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Fundamentals of Sculpting

with Kent Trammell

You may be familiar with Mesh Modeling as the primary method of forming 3D shapes with Blender. But did you know Blender also offers 3D sculpting?

Where mesh modeling can be a bit more like carpentry, sculpting offers a more artistically intuitive shape-forming approach.  Like being a kid again, building with digital clay!

What you'll Learn

Tried and True Curriculum

We designed this course for beginner sculptors. If you've never picked up a digital sculpting brush, you're in the right place!

As the 3rd iteration of this course, the curriculum benefits from a decade of student results, feedback and suggestions. Beginners can trust this curriculum to guide them towards an intermediate level of understanding and beyond.

Sculpt Mode Overview

All of Blender's sculpting functionality lives in Sculpt Mode. From brushes to features to tools, this is where you'll find everything you need to sculpt amazing things with digital clay!

Brushes & Features

Brushes are your primary tool when sculpting and Blender offers a long list! Additionally there are a plethora of features, menus, and parameters to customize your sculpting workflow.

Sculpt Mode Tools

Beyond forming digital clay, there are tools for posing your sculptures as well adding color through painting.

Sculpting Formats

Blender offers 3 sculpting 'formats' to accommodate various situations: Multires, Voxel Remesh, and Dynamic Topology. Each has powerful benefits as well as limitations to inform our workflow.

Sculpting a Shark

Finally we'll apply the tools toward the reason they exist in the first place: Sculpting cool things! In chapter 3 we'll sculpt a stylized shark character from concept art, start to finish.

What People Are Saying

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️   "Never took time to fully complete a course for so many years.  Good to be back with an updated course and blender 4.2. Always easy to follow unlike Sketchfab (ending up with an Epic game account and still error 13 with a blend file). I hope Kent will also update his Human realistic portrait course.

Great job, keep it up."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️   "I have taken the original Fundamentals of Sculpting course and it was an amazing experience. I wanted to take this version too just to see how the tools have evolved/changed and if Kent would approach the sculpt any differently. It was yet another amazing experience!

His approach to teaching is very easy to follow along, while still being super thorough and leaving no details behind.

Sure, it will take practice as with anything, but this course truly gives you all the fundamental knowledge to tackle any sculpt you can imagine! 10/10 recommend."

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