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Blender’s sculpting tools can be used to control the silhouette of a character over the course of an animation: easy to draw, but hard to do with bones! One of the coolest uses for the sculpt tool was shown to me by animator and teacher Daniel Martinez Lara. Instead of just sculpting static objects, you can use it to tweak the shape of characters as they move over time in order to polish animations. This enables you to fix deformations, add extra stretching or change the outline of a pose – things that are hard to do with bones, but easy to draw. This only works in the very newest builds of Blender (2.56+). After animation is completed, go to Mesh Properties and locate the Shape Keys panel. Select the Basic key selected from the list and click the plus icon to add a new shape key. Next, move the playhead to a frame you want to tweak, click the pin icon and enter sculpt mode. For sculpting, I prefer to use the Grab tool for making larger shape changes, and then the Smooth tool to smooth out problem areas.

Setting defaults for the file browser can save you a lot of time in the long run. Go to Edit > Preferences and on the left side choose File Paths. Here you can preset locations for individual data types. There’s another useful tip for file browsing I use all the time and don’t want to withhold from you. Type // in the file path field and it will take you directly to the current directory (folder where the blend file is saved). Have you heard of the Blenderkit or Sketchfab add-on? They both provide an online library with awesome free Blender assets and a plugin to directly search and import them from within the 3d viewport. The Blenderkit add-on is even preinstalled with Blender and just has to be enabled in the user preferences. Sketchfab is also free, but you must first download it from GitHub. In addition to 3d models, Blenderkit also offers materials and brushes. They are really useful to quickly import assets to fill up the scene.

One of our favorite things to do when we’re just plunking around in Blender is to use extrusions, Boolean operations, and other tools to characterize a geometric primitive abstractly and spontaneously. Eventually, you’re going to do something that ends up giving the shape some personality or resemblance to something cool. That’s when you’ll be able to capitalize and finesse. Next comes the importance of working methodically and logically. You’ll never start out with something that looks polished and complete. Start with the most basic, fundamental parts of your model. Once every major component is represented to some extent, you’ll be able to continue one piece at a time, adding more detail until you’ve arrived at your final product.

You can create and render vastly more complex scenes by using [Alt]+[D] instead of [Shift]+[D] to duplicate an object. The new object will share the same mesh data as the original, reducing memory usage. Even better, any changes made to one object will also be applied to the others, enabling you to update hundreds of objects at once. When you can get away with it, avoid UV mapping by using a quick-and-dirty flat projection on basic geometry. You can create complex, realistic objects in minutes. In most cases, the result will still look the same from a distance. Find additional info on https://3darts.org/.