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Oscar Baechler
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Oscar Baechler is a CG generalist, professor, painter, photographer, open source advocate, and community organizer who teaches at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He's published a number of mobile games with a Blender pipeline and created animation for clients both big and small. Oscar runs the Seattle Blender User Group and Ballard Life Drawing Co-op and has presented on CGI at SIGGRAPH, LinuxFest Northwest, the Blender Conference, OSCON, Usenix LISA, SeaGL, SIX, WACC, and others.
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Xury Greer
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Xury is a digital media generalist and educator in the Greater Seattle Area. He earned his bachelor's degree in game design from Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He specializes in 3D characters, and technical art, and loves to share his knowledge. Xury is an avid member and Co-Organizer of the Seattle Blender User Group and aims to help others by teaching Blender, as well as other 3D content creation tools. He is always excited to get new users started on their digital media production journey.
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Sculpting intermediate details

Now that our preliminary sculpture is in place, we'll work on intermediate details. These encompass forms including muscles, bony landmarks, major wrinkles, and fat folds. Take a moment to make any final sweeping changes to your baby dragon, such as changing the size of the head or position of the limbs.

Organic forms tend to be made of three main categories: rigid structures such as bones and cartilage, the muscles and flesh attached to them, and surface details such as skin and scales that wrap around the overall form. While sculpting, keep that hierarchy in mind; muscles will deform around unchanging bones, and the skin around the muscles. When sculpting, break the form down into convex versus concave forms, and hard versus soft transitions.

As you gain confidence with how the brushes work, sculpting becomes a stream-of-consciousness activity...

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Oscar Baechler

Oscar Baechler is a CG generalist, professor, painter, photographer, open source advocate, and community organizer who teaches at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He's published a number of mobile games with a Blender pipeline and created animation for clients both big and small. Oscar runs the Seattle Blender User Group and Ballard Life Drawing Co-op and has presented on CGI at SIGGRAPH, LinuxFest Northwest, the Blender Conference, OSCON, Usenix LISA, SeaGL, SIX, WACC, and others.
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Xury Greer

Xury is a digital media generalist and educator in the Greater Seattle Area. He earned his bachelor's degree in game design from Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He specializes in 3D characters, and technical art, and loves to share his knowledge. Xury is an avid member and Co-Organizer of the Seattle Blender User Group and aims to help others by teaching Blender, as well as other 3D content creation tools. He is always excited to get new users started on their digital media production journey.
Read more about Xury Greer