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Chapter 2

Sculpting the Body

A digital sculptor is not that different from a traditional sculptor. In both cases, the brain must understand form in 3D and learn various tricks to plot the landscape of the body.

A digital sculptor, however, works in a virtual environment, which is a blessing and a curse. Traditional sculptors move around the model and use their entire body. A digital sculptor uses small movements of the wrist on a Wacom pad or a Cintiq. As digital sculptors, we do not get to move around and all that jazz, but we have undo!

In this chapter, I give you an overview of my method for teaching digital sculpting in ZBrush. This method ...

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