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01 - First steps
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    More Details!

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  10. 10

    Fine Details and Finalizing

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  2. 02

    Blocking Out the Body

  3. 03

    First Detail Pass

  4. 04

    Veins and Blood Vessels

  5. 05

    Baking the Final Color Map

  6. 06

    Specular Map

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Francesco Siddi
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01 - First steps

Base Mesh

Crafting a very rough base mesh to be detailed using the sculpting tools. Much of its structure will be re-used for retopology later.

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15 comments
Lisus
Lisus
June 21st, 2020

Nice video. What did you use in 4:10 to model so smoothly?

Andy Goralczyk
Andy Goralczyk
June 22nd, 2020

*@ania.lap* Thanks! I'm using proportional editing: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/3dview/controls/proportional_editing.html

chungking2339
chungking2339
May 5th, 2020

im trying to follow this video in 2020 with blender 2.83, is there anyway to get an update of the key maps and where certain tools have been changed to or if there names have changed i paid for the subscription just for this video series, would suck if i cant use it because of this

Omar Al Washmy
Omar Al Washmy
June 25th, 2017

How to make extrude over point clicked ( Shortcut please )

Andy Goralczyk
Andy Goralczyk
July 11th, 2017

@omar: Hold down CTRL and click anywhere you want to extrude your current selection.

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Omar Al Washmy
Omar Al Washmy
July 12th, 2017

@andy: Thanx ^^

flackshotgfx
flackshotgfx
May 22nd, 2017

should of had screencast keys on

flackshotgfx
flackshotgfx
May 16th, 2017

thx I paid for sub just for this

Jeffrey Hurd
Jeffrey Hurd
Oct. 11th, 2016

Great Video. Thank you

Felix Lucas
Felix Lucas
April 3rd, 2016

I just paid for my suscription here primarily to watch this tutorial serie and I can't watch or download almost any video. It keep telling me "Video Not Found".

Ugnius Tarvydas
Ugnius Tarvydas
April 3rd, 2016

@felixlucas38: Same here .

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Francesco Siddi
Francesco Siddi
Aug. 27th, 2016

@Felix Lucas<span class="username">(felixlucas38)</span>: Links are up again. We are monitoring the situation in real time and working on a long-term fix since yesterday.

Philip Leclerc
Philip Leclerc
Aug. 26th, 2016

@Felix Lucas<span class="username">(felixlucas38)</span>:

Likewise. If the videos aren't back up shortly I'll be cancelling my subscription - was on the fence about it in the first place and this isn't helping.

Ricky Purnell
Ricky Purnell
Aug. 7th, 2016

@Andy Goralczyk: This video was working for me yesterday but not today. Same error.

Andy Goralczyk
Andy Goralczyk
April 4th, 2016

@ugnius.tarvydas: the web team is working on it. the videos should be back soon! sorry for the inconvenience.

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