

Ah thank you! That does help! You wouldn't expect it to require both a hotkey and a right click.

Hey, i saw you struggling with the color picker, i was having the same problem untilt i figured it out. You hold S and press Right Mouse button to get the color your want to paint and Hold S and Left Mouse Button to add the color to the color palette. I hope this helps

Ian Hubert

HE IS EXCELLENT!!

DankVote

Amazing tutorial, I followed along too and got this monstrosity. He will now be my door cat. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fgy3LtHJ-XWSm3oWaKNERzneUWe0Dprm/view?usp=sharing

This actually came in real handy as I was asked to model the cats to practice modelling. I wasn't gonna be able to do THAT convincingly, so I just did this. THE PROBLEM is that I can't stop singing that g-dang song, and that cats are getting tired of it.

Is there any kind of addon, or secret tool or anything that will just auto-save the textures? That has bitten me so many times. I can't for the life of me think of why this is a better way than just having it automatically saved with the Blend.

Mostly came here for the humorous way our Ian conveys his personality; brilliant.

Anderson Atlas

figurines instead of real animals lends a certain ominous story behind the shot. love it.

Funny thing. Because you were so annoyed by it: you can set the dyntopo detailing to another mode. Default is relative as in "relative to the size on the screen". I typically set it to constant. Then you can set the detail you want (or use the picker) with the "Resolution" value. Anyway thanks for spreading fun.

Nickolai bauer

This is the second Ian Hubert Cat Song i've heard. (If you havent head the first one, its very early on his youtube channel :D )

the intro was good

William Landgren

Best intro yet

Romain Mercurol

and thanks for your great work/music/art i'm a bigggg fan

Romain Mercurol

http://monstermash.zone/ perfect for that !

Ian Hubert

Oh!!!! That's a super excellent idea!

The video we all been waiting for! But seriously, it was fun with a really random modelling video!

The Masked Retriever

A very good bad cat. Dyntopo has an option for sculpting at a fixed resolution, regardless of zoom.

I think the eye dropper picks it uncluding lights and shadows thats why it looks different. I picked the from the paint window on the left side and so I could get the actual color again

Gabrial Wolf

How about some 'warbley' texture in the gloss for that 'handmade' feel?

Digital Guy Smiley is awesome! Also- great tune :)

cdilla

Well, that song made my day :-) Marvelous. Cool to see the improvements on Kaitlin's scene too.

iain

Paw-Tastic! start to my day - thanks Ian

Neptun3

dude... this is amazing,

You made me Smile!! :) Thank you!!🙏

Ian Hubert

Yeah!! Looking at the railing- it's over 4 inches out there. Snow day tomorrow :)

I need that intro song on Spotify.

Turning out to be a lot of snow too! 😎

Clearly not what I expected when subscribing to your Patreon haha. But this was so fun to watch, and still your bad cats are very good for their purpose, they add a real nice and genuine touch on the interior shot. I'm learning to not overdo things when I'm doing 3D, and this video is a great tutorial about this aspect of the process. Thanks

Ian Hubert

Thanks Tom! It's true yeah- it doesn't totally match. I think I more focused on getting the sunlight to fall in a pattern I liked compositionally than matching the footage, and you can kinda tell (also I'm not sure I nailed the contrast/saturation/colorspace of the footage. One of the drawbacks of pre-keying, sometimes). If it keeps bugging me I might zip in and tweak it, yeah

Tom Smith

Just a thought on your scene with Kaitlin. The lighting seemed off there, and I think it's because it looks like she's lit from the right while the HDRI is lit from mostly above and to the right? Probably not too noticeable generally but since the camera is moving towards her it may be noticeable. Fantastic scene though.

Ian Hubert

Yessssss these are excellent tips, thank you, Philip!! I probably shouldn't have made a video with sculpting in it, but I was just so jazzed about the cats.

Felicia White

Oh hey it's me the know it all. Some good points for you: -You can do consistent mesh in the dynotopo, so it's always the same size. -Leave a margin on the unwrap so there isn't bleed over between UV's -Just tap S dont hold it. it's whereever you were aiming when you let go of S. (for sampling) -F will change the bush size -Oh and one last fun fact, if you put a bunch of geometry together that is loose and join it, when you remesh it joins it all together. So you can just do the o'l drawing technique of making stuff with circles(spheres) then join it and smooth it.

Ian Hubert

Sweet! That's useful. It's a bit unpredictable when set to relative, yeah- And HAH!!! that's awesome. Every time I use a random map/HDRI/skyline now someone's like, "I was born in that building" its excellent.

Yep, as mentioned above, expand the dyntopo menu to adjust relative/constant detail- Also love the video, so great- lived in Bamberg for a few years so that map brought back some memories lol

Ian Hubert

Ahahaha, I might post it on Twitter or something tomorrow :D

Mark Miller

I've been singing the "such a good kitty" song all afternoon. Fun video.

Ian Hubert

Oh yeah?? That's good to know! Yeah man they've tricked out those sculpting tools, for sure- I should probably learn how to use them properly at some point :P

Nathan Vegdahl

The song at the start seriously made my morning. Thanks Ian! :-D

AnDiff

Hi Ian! dyntopo has some options for relative / constant resolution so you can find a good way of working where you add the same detail no matter how zoomed in or out you are! (i don’t know good settings because I am also very beginner at sculpting but it seems you can very much fine tune dyntopo to suit how you want to work!)

Cat song is so dope.

Splendid!

Samuel Cooper

This is the only sculpting tutorial I’ll ever need

Ian, plz put the cat music public to share this masterpiece with the world!

Ian Hubert

Ah! That's good to know. Yeah honestly the rain one's a bit hefty (I think because he has a few old versions of the shader included in the same material?), but it still ran great once compiled.)

Ian Hubert

Hey Ethan! You might have to connect it in the profile settings. Does anything here help? https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/212052266-Get-my-Discord-role

Just be forewarned, I tried Alex's moss shader and it crashes all my versions of Blender. I emailed him, but no response.

Ethan Avila

Does anybody know how to get into the discord?

I never know what to expect on this Patreon, but "Guy Smiley harmonizing about poorly sculpted cats" is just next level amazingness!

Zach Hoy

haha ouch mine eyes - I like your stylized final cats though