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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)

Creating insect eyeballs with extrusion tools

Not all eyes look like human eyeballs. There are times when we can be more experimental with eye designs. Insects have very different eyes than mammals. In this section, we'll try using some technical steps to create a hexagon pattern for insect eyes.

Getting ready

For this section, we will need a head sculpture that will look good with some crazy insect eyes. Download the provided insectHead_Start.blend file here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Sculpting-the-Blender-Way/blob/main/Chapter07/insectHead_Start.blend.

Launch Blender, and open the .blend file. This scene comes with the sculpture that you can see in the following figure:

Figure 7.26 – Insect head with no eyes

Let's give this bug some eyes!

How to do it

These steps are going to get pretty technical, but a healthy dose of technical detail can really take our creations to the next level. We'll start by creating an...