Not sure if I'm a one-off on this, but just in case it helps someone using 3.2 or later: The flatten brush wasn't having the same effect for me as in the video. The Scrape brush, located two spots below it, basically has the same effect (at least to my eyes). So if flatten isn't working for you, give the scrape brush a go.

Actually, on our anvil, there are many bashes on the underside by that big curve because of the use of that area to start a curve in Flatiron. In fact, the blacksmith says there is no part on an anvil that is not meant for some function or other. It is why it is shaped the way it is through time.

At 5:40 for those having trouble with chaging the size of the clouds to be more subtle, make sure to go to the modifier tab (the wrench icon) to change the strength. Most likely you're in the texture tab.

23:22 if you have problem finding the matcap in newer versions, it can found right next to the shading options( the balls that change between wireframe, material prewiew etc) there is little downward arrow that brings out the options :)

32:07 Blender 2.9 to change brush mapping to "random" it's now on the bar at the top, to the right of radius and strength. click the texture dropdown, then change mapping to random.

One thing to note for sculpting when you're starting is to NOT use the relative detail (more zooming, more detail), but rather use the constant detail option. When I started I accidentally got over 4M tris because I was zooming quite close all the time. That's gonna start lagging the viewport. What constant detail does is it has a percentage parameter which decides how much detail is added, regardless of zoom-level. It's also easier if you are modeling high-poly, since you can do block-out with relatively low detail, and then raise the percentage to add more detail. Of course you don't have to use constant detail as a beginner, just something to consider if you notice lagging during sculpting or very high amount of triangles.

For people who are using 2.91, custom brush setting are in "active tool and workspace settings" or the wrench and screwdriver(Top) tab. Not in the texture properties (bottom) tap

For those having pixelated mesh, before going to sculpting tab, go to layout/modelling tab, right-click on your mesh and use shade smooth!

Listening to you talk about anecdotes and thoughts you've had while you are sculpting is very relaxing

12:36 this is exactly why I watch your tutorials. Others only show how to achieve the end result. But the way you thouroughly go through each individual step, making sure your audience understands the process, not just the result is something i've yet to find in any other tutorial series.

This is the best series of tutorials I've ever encountered on the 3D modelling pipeline in youtube! Thanks for explaining everything so well!

This is turning out to be a fantastic series! I have recommended this to so many of my friends as well! being able to keep it low poly and add detail is a HUGE capability. Something I have been struggling with.

If anyone else is wondering Layers in newer blender Software is replaced by "collections". Top right side of the screen.

OH MY GOD ANDREW THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED IN MY LIFE! A SCULPTING TUTORIAL AND THE EXPLANATION OF SCULPTING PROCESS IN BLENDER. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!! Sorry for all caps I'm just glad you did a tutorial on this.

So glad you're doing a Normal Map Tutorial next. This topic has been quite frustrating to pick up as a newbie. I'm really pumped to hear your advice.

Using a newer version than this and it took me a while to figure out displacement map -> Cloud "Strength" is reached in the MODELING tab...

Ooohhhhhhh!!! Congrats dude! A little Priceling on the way, that's so exciting!! :D

Please make a tutorial on modifiers! I've yet to find one that really goes into great detail about all of them, or tips/tricks on ways you can use them.

Blessings and congratulations to you and your wife! Great news. I've been following you for years and your tutorials keep getting better and better, (especially for those just getting started). You are an inspiration to many. Nice work and best wishes.

I love that how Andrew just talk and sculpt at the same time! So nice to watch!

Obviously correct in that too much detail is unnerving. But if you were to see the anvil over at our Cow Town Museum you would think they used the Flat Tool on automatic and let it run for 24 hours. Of course, this anvil is more than 100 years old and still used.

