Blender Secrets - Hard Surface Sculpting Tips

[@BlenderSecrets]

My Hard Surface Video Course: ⇨ www.blendersecrets.org/video-course

[@tideinlight]

Love the longer format with all the related tips

[@BlenderSecrets]

Thanks, glad the response is so positive. I'll try to do them more often. It gives me a chance to add some more details.

[@deltastudios6632]

Nothing like opening up a video and the first phrase is already "Let's add a round cube"

[@BlenderSecrets]

No time to waste! :)

[@ecstasy6913]

wow this is a detailed tutorial, thank you so much.

[@darrenberkey7017]

You get a like from me just for not wasting my time with an intro. Thanks for getting straight to the point.

[@Sigmamagic15]

8 mins tutorial with more information is awesome 👍

[@cihangirkoroglu]

Using for years.. i still can learn, thanks to you offcourse...

[@brappineau4161]

one of the most useful tutorials out there. thank you very much

[@ritageraghty3261]

I just bought my copy of your Blender Secrets. I love the page layouts. It is easy to follow your tutorials. It is well worth the money. Thanks for writing the ebook.

[@BlenderSecrets]

Thank you so much!

[@maciejs.5094]

... ... this guy is gold.

[@michaelsmusicinstruments9980]

was exactly what i needed, thanks for the extra long version. i have watched something similar several times but never really understood it, then i watch a blender secrets video and it works the first time. great work, thanks a lot

[@simpslayer9269]

I don't think that you understand how much I have learned in such little time after watching this. I got out of bed just to try this out, your epic for making this

[@louiswho]

Seriously just watching this is melting my mind im blown away that you can create details with alphas so easily

[@USBEN.]

Never really knew how powerful the blender brush was till now. Amazing!

[@ShoSeijuro]

After some time watching your videos i bought your ebook this week, love the shorcuts, and how its organized. As allways all you do its ultra useful, thank you so much for helping us have fun with this great program that is Blender. You make a difference.

[@RingtailCafe]

This was a LOT of information in a very short video, I learned a ton of useful tips from this. Thank you so much.

[@TheKevphil]

I _LOVE_ the Bezier masking "path" tool! I think ZBrush only has "Lazy-Draw." Thanks for this video!

[@silentiic4560]

Thank you this helped me so much

[@dimitrilalushi4693]

Excellent video! A so rich information given with such simplicity! Many thanks for it!

[@CokeClassic2006]

Wow, Blender has some features that Zbrush could definitely use! Excellent video, as always

[@lavatr8322]

what are those features that Zbrush isn't able to do? just curious

[@CokeClassic2006]

@@lavatr8322 I think I was referring to being able to click out straight lines (zbrush has this weird "backtrack" feature for straight lines) and the the ability to set consistent depth for the stroke?

[@vancyboi162]

​@@lavatr8322blender definitely has animation, rendering and mesh modelling features that zbrush doesn't have lol

[@2002budokan]

These are so to speak Blender tutorials from another planet. Possibilities that I never heard before. 👍

[@1thirdart]

This is straight sauce!...Thanks for the tutorial

[@nampham6483]

OMG I LOVE YOUR LONG TUTORIALS

[@AdamJensenReal]

Very useful as always, thank you!

[@AndromedaBeta]

A eight minute video? Just bring it on. Helped a Lot. Tnx again bro.👏👍

[@yniko5500]

Exactly what was i looking for! Thx alot

[@joe_fabricator]

Great stuff! Added to my "Blender - Sculpting" library.

[@BlenderSecrets]

Check my sculpting playlist as well kzbin.info/aero/PLrB1kuJIjcg4usXAj2SNTKnXdKsFOvhe6

[@joe_fabricator]

@@BlenderSecrets absolutely will :-)

[@nurb2kea]

Very nice set of information on sculpting. Thank You! 🙂

[@taksinwatanabe9362]

Thank you for the tutorial, very helpful.

