Mouse ‘n Cheese - Learning to 3D Model in Blender

Learn the basic building blocks of a 3D mesh, and how to edit them easily. At the end of this video, I demonstrate the concepts by modeling the very beginning of our block of cheese.

Learn how to model Cheese quickly and effectively using the Boolean Modifier. Also learn how to overcome some of the problems this process entails using a few more modifiers.

Before moving on to the mouse, we just use some very simple modeling techniques to create a basic environment.

Build a simple body for the toy mouse through some additional modeling techniques, and one very common modifier.

Model the eyes, ears, and nose, incorporating a few new modeling tricks and another very common modifier.

Model the tail and whiskers using an effective combination of several new modifiers.

Learn how to create realistic-looking fur using Blender's hair particle systems.

Add and set up our textures and materials to give color and realism to our scene!

Position our objects, camera, and light, then configure our render settings so we can finally create a high-quality render of our scene!

In this optional lecture, I explain why the method we used to model the cheese is a "quick and dirty" method. The reason has everything to do with Topology.