PROBLEM WITH (self)SOLUTION! 2.83 or above: how can i set the displacement as it was at the "texture>texture mode"? (5:25) DO NOT SEARCH THESE OPTIONS AT MATERIAL TAB! Edit: I finally found out! When you add the displace modifier, click the "New" button to add the displacement texture and you will see 4 buttons next to it's name ("Texture" by def) and the most right one wich likes 2 swicthers referring to some kind of settings, then if you click it, you can set the type to clouds, but the strength is changeable only at the modifier's menu. (another notice is that the switcher button forwards to the TEXTURE tab, within PROPERTIES window.) TEXTURE tab and MATERIAL tab ARENT THE SAME!

Congrats on your baby girl! I've been following your tuts for a few years, you've helped me become a better artists. Keep up the great work.

It's so pleasing to listen your voice that makes tutorials are much better to go through

All previous parts are perfectly ok but this one needs an update, really. Great series nonetheless - Andrew is awesome teacher :)

Congrats on the baby!

Enjoy your tutorials. They seem straightforward and clear cut.

You Guys are having a baby? Awesome! Congratulations to the both of you, I wish you all the best for the future. xx

( 2.91 ) Displacement > Go to texture properties in the last panel on the left of the properties (where you found the modifier tab along with the physics, material, etc tabs) or in the displace panel where it says in a textbox "Texture" you will find 4 buttons to the right and the last one will take you to the same place > Then you pick clouds as the texture > Go back to the modifier tab to edit the strength.

@blenderguru, first, congrats on your daughter on the way. I have one of each and they are each a central joy in my life. Second I wanted to take a crack at explaining the horn ribbing you demonstrated with dyntopo both accurately, and hopefully in an artist-friendly way: So the first thing is better understanding the difference between how smooth shading and Catmull-Clark subdivision surface works: Catmull-Clark adds geometry, building an interpolated, curved surface based on your original mesh as a "control cage". Smooth shading, on the other hand, leaves the mesh alone, and interpolates the surface normals only. This is fine while the mesh is unaltered, but if you add mesh detail to a smooth shaded area, it works similar a subdivision surface modifier in SIMPLE mode. It adds geometry without any curvature. (With DynTopo, this appears to be with triangles instead of quads.) This extra geometry acts like proximity loops, sharpening the faceted geometry already there, giving you the ribbing you are seeing. As far as how to prevent this, you can use the "MultiResolution modifier" in Catmull-Clark mode instead of DynTopo, but it's a bit more manual. (You could also suggest/beg for developers to include Catmull-Clark to dyntopo in the next release, and hope someone obliges, unless you want to code it yourself.) you could also apply the subdivision surface modifier with a higher iteration count, but that gives you a higher polycount everywhere. If you are particularly ambitious, you can isolate the horn in it's own object. Apply the subdividing surface with more iterations to that object alone, then join and sew the two pieces back together. I hope that helps. -Loren

Congratulations, new father !! I've got my third doughter three months ago ! Another treasure to my life !! You'll love the experience, trust me !! Prety nice tuto !! Waiting for the next one.

Congratulations on the coming addition to your family!

the point of gift-giving is not getting something that you want but rather getting appreciation for others. for example, 'of my goodness, i never thought my friend but give me such an expensive gift. He is so thoughtful and generous". That's what I think

Felt like an absolute savage when I put my knowlegde from the Donut series to good use when I added a second heavier cloud dispacement modiefier to a vertex group I painted on the top of the Anvill to give the surface a real hammered look! :) Great tutorial series dude!

Hey, Andrew! I just found your videos today and I've been watching all afternoon. Just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work, the videos are great, and congratulations on the baby girl!

HEY ANDREW, CONGRATULATIONS on your wonderful news, much love from brisbane. your tutorials are amazing. :)

Totally right about gift giving, well said. However here is a thought, should you want to buy a present for your better half. Ask them to make a list of things they want but can't really justify buying right now. Then at some point in the future you can choose one of those gifts and surprise them with it.

