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Sculpting the Blender Way

You're reading from Sculpting the Blender Way Explore Blender's 3D sculpting workflows and latest features, including Face Sets, Mesh Filters, and the Cloth brush

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801073875

Length 502 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Blender

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Author (1):

Xury Greer

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Exploring Blender's User Interface for Sculpting

2. Chapter 2: Overview of Blender's Sculpting Workflows FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Sculpting a Simple Character Head with Basic Brushes

4. Chapter 4: How to Make a Base Mesh for a 3D Sculpture

5. Chapter 5: Learning the Power of Subdivision and the Multiresolution Workflow

6. Chapter 6: Using Advanced Features and Customizing the Sculpting Brushes

7. Chapter 7: Making Eyeballs

8. Chapter 8: Making Accessories and Clothing

9. Chapter 9: Creating Teeth, Eyebrows, and Hair

10. Chapter 10: Rendering Sculptures for Your Portfolio

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the Lasso Trim tool to add and remove geometry

We have one more technique to show off in this chapter. We'll be heading back to Sculpt Mode to try out the Lasso Trim tool. This tool offers an artistic approach to base mesh creation that 2D artists will appreciate. With this tool, we can draw shapes that become 3D geometry.

Getting ready

We'll start this section with a fresh Blender scene by using the File | New | Sculpting preset. Once we have our fresh scene, we can get started.

How to do it…

We're going to start by activating the Lasso Trim tool, which is hidden underneath the Box Trim tool:

Find the Box Trim tool on the Toolbar. This tool has a small arrow indicator in the bottom-right corner to let us know that there are similar tools stacked underneath it.
Click and hold the Box Trim tool to open a list of similar tools.
Choose the Lasso Trim tool from the list.
Now, we need to adjust some settings for the tool. Take a look...

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Authors (1)

Xury Greer

Xury Greer

Xury is a digital media generalist and educator in the Greater Seattle Area. He earned his bachelor's degree in game design from Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He specializes in 3D characters, and technical art, and loves to share his knowledge. Xury is an avid member and Co-Organizer of the Seattle Blender User Group and aims to help others by teaching Blender, as well as other 3D content creation tools. He is always excited to get new users started on their digital media production journey.

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