[@DreamTitanGames]

Thank you

[@giannamoscosothompson_desi8614]

wow, I love you at this point!! Thanks man :)

[@joep1131]

thank you, thank you very much for both tuts 1 & 2 !

[@Diomortus]

This is amazing! Thanks!

[@RobertMcNamara3DMc]

Wow... Dense with quality info. Thank you.

[@bugs2049]

This is like if Ian Hubert and Andrew Price had a baby! Amazing how a 8 min video feels very light.

[@trangthao8705]

Very nice

[@elsafelantika2885]

thank you so much for the tips 💖

[@DaeOh]

This video delivers!

[@zadokallen7640]

Pure Gold!

[@boyeliza]

very informative and time savvy. Thank you!

[@ralphedenbag4552]

Great video !

[@AlekMat]

This is amazing i wish i would find it sooner, you just earned a subscription my friend !

[@pile333]

Super useful! Congrats and thanks. We could make easily a covid virus model with alpha textures maybe. 😃

[@SnailSpaceWTF]

Thank you for the great video

[@sansidentifiant]

Thank you very much, this is a super usefull tutorial.

[@Uliszs3d]

awesome, thanks

[@muklismkl2733]

Thanks

[@level10gnollwarlock]

could you make a video about the process of projecting the sculpted details onto a low poly mesh?

[@BlenderSecrets]

I already made them: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaDadoOIfsuAY9k and kzbin.info/www/bejne/hanHmJZtlpymaqc and kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoimpoCpr9yAaLc

[@GatlingHawk]

Bruh .. 👌🏾your videos

[@NateGames636]

If your alphas are repeating go intro texture properties under mapping extension set to clip instead of repeat.

[@mimicreality6391]

amazing

[@lundinoZ]

werry good video thanks alot

[@ilkhomyuldashev97]

Great Bro..

[@frkatona]

I think the quadsphere is just the same as a 3x subdivided cube so you could probably save a little time starting the tutorial with "select cube and push ctrl+3"

[@davidbischi]

a subdivided cube isnt a sphere, you would need to add and apply a cast modifier to it with set to "sphere"

[@raghunandanbs2005]

Can we use stroke for inserting rivets with adjustable space between each rivet??

[@crabbyninja1375]

Here's the problem, 1 year later and now that "Set Persistent Base" Button is missing.......Any one know where the hell it went? Kindly and Ty.

[@CherylynnLima]

i can't get the stroke to draw the mask at 3:35, holding ctrl and clicking just draws more points!

[@CherylynnLima]

enter also doesn't work..

[@CherylynnLima]

can't be in lasso mask for this to work :p

[@alexandremoresque4779]

Parabéns pelos tutoriais! gostaria de saber onde encontro os alphas desse tutorial grátis? Obrigado!!!

[@digitaldefenders1]

Hi ! Your tutorials are really Amazing. But can you let me know how to copy the animation of one mixamo character and how to shift animation to another character. Thanks!

[@BlenderSecrets]

I did make a tutorial about copying animation, I’m sure you can find it if you search “blender secrets copy animation” ;-)

[@digitaldefenders1]

@@BlenderSecrets Thanks alot i found it !

[@ighodaroobasuyi5745]

@@digitaldefenders1 Hi, pls do you know another site apart from mixamo where I can auto-rig and animate character???

[@ighodaroobasuyi5745]

@@BlenderSecrets thankS

[@MagnusPeccatori]

"Let's use a red matcap and pretend we're using Zbrush" PFFFFFTT... 🤣🤣🤣🤣 🤣

[@svivan20]

F9 in blender 2.92 at 0:14 is not working for me :(. By the way, another great tutorial guys! Many thanks.

[@BlenderSecrets]

It works up to a point - once you've "confirmed" the creation of the primitive, you can no longer access that menu.

[@buendiamen1]

Software agnostic is cool term

[@BlenderSecrets]

Haha yeah it's weird but it's a real thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_(data)

[@mk2cell645]

But how to remain the sharp edges in hard surface sculpting？

[@andrewsanders7636]

make one on detaling like zbrush

[@BlenderSecrets]

What do you mean, precisely? Besides using alphas?

