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Kjartan Tysdal
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01 - Head Modeling & Sculpting

This video covers sculpting the head based on reference photos + the retopology process.

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9 comments
Malachi
Malachi
June 14th, 2024

Where the add on?

Jorge Guateque
Jorge Guateque
May 11th, 2023

Hello.... this is for people who have knowledge and practice in the software. So ... we must learn first to use Blender in sculpting and return to this work

Diego Orduna
Diego Orduna
Aug. 17th, 2022

This does not feel like it's aimed at beginners. I cannot even follow along the first 5 seconds of the video. I'll come back to this at a later point because there is good stuff here, just not for my level.

Kjartan Tysdal
Kjartan Tysdal
Oct. 14th, 2022

@Diego Orduna Hi Diego, yes you are totally right. If you are brand new at modeling then this is probably not for you since you might need to know each and every step to get anything done. This workshop was aimed at showing overall process not individual tools. So it makes sense to get a bit more comfortable with the tools and then come back to videos like this that show more about process (since that is generally more important )

Guybrush Threepwood
Guybrush Threepwood
March 1st, 2021

Hi! Could you maybe explain in detail how you set up your workspace to view the reference pictures from different camera views?

Kjartan Tysdal
Kjartan Tysdal
Oct. 14th, 2022

@Guybrush Threepwood Hi mr Threepwood :p I can see this question is over a year old so its probably not that useful to answer it, but I'm going to do it anyway :) This video was recorded in Blender 2.78 and I believe Blender has change quite a bit since then.

There is multiple ways to get reference images into the viewport, but one way is to use the Background Images function in the camera. You can only look through the main camera in the viewports, however you can add multiple viewports and set a Local Camera in the N-panel/ View tab for individual viewports. That way you can have multiple viewport with multiple cameras. That is one way

Another way is to use the marker system in the Timeline to bind multiple cameras to different frames. That way you can just scrub the Timeline and view through multiple cameras that way. If you dont know how markers work, you Add markers in the Timeline with the M-key, then you bind a camera with Ctrl+B (you can find all these functions and hotkeys in the Marker dropdown in the Timeline)

Abdul Abdulghafar
Abdul Abdulghafar
Nov. 23rd, 2022

@Kjartan Tysdal Thank you very helpful!

Valente Films Team
Valente Films Team
Jan. 9th, 2021

Where is the add-on?

John Dempsey
John Dempsey
Feb. 16th, 2021

@Valente Films Team https://cloud.blender.org/training/low-poly-character-creation/597a0264811917325d84265d

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