@sjdaws Some shortcuts changed iteratively up to the latest release of Blender.4.0. If you can mention what version you are using and the shortcuts that don't work for you I can clarify. One important shortcut that changed is the remeshing size. It's now just R.

@Alessio Overall the course is still valid. Addons like Mask Tools became obsolete with all the official masking tools on the A shortcut. You can also now directly paint in sculpt mode. So things became easier.

There are plenty of new features that can help but all the features in this course are still there and usable.

@0022 Your mirror axis might be off? Remember that the location and rotation of the object is used as a reference for symmetry. You can reset this by using Ctrl A to Apply the Location & Rotation.

@Julien Kaspar I applied Ctrl A, I have it set symmetrically and the bisect tool cuts through but it’s at a lower angle on the other side

@0022 Do you have another way to slice the cylinder to get the jaw shapes?

@0022 Alternatively you could use the newer "Trim Tools" in sculpt mode. If I ever get to updating this part of the course I'll mention them as the better way to handle this workflow.

@shmuel lowenbraun Not sure. Could be any number of reasons. It would be easier to find out with a .blend file or soem screenshots/videos.

@Julien Kaspar here is the link to the blend file https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BoFy887JENm5HKfM5a3jtdedIlFFXECj/view?usp=sharing

@shmuel lowenbraun The entire model is masked. Use the A pie menu and select "Clear Masked". Or press Alt M.

@Julien Kaspar  got it, thank you for your time

@Dondi baker Could you sahre some screenshot sor even a video of how the brush behaves or what the results are?

@Julien Kaspar sorry I'm not sure how to upload an image I'm not seeing any option to do that

@Dondi baker You can share a link to dropbox, google drive or something similar. That's easiest.

@Julien Kaspar thanks https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13hY6STU_quDOp9vjbOufvJsL8QJJC8jM?usp=sharing

@Dondi baker I'm not sure what's wrong on the pictures. It seems well remeshed on the parts that are sculpted, no artefacts, nothing out of the ordinary. What do you want it to look like?

@Julien Kaspar the problem is the tools if I have it to high it takes away to much but if I have it to low it doesn't do anything I've tried changing everything I can think of but the scrape and smooth tool don't work the same way yours do at the end of the video

@Dondi baker There's a button that might fix the issue: In the sidebar (Shortcut = N) -> Tool -> Brushes -> the small arrow-down button next to the brush icon -> Reset Brush. Try that and see if the brush behaves like expected.

@Julien Kaspar ah I think I've got it now thanks for the help really appreciate it

@tuhina.sep With a pen the creasing will be more noticeable. If you want it to pinch more then increase the "Pinch" slider in the brush settings.

@Julien Kaspar thanks, can you also suggest any pen tab for beginner, that will be of great help

@tuhina.sep Even the small Wacom Intuos (~80 Euros) is solid and can be more than enough for years of use. If you want something even cheaper you can get a Huion Inspiroy HS64 (~35 Euros). These should get you started really well.

@Julien Kaspar  thanks a lot, great help

@Eddie but then how can I remesh the entire object as this seems to be done in sculp mode?

@Eddie You mean going into Edit Mode?

@Julien Kaspar I was using tab to change to edit mode. The mesh appears now but doesn't always. thanks anyhow :-)

@marcpechaud-4 I feel like the course is too focused on anatomy already. It's not really what it should be about. But I also didn't want to omit it entirely.

@tjdmscnldjq Sorry I don't know what you mean. You mean head & jaw? What boundary line?

@siddhjoshi85 For a few versions there is a new feature called "Face Sets". This will color your object in sculpt mode but it doesn't do anything unless you want to. Hopefully I can make another detailed tutorial on Face Sets but for now you can also just ignore those colors or even turn them off in the overlay setting (in the header tot he right)

@Julien Kaspar  thankyou

@siddhjoshi85 There is no concept art of Rain but the Timelapses of each chapter shows how I created Rain specifically.

