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Question 1

What’s the difference between adding an image as a reference or as a background?

Answer 1

Reference: it’s own object.

Background: just adds it to the background of the viewport or something.

Question 2

What’s one thing you have to do when adding your reference image?

Answer 2

Uncheck ‘align to view’

Question 3

How do you get the reference image to snap when rotating it?

Answer 3

Hold down control.

You can also type in the number.

Question 4

How do you hide an item from the viewport and render?

Answer 4

Uncheck the little box next to it.

Question 5

How do you scale an object in every axis apart from a particular axis?

Answer 5

Shift + the letter of that particular axis.

Question 6

How do you make the object translucent so you can see the reference image through it?

Answer 6

Press Z, then select wireframe.

Question 7

What do you need to do before extruding out the cup handle?

Answer 7

Apply the solidify modifier (just solidify, not subsurf). Otherwise I’ll apply the modifier to the handle too, and you’ll get a while on the inside of the cup where the handle goes.

Question 8

How do you select faces?

Answer 8

Enter the ‘face select’ mode, icon top left.

Question 9

How does the spin tool work?

Answer 9

It will extrude the current selection in an arc around the 3D cursor.

Question 10

What do you do if the 3D cursor doesn’t extrude the arc properly?

Answer 10

Adjust the setting for degrees of rotation in the tool pop up settings.

Question 11

How do you make the spin tool line up better with where you want it?

Answer 11

Adjust the centre values in the tool pop up.

Question 12

Which button do you hold down to move things in smaller increments than usual?

Answer 12

Shift

Question 13

What easy thing can you do when you don’t want to figure out how many metres a tiny measurement is?

Answer 13

Input it in mm. ‘2mm’. And it will calculate it automatically.

Question 14

How do you thicken the top edge of the glass?

Answer 14

Add a loop cut right at the top.

Question 15

How do you fix the dodgy bottom of the cup?

Answer 15

Hit ‘I’ (Inset faces). It’s kinda like a loop cut. Do it twice and it will be perfectly smooth.

Question 16

What are the two ways to join the handle to the body of the cup?

Answer 16

Select sets of vertices and then press ‘F’ to create a face, or select all the faces involved, press Function + F3 to bring up search, search for ‘Bridge’ and let it do it automatically.

Question 17

What’s the hotkey to add a crease? (3/2/7:07)

Answer 17

Shift + E

Question 18

How do you get rid of the jagged lines around the handle join crease?

Answer 18

increase the subsurf modifier subdivisions setting until it becomes smooth.

Question 19

How do you move the 3D cursor to the origin of the selected object?

Answer 19

Shift + S, cursor to selected.

Question 20

What are the settings for the plate? (3/2/9:30)

Answer 20

Vertices 16, fill type Ngon

Question 21

What is the inset faces function?

Answer 21

Basically like a loop cut, but adds it inside a circle.

‘This tool takes the currently selected faces and creates an inset of them, with adjustable thickness and depth. Think of it as like creating an edge loop, but relative to the selected edges, even in complex meshes.’

Question 22

How do you model the plate?

Answer 22

Add circle at the cup origin, scale to the correct size and location, create an inset face, then add a couple of loop cuts.

Then edit mode, proportional editing and set to ‘sphere’, bring the middle of the cup down then adjust the proportional editing until you get the curve you want.

Question 23

How do you get rid of the jaggedness of the rim of the saucer, even after you’ve applied a subsurf modifier?

Answer 23

Add another loop cut.

Question 24

How do you get rid of edges that you don’t need?

Answer 24

edit mode > select edge > x > dissolve edge

Question 25

How do you sharpen smooth features?

Answer 25

Add loop cuts.

Suppose you could also use the crease function, but I’m not sure.

Question 26

When do you use inset face as opposed to loop cut?

Answer 26

When you want to create an edge inside a solid face.

Question 27

How do you copy a material from one object to another?

Answer 27

Select the object that you want to copy TO, then shift select the other object, then control L and select material.

Question 28

How do you make a material look like glass?

Answer 28

Set transmission to 1.

Then to remove the frostedness, remove the roughness.

Question 29

How do you remove the ‘tiny’ of the glass?

Answer 29

Set the HSVA V setting to 1 (pure white)

Question 30

What’s the hotkey for circle select?

Answer 30

C

Question 31

Why does the water look weird?

Answer 31

‘Normals’ - the side of a face that’s supposed to be facing the camera. The wrong side will appear red in the overlays> face orientation screen.

Question 32

How do you recalculate normals?

Answer 32

edit mode, select all vertices, shift + N to recalculate normals.

Or Function + F3, search for normals and select recalculate normals.

Question 33

Why is the refraction weird in the water in the cup and how do you fix it?

Answer 33

It’s calculating for the glass, then a sliver of air, then the water.

What you actually want is for the water to be slightly inside the glass. So scale up the water a bit so that happens.

Question 34

Why do you not just change the base colour of the water to turn it into coffee?

Answer 34

Because it wouldn’t have any depth. You want the light to have trouble penetrating the material.

(You can also look at what’s happening when you change these properties when you look at the shading compositor).

Question 35

How do you make a little tiny render box which just renders a tiny bit of the screen? (3/4/6:00)

Answer 35

Control + b then draw a square.

Question 36

Where do you take the volume colour for the coffee? (3/4/7:30)

Answer 36

On whatever reference pic you use: right where you’ve got surface tension on the glass and you can see a tiny sliver of liquid. The density setting will then make it darker.

Question 37

How do you mark seams when UV wrapping?

Answer 37

UV wrapping panel > select edge > control + E > mark seam.

Question 38

How do you unwrap an object?

Answer 38

U > unwrap.

Question 39

Do UV wraps have to be one piece?

Answer 39

No. If the part is complex, you can cut them off (using seams) and make separate wraps.

Question 40

How do you reset the x, y, z scale of an object to make UV wrapping uniform?

(You should do this if you get a warning in the UV wrapping screen).

Answer 40

Object mode > control A > scale

If you look at the N menu, you can see they’ll have been reset to 1.

Question 41

How do you square up the UV wrap vertices?

Answer 41

Select a vertice, L to select the whole grid, N, UV squares, grid by shape.

(Need to download the UV SQUARES addon first).

Question 42

How do you make a separate instance of the glass material?

Answer 42

Go to the material panel, click plus to add a new material, the on the second little world thing, select the glass material, then rename it in that second little text box.

Question 43

How do you assign a different material to part of a mesh?

Answer 43

Go to edit mode, select the faces, select the other material in the materials pane (need to make a new material first), and click ‘assign’ (button only visible in edit mode).

Question 44

How do you set up the condensation texture map thing?

Answer 44

Shading screen > add new image texture node with the file you downloaded from his site>

Set colour space to non-colour > plug colour point into (colour) normal map (normal) > normal.

Question 45

How do you scale and stretch the condensation texture map so that it looks right?

Answer 45

Scale and stretch the wrap in the UV wrapping screen.

Question 46

How do you change the bulbousness of the condensation? (3:5:22:30)

Answer 46

Change the strength setting in the normal map node. (He reckons 0.2 is about right).

Question 47

What’s the shortcut to repeat an action?

Answer 47

Shift+R

Question 48

What modifier can you use to duplicate an object lots of times? For example making a stack of plates?

Answer 48

Array.