Designing a Beefy Iris Door

I don't suppose for us lazy folk a blend file for this is available?

I have spent 40+ hours on this (while Ian spents around 50 minutes) but I am quite happy with it! https://twitter.com/merthadimlioglu/status/1364967393311784968?s=20

Ian, great stuff. And I agree with Daan, be an artist, not a serial producer. You are Ian, remain Ian. So take it easy. And I think that I have a purpose for your door :-)

Willem van der Veere - Studio Friday

Hey Ian, epic stuff with that puckering-anus-type-door man! Too bad it's not airtight 🤢🤣. I wanted to comment on your writers block feelings a bit because having thousands of fans paying to see you work your magic must mean imposter syndrome comes knocking on your beefy door right quick.. Feeling you have to put something out there for the Patreon is fine, but make sure having fun making cool stuff comes first. Remember, this is not a sprint. Pace yourself and don't stress about content too much. We want you to keep having fun doing this for a long time to come. You're a wizard Ian! https://twitter.com/BlenderUnit/status/1302402960819879937?s=09

boom! amazing

This. Was. Just the best. =D

Same! Yea textures just add so much.

Great video love the door. And also congratulations

I love the idea of creating that library. I've been thinking the same thing for a while, be nice to have an archive of curated go to's for quick reminders so I'm not always trying to go back through my history to find those one or two really key videos.

Ian: 1 hour = Me: 1 year.

Erich Stenzel

Excellent video!

Erich Stenzel

The videos where you find something cool and make an impromptu image are the best! Thanks Ian :)

Zachary Macintyre

I've got a little obsessed by this and I'm looking for reference. It's proving remarkably hard to find many good examples through searching when I feel like I've seen thousands! Anyone have a favourite movie/tv sci fi dilating door? So far Ian's is the best, of course...

Dewi

what a great tutorial , i like the "kitbashing" approach with texturing .

Albert Pougnol

Hello Ian! What the gpu\cpu\ram you use?

Man yeah, you can get away with SO much with image textures. That said, this video is a little misleading. It's actually the third time I recorded it, specifically because the textures I used the first few times looked totally weird, and the end result was just disappointing. As a lot of folks have pointed out, it's finding the right texture that can be the super hard part, hahaha. I love how you can load in different textures and it can immediately change the entire feeling of the model.

Ian Hubert

This was absolutely awesome! I think I now _finally_ understand rigging and IK thanks to you so now I want to rig everything! :D

Mario Taylor

Today's tip, up and down arrow will skip to the next and previous keyframe, so you don't have to hunt for them on the timeline. Bonus tip, control home sets the beginning of the animation, and control end sets the end of the animation . So you can easily adjust the scope of the time frame so the looping works in your favor.

Paul and Anna Spooner

I'm consistently impressed by how much heavy lifting textures can do for detail and overall look even when it's a cube project slapped onto a random part of a picture, and it took all of 2 minutes!

Would love to see a beefy iris tutorial next pls

Man ooo mannnnnn 🤯🙏🏾

Patrick Lever

this is fantastic! You always provide great insights!

Alex

Really awesome tutorial, the iris door looks impressive. Hey, maybe add some green clovers to have an Irish Door??? (Sorry, been at work for too long) :(

Mornarion

This is a bit of a meme here at this point - Ian knows this but refuses every time haha

sofia

That's amazing, thank you very much for sharing with us!

No, I watched those couple seconds 50 times. man, attention to detail is insane here, crazy!

Another awesome video Ian. Also, the facecam is working, for me atleast. The vid feels more expressive, whatever that means. Also #2, I might be wrong but I heard or read somewhere online that it is better to adjust the distance value than the strength value of the bump map. Apparently it will save more of the dynamic range of the image.

Lightning

Hey Ian which render engine do you often use ?

OMFG its sooooooooooo amazing

That would actually be so helpful. I'd be happy to help you organise that into some kind of course-like format if you'd like :)

gheedough

Small gigs are a real time killer, I learned that as well. Then again, long gigs that seemingly never end are the worst as well. Basically, I don't like to work I think... anyway, can't wait to watch this video! 😍

Jan van den Hemel

Haha nice man! Yeahhhh Issaquah! Class of Oh Ten! Go Eags etc.

Oh, cool!! When I lived near Issaquah I was up at Tinkham Road like three times a week- such a cool area. I miss it!

Ian Hubert

I will totally encourage you to that crazy project! I mean smart usage of time! Dashboards are the coolest thing after love.

Justus Hulmu

Cool stuff man. And congratulations on the engagement! WA state is decent. Used to love exit 38 on i-90. There are some spooky tree cemeteries out that way.

Cool! Yeah I'll hop on that. Honestly I'm stoked- I'm always worried I don't have enough details in some of these videos.

Ian Hubert

oh MAN man man I wish! I actually hadn't realized it until recently but the entire Hyperbole thing is entirely digital (I'm using to using lots of greenscreen elements), so I guess this is just kinda an animated short? That said, I have a ton of physics gauges... making an actual little dash panel thing with handles and all that would be super fun. Sean has a laser cutter across the yard- dang yeah now I want to try that hahahaha

Ian Hubert

Have you been building actual stuff lately? Like practical stuff, motors and arduinos? Reallife hyperbole racer would be nice prop to play with :D Nobody would anymore know what is real when there is actually real objects in the scene!

Justus Hulmu

I'm at work (ok, from home) so I can't watch for another six or so hours (gaaaah!!) but this really brightened my day! 🙂 Oh and that video library idea would be a great help!

Mario Taylor

Lets go!

trym ruud