@Julien Kaspar thankyou so much

@shirtsdesignpro Alot of stuff you wxplain don't really work the same way in reality, how come theres no more recent tutorial on blender site. I found better tutorial on Youtube.

@Trey Lewis Well that is by design. You are choosing a resolution and then remeshing the entire object in that resolution. Details smaller than that resolution will be lost. You have to increase the resolution to keep details but be careful not to go too high or your viewport will become too slow.

@Julien Kaspar Thank you! I hit the "detail sample size" button and clicked on the head, then remeshed use the sample size of the head, it worked and left all the details! the viewport didn't slow down at all :) Thanks for responding, helped a lot!

@Arnab Maiti Try out the draw sharp brush as well. Maybe that one will give better results. When I made this video that brush didn't exist yet and it's a lot better :)

@Abukar Mohamed Could be many things. Depends on what happens. Does it give a wrong result or just nothing? Does it give an error message at the bottom? With more details I could help

@Julien Kaspar sorry my english broken just try to get my point pls

@Abukar Mohamed It could be that the "Adjust Last Operation" menu is disabled. You can find a check mark for that in the Header under "View" or you can use the shortcut F9 to get those options.

@Julien Kaspar no isn't prompt any error message but whenever i create any Mesh like sphere the bottom left corner option will not appear.  also when i am when choose the symmetrize option i cant change the axis like -x+y

@MrMacBorrow I actually stopped talking there ;)     For anything I didn't originally record I added annotations via text.

@jamesrossbond It should be fine on any scale :)

@Malik Martin I am doing my best to repeat and explain some ways of how Blender works and how to access options but this is sadly no beginner course. I recommend this more to intermediate or advanced Blender users that are already somewhat familiar with how the software works. The focus is less on how to learn to use Blender and sculpt any character but instead on how to use Blender for character creation in a film production environment.

Definitely watch the course in order and if you feel like it's too advanced and you feel lost, either comment below any video and I'll do my best to answer your question or watch other beginner centered tutorials and courses first. Sadly there's no beginner course on the Blender Cloud for sculpting so I recommend other sources for now like CG Cookie, CG Boost, or for a rough complete introduction the Donut tutorial series of Blender Guru on YouTube.

@Julien Kaspar I think that I've done enough to follow along, it's just that I always pick blender up after a month or two of a break. and It's messing me up pretty good xD

@Kyla Anum Probably apply the modifier and delete the target object. A modifier will only affect the one object it is on. The target object that got merged still needs to be deleted.

@Ceren Erdoğan No, as long as you use the Voxel remesher to get rid of intersections.

@Julien Kaspar Thank you for your time!

*@Kendale Jones* I think adding meshes via shift + A was never a thing in Blender. One reason for this is because not long ago there was not way of moving/rotating/scaling these new meshes.

*@Omar Gonzales Diaz* The world scale won't change. It's fixed. What can be different is the size of your objects in that world.
Your character might be 1 meter tall or 3 meters tall while sculpting. I can't predict that and based on that size the detail level should be different. I quad for every centimeter means something different every time.

*@Malik Martin* Try checking the "Fill" option in the Tool Settings?

*@Julien Kaspar* yeah that's the first thing I did, but it's still hollow.

*@Malik Martin* Sorry I don't know what could cause this. Maybe report it as a bug and someone will fix the issue.

*@Julien Kaspar* will do. Thanks for the reply.

*@alan15* I can recommend to use the voxel remesher instead ;)

*@tradersyl89* Maybe you are not using the right tool? It's nested under the Knife Tool (Click & Hold on the Knife Tool in the Toolbar)

*@alexverz91* It might be disabled for your 3D Viewport. Go into the menus in the header under View -> turn on the checkbox for "Adjust Last Operation"

*@Julien Kaspar* Thank you so much

*@carbet99* Very likely because dyntopo is enabled. If it's enabled a lot of features will be disabled since dyntopo does not support them.

