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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)

Using face sets as automatic masks

Some areas of our sculptures can be difficult to work with if the polygons get too close together. For example, lips are usually sculpted so close together that it becomes impossible to make adjustments to the upper lip without accidentally affecting the lower lip at the same time. We could try making a mask over one of the lips, but then we could only work on one lip at a time, and we would have to invert the mask every time we want to work on the other lip. There's a better way to automatically mask areas like this: Face Sets.

We got a sneak peek of face sets in the Using the Lasso Trim tool to add and remove geometry section of Chapter 4, How to Make a Base Mesh for a 3D Sculpture. Face sets are a lot like masks; they give us a way to section off parts of the sculpture. Unlike masks, face sets don't limit the influence of our brushes unless we explicitly tell them to. This is great because we can keep our face sets around for a long...