Tip for who is using Blender 2.91/92. It works better if you use crease or scrape tool and play with brush settings until you find two or three that give you the effects you want: large hammerings, dents and chips. While concerning the brush texturing I still haven't found a workable solution apart from creating my own brush... which is added work... EDIT: I found out how to texture the brush in blender 2.91/92: choose the brush you use, then click on the last tab in the right panel (the one that looks like a chessboard: Texture options) there you can setup all the textures that you want, even using the cloud type as Andrew did. In the meantime I also found out that I can just use the normal draw brush and zoom in very closely to the model to sculpt the tiny details... it works, though it's quite long work.

I'm learning so much man! Thank you for these high-quality lessons!

Thank you for your most awesome tutorials!! Learning tons and its keeping me focused and motivated. I started checking the comment section before working through for changes in 2.8. Good thing too, there are many cool and helpful tips coming from the community, so thank you guys too! You saved my behind lots of times already. On a side note: I used your stuffs from the donut tutorial to only bump the underside of the anvil. the face is made of hardened steel and should stay as smooth as possible (every dent there will transfer to your work piece, you want to avoid that). But yea, the edges dent or chip no matter what you try ;-)

congrats on fatherhood! Just in case you're worried, your profession is only enhanced when kids come along! I'm so much more effective as an artist now with the added meaning to my life, and the new found appreciation I have for my time! I have a 9 month old, (my first) and I've never felt more creative and fulfilled. *That goes for hobbies and career in my opinion.

One advantage of gift giving is that you can end up receiving items that you turn out to like, but would not have bought for yourself. Sometimes you might be limited; you want something but just can't bring yourself to spend the money to get it. Other times it can simply be something you hadn't even considered, or didn't even know about.

I am coming back to this great tutorial after two years and I'm still really thankfull for it

I SO AGREE with your hypothesis about gift giving... even for birthday parties and stuff. Great video!

Hi everyone! So I'm running Blender 2.82a and I'm having trouble with using that awesome cloud texture brush. Once setting up the cloud texture I noticed that if I tested it out on the mesh, undoing that text brush stroke would also undo the whole brush set up. To get around that I made an "invisible" low strength stroke anywhere on the mesh, then tried it with full strength. Then I was able to undo those "actual" strokes without having to reapply the brush texture settings. If you are wondering why you aren't getting any detail at all from the cloud texture brush, double check that if dyntopo is on, and the detail size is low! That puzzled me for a while. I think it's the same glitch as above, not just erasing the brush setting but also the dyntopo settings back to 12px. Now this may have been because I had used flatten instead of sculpt like others had to overcome an issue, but when I use the cloud brush it over flattens the areas that I had flattened already. The Google hasn't turned up a solution but perhaps us youtubers can help me!!! And thanks Andrew! I finally finished the 2.8 Donut master class and it was amazing!! Thanks for putting up great content.

Congratulatiosn for your baby! Great tutorial also.

37:26 that breath was very authentic, nice tutorial, its really helping me to discover Blender features as im a total noob

You sir are a great educator. Many thanks for your content rich tutorials. There are many knowledgeable youtubers but being a competent to good content facilitator is a talent, and you have it. Ignore the haters & keep doing what you are doing. (I am a trained educator with 25+ years experience)

3:29 Tip: If you rename (F2) your Archive collection to *M*-Archive, moving an object to that collection becomes super easy. All you need to do is double-tap the M key after duplicating. If this is not useful to you, it's OK, you're not just lazy enough.

Congratulations Andrew! That's awesome that you're going to be a father!

Awesome tutorials as always, mate! Can't wait for the next one about baking. Congrats on being a new dad!

Love your videos. This is the only channel I've ever commented on. Please keep it up man. Thanks a million.

Finally someone well known in Australia!

You can change strength with shift + f same way as the brush size (f)

First of all great tutorial as always, really enjoy your style of teaching. Dont know if anyone will read this 2 years later or if your opinion on the gifting subject matter changed, but I do agree with your statement of not spending money on gifts for others. What my family started doing as we grew older and everyone kind of had their own money, was to gift our time more or less. As in, let's go on a trip here are some options and the budget or let's go for some fancier family activities. Results in quality family time and well spent money for not only the gifted one, but also yourself.

