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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073875
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

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...

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