Blender 3D Printing by Example

Extruding and scaling fingers

When a tadpole becomes a frog, a little nub protrudes out of the main body. It slowly grows longer to become a leg. The process of making fingers in Blender is very similar. You'll select a single face and extrude that out. That initial nub will continue to be extruded to become a finger. Since fingers are smaller than the hand itself, I'll also scale the new extrusions down. The fingers do not have to be perfect. We'll be working on topology edits in Chapter 13, Trial and Error – Topology Edits, to refine the shape. The steps I take to make a pinky finger are as follows:

1. In Edit Mode, make sure the Face Select icon is picked. Right-click to select the face you wish to extrude. I pick the one at the base of ...