Blocksurfaces new version for Blender 4 is now available for download
Are you looking for creative freedom to model amazing 3D characters? BlockSurfaces is the perfect tool for both beginners and advanced users in character art.
Forget about the limitations of outdated tools or simply stacking objects to do the blocking. Enjoy a much more creative workflow with great freedom to bring your ideas to life. Additionally, BlockSurfaces allows you to do the blocking of all types of characters, from the simplest for starting in character art to the most complex, with possibilities such as duplicating limbs and testing different compositions for your characters or creating muscles that simulate their behavior, you can pose the characters without rigging knowledge, and finally generate the mesh to sculpt and give it the finishing touch.
You will achieve solid and professional results by focusing on the base shapes before adding details in the sculpting. This way you will build a solid structure going from general to specific.
BlockSurfaces accelerates your workflow and makes tedious tasks easy, making character modeling fun and fast.
With BlockSurfaces, you can quickly get started by learning to use 3 or 4 functionalities that you can already use to create characters. And as you progress and add more skills, you will be able to get the most out of it by making characters as complex as you want.
With BlockSurfaces your imagination will have no limits.
But don’t just take my word for it. Check out the YouTube channel for more than 100 videos with hours of timelapses, tutorials, and a full manual video explaining each option in each panel of the addon.
Check out these demonstration videos:
Santa and Elf timelapse
BlockSurfaces Version 1.0.025 Full Character Creation Tutorial – Overview and Step-by-Step Process in Under an Hour
Testing new version 1.0.015 Blocksurfaces : Asterix Fan Art Timelapse
Fan-Art Asterix Full Tutorial without acceleration and with voiceover. Blocksurfaces version 1.0.015
Quick demonstration video of lumberjack character workflow Ver 1.0.000
Lumberjack tutorial Ver 1.0.000
– Do the blocking in Blender and continue your model in your prefered sculpting program
The blocking process with BlockSurfaces is a quick and efficient way to create the general shape of a character model. It is used to capture the character’s proportions and pose and generate a remeshed mesh. This final mesh can be imported into your favorite sculpting program so you can continue working on the model by sculpting. You can also use the generated mesh as a base for retopology.
These are some of the features that make BlockSurfaces the ideal tool for any 3D artist:
– Create the main volumes with branch and basic shapes.
This helps to focus first on establishing the main volumes of the character by creating basic volumes using cubes, spheres or any other object, before adding details. It is important to work from the general to the specific, building a solid structure on which to progressively add complexity.
Creating solid base shapes in blocking and then sculpting and adding details. This way of modeling from larger to smaller is essential for an orderly workflow and obtaining solid results.
– Edit, move, rotate, scale, and even sculpt the objects of the branch.
This allows great freedom when modifying the objects that make up the branch volumes, essential to define the main forms of the character.
You can focus on the primary volumes, and the branch will generate connecting the shapes within it from one object to the next. This streamlines and speeds up the blocking process.
– Duplicate branches or parts of them.
The branch duplicating function allows you to quickly copy sections of a 3D model’s structure. For example, if you’ve already modeled one leg, you can duplicate it to swiftly create an additional leg or multiple legs, rapidly designing an original creature.
You can then make minor modifications to the copies to adapt them as etc
