Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters

Bridge Edge Loops

The Bridge Edge Loops tool works well to join a series of adjacent edge loops. It’s like an advanced Face tool (covered later in this chapter), but instead of creating one face at a time, it creates a group of them, joining two selected edge loops (see Figure 6.8).

Figure 6.8 Using the Bridge Edge Loops tool to connect two separated edge loops

To use the Bridge Edge Loops tool:

1. Select a string of edges (edge loop).

2. Select another edge loop in a separate part of the model (for optimal results, both edge loops should have the same number of edges).

3. Press Ctrl + E to access the Edge menu and select the Bridge Edge Loops ...