Beginner Tips for Minecraft Organics | Shaping & Smoothing

Hello everyone its Meg and in this video I’m gonna show you a few of my personal tips for how to create a realistic organic with the help of some world at it in voxel sniper now the methods I show you is just my own personal way of

Doing them it’s by no means the only way or the only correct way to do it I just want to give you an idea of the process I go through when creating my organics and maybe you’ll learn something from it I think it’s rather obvious but you do

Need to have a plan of what you’re going to build before you can start doing anything so once you find a reference photo or have a good idea of what it is you’ll be building then we can get started I’m going to do a human as an example

But I use these same methods no matter what organic I do now the first step that I always do is I’m going to create an armature for my organic you could also call it a skeleton or a framework and to create this I’m just going to use a very small sphere brush

Smaller is always better than larger at this stage and now using that brush I’m going to draw out the position of the legs torso and arms for my organic we don’t need to worry about the head hands or feet at this point this is just focusing on the proportions and the

Overall pose I always find myself adjusting the pose later on once I start adding more shape to the organic just take your time and do the best you can to get it as close to what you want in order to get the proportions right you’re going to need to look at it from

A distance so take the time to frequently step back and examine it that way another method I sometimes used to create my armature is with a laser brush and this is a craft script command I’ll provide some links in the description for where you can get this

And what this does is it will allow me to draw a straight line from wherever I’m clicking to wherever I’m standing this method can be a little bit trickier it’s not as precise as when you’re drawing it out with a Cyr brush but it does make a cleaner line either method

Works just as well you just might find one method to be easier than another I do know that when working with extremely large organics I always find the sphere brush to be more handy because it does give me more accuracy but again it all depends on the Builder and what your

Personal preference would be now that I have the armature of my organic done all I’m going to do is use the blender ball brush and with my gunpowder use it to pull out shapes to create muscles using the arrow to smooth on occasion remember that we are working in a 360 here so

It’s very important to be tucking every angle of the organic as you create it if you stand in one spot for too long you might get it looking good on one side and have the rest of the sides looking incorrect so just keep circling and make

Sure it looks good at every angle it’s also helpful to be able to carve into your organic as opposed to just pulling out shapes and smoothing it over one thing you could use is the voxel eraser brush which could work this is an exaggerated example of what it does I

Tend to use this mostly when I’m deleting a section I want to redo it even with a smaller size though it does tend to remove more than I want when I’m carving not to mention you do have to type out the blend baulkham and every time you want to switch back and forth

So what I do instead is I just create a small sphere brush that will place air with a mask to whatever block I’m using to build that way I can keep my blend ball brush and just switch back and forth between tools without having to retype in commands now using all those

Tools we’re just going to continue to work on this until we get a proper shape going on here I’m not going to get it perfectly smooth yet I’m just focusing on the shape and the muscle structure I’m also going to use my gunpowder to pull out this really rough head just to

Help me get started that’s about as far as I go with brushes since they can only take you so far now I’m going to spend the rest of the time smoothing this by hand and adding in all the missing details like the hands and the feet now

Here are some of my smoothing tips when smoothing by hand I’m trying to reduce as many flat edges and straight edges as possible since we are working with cubes and trying to create curves one of the most obvious things to look out for is just any little holes or single blocks

That stick out in your organic little single blocks like this just emphasize their cube shape and they don’t really blend with the rest of the organic now in rare cases where you need extra tiny detail it might be necessary but not for a place like this an alternative to

Removing the block is just to connect it with another layer this goes along the lines of thinking about reducing as many flat edges as possible since we do want to look curved from every angle another thing to watch out for is extremely straight edges especially on a diagonal

Like this I’m going to try to create a more gradual curve with this so it’s not just this huge straight line in the middle but you also don’t want to just cut straight across either since that creates more straight edges we don’t want so instead I’m going to break it up

By adding different lengths to each of these verticals this will break it up and blend it all together so it’s not drawing your eye to that straight line one more tip is in order to create a shape that’s as smooth as you could possibly get it I want all of my layers

To be evenly spaced from each other as well as evenly curved I’m trying to avoid having the layers touching each other on the corners or edges in many cases I know that’s impossible but for larger flatter areas like this I want to try to avoid it as much as possible

Not everyone has the patience to go through whole organic and do this I know I spend most of my time just smoothing things by hand but I do personally think it makes the organic come together and look a little more natural in shape and I’m going to veer off from the human for

A second and just show you how I build my heads in general what I usually do is I create an outline that would be at the center point of the head so I outline the entire profile of the face and then I build out half of it and then copy and

Flip this to the other side pretty easy so going back to my human I’m just going to reshape it with those same techniques in mind I’m going to mark out the profile or the outline of the shape in the middle and then fix up half of it

And copy and flip it to the other side next I’m going to do the hands and it’s always best to just look at your own hands when creating them I’d say the most important thing to think about as you build them is to make sure that you can identify each individual finger

Especially on smaller scales like this we’re making the hands is a lot more challenging for the feet it’s kind of the same thing you could look at your own to help get the shape the feet I’ve done here are really small and not very detailed at all in fact they don’t even

Look very realistic but you will inevitably have to go through them by hand to make sure that they are properly shaped just to give you a quick comparison here is how our organic looked before and after smoothing it by hand I’ll let you decide whether you

Think it’s worth it or not this isn’t perfect by any means I just built it for the sake of this tutorial but it still gives you an idea of some things to think about as you create an organic like I said I do use these same techniques in every organic I do there

Is testament to that and I love my previous time lapses and if you haven’t seen those you should check those out but getting the shaping and the proportions and the pose right is the most important thing about clean organic and also the most challenging if you can

Master that you can create just about anything so I hope I was able to help you in the very least get an idea of how to start in organic and how to go about creating the basic shapes that’s all I’m gonna show you today for this tips video

If you do have questions feel free to mention those in the comments or even join my discord and ask me there thank you guys for watching I hope to see you some other time bye