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Hard Surface Sculpting in Blender

Welcome to this course!

Introduction (0:54)
Downloadable assets

Setting up Blender

Introduction (0:11)
Wacom Tablet preferences (3:05)
Blender preferences (1:36)
Add-ons (12:21)

Creating custom sculpt brushes

Introduction (1:05)
Intro about Alphas: What are Alpha textures? (1:56)
Guidelines for modeling Alphas (2:51)
Modeling Alphas - Inset, extrude, bevel, knife (10:23)
Modeling Alphas - Array and Shape Keys (5:54)
Modeling Alphas - Booleans (5:05)
Baking Alphas manually (5:50)
Using Alphas as sculpt brushes (9:21)
Creating hard surface VDM brushes (15:26)
Creating hard Surface VDM's - Part 2 (6:19)

Tiling Displacement maps

Introduction (0:36)
Sketching a tiling Displacement map (10:10)
Creating tiling Displacement maps using modeling and Curves (58:14)
Baking the Displacement map (5:36)
Using tiling Displacement maps as a concepting tool (9:13)
3 methods for erasing displacement (5:24)
Mixing Displacement maps (4:09)

Cables and pipes

Introduction (0:19)
Basics of making Pipes and Cables (5:05)
Cables with Start and End caps (13:40)
Drawing cables on surfaces (5:10)
Sculpting damage and baking a complex high-detail cable to a low-poly version (11:50)

Coming up with a design

Introduction (0:32)
Basics of Thumbnail generation (8:37)
Krita: Installation and UI Scale (2:17)
Krita: Refining and mixing our thumbnail (9:55)
Krita: Preparing the thumbnail for Blender (5:16)

Sculpting a robot design

Introduction (1:13)
Sculpting - Part 1 (Base Mesh creation, Introduction to Sculpt Brushes) (41:19)
Sculpting - Part 2 (Let's make some legs, Lasso Trim) (42:18)
Sculpting - Part 3 (Scraping and pulling with the Snake Hook brush to refine base shapes) (35:45)
Sculpting - Part 4 (Adding the hands) (41:00)
Sculpting - Part 5 (Arms and shoulders) (38:34)
Sculpting - Part 6 (40:18)
Sculpting - Part 7 (40:36)
Sculpting - Part 8 (35:39)
Sculpting - Part 9 (54:17)
Sculpting - Part 10 (43:19)
Sculpting - Part 11 (49:54)
Sculpting - Part 12 (51:04)
Sculpting - Part 13 (45:38)
Sculpting - Part 14 (43:47)
Sculpting - Part 15 (44:06)
Sculpting - Part 16 (42:39)
Sculpting - Part 17 (52:29)
Sculpting - Part 18 (38:05)
Sculpting - Part 19 (58:19)
Sculpting - Part 20 (40:27)
Sculpting - Part 21 (26:57)

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