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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 Mask Extract to make a shirt

There are several ways to create clothing for our sculptures. One of the easiest ways to begin the clothing creation process is through a mask extraction. This will allow us to create a mask with the mask tools and then duplicate the masked area into a separate object. The benefit of this is that we can create the clothing as a separate object that is easier to work with. The shape of the duplicate object will already fit the form of the original sculpture, giving us an excellent starting point.

Getting ready

For this section, we can pick up where we left off in the Making earrings section of this chapter. If you have not completed that section, you can begin this section with a fresh copy of the womanAccessories_Start.blend file, which you can download here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Sculpting-the-Blender-Way/blob/main/Chapter08/womanAccessories_Start.blend.

Launch Blender and open the .blend file. You will be able to follow along...