Forum: Blender


Subject: Quick And Easy Stylized Heart Tutorial

LuxXeon opened this issue on Feb 11, 2022 ยท 9 posts


LuxXeon posted Fri, 11 February 2022 at 11:35 PM

@Lobo3433  Thank you, my friend!  It's a super easy one this time, but I thought it might be appropriate for the occasion.  I was tempted to do this in Blender 3.1, because there has been a long-awaited update to the modeling tools in that version which would have been interesting to use on this model, but I decided to keep it as a 3.0 tutorial.  Blender 3.1 introduces Vertex Creasing for SubD surfaces.  (see here: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/3.1/Modeling).  This is a feature I'd been waiting patiently for since making the jump from 3dsMax to Blender as my primary modeling tool.  Vertex Creasing is such a simple but useful feature, I'm amazed it wasn't added until 3.1.  It allows you to create sharp points on subdivision surfaces while maintaining a beautifully smooth and clean topology.  No need to crease unnecessary edges just to achieve pointed corners anymore, and no need for support loops or triangles.  It's a godsend for certain types of hard surface objects that have points and curved surfaces together.  This would have been a good candidate for that, but I decided to keep it more universally accessible to people who haven't yet updated to the experimental builds.  This technique will work exactly the same in any version of Blender.

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