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Sculpting the Blender Way

By : Xury Greer
Book Image

Sculpting the Blender Way

By: Xury Greer

Overview of this book

Sculpting the Blender Way is a detailed step-by-step guide for creating digital art with the latest Blender 3D sculpting features. With over 400 reference images, 18 Sculpting in Action videos, and dozens of 3D sculpture example files, this book is an invaluable resource for traditional and digital sculptors looking to try their hand at sculpting in Blender. The first part of the book will teach you how to navigate Blender's user interface and familiarize yourself with the core workflows, as well as gain an understanding of how the sculpting features work, including basic sculpting, Dyntopo, the Voxel Remesher, QuadriFlow, and Multiresolution. You’ll also learn about a wide range of brushes and all of the latest additions to the sculpting feature set, such as Face Sets, Mesh Filters, and the Cloth brush. The next chapters will show you how to customize these brushes and features to create fantastic 3D sculptures that you can share with the ever-growing Blender community. By the end of this book, you'll have gained a complete understanding of the core sculpting workflows and be able to use Blender to bring your digital characters to life.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Understanding Blender's user interface

Blender's User Interface (UI) is highly customizable and offers several presets for different workflows. For this book, we will take a look at Blender's UI as it pertains to the sculpting workflow. Luckily for us, Blender includes a project template specifically for sculpting, so getting started will be easy and we'll be well on our way to exploring the UI.

Getting ready

Launch Blender so that we can take a look at the UI. You'll be greeted by Blender's splash screen. The splash screen is a little floating window that provides quick access to your recent Blender projects and a few helpful links. The first time you launch Blender, the splash screen will provide you with a Quick Setup option, as you can see in the following screenshot:

Figure 1.1 – The Blender splash screen

We recommend leaving all of these settings at their defaults so that your keyboard shortcuts and other settings...