Transforming a Phone into a Robot in Blender

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Published 2022-09-14
Let's model a phone and make it transform into a little robot!

Get the final project file here: www.patreon.com/posts/transforming-71980326

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00:00 Outlining the shape of the phone
02:44 Modeling the details of the phone
11:13 Adding legs and rigging the character
15:27 Animating the rig
18:40 Material and lighting setup
21:09 Making the number and screen layout
23:34 Further material tweaks
26:21 Adding a Rigid Body simulation
28:52 Last material tweaks, I swear!
29:56 Final result

#opensource #3Dmodeling #animation

All Comments (21)
  • @Polyfjord
    Attention: There are scammers in the comments of my recent videos. *I do not have Telegram or WhatsApp. Do not DM someone that are pretending to be me*
  • @robertk1701
    "Perhaps I should've been a phone designer." Leaves off 3 keys.
  • @Polyfjord
    My apologies for the audio issues in the middle part of this video!! I wanted to delete the entire part with bad audio, but the video just didn't make sense without it. I hope you enjoy the video nevertheless!
  • @kritrom
    As someone who quit 3D animation a while ago, this was so nostalgic and comforting to me. I could really feel your enthusiasm. The shortest 30 minutes in my life.
  • @MrAmbi-rw9hx
    Top 3 modeling types: 1. Get reference 2. DON'T be afraid to drift off of the "Normal" look 3. KEEP TRYING NEW THINGS
  • I honestly don't get as inspired from many other videos quite like yours. I love these animations especially from start to finish watching how everything forms. Great job as always!
  • @dvohwinkel
    I love your (what I like to call) "creative journey" videos. I also liked how you gave a sense of the real passage of time(you had lunch and dinner) ie many hours where spent on this. Please keep making videos because they are very entertaining and educational at the same time.
  • @PIXXO3D
    The transformers phone bot is one of my favourite CGI scenes, I've actually tried making it as a personal project many times, but gave up due to all the details... Here you made something very simple by comparison, but it still has that satisfaction.... Really inspiring, and it reminds me that simplicity is still perfectly good at stimulating nostalgia.... Because of this marvelous video, I'm going to give it a shot once more.
  • @daveSoupy
    parenting the phone to the rigid body cube was a stroke of brilliance.
  • @carel91
    Even you are not qualified as modeler, i really like your fast workflow. Just real time fast model concept, that is really useful. Sometimes i just edit each edge and vertices for hours, but i need to learn this fast 3d scathing. Great work man, thanks for sharing
  • That's absolutly mindblowing, I love how you create "Life" in your animations and environments, keep going Polyfjord, you inspire us!
  • @haselkern9657
    I love watching this type of video of yours! It's so entertaining to see you get in the zone and to follow your train of thought for a whole project.
  • @7melvil584
    Wonderful once more ! Nothing else to say. Just incredible.
  • I love these tutorials showing a process from start to finish. Its the perfect blend between basic and advanced techniques and I learn so much along the way + I get a result that keeps me motivated. I pushed through tons of courses on specific topics (e.g. rigging, modellig, animation...) but your videos are more rewarding while teaching just as well!
  • Thanks for sharing what you love to do. It's always a win win situation for the creator and the learners.
  • @akwright
    Your genuine excitement for being inspired with new ideas and then creating them as you go is what sets you apart from all others. I so love your enthusiasm and love for what you do!
  • the first modeling shortcut that pops in my head is to select all the buttons that are the same size and when they were rounded in the beginning, should have scaled by individual origins, not the default "bounding box", that way, you don't have to do the same action 9 times, just once. The other thing was on the volume button, adding unnecessary loop cuts to make a sharp edge could have been avoided by selecting the edges, that you want sharp and pressing shift+e to tell the subdiv modifier where to work. Those were my 2 cents on the topic (for now). Keep the good work!
  • You got me excited to get back to blender, the joy you felt while making this was contagious!
  • Honestly once explained it's fairly intuitive. Thank you for breaking it down so nicely for us newbies! Can't wait to play with the full version