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Create shells

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- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri. Today we're going to look at ways to create shells out of basic surfaces. So, here we have some surfaces but these are really just one-dimensional surfaces, so they don't have any depth. Now, there are a couple of plugins out there that will allow you to create a shell. One is called joint push/pull, another one which I really like is called Shell. So, if we go into our extension warehouse and we take a look at Shell we should be able to find it. Now, in my search it came up first. It's called Shell and the author is ThomThom and it should look something like this. So, go ahead and install it if you don't already have it installed. Now, this may require a second plugin to be installed but go ahead and make sure that you get it installed properly and once you do you should have in your tools menu a Shell option. So, let's take a look at how this works. It's really a very simply plugin but very, very powerful. So, I'm going to go ahead and create a…

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