Sculpting the Blender Way: Explore Blender’s 3D sculpting workflows and latest features, including Face Sets, Mesh Filters, and the Cloth brush

Length: 502 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2022-01-28
ISBN-10: 1801073872
ISBN-13: 9781801073875
Sales Rank: #266569 (See Top 100 Books)

Get started with the latest sculpting features in Blender 3D and learn key sculpting workflows such as Dynotopo, Voxel Remesher, QuadriFlow, and Multiresolution

Key Features

Use Blender’s core sculpting workflows: basic sculpting, Dynotopo, Voxel Remesher, QuadriFlow, and Multiresolution
Learn how to use and customize Blender’s sculpting brushes to create fantastic art effortlessly
Explore common techniques in Blender 3.0 for creating facial features, clothing, accessories, and more

Book Description

Blender 3D is a free and open source program that can be used for every part of the 3D production pipeline. It has several robust feature sets for creating 3D art that have contributed to its rising popularity in the last few years. Sculpting is perhaps the most enjoyable and artistic method for creating 3D art as it relies less on technical knowledge and focuses on artistic brushes. The latest release of Blender makes the sculpting feature set more powerful than ever, so now is an excellent time to learn it! This book covers the expansive list of features in the Blender 2.93 LTS release, as well as the exciting all-new Blender 3.0 release. This book will be an excellent resource for professionals who need a production-ready long-term support release of the software, as well as hobbyists looking for a cutting-edge experience.

Sculpting the Blender Way will demonstrate how to navigate Blender’s user interface and take you through the core workflows. You’ll gain a detailed understanding of how the sculpting features work, including basic sculpting, Dyntopo, the Voxel Remesher, QuadriFlow, and Multiresolution. This Blender book will cover a wide range of brushes, as well as all of the latest additions to the sculpting feature set, such as Face Sets, Mesh Filters, and the Cloth brush. You’ll learn 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.

What you will learn

Configure your graphics tablet for use in 3D sculpting
Set up Blender’s user interface for sculpting
Understand the core sculpting workflows
Get the hang of using Blender’s basic sculpting brushes
Customize brushes for more advanced workflows
Explore high-resolution details with brush alphas and Multiresolution
Try out the all-new Cloth brush
Render your finished artwork for your portfolio

Who this book is for

This book is for artists who want to get started with the exciting new sculpting features in Blender 3D. Whether you have experience using ZBrush or traditional sculpting, or are completely new to sculpting, this book will have something new for you to learn. Prior experience with Blender or other 3D software may be helpful but is not required. However, a graphics tablet from Wacom, XP-Pen, or Huion is highly recommended to be able to follow along the concepts and examples covered in the book.

Sculpting the Blender Way
Contributors
About the author
About the reviewer
Preface
    Who this book is for
    What this book covers
    To get the most out of this book
    Download the example files
    Sculpting in Action
    Download the color images
    Conventions used
    Get in touch
    Share Your Thoughts
Chapter 1: Exploring Blender's User Interface for Sculpting
    Technical requirements
    Installing Blender
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more...
        See also
    Understanding Blender's user interface
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
    Expanding and collapsing the Toolbar and the Sidebar
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        There's more…
    Exploring the viewport shading modes
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Customizing solid shading mode with the pop-over menu
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Using viewport overlays
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Navigating the 3D Viewport
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        There's more…
        See also
    Setting up your graphics tablet's stylus buttons
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        See also
Chapter 2: Overview of Blender's Sculpting Workflows
    Technical requirements
    Understanding the components of a 3D sculpture
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Pushing polys with the basic sculpting mode
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Discovering the limitations of the basic sculpting mode
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
    Creating dynamic topology with Dyntopo
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Practicing the basics of the Voxel Remesher
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Using the Voxel Remesher in a low-to-high detail workflow
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Exploring the most powerful sculpting mode – multiresolution
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
Chapter 3: Sculpting a Simple Character Head with Basic Brushes
    Technical requirements
    Creating the large forms of the head with the Grab brush
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Using masks to add the neck and ears
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Building up the nose and brow with the Clay Strips brush
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Smoothing the lumpy and jagged surfaces of the sculpture
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Creating a bulbous nose and cheeks with the Inflate brush
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Adding basic eyes and eyelids to the character
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Adding detail to the ears with the Crease brush
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Creating the mouth with the Draw Sharp brush
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
    Sharpening details with the Pinch brush
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        There's more…
        See also
Chapter 4: How to Make a Base Mesh for a 3D Sculpture
    Technical requirements
    Creating and transforming primitive objects
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Creating a base mesh with box modeling
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Using the Skin modifier to turn wireframe structures into thick skins
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Using Metaballs to build blob-like 3D forms
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        See also
    Inserting meshes and cutting holes with Booleans
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        See also
    Using the Lasso Trim tool to add and remove geometry
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Making sure our base mesh is ready for sculpting
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
Chapter 5: Learning the Power of Subdivision and the Multiresolution Workflow
    Technical requirements 
    An overview of topology
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Generating an all-quad mesh with QuadriFlow
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Exploring subdivision surfaces
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        See also
    Understanding when you're ready for multiresolution
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Using the Multiresolution modifier
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Recapturing details from the previous mesh
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Changing resolution for the appropriate details
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
Chapter 6: Using Advanced Features and Customizing the Sculpting Brushes
    Technical requirements
    Using custom falloff
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Exploring custom stroke options
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        There's more…
        See also
    Setting up custom alpha textures
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Using face sets as automatic masks
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Cleaving off flat sections with the Line Project tool
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Creating advanced masks with Sculpt Expand
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Posing fingers with the Pose brush
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
Chapter 7: Making Eyeballs
    Technical requirements
    Creating standard clay eyeballs
        Getting ready
        How to do it
        How it works
        See also
    Adding color to the eyeballs
        Getting ready
        How to do it
        How it works
        See also
    Adding depth and realism to the eyeballs
        Getting ready
        How to do it
        How it works
        See also
    Creating insect eyeballs with extrusion tools
        Getting ready
        How to do it
        How it works
        There's more
    Creating a cartoon eyeball using a Lattice
        Getting ready
        How to do it
        How it works
        See also
    Creating a stylized anime eye
        Getting ready
        How to do it
        How it works
        There's more
    Aiming the eyeballs with Constraints
        Getting ready
        How to do it
        How it works
Chapter 8: Making Accessories and Clothing
    Technical requirements 
    Making earrings
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Using Mask Extract to make a shirt
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        See also
    Using the Cloth brush to add wrinkles to the shirt
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Using the Cloth Filter to create a collar for the shirt
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Preparing a shirt mesh for a cloth simulation
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Simulating cloth to wrap a shirt around a character
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Sculpting a hat with Radial Symmetry
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
Chapter 9: Creating Teeth, Eyebrows, and Hair
    Technical requirements
    Creating tusks and teeth for an orc
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Creating stylized mesh eyebrows with modifiers
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Creating realistic eyebrows with hair particles
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Extracting hair from the scalp
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Visualizing the silhouette of sculpted hair
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Roughing out the shape of sculpted hair
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        See also
    Adding surface details to sculpted hair
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        See also
    Creating long flowing hair with curves
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
Chapter 10: Rendering Sculptures for Your Portfolio
    Technical requirements
    Setting up Rendered mode
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Adding three-point lighting to the scene
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Lighting up the environment with an HDRI
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Creating a clay material for the sculpture
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
    Using a camera to render the sculpture
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
    Setting up a turntable for a 360-degree render
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
    Exporting the final render
        Getting ready
        How to do it…
        How it works…
        There's more…
        See also
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