{"id":1924,"date":"2024-04-05T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2024-04-05T17:13:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T16:13:55","slug":"redninja-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/redninja-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Ninja Cubie\u2122 #5 &#8211; Making of Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/redninja-video\/#Editing_the_Mesh\" >Editing the Mesh<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Supplimentary to parts 1 &#8211; 4, part 5 shows the process of meshing the Red Ninja character from the initial default Scene Cube object (a block) to finised, UV unwrapped and textured mesh ready for rigging (Armature assignment) and animation (Action Editor).<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #ddecf3; color: #000;\"><p><b>Download<\/b>: <a title=\"Download source file\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/files\/tutorials\/katsbits_redninja.zip\">Red Ninja&#8482; source file<\/a> (c. 900 KB | *.blend, *.tga).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Design note<\/b>: the video shows the process as a series of linear steps, much of the broader explaination being left for the written materials &#8211; parts 1 through 4, where making the character is explained in greater detail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Editing_the_Mesh\"><\/span>Editing the Mesh<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Part 1: editing the character starting with the default Scene Cube object using basic tools and functions. Once the mesh is complete Materials are assigned. Its then UV unwrapped and mapped before being used to bake a texture that&#8217;s reassigned to the mesh completing the character overall appearance as a Cubie&trade;.<\/p>\n<p>Duration : c. 53 minutes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meshing: 0:00 &#8211; 27:00.<\/li>\n<li>Materials: 27:00 &#8211; 40:00.<\/li>\n<li>UV Unwarapping: 40:00 &#8211; 42:00.<\/li>\n<li>Textures: 42:00 &#8211; 49:00.<\/li>\n<li>Texture Baking: 49:00 &#8211; 52:00.<\/li>\n<li>Reload Image: 51:00 &#8211; 53:00 (end).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"content_images\">\n<div style=\"background-color: black; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 25px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"><center><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jp2DSWP9gsk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Part I: modeling the mesh, materials, textures and UV unwrapping the character<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: black; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 25px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"><center><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VIiawYFrgt0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Part II: adding an Armature to &#8216;rig&#8217; the character made and textured in Part I above<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subNav\">\n<p>[1: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/redninja\/\" title=\"Modelling the Red Ninja\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Mesh<\/a> | 2: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/redninja-materials\/\" title=\"Materials, Textures and UV Maps\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Materials<\/a> | 3: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/redninja-rigging\/\" title=\"Rigging the Red Ninja\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Rigging<\/a> | 4: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/redninja-animation\/\" title=\"Animating the Red Ninja\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Animation<\/a> | 5: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/redninja-video\/\" title=\"Video\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Video<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[489,14],"tags":[342,205,219,231,226,99,491,25,335,490,341,356,191,232,239,227],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-make-a-ninja","category-tutorials","tag-action-editor","tag-animated","tag-animation","tag-bake","tag-beginner","tag-character","tag-keyframes","tag-materials","tag-meshing","tag-red-ninja","tag-rigging","tag-skeleton","tag-source-files","tag-texture-baking","tag-uv-editing","tag-video"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}