World Building: Designing Your Town
Added 2024-10-21 07:44:43 +0000 UTCI have no idea if this video will be fun to watch, but it was fun to record :P Hope there's something useful in here!
Anyways- life is crazy for a second! I'll have to tell you about it soon!
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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
Michael Holtz
2025-04-22 00:00:54 +0000 UTCAs 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
Jay Bellecoix
2024-12-05 00:10:10 +0000 UTCHey 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.
CriticGhoul
2024-11-25 18:32:16 +0000 UTCdear 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
Sameer Uddin
2024-11-21 15:32:10 +0000 UTCALMOST A MODERN ERA PLATOS REPUBLIC!
João Henrique De Jesus Gomes
2024-11-16 02:50:57 +0000 UTCBro did world building with raytracing turned on. What a time we live in.
Logan Gardner
2024-11-11 02:32:55 +0000 UTCAgreed! Just watching Ian build a "fun thing" on the fly, even if it's something he's done before, is an amazing pleasure!
Destrier
2024-11-09 06:14:30 +0000 UTCMan I would love some more videos on the Patreon, even if it’s unpolished just watchin ya work
Daniel Smith
2024-11-04 00:41:54 +0000 UTCthis was such a fun one, would love to see more of this!!
max pirrit
2024-10-28 22:23:07 +0000 UTCI would love more content where he talks about topics like this
Amit Jayakar
2024-10-25 08:45:03 +0000 UTCNice 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.
Øyvind Wallentinsen
2024-10-24 18:55:35 +0000 UTCted danson, billiam hanson, timly tanson
Paul McBryde
2024-10-24 17:08:04 +0000 UTCSo 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!
Thomas Sturm
2024-10-24 05:15:47 +0000 UTCIf 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
Platyelf
2024-10-23 18:37:02 +0000 UTCThis would be a good way to start the world building of a game!
Karl Poyzer
2024-10-23 13:40:43 +0000 UTCWould love too see that spaceship set that's being build in the church one day! Awesome content as always Ian thank you :)
Sybren Lukkien
2024-10-23 10:47:10 +0000 UTCNow -that- is a list I would like to see Do you mind sharing it? :D
Max Kowalewsky
2024-10-23 10:32:45 +0000 UTCI copied instead of cut :(
Ian Hubert
2024-10-22 14:15:14 +0000 UTCcame for the egg ghosts. stayed for the .... egg ghosts..... encore
Tommy Shades
2024-10-22 12:26:48 +0000 UTCAh!! Thank you Paul!!! I hate having to go down to those little panels hahaha
Ian Hubert
2024-10-22 06:44:05 +0000 UTChaha, 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!
Timothy J. Aveni
2024-10-22 05:57:14 +0000 UTC28:20 shift-N to recalculate normals... But did you know CTRL-shift-N recalculates normals on the inside?
Paul and Anna Spooner
2024-10-22 03:35:45 +0000 UTCTHEYRE NOT DOING TOO HOT LUKA!!!!
Ian Hubert
2024-10-21 22:18:14 +0000 UTCMaybe the real blockchain was Robot Makeouts all along
Ian Hubert
2024-10-21 22:16:14 +0000 UTCI really hope we will get to revisit this town at some point and see how the inhabitants are doing.
Luka Hrgovic
2024-10-21 21:38:13 +0000 UTCYeah! 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!
Ian Hubert
2024-10-21 21:34:10 +0000 UTC34:48 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
ConorsVFX
2024-10-21 20:26:45 +0000 UTCChecks notes: Making out Robots as financial transactions is proper world building. I've been doing it wrong this whole time Ian!
Blake Rizzo
2024-10-21 17:44:09 +0000 UTCThanks 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.
Lloyd Drake-Brockman
2024-10-21 11:54:39 +0000 UTCI 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.
Zach Hoy
2024-10-21 11:33:05 +0000 UTCI 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 😂
Juan Romero
2024-10-21 09:58:08 +0000 UTCAh yeah that's true!! I just also realized there wasn't any benefit to having them as separate objects anymore.
Ian Hubert
2024-10-21 09:52:53 +0000 UTCyou 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
Juan Romero
2024-10-21 09:49:43 +0000 UTCauuuuuugh hahahaha I recorded it after the fact and then pasted it in earlier! But hahaha thank you!
Ian Hubert
2024-10-21 09:01:57 +0000 UTCThe 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 😅
Alex Handjiev
2024-10-21 08:56:40 +0000 UTCAah thats it! Youre great Ian, thx
skes
2024-10-21 08:44:45 +0000 UTCAnother fun video Ian!
michael w honsinger
2024-10-21 08:42:00 +0000 UTCOooooooooooo- maybe the "Making a big shot" post? Let me see- yes! https://www.patreon.com/posts/completing-big-47229715
Ian Hubert
2024-10-21 08:39:06 +0000 UTC(This looks cool btw!! Thx)
skes
2024-10-21 08:24:37 +0000 UTCHey, 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)?
skes
2024-10-21 08:24:12 +0000 UTCThis is an amazing video! Can't wait to see more like it.
Dominic Schulze
2024-10-21 07:59:09 +0000 UTCThanks Ian I really needed this
One Aspiring Artists
2024-10-21 07:58:57 +0000 UTComg thank you Bin hahahaha
Ian Hubert
2024-10-21 07:51:49 +0000 UTCOh, gig you say?! 👀👀👀
SwaMusic
2024-10-21 07:50:48 +0000 UTCWhoa, just opened Patreon and this was posted NOW! *insert mind reading gif**
SwaMusic
2024-10-21 07:49:54 +0000 UTCI dont want to be THAT person but...should it be "world" building? but appreciate the video! Have been looking forward to them!
Bin
2024-10-21 07:49:29 +0000 UTC
