From the course: Maya 2023 Essential Training
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Using brush tools to sculpt meshes - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya 2023 Essential Training
Using brush tools to sculpt meshes
- [Instructor] If you want to model organically in Maya, you can use the sculpting tools. Now, sculpting tools can be found in a couple of places. We have a shelf with a bunch of sculpting tools, and if you're in your Modeling menu set under Mesh Tools, you'll find Sculpting Tools. Now, I'm going to go ahead and tear this off. Now, you can see we have a whole bunch of sculpting tools here, and I'm just going to play with a few of these, but I would encourage you to play with all of them just so you can kind of understand how they work. Now, with all of these tools, you're going to have an options box to the right. So I'm going to go ahead and select the sculpt tool and go into the options box to the right, and then I'm going to click on the ground plane here, and this should allow me to sculpt that ground plane. Now, in the tool settings for your sculpt tool, the first thing you have is size. So if you notice I have this…
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