*@Julien Kaspar* Ah, I see what I did wrong. I had the wrong version but thank you for letting me know about not having dyntopo on.

*@pascua_joel* It could be that the "Axis Threshold" is not set to 0 in the Tool Settings?

*@Julien Kaspar* yes thank you!

*@kevin.hyoura.horatian* Both :)
Orthographic is great for seeing the real proportions and sizes. Characters can be designed on a more technical level this way.

Perspective is great for seeing the character how they will be seen by others. Here the artistic side can be worked on to make the character more appealing and 3-dimensional. This is the more important one to work from if you really want your model to look good.

*@Julien Kaspar* I see! Well, this concept is quite new to me since I always sculpt only on Orthographic mode before taking this course . It will take some time before I really understand when is the right timing to switch between them. Thank you for the insight!

*@Vladimir Zantleifer* Oh yes! I can recommend to actually use the voxel remesher for most of the sculpting :)
Just make the voxel size smaller, remesh and smooth the surfaces again. The Mesh Filter Tool is very useful for that if you set it to Smooth. Just click & drag and the entire surface will be smoothed.

*@Julien Kaspar* Ok! Thanks :D!

*@Som-Anene Ugochukwu Elvis*

THE SCULPTS AFFECT ONLY THE HEAD, NOT THE JAW

*@John Ngige* Those are inverted normals. That means these faces are pointing inwards instead of outwards.
I don't know how it happened in your case but to fix it you could use the voxel remesher in Sculpt Mode or go into Edit Mode, select everything and recalculate the normals with Shitf + N.

*@Julien Kaspar* thank you very much. It has worked!

*@mikee.taylor82* I was using my own custom brushes at the time of recording the videos. Now the default presets in Blender should be much better.
Just make sure to rest your brushes to the default in the sidebar.

*@Reynaldo Rosario* Sadly I cannot recommend to use my template for any version more recent than 2.81. Too many issues come from those settings and ideally you should start with clean settings and startup files.
The brushes also got a major update in recent versions so I can actually recommend to use the defaults.

*@Julien Kaspar* Muchas Gracias ( Thanks )

*@Lavanya Yelluripati* I'm sorry if you had different expectations. At least 2 videos per chapter and the introduction videos are free to everyone as a sample and to get a better sense of the structure and pace of the course.
In the introduction I did mention that I will do my best to go over some of the basics from time to time but this course is not really meant for beginners.
You should at least have some understanding of 3D fundamentals and how Blender works before watching these videos, otherwise it's going to be frustrating to follow.

Since you already paid for the subscription I can recommend to download the files and videos that you are interested in for another time to come back to :)

*@Ronja* I can recommend the Blender Fundaments Tutorial Series if you are new to Blender. This course is not meant for complete beginners so you probably will end up getting frustrated with the pace & lack of essentials in these videos.

okay, thank you :) *@Julien Kaspar*

*@vpn* In the viewport header -> View -> Adjust Last Operation. If this is toggled on then you'll see the popup.
But I can't recommend to use my template past 2.81 since a lot of things have changed and the default template has improved a lot.

*@taimurhabibprofessional* Oh nvm, I forgot to join the neck and the head using CTRL+J, it worked now

*@taimurhabibprofessional* That's a really great question!
Perspective view gives a more realistic and correct view of how your model will be visible. You should model your characters definitely in a way that the perspective view looks correct and appealing.

On the other hand orthographic doesn't have any misleading distortion and you will see everything perfectly straight and in the correct scale without parallax.
Also when making cuts, masking or lasso selecting areas and other various tasks, orthographic can give you more reliable results (again: because there is no distortion or parallax)

*@Julien Kaspar* Thank you very much Julien

*@Sergio Andrade Figueroa* You can bring it up as a popup with the shortcut F9 or if it's permanently invisible
you can enable it in the 3D Viewport Header -> View -> and enable "Adjust Last Operation".

*@Julien Kaspar* Thanks a lot man.

