From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle in Blender
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Creating the foot rest and switch - Blender Tutorial
From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle in Blender
Creating the foot rest and switch
- [Voiceover] Let's now work on one of these footrests and also maybe this foot switch here. So once again I'll begin with a cube and let's just scale this down and I will just scale this in the Z pretty narrow so it fits right on here. I'll rotate it into place and change from Global to Local orientation. Scale in the Local Y here. I'll tumble around and let's take a look at this. Now if we bring everything else back on the motorcycle we can see that we need to move it over to the side and also scale it in the X a bit. And we have an overhead picture of it here, so I'll try and scale it in the X and get it put in place up here. I'll go ahead and go to the top view with the 7 key. It looks like it's in line with the front of the gas can so maybe I'll move it down just a bit. I'll go ahead and add a subdivision surface modifier with Control + 2. I'll smooth it by hitting the spacebar and typing S and that comes to our previous search. I'll tab into Edit mode and let's add a few edge…
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