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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 the Cloth brush to add wrinkles to the shirt

3D software packages such as Blender often come with the ability to perform cloth simulations; this means that the computer can move the polygons around and make them interact like cloth – bunching up, folding, wrinkling, draping over surfaces, and so on.

We'll learn more about cloth simulations by the end of this chapter. One of the disappointing things about cloth simulations though is that they are performed by the computer, and the only way to adjust the outcome of the simulation is to adjust the input parameters and run the simulation over again. This means that it's not a very hands-on way to work.

Blender recently introduced a revolutionary new feature to the sculpting toolset – the Cloth brush. The Cloth brush is a special type of brush that is able to run a cloth simulations in real-time while we sculpt. This will allow us to drag the surface of a sculpture around, which will act like cloth while...