*@angleseatwo* The boolean modifier is never joining 2 objects. What it does is, it takes another object and adds it to the one that has the boolean modifier. So the boolean modifier is always just affecting the object that has the modifier.

You need to delete the other object afterwards. I will do my best to add a bonus video soon to keep people from using the boolean modifier since it's causing too many issues in the sculpting workflow.
Past the Blender version 2.80 I recommend everyone to just join the objects and remesh them in sculpt mode (Ctrl + R).
I'll get more into that one in chapter 2.

*@favero.luigi* I will do my best to soon update this chapter of the course.
With any Blender version after Blender 2.80 I cannot recommend to use the boolean modifier anymore to merge objects, since the voxel remesher in sculpt mode is vastly superior in almost every way.
I am going more into that one in chapter 2 but it's not good that this chapter is still recommending a different workflow.

*@Lucas Haas* It's because you still have UV maps, vertex groups or vertex colors in your objects data.
Removing those will keep the popup from reappearing.

*@davomyan* https://old.reddit.com/r/blenderhelp/comments/b2kih3/problem_with_sculpting_on_two_combined_objects_i/ this person is having the same problem, I've tried Make Manifold with the 3d print toolbox addon, but that just straight up removed the entire jaw

*@davomyan* Ok so I found out I have interior faces, selecting all interior faces selected the entire jaw too: https://i.imgur.com/BfKJl9y.jpg , this is why make manifold deleted that, How do I fix this?

*@davomyan* Here's a video on these issues, how to prevent and to fix them :)
https://cloud.blender.org/p/stylized-character-workflow/5d3a1d3afa5e1feb5a307840

In chapter 2 I will go more into the new voxel remesher which won't have all of these workflow issues like dyntopo does.

*@Chris Taylor* Thanks, that is a good point.

*@Ilia Lyschev* With a tablet. If you want to learn sculpting, don't get used to a mouse. It's slow, not ergonomic and very restricting.

*@Julien Kaspar* does that mean that it is not recommended or it will not work at all?

*@keraatona* It will work but you won't do yourself any favours. It's like learning drawing with a block of soap. Eventually you just need to pick up the pen and learn it the better way ;)

*@Julien Kaspar* thanks but i dont think i can afford the tablet in this time cuz im still a kid (15) years old so il just stick to the mouse tell i get my self one :)

*@keraatona* There are very affordable pen tablets by Wacom that I can recommend.
The small Wacom One is just 40 Euros and should be all you need to get started. Personally I am even happy with an 80 euros Wacom Intuos with Bluetooth, which gives you all you could ask for to sculpt digitally, draw or paint.
Once you feel like you want to really dive into digital sculpting I promise you, you will not regret buying one of these.

*@Julien Kaspar* yeah it is just that i already spend my pocket of money at this coruse because my pocket of money per month is like 20 euro? and starting with a mouse is better then not starting tell getting a tablet right?:)

*@Julien Kaspar* ok, thank you.

*@theartoframos* Sorry nevermind

*@thelxlbloodlxlprince* Also when I try to use the Boolean tool from the sphere to the cylinder, the cylinder completely disappears after!

*@thelxlbloodlxlprince* It's a Loop Cut with Ctrl + R. To be honest, this course is not easy on beginners so I can recommend you to go through the modeling basics first. If you are worried about your subscription running out before you watched everything, you are able to download the videos and watch them whenever you want :)

solved

*@jyotish kumar* Certifications in animation & 3D modeling are pretty much meaningless. Your portfolio and resume will be the things people look for.

*@Dave Roddick* same thing happened to me

*@jyotish kumar* I can't quite tell what the situation is by the screenshot alone, sorry.

*@JacoFourienwu* A loop cut will get stopped by triangles & Ngons. A loop cut can only go through quads (4-sided faces) so maybe there is something interrupting the loop in your geometry?