Playing the sculpting tools I realised 'multi-plane scrape' is a really fun way of re-introducing a sense of the right angle that you've smooshed away with with knocks, worth a try! :)

I can explain kind of why the horn has ridges, although I'm hella late. It's because the mesh isn't *too* detailed, meaning that those ridges have always been there. Blender, when set to "shade smooth" will smooth the normals out so that the lighting is nice and smooth, making the shape look genuinely round, and that works fine. The ridges come into play when it tried to retopoligize the mesh because it's basically subdividing it; rather than a smooth subdivide like the subdivision surface modifier gives. It's basically doing what you did in the modeling videos where you would create an edge loop around an edge that should be sharp; it's preventing blender from interpolating the normals. In other words, when it tries to smoothly shade the mesh, it will do a blend across the face of the normals from one edge to the other - that way the lighting engine believes it's a completely smooth shape. The high detail created by the sculpting brush doesn't blend smoothly because it doesn't know to; so it just creates a *ton* of flat faces. That means that while the normals are still smoothed, instead of smoothing from 0% to 100% (meaning top to bottom of the face), it's smoothing from 0% to 2% and then 98% to 100%. Hopefully that made some semblance of sense.

Such helpful tutorials. You've helped inspire me to create my videos 👌

Congrats on the baby. Thanks for the great tutorial

Congrats and thanks for the tutorials, i've seen a lot over youtube and yours are really amazing. Very good explanations, just the good balance of details.

So that issue with Dyntopo and the curved edge is because the actual shape isn't very smooth, but appears so because of smooth shading. When Dyntopo creates new topography, it follows the original shape, and assumes those areas as separate flat planes. This means the new vertex normals for the vertices aren't smoothed around, (they point straight away from the flat plane) which leads to the blocky look. It's essentially doing what you did at the start of the video to sharpen the edges of the anvil, since it doesn't quite know what you want curved.

Congratulations on baby😀🤗

i love his random tangents. they're very entertaining to listen to while sculpting. :)

Your tutorials are very helpful and pleasant to watch.

Congratulations Andrew! What a wonderful milestone in your life. I love your tutorials. Just started the beginner videos. What version of Blender are you working with? I don't seem to have the same interface as you.

Wow, the day after I realized I needed to learn sculpting, you go ahead and release this. A little suspicious, actually...

Congratulations on the baby!!

Best wishes to you and your family! Great tutorial as usual!

26:25 It looks like Dyntopo turns off whenever you go to "Edit Mode" and back to "Object Mode"!!!!

For anyone who is having trouble sculpting the microdetails, with the cloud texture near the end, you have to still be in dyntopo mode otherwise it will will not provide the detail necessary.

anyone enjoys andrew prices conversation while he works and has to repeat the video twice to listen and then to actually follow

While in sculpt mode and creating new topology using Dyntopo, the reason why it emphasizes those edges are because it's creating new geometry close to the edges on the base mesh, making the subdivision recalculate the smoothness based on how much geometry is in that area. For instance, this is what you're manually doing when you create a proximity loop to sharpen an edge of an object with a subdivision modifier.

4:05 Everyone who is asking yourself why his model isnt smooth as his, just press n and click smooth shading :)

Alles gute, Daddy! Genieß die Zeit!

I work with Blender for almost 5 years and always avoid doing anything with sculpting in Blender. After this tut I will finally try it !

Congrats to you and the wife on the baby on the way. Thanks for the tut as always.

Is there a link to the Displace - Texture.001? I cannot seem to find it. Thank you for these tutorials!

Layers are gone now and integrated into the collections functionality. So you should be making a new collection now , not a new layer. This confused me at first.

