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

Xury Greer

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eBook Jan 2022 502 pages 1st Edition

Xury Greer

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eBook Jan 2022 502 pages 1st Edition

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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

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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.

Who is this book 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.

What you will learn

Configure your graphics tablet for use in 3D sculpting
Set up Blender's user interface for sculpting
Understand the core Blender sculpting workflows
Familiarize yourself with 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 and make it portfolio-ready

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Perry Sep 01, 2022

THIS IS ' VERY NICE BOOK WITH SELF QUIZZES ESY TO FOLLOW WELL WOETH THE MOINEY

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Alexander Hinton Mar 31, 2022

Ok so this is a preliminary review - Will update once I complete all the lessons.I am a relative Blender newbie. Coming from Maya during my formal education, I picked up the author's previous book Blender by Example, and I can 100% claim without a doubt that that book taught me Blender. Xury Greer (the author) has a step by step method of teaching, where he describes every step the student should take next, down to each hotkey and mouse click. He repeats the description throughout the lesson so that the hotkeys and movements taken begin to sink in completely.That really changed my relationship with Blender so I was relieved to see that 'Sculpting the Blender Way' was no different. Xury takes meticulous care to make sure that the reader understands the reason for taking an action or utilizing a tool in blender before asking the reader to replicate the task. It translates into much better outcomes for my work and a much more natural feeling understanding of the sculpting processes in Blender 3.1I will update this review as soon as I have finished the book, but for now, I am really getting a lot out of every minute spent with this text.

Kindle Customer Jan 29, 2022

I first experienced Xury Greer’s writing on Blender By Example 2nd Edition. He has a laser-focused awareness of his audience, and always presents difficult concepts in a way that makes it easy to understand. Sculpting the Blender Way takes the time to delve into the tiniest buttons that you otherwise might miss and spend hours looking for. This book gives crystal clarity to important technical concepts like poly count, sculpting artifacts, remeshing methods, and subdivision science. The sculpting lessons are also always fun; in chapter 4, he shows you six different ways to get to a base mesh for sculpting, and I bet six different readers would come away gleefully telling you a different answer for which is their favorite. Sculpting the Blender Way also lands at a pivotal moment for Blender’s sculpting interface, as the last few years have seen continuous changes to the UI and best practice workflows. If you were sculpting in Blender 5 years ago and went back into it, you’d be flabbergasted at all the new tools and techniques: face sets, remeshing, pose brushes, the list goes on. Luckily Mr. Greer’s book is ready to help. Also at this time in 3D history, the expensive sculpting program Zbrush was acquired by Maxon, and shortly thereafter they announced the end of updates for perpetual license users. If you’re learning Blender sculpting as part of Zbrush’s user exodus, welcome to your new favorite software. Sculpting the Blender Way is replete with illustrations and demo files, and jumping between the text and the files makes the techniques instantly click. Perhaps best of all, this book is a page turner. Xury’s writing style is clear and informative, but it’s also friendly, entertaining, and conversational, avoiding the dry pitfalls of so many technical books. You won’t just learn to sculpt the Blender way, you’re also going to have a terrific time reading this.

Laura D. Feb 07, 2022

I got a copy of the book for my high school digital media classroom. It has been a great resource for my 3D animation students and even gotten several other students interested in Blender. The book is very approachable for my high school students. Xury is an outstanding teacher and has translated that enthusiasm for sharing his knowledge of Blender into this book. I would recommend it for any teacher that is looking to turn their students on to sculpting in Blender.

Mcraig Feb 17, 2022

As a beginner I'm Learning a lot from this book on sculpting but like everything it take time to develop into who you are as a creative artist. Keep going!!

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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