[@andrewsanders7636]

@@BlenderSecrets brush optimization I want you to watch zbrush artist using damstandard and clay buildup both behave way different then their blender counter part and are better for detail both have more power and in way make their blender counter parts look plane and soft since blender doesn't has xtractor brush for you to project your own detail I want you to make video/shorts on how to make your own alphas and how they work

[@BATCH3]

First of all, thanks a lot for all your videos, those are some amazing high quality and straight forward content. I'd like to ask you if you know how to do stitches in sculpt mode using alphas, like substance do with texture maps. Is that viably possible?

[@BlenderSecrets]

Hmm, great question. I'm not sure yet.

[@SamArt_YouTube]

First wide-screen video.

[@90bubbel60]

i have a question about the cavity option, im currently making a type of robot for 3d printing, will the cavity affect the result when 3d printing or is that just for yourself in blender

[@BlenderSecrets]

It’s been a while since I made this video. Which timestamp are you talking about?

[@90bubbel60]

@@BlenderSecrets at about 2:48 , im generally just trying to get a good indention look (that its a sharp edge)

[@BlenderSecrets]

@@90bubbel60 As long as it's real geometry, I guess it depends on the resolution your 3D printer is capable of.

[@90bubbel60]

@@BlenderSecrets not entirely sure what you mean with real geometry? that its not a texture or?

[@BlenderSecrets]

@@90bubbel60 I mean, if you make geometry changes with sculpting, it's really displaced the geometry. As opposed to say, using a Bump or Normal map to "fake" displacement. That would not work with 3D printing (although, you can still convert it to real displacement this way: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4DHoXqdpq6omJo)

[@postmodernerkindergartner960]

I have to have INSANE high subdiv levels in Multires to have a somewhat decent quality of these alphas on my mesh :/ Too high to be of some use sadly

[@MSBH]

Same, been trying to find a workaround but still can't really use this :/

[@insertanynameyouwant5311]

can you pls tell me the name of your video, where you added objects to the rigged character so it`s parented to bones or something? I need it!

[@BlenderSecrets]

You mean this one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2bLnWObfKaYrdE

[@insertanynameyouwant5311]

@@BlenderSecrets I think there was another one with a hat or so, but it will suffice

[@elliejohnson2786]

1:30 you say "press e" but the keybind is alt + e.

[@BlenderSecrets]

they changed it.

[@suwooru7171]

"...Pretend to use Z-Brush..." LOL

[@ciliaana3389]

Next: Soft surface sculpting tip

[@FlowerPower3000]

Cool, but alpha brush technique for Zbrush, because for good quality need 100+ millions polygons per model, and blender in this case pretty bad

[@BlenderSecrets]

I don't think I've used 100+ million polys before in ZBrush 😅 Certainly not necessary, if you split it up in multiple subtools. Maybe you mean if you count all the individual subtools up? You can do that in Blender as well, just use separate objects each with Multires modifier. Turn on the modifier only on the object you're working on.

[@FlowerPower3000]

@@BlenderSecrets not matter)) For get the same high quality result like in zbrush, user need computer much more powerful.

[@greedy_mf]

the shortcut key seems to no longer be E

[@BlenderSecrets]

That's annoying... it seems to be Alt+E now. I'll update it in my book, thanks for letting me know!!

[@greedy_mf]

@@BlenderSecrets no worries

[@greedy_mf]

@@BlenderSecrets also thanks for the updated shortcut, I’ve been wondering what it might be now

[@safwanm3377]

Lets add a round cube💀

[@eathr349]

Bashing my head in, this is what I get for trying to learn this myself. So many hours wasted.

[@US-vy8up]

t u t u

[@TauranusRex]

F9 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JESUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@othoapproto9603]

what's this? a full video from Mr. incomplete shorts? Let's see if he lies about his thumbnail, spoiler the video has nothing to do with the thumbnail.