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Create a twist effect for columns

Create a twist effect for columns - Blender Tutorial

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Create a twist effect for columns

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- [David] Have you ever wanted to put a whole bunch of columns around a center point? Maybe like a Stonehenge or a temple kinda looking thing? How would you do that really quickly in