This week, after working on some concepts for this assignment I got started on doing the blockout for my character sculpt. Having my concept in blender as a reference image was super helpful in getting proportions, placement and the overall general look. This was something which I found frustrating during class exercises so far, not having a bunch of references or a direct reference on my screen to work from.
This is how the sculpt progress is going so far…
I somehow managed to accidentally mask out the larger body shape and wasn’t able to sculpt on it, after googling I found the shortcut to remove masks was Alt + M which fixed the issue. https://www.reddit.com/r/blenderhelp/comments/i7atfl/i_cant_sculpt_my_cushions_and_they_turn_dark_gray/
This was the final blockout of the capybaras themselves. I didn’t actually remesh anything at this point and was just pushing around and reshaping a lot of spheres which seemed to work out ok. For the bucket, I’ll probably model in Maya and do some sculpting similar to how I did it for my windmill diorama.
I started to combine parts of the model in parts, I think this is more efficient? So I joined the big capybara’s body and back legs and started sculpting them and then gradually combined the other parts. I’m a bit worried about going too fast and ending up with a really lumpy mesh/weird distortions by trying to do too much at once. I definitely see the benefit in starting off in low resolutions and gradually working up.
When trying to combine the head, I was still only able to sculpt on the body and the meshes were coloured and it really confused me. After searching, I found that I needed to go to face sets and choose face sets from visible and that fixed the problem. https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/ipl150/why_did_my_sculpture_turn_green/
I also forgot that you need to remesh by using Shift+R and Ctrl+R to apply whenever you join objects as I was wondering why the head wasn’t blending in with the body when I used the smooth tool.
This is where the sculpt is currently at:
He’s looking a bit weirdly smooth but I don’t think it’s a bad start.
Elephant sculpt
This is the terrifying result of the elephant head sculpt in class:
Fruit/Vegetable Sculpting HW:
Apple
Pear
Red Pepper
