From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle in Blender
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Creating the oil tank - Blender Tutorial
From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle in Blender
Creating the oil tank
- [Voiceover] Now for this tank here, I think we can just begin with the cube so I'll go ahead and just create a cube and let's go to the side view and I'll hit the z key for wire frame, and let's just move this into place. Here we go. Once again I'll just begin molding the cube to get the basic shape of the object. And then begin inserting edge loops to get more detail. So I'll scale this down, tab into edit mode. And then let's use the border select tool to just grab points and move them to where we need them to be. I think what I will do is go ahead and move this to layer 2 so I can see it a little better. There we go, that helps. And I'll begin moving these around as well. Now if we tumble around here, it looks to me like this angles in and follows roughly the line like this angles in and follows roughly the line of the frame under the seat. So let's take a look at this part of the bike and let's begin moving this in. I'll tab into edit mode and once again with that border select…
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Building the engine10m 20s
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Creating the heads12m 14s
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Adding rocker covers13m 10s
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Modeling the air filter8m
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Modeling the gear box7m 47s
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Creating the oil tank6m 6s
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Finishing the exhaust pipes and adding tubes11m 45s
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Modeling the transmission cover8m 16s
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