All language subtitles for C01L01_planes-of-the-head-01

- We're going to begin
sculpting our first head

by blocking in key proportions.

And this step is important
because if the foundation

is incorrect, then
everything we do afterwards

is going to be incorrect as well.

And this formulaic approach
is designed to take you

step-by-step so that you
can get as close as possible

to correct proportions, as
systematically as possible.

And so we're going to begin
in a default blender scene

with the default cube.

First, I will select our camera
and lamp and delete them,

select our cube and we'll
go ahead and rename this

head sculpt.

And right away, I want
to hit control and five

on the number row above your letter keys.

And this will add in our modifier panel,

a subdivision service
modifier with five levels

of subdivision.

In other words, we take a blocky cube

and make it a very smooth spherical shape.

And now I want to apply
the subdivision surface,

tab into edit mode, and then
I will hit my space bar key,

which brings up the search function,

which I should say that
I change that by default.

If we go to our preferences under key map,

I like to make my space
bar the search function.

And when I hit space bar,

I'm gonna type sphere

and we find this two
sphere transform operator.

And when I press that, we
can scroll left and right

with our mouse and
you'll see that the shape

ever so slightly transforms
into a perfect sphere.

I can also hit the one
key on the number pad

and now we've got a perfect sphere.

The only other thing I want to do is,

from the front view, in order
for the formula to work,

I want it to correspond to the grid,

specifically one blender
unit in each direction.

So this is one blender unit,

and I want to incorporate
the other axis as well.

And the way you can tell this
is, this particular grid level

has a slight boldness to its line,

so you should be able to
see it showing up here.

I'm gonna tab into edit mode and scale up

just to about there.

Now our sphere fits
within the blender units.

The size, if we look at
our item in the end panel,

your dimensions should be
really close to two meters

in each axis.

Now, with that setup,

we are ready to begin sculpting
with our object selected.

I'll switch to sculpt mode,
and I like to use a matte cap,

and then I'm gonna drag my
brush panel out a little bit,

so that we have the two rows.

And first we're going to
click our annotate tool.

We're gonna be using this
to outline mile markers

along the way.

But I want this to be in
reference to the surface

of our object.

And now if I click hold,
control and pull down,

we'll make a straight
line down the center.

That's a little bit off, but you know,

we just are ball parking it at this point.

Same thing on the side,
we'll go horizontally.

So we have put a cross hair
in the middle of our sphere.

Let's go ahead and change
the color to be a little more

noticeable, like a bright yellow.

And then from here, I'm
going to switch to my pen

and tablet.

And I'm going to split the
right half into thirds.

So one line, two lines,
makes an equal third.

Again, I'm doing this with my eye,

I am not doing it perfectly,

but it's going to get us very close.

And on that second line that we made,

I'm going to draw a vertical
line right down the middle

of that, or as close as
possible, there we go.

From here I'm going to use my
B box select, keep in mind,

we have the X mirror enabled by default.

So B box select up until that line.

And it's going to duplicate
the mask to the other side,

control I, to invert.

And I want to scale this side flat.

So we'll use our transform
tool and I want to adjust where

the pivot is set.

So if we go to our sculpt menu,

set pivot to unmasked should be fine.

And we'll scale that horizontally,
almost completely flat,

I like to leave a little
bit of roundness there.

And then we'll pull that flat
along the line that we drew.

Alt M to clear the mask.

Let's go to the left side by
hitting three on the number pad

and let's draw more lines
doing the same thing,

woops, vertically,

horizontally.

And from the side view, we're
going to keep referencing

the grid.

So let me create a new annotation layer.

In the n panel under
annotations hit the plus mark.

And the grid that I'm talking
about, is this square here.

And then draw another one below it,

I keep accidentally erasing.

And I'm going to subdivide this in half

and then the upper part in half again.

I'm going to bring this
quadrant of our sphere down

to represent the chin or
the chin and jaw shelf.

And before I bring that down,

let's move to the grab
brush with the G hot key.

And I want to make this brush pretty big,

a little bit bigger than the quadrant.

Once I have that properly sized,

I'm going to put the
cursor as close to the edge

of our sphere and bring it down.

Essentially, I'm going
to make this a corner.

So it looks like my brush
was not quite big enough,

let's make it even
bigger and try it again.

Just trying to bring
this down into a rounded,

but more squared off corner.

All right, that's going
to represent the chin,

at least the initial shape
of the chin from the front.

It might be a little too pointed.

So let's round that out slightly.

Just give it a little bit more volume.

And now from the side view,

we're ready to bring
this down into the jaw.

So with the b box select,
going to select this quadrant

and then hit A to bring
up our mask pie menu

and choose smooth mask and
I'll hit shift R to repeat that

one more time.

Control I to invert,
back to our transform,

and we will bring that down
so that the chin and jaw

rest right about that quarter
marking of the bottom square.

And from here, we're ready
to pull out a neck shape.

So I'm going to hit alt M
again to clear the mask.

Let's grab our straight
line annotate tool.

And first I'm going to draw
a line on this backside,

bottom quadrant from corner
to corner, just like this,

and then go back to our
annotate and split this line

into thirds, one, two okay.

So now where this line
intersects with our jaw

and then this diagonal intersects
with the back of the head,

we're going to paint a mask
in between those two spots.

So switch to the mask brush,

keep in mind that the line
annotate tool does not stick

to the surface of our sculpture.

So you can either erase
that and draw it by hand.

You know, we're okay just getting close,

we don't have to be laser precise.

And now I've got markings
that I can clearly paint out.

Let's hide that other annotate layer.

And now I can clearly paint
an oval shape on the bottom

with the mask brush.

All right, we're gonna get
really close to the side

of the head and it's okay to
make the backside a little bit

flatter and the front side
a little more elongated.

There we go, that's gonna be fine.

Control I to invert, hit
three on the number pad to go

back to the side view and we
can use our transform tool

once again, to bring this down.

Now, my point of reference for
how far to bring this down,

is the bottom corner of
this chunk to line up

to the bottom corner of the grid quadrant,

so right about here.

And then with my grab brush,
we can flatten the bottom

by bringing that front side up

and then smoothing, holding
shift and smoothing the bottom.

And at this point, it's a good
idea to go ahead and remesh.

So with our remesh settings voxel size,

I'm gonna go to .03 and hit control R

and that will remove our
mask and provide us with

more uniform geometry.

And I'm just smoothing that
out with holding control.

I'm sorry, holding shift.

And then from the front view,

maybe bring out the bottom
of this neck structure,

so it's a little more even,
how does it look from the side?

Maybe bring that forward to
closer match our reference line.

Here we go.

And now holding shift,
control, left click and drag,

we're going to create a marquee selection,

where this blue line
intersects our silhouette.

So shift, control, left click and drag.

It's going to be kind of a rounded shape,

until I select about halfway
up in this grid quadrant.

Okay, so we're talking
about this intersection

and then about halfway through here.

All right, control I to
invert, hit the A pie menu,

smooth the mask, shift R
to do that, a couple times.

And now with our transform,

we can look at the front and
I'm first going to scale out,

so the N's at this quadrant
here, on each side,

and then I'm going to bring it down,

so that the corner ends up
right there at the corner

of those grid units.

All right, so with our transform selected,

let's make sure that our
set pivot is at the origin.

So it's directly in the
center of our object.

We will scale horizontally in X

then move it down.

And then from the side, we
should also have to scale it

a little bit in Y, to about there.

Alt M to clear the mask,

let's turn off our annotations,

switch to a different brush,

so you can get an idea of
what the proportions look like

so far.

And this is stage one of the block-out,

In the next lesson,
we'll look at stage two.