Congratulations on being a dad! I hope you manage to keep up with the tutorials! :-)

finally found the use of my drawing tablet

congrats Andrew

Andrew you are the best! Thank you for your advice, now my dad bought me a graphic tablet as an early Christmas gift! hahaha you are the best man!

Fantastic stuff, really well explained and easy to follow. Thanks!

I had to watch this tutorial twice...because you are going to become a father...this is incredible news. Ah, that remembers my of the time when my daugther was born...long nights filled with cries of a newborn child, mom and dad sleep- and clueless, wandering around like zombis...ah...actually it was fun...sometimes. I hope the best for your little familie, but please, dont even think off naming the new earthling "Blender"! Give him or her a decent name, like Maya or ZBrush...just kidding. And by the way, this is one of your best tutorial-serials. I followed every step, from the modelling to UV-Mapping to, finally, sculpting the deails. That was fun, because you managed to give us an overview into the blender-UI. Thanks alot and keep doing.

31:30 TEXTURE FOR BRUSH IS IN TOP MENU. PRESS X AND ADD NEW ONE.

on Gift Giving... great commentary. Cash is better if you know what you want. Sometimes someone in your life realizes that you might like something thats not on your radar. It makes for an intimate connection if it works out. Admittedly, when this is truly the case is probably pretty statistically insignificant. My parents got me an ABBA album at age 12. I didn't like it, but the girl I gave it to LOVED it. Suddenly it wasn't such a bad gift after all! --- on spreading out the detail randomly and where the viewers eye travels - classic art school composition stuff. You teach many subjects at once my friend. Thank you so much!

Congratulations Andrew! Best wishes to you and your wife!

How do you do that cloud texture thing at 31:48 in blender 2.8?

Skimming through the vid, I wish i had this tutorial series 2 years ago when I was starting out. There's two stages to learning to be a 3d artist, 1. learning to operate the software, 2. slowly developing your skill level with time and practice. If i had this series back then I could of graduated to the second stage so much quicker instead of wasting all that time learning from bad fragmented vids here and there on KZfaq as well as having to figure a lot of it out for my self. I hate to think about how much of that wasted time over the last 2 years could of gone into the second stage and how much more advanced I'd be right now as a result.

And Oh...CONGRATS!!! Andrew, you've been a real inspiration....:D

This is took so long for me, the amount of vertices make my laptop lag so much... I'm happy when its done... Thankss

For the latest blender version, if you have dyntopo issues Do the following: -select the anvil and right click on it, then select ''shade smooth'' -go to subdivision mod and change both the render and viewport values to 2 Then start doing the rest, applying the division mod and so on When you get to sculpting the dyntopo should work the same way it does in the video

I subsurfed my anvil 8 times..... to find out I can just use dynamic topology

More content like this series!, You are an awesome teacher mate

For some reason, I can't sculpt the edges of the anvil. The rest of the mesh moves, but I can't flatten the edges. I don't understand :( Edit: Apparently I had to right-click while the brush was enabled and change the plane offset setting to a negative number.

Its not about the money its about the fact you thought of them enough to get them something, the better you know the person the more likely you will get them something they like. Big business has made it easier to find something, but it is not to blame for people buying from them. mm not sure why I went out of my way to post this "its the thought that counts" to be honest I think the reasoning may even go all the way to the core of what makes us human, and far more than i care to type.

Congrats on baby news! Being a dad is awesome

Congratz, dude! I will surely miss your tutorials, now that you use 2.79. ;) Thanks for all this effort & time you put up for us!

Congrats on being a dad! *Kids who are "mixed"* (have parents of different race) tend to always come out beautiful. *You will have a very gorgeous child!* And a daughter at that. Defend her well, Daddy Andrew! :3 *Congrats* again and thanks for the tutorial!

Hi, I've seen the surface modifier you applied was on 2 and was perfectly smooth, but mine needs to be at 5 to lose all the faces. Also when I sculpt after applying the surface it becomes like "pixeled", can you please tell me why?