*@jyotish kumar* There's likely not enough geometry to sculpt on. Try adding more resolution on the surfaces with dyntopo or the voxel remesher before sculpting too much. If you enable wireframes in the voerlays it becomes more clear how much geometry you have availible on any surface to sculpt.

*@jyotish kumar* This popup appears if there is any vertex data that could be destroyed when sculpting with dyntopo. This is referring to any "Vertex Groups", "Shape Keys", "UV Maps", "Vertex Colors" or "Face Maps" in the object data.

Since newly created objects have the "Generate UVs" check-mark enabled by default, you should uncheck that option or delete your UV maps. Otherwise this popup will keep reappearing.

But if you for example sculpt with the new Voxel Remesher, these data types will all be deleted without warning. In chapter 2 I will go over using the Voxel Remesher instead of Dyntopo as an alternative workflow.

thanks but another problem occurs when I use scrape tool then mesh goes wired look like mesh is eaten by brush and mesh goes a few invisible

*@jyotish kumar* Sorry I don't really understand what's going on based on the description. Can you somehow send a video recording or screenshots?

*@Julien Kaspar* {attachment Invalid slug Screenshot - should be a static_asset id}{attachment Invalid slug Screenshot - should be a static_asset id} see this problem occur

*@jyotish kumar* Dropbox, Google Drive or any other Cloud service should work fine. Blender Cloud also has an image sharing addon: https://cloud.blender.org/blog/introducing-image-sharing

*@Julien Kaspar* https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CSlfX6JxOnLaM72gc4CPfnXMeZNOKJkp

*@jyotish kumar* Maybe this video will help: https://cloud.blender.org/p/stylized-character-workflow/5d3a1d3afa5e1feb5a307840

*@Julien Kaspar*thank you sir for help

*@otasowie* Perhaps you have nothing selected? It only works on your selection. Or you haven't checked either "Clear Inner" or "Clear Outer". One needs to be checked for it to cut one side away.

*@Julien Kaspar* I did everything perfectly but to no avail.

*@otasowie* If nothing helps then I can recommend to try out another Blender version, even the latest experimental release and see if it's broken there too: https://builder.blender.org/download/

If yes then submit a bug report (In the top under "Help") and someone will help and fix the issue :)

*@Julien Kaspar* I have tried out another blender and reinstall over and over again.

*@otasowie* If everything fails with the Boolean modifiers then use the voxel remesher instead to merge the objects.

*@Julien Kaspar* How do I submit bug report?

*@otasowie* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTD0OJq_rF4

*@mxjcks0n* I'm not sure based on the description of the issues alone ... Maybe this bonus video can help: https://cloud.blender.org/p/stylized-character-workflow/5d3a1d3afa5e1feb5a307840

*@Julien Kaspar* Where do i submit my issue to the help center? I can't find it.

*@otasowie* You can report any bugs at the top under "Help"and then "Submit a Bug". Alternatively ask or look around at blenderartists.org for help on any issues. Others might already know solution on it.

*@moffale* Sorry I don't know what you mean with "getting that head to look like that roughness".

*@Julien Kaspar* I believe *@moffale* is referring to 10:19 where you appear to have skipped really quickly to a remeshed version of the main head shape. Indeed, if you skip the remesh part, it is really hard to get the smooth results that you do when you start scraping.

*@Benjamin Xiao* That's a good point! I haven't noticed that! *@moffale* Use the button called "Detail Flood Fill" to use the resolution that is set in dyntopo on the entire object at once. You can also just start sculpting on it but be aware that the smooth brush doesn't work with dyntopo, so always draw on it first with another brush to remesh surfaces before smoothing them.

*@QueenTesa Fuggett* Strange. Perhaps the object is rotated so you need to use another axis instead? But it should do something. It can't just do nothing when symmetrizing ...

*@Julien Kaspar* I figured it out! Instead of having both objects selected, I only had the cylinder selected when trying to symmetrize.

*@Luca Di Cecca* Not yet but I think it was at some point planned to have it per object, per island and per UV-island but I couldn't find proof of that right now.

