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Almost two hours of tutorials about Sculpting with Blender

  Published by Allan Brito on November 27th, 2008 in Videotutorials

An artist from Brazil called Leonardo Davi published on his blog, a great collection of tutorials about sculpting with Blender. The tutorial was meant to be his final project, for a degree in visual arts.

In the tutorial he shows us how to model the head of a monster, in almost two hours of video. But, there is a down side in the tutorials, which is the audio narration. As you may be wondering, he is narrating all the steps of the tutorial in Brazilian Portuguese. So, if you don`t like the narration, turn down or off the sound for this videos.

You will find the videos (the tutorial has six parts) and all reference images here. The blog post, where Leonardo talks about the tutorials, can be reached here, and the text is in Brazilian Portuguese.



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  1. 1 1-ForTheFloor-3nth Edit Link Nov 27th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    I.. am amazed by this.

    I'm all the way for poly by poly :) topology control freak :) *I am*

  2. 2 banor Edit Link Nov 27th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    Cool… maybe someday I will check into this. Thanks Allan! (and thanks Leonardo Davi too, of course!)

    Bom dia!

  3. 3 SeanJM Edit Link Nov 27th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    When you see his retopolgy we really see here that we need "backface culling"/"dont draw backfaces" as a feature in blender for retopology.

  4. 4 markolonius Edit Link Nov 27th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    Thanks so much! I'm gonna be using these videos this weekend :)

  5. 5 gtooil Edit Link Nov 27th, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    Couldn't someone who speaks brazilian portuguese maybe translate? I know I would be glad to if I did.

  6. 6 tibou Edit Link Nov 27th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

    yes, subtitles would be really nice :)

  7. 7 Douwuhhh Edit Link Nov 27th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    I guess an english version for some of the settings would be great, but a shortlist of some of the used keys/shortcuts would do as well…when you pay attention, you hear the "Shift"-s and "Grab"-s, although with a portugese accent…
    And on the other hand, you can't learn how to have talent, which Leonardo definitally has a lot!!!

  8. 8 Miguel Edit Link Nov 28th, 2008 at 12:42 am

    @SeanJM: Totally agree. Can´t believe there still isn't an easy way to disable backfaces in Blender….

  9. 9 surfDude88 Edit Link Nov 28th, 2008 at 3:20 am

    How do you view the videos what program will run .oog?

    many thanks

  10. 10 Dread Knight Edit Link Nov 28th, 2008 at 5:33 am

    @surfDude88 it's ".OGG" and you can use VLC player for it http://www.videolan.org/ (free/opensource/crossplatform).

  11. 11 Bart Edit Link Nov 28th, 2008 at 7:19 am

    @SeanJM, Miguel: isn't the 'occlude background geometry' option in editmode what you mean?

    Edit: hrmf, only seems to work in face select mode.

  12. 12 Dulllgarian Edit Link Nov 28th, 2008 at 8:05 am

    an option to "lock selection" of the backfaces would be neat!

  13. 13 BlenderLovingSquirrel Edit Link Nov 28th, 2008 at 8:15 am

    hey bart where is the better memory management button =3

  14. 14 iBro Edit Link Nov 28th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    o_O
    Those are "quite large" files …
    Anyone has the smaller version ?
    My connection sucks.
    Yes, dial-up users still exist these days.

  15. 15 SeanJM Edit Link Nov 28th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Bart: :-), the best thing I found was working in wireframe mode with my retopo mesh and the with vert groups, hide the stuff I dont want to see. But it's slow to do it like that.

  16. 16 RooL Edit Link Nov 28th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    My first post has been detected as spam, so I write it again :

    @ Bart, "occlude background geometry" works both in face, edge or vertex mode, but not in wireframe mode. If you want your object in wireframe, put it in wire in the drawtype button in object buttons, and solid or shaded mode "occlude background geometry" works very well.
    I had very few problems with this in retopology…

    Hope that's an answer that could serve to SeanJM and Miguel. I haven't seen the retopo video yet, they're quite long…

  17. 17 namekuseijin Edit Link Nov 28th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    This is a truly fantastic video tutorial! Gave me a very good grasp on what it is all about this sculpting craze.

    After watching video #2, I was able to draw a similar goblin head in about 40 minutes, though less detailed and as proportionally correct. Until then, I thought tablet was essential for sculpting, but with the mouse it works just fine!

    Basically, create a base mesh with some rough sketched geometry (because there's no extrusion-like vertex-creating tool in sculpt mode), drop into sculpt mode, add multiresolution modifier and levels for it as you detail the mesh more. He basically uses just draw (d), grab (g) and smooth (s). shift+d subtracts from the surface rather than adding in general draw. He continuosly changes the force of the brush with f and view the model from different perspectives to see how the modelling goes. Oh, and x symetry on as well.

    Really, sculpting for organic forms is very, very intuitive, like drawing in 3D indeed. In just 40 minutes I had a head far more detailed and realistic than any of my previous cartoony sketches by box modelling. No going back…

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