From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle in Blender

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Creating a path for the frame

Creating a path for the frame - Blender Tutorial

From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle in Blender

Creating a path for the frame

- [Voiceover] With the reference images in, we can begin laying out the foundation of the motorcycle, and I think the most fundamental part of it is this frame, the frame that kind of begins here and goes down and around to the back tire, and then from here up and under the seat, and then there's one more piece that comes straight up back to the front. We can kind of see it here. You can kind of see that it flares out a little bit as it comes down to the bottom. In addition, it curves back in underneath the seat here. To create that tubular geometry, we're going to use a path in Blender here. I'm going to come over here to the Create tab, and I'll choose Path. If we tumble around, we see that there is our path. Now I'm going to hit the five key on the number pad to switch to perspective view. But if I tab into Edit mode, you can see all this is is just a couple of points, right here, I can hit the G key and move these around like this, and we can begin to build the shape of the frame…

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