*@wu* I didn't see it initially but if you look at the icons of the tools on the left panel some of them have a drop down arrow. Hold down the left mouse button on the knife tool and you should see bisect

*@lina-black* Mine is essentially a highly subdivided sphere by default. I can recommend to not use smooth shading or any other fake effects like cavity since they give a wrong impression of your geometry. Use as much or little subdivisions as you need.

*@elisha.dvir* I too had this problem, your comment helped me fix it. After doing all my bisects and getting to the sculpt part there were seams appearing between the Quad Sphere and my bisected surfaces whenever I went to sculpt. If anyone else is seeing this issue try:

1. Go into Edit mode
2. A (Select All vertices)
3. Shift + N (Recalculates normals to face Outside) or alternatively;
4. Mesh -> Normals -> Recalculate Outside

*@tyrone.stevens* weird, does anybody know why the normals got flipped in the first place? i feel like it had something to do with the bisect tool, but not sure how.

*@alexandremeaux69* Alright ! F9 was the key (sorry I should have watch a little further ! My Bad !

*@alexandremeaux69* For anyone else who has this problem and f9 Doesn't work. Go to edit mode, click on view and make sure "adjust last operation" is selected.

*@Enrico Tirotta* The strength of your smooth brush may be set too high. Try lowering the strength of it to see if that helps.

*@Brian Smith* Thanks, it doesn't work. If i start from a quad-sphere, all work fine, but if i try to do the same things showed in video (like add cilinder, boolean union with quad etc...), the mesh goes crazy with dypo (costant detail) and smooth (shift+ brush). I pick the resolution from mesh. I follow all advices for boolean problem :|

I try on ipad pro 2018 and iMac 27' i7 2018 with catalina. Blender 2.80. Anyway, i will do from a quad sphere with grab brush and hook

*@Enrico Tirotta* Enable wireframes and see if the mesh is evenly subdivided. If the reesolution is uneven, stretched or too low then the result is going to be unpredictable. The smooth brush is one of the only brushes that doesn't sudivide the mesh with dyntopo, so perhaps that is the issue?

*@Julien Kaspar* The problem was that, mesh low res in all points "cut points". Thx

*@Enrico Tirotta* I know I am a bit late with the solution, my good man, but this is also for the other people who encounter this problem. Like Enrico said, the bottom part (jaw) is way too low poly comparing with the head part (sphere, created automatically, high-poly), and when scrape tool is used on the jaw while holding shift, dyntopo doesn't create more polygons, instead, it eats away the mesh. Scrape tool should be used by itself without smoothing all around jaw part first, which will create more polygons for the scrape smoothing tool to work with. Hope this helps.

P.S. To be fair, tut author does say use scrape AND smooth brush, but while he says that, the text in the video just says "hold shift to smooth" which could be part of the problem.

@Aleksandra Biba Thank you, I was having the exact same issue with the jaw. Your solution worked! :)

*@Kevin Burke* Might be that I disabled the popup menu for the 3D Viewport. Go to "View" in the header and check "Adjust Last Operation". That should bring that little popup menu back. I usually try to use the shortcut F9 when I need those options since more often than not I don't need it.

*@Julien Kaspar* Yes, that was it. It's working now, thank you for the quick reply! Maybe it's worth turning it on & updating the template file since it is on in your video?

Excellent work so far! I'm learning a lot and liking your teaching style.

*@Kevin Burke* Thx! The file is now updated. Thanks for letting me know!

*@Brian Smith* Thank you! Once you understand and internalised the theory I can recommend to just sculpt the primitive head from a single sphere. It can be faster since there's no need anymore for the boolean and edit mode then. But the method from this video is also very reliable.

You can see it in the following Rain timelapses and my recent sculpt over here where I just skip all these steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0_oLEhIgmM

*@Julien Kaspar* yea I was actually impressed at the technique, great tutorial Julien