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Everyone's always saying "Ian you better make a tutorial about modeling a bag of beans in Blender or I'll quit the patreon!" fiiiiine- I'll do it.   

This was the final detail of the coffee robot I posted a while back- probably over-modeled, but I don't end up regretting that much (since any asset that holds up usually ends up featured in some other shot)  

ALSO Jan made a fantastic 1-minute pillow tutorial for Blender Secrets a bit ago which I'm pretty sure introduced me to the whole idea of modeling bags via simulation. 


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Makin a Bag o' Beans

Everyone's always saying "Ian you better make a tutorial about modeling a bag of beans in Blender or I'll quit the patreon!" FINE- I'll do it! This was the final detail of the coffee robot I posted a while back- probably over-modeled, but I don't end up regretting that much (since any asset that holds up usually ends up featured in some other shot) ALSO Jan made a fantastic 1-minute pillow tutorial a bit ago which I'm pretty sure introduced me to the whole idea of modeling bags via simulation: https://youtu.be/NfDm33rfHkU

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Anonymous

Missed opportunity for ‘Making a big bad bag o’ beans’ (try to say it quickly :) )

Anonymous

thank you for spilling the beans about making the beans.

Anonymous

Yay I saw this on twitter! So good to have a breakdown

Anonymous

I am literally in the middle of doing a scene with those. Thank you Ian!

Anonymous

YOU are my hero lan!

Raffo VFX

Who is SO SHIT person to say "do that or I'll quit?" . Anyway I didnt know that you collaborated with Blender Secret. What a powerful team!!!

IanHubert

OH! No sorry I was doing a stupid joke because I figured nobody would actually want a tutorial about me modeling a bag of beans :P. And I love Blender Secret! But not so much a collab in this case as me inadvertently making a much longer version of his tutorial, haha

Anonymous

Love seeing your process Ian! So much info in all of these. I always struggle with clothing simulations in Blender it almost never works the way I'm thinking in my head and the settings never make sense to me. Started using Marvelous designer for everything cloth sim related and is very intuitive.

Anonymous

Interested to see you using the different scenes in the same blend file. I'm never quite sure when to use those, so I end up making different blend files for everything. Am I missing the benefit to that? Anyone have any thoughts on it?

Anonymous

Me: Patiently waiting for the next colour space tutorial. Ian: BAG OF BEANZ!!! But for real, great tutorial Ian. I learned a ton! Thx

Anonymous

The reason it looks like metal is you used the Glossy material which will cause it to reflect with the color you give it, but only metals do that, you should use the principled BSDF because it correctly reflects white, and makes the color the diffuse, which is how plastic looks. So unless you really wanted the metal look, Principled is the way to go.

Anonymous

Ayyy my first post as a new patron :D

Anonymous

So Im in quarantine right now and the bean song is what keeps me (in)sane

Anonymous

Radiohead Esq bag of beans song yesssss. Thanks so much Ian!

Followfocus

Amazing as always. Loved the Radiohead riff. Time to make some coffee.

Miko Dela

LET THE BEANS RAIN! Seriously though, this seems like an asset I didn't realize I needed :D

Anonymous

That was a close one. The bean gods are appeased.

Ian Letarte

intro sounds like the joker xD

Anonymous

I liked that fat ass cube

Anonymous

Beans Means...er... Coffee.

Anonymous

Now everything will have a starburst sticker on it, starbursts everywhere. No one will be able to read the labels. Madness !

Anonymous

I really hope that coffee didn't involve putting the prepackaged beans into a sock and then smashing it with a mallet (or rock)

Anonymous

Great idea and tutorial, I hope it's recyclable!

Anonymous

I love all of your humor! It makes the tutorials way more relatable since it's like you're saying everything I'm thinking lol

Anonymous

Wow I just watched a 30+ minute video on how to model a bag of beans and it’s probably the most entertaining video I have watched this year. I don’t know if that says something about me or something about Ian. But who cares. This was good stuff.

Anonymous

Hey Ian, great video! This is a nice GP tutorial to take a look at: https://youtu.be/NA3wZBC1Nvw It it's still difficult to switch to a GP workflow coming from mesh modelling to me. But mastering it would add so much.

Anonymous

Ahhhh... I need coffee now

Anonymous

Came for the tutorial, stayed for the song.

Anonymous

where's the patreon-tier for a full OKC cover album?

IanHubert

Oh they aren't at all. They're the worst. And apparently when they get in the ocean they look just like plankton so they cut open a beached whale recently and literally thousands of these things came pouring out it's an absolute nightmare.

Anonymous

it's very cool and very powerful how thoroughly you credit people for inspiration or tutorials. especially considering how many mid-sized youtubers just straight up recreate some of your patreon tutorials and post them as their own

Anonymous

I saw the butt looking cube Ian...... You can't hide for long!

Anonymous

lol this tutorial was hilarious man

Manuel Grewer

Now I want this coffee machine for my flat ... Fun tutorial Ian!

Anonymous

love the radiohead cover mid video, thanks

Anonymous

I love how fun you make these videos. My kids want to learn Blender simply because they hear the bonkers tunes when I’m watching your vids. 😂

Anonymous

Don't listen to Ian Bean man we all love you.

Anonymous

raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain doooooooooooooown