Blender: create Thor's Stormbreaker from start to finish

Name: Blender: create Thor's Stormbreaker from start to finish
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learn step by step how to create Thor's Ax the StormBreaker with Blender 2.9 and Substance Painter.

Created byMrawan Hussain

Last updated 5/2022

English

What you'll learn

Understand how to use the powerful modeling tools inside Blender
How to use unwrap system to unwrap the 3D model.
How to use vertex paint to prepare the object to send it to Substance Painter.
How to make the object ready to send it to Substance painter without shading problem.
How to Export and import the object from Blender to Substance Painter.
How to add PBR material to the object and make it realistic.
How to import the texture from Substance Painter to Blender and add it to the object.

Course content

6 sections • 20 lectures • 4h 38m total length

Introduction3:30
Explore how to create Thor's Stormbreaker in Blender from start to finish, following a complete workflow presented in the course.
1-Adding the image and start modeling13:52
Set units to centimeters, import a reference image, and align it to the front view. Build the stormbreaker with a cube, wireframe view, and mirrored, vertex-level adjustments.
2_Modeling part 2 make the first side of StormBreaker14:49
Learn Blender modeling to create the first side of Stormbreaker using edit mode operations, extruding faces along normals, carving with cut and line tools, filling, and mirroring for symmetry.
3_Modeling part 3 make the first side of StormBreaker13:53
In Blender, model the first side of Stormbreaker by extruding and shaping faces, editing vertices and edges, performing booleans with a cylinder, and mirroring the result for symmetry.
4_Modeling the 2and part14:42
Learn to model Thor's stormbreaker in Blender by starting from a circle, extruding and insetting faces, cutting with the knife tool, and using mirror and solidify modifiers for a build.
5_finish modeling the head of the Ax18:56
Finish the ax head in Blender by cutting and shaping with edges, using mirror and solidify modifiers, and refining vertices to achieve a clean stormbreaker head.
6_Adding a bevel to the Ax13:49
Add a bevel to the axe pieces and apply it to related parts for Stormbreaker’s edge. Refine the geometry by adjusting normals and correcting overlaps for smooth shading.
7-Creating the handle20:57
Learn to create the Stormbreaker handle in Blender by shaping bezier curves, extruding cylindrical sections, and setting a 1.5 cm thickness with precise rotate, move, and scale edits.

8_ Make the handle ready and Unwrap it21:41
Prepare the stormbreaker handle by capping holes, adjusting edges, and rounding the shape. Unwrap the handle with UV mapping, set texture coordinates, and apply consistent materials while checking for overlaps.
9_Unwrap the Ax part one26:01
Learn to unwrap the ax piece in blender by isolating geometry, deleting nonvisible faces, applying modifiers, and placing seams for clean unwrap, then review materials.
10_Unwrap the Ax part two15:23
Unwrap the ax piece in Blender, isolate visible faces, delete extraneous ones, apply bevel and normals fixes, set seams, and assign materials for each piece.

11_Use vertex paint and send the project to Substance Painter10:06
Learn to color individual pieces of a Blender model with vertex paint, assign unique materials to each piece, and prepare and export the project as sbx for Substance Painter.
12_Starting with Substance Painter and bake the mesh maps21:49
Start with Substance Painter to bake maps for a model, using vertex color, texture sets, and layered materials to control roughness, metallic, height, and dirt.
13_Adding material to the Ax17:21
Add and refine ax materials in Blender, duplicating black metal, applying white and red, using masks to adjust dirt and height, and adding text, logos, and a wood handle texture.
14_Complete the handle and send the texture to Blender11:58
Complete the handle by applying wood textures, adjusting height and roughness, and adding dirt with Substance Painter; export textures at 4k (omit height/normal maps) to Blender.

15_Import the textures in Blender9:02
Import textures from Substance Painter into Blender and apply them to the model. Configure materials with base color, metallic, normal, roughness, and height maps using non-color data for accurate results.
16_prepare the scene to render it with Eevee18:34
Prepare the Stormbreaker scene for Eevee by placing a ground plane, aligning parts with the 3D cursor as pivot, and texturing roughness with a black-and-white map.
17_Rendering with Cycles9:36
Switch to Cycles renderer in Blender to render scenes with correct lighting, manage noise with sampling, and use depth of field to focus on text, for high quality final renders.

Requirements

you need to install Blender 2.9
you need to install Substance Painter.

Description

Hi, this is start to finish course about how to create SrormBreaker with Blender 2.9 and Substance Painter.
I'm Marwan Hussein and I will be your instructor in this journey,

I will break down the course into these topics

* Modeling

* Unwrapping

* Texturing

* Rendering

_ Modeling In the modeling section, we will learn how to use Blender 2.9 modeling tools and we will activate some of the Add-ons that will help us to make the modeling process faster like Carver tool and Bool tool.

We will set our reference image to help us to make the modeling a bit easier because we will follow the outline of the image.

then after that, we will start modeling the Ax and the handle step by step.

_Unwrapping, in this section we will learn how to use the powerful unwrapping tool that comes default with Blender, and we will use this tool to unwrap the Ax and the Handle step by step

_Texturing, in this part we will learn how to make the project ready to send it to Substance Painter and we will make all the texturing inside Substance Painter step by step, and before that, we will use vertex paint inside Blender 2.9 to help us to generate ID color inside Substance Painter and that thing helps us to give specific material to a specific object.

_Rendering, in this section we will import all the texture that we generate inside Substance Painter and import them back to Blender to apply them on the object ( StormBreaker )

and after that, we will set up the light and apply all the texture and we will take a shot with Eevee and after that, we will switch to Cycles to take another shot.

until this point, the course finished.

I hope the course be helpful for you and I hope you enjoy it. thank you

Marwan Hussein

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Blender: create Thor's Stormbreaker from start to finish

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Course content

Modeling8 lectures • 1hr 54min

Unwrapping3 lectures • 1hr 3min

Texturing in substance painter4 lectures • 1hr 1min

Rendering3 lectures • 37min

project files1 lecture • 1min

Bonus1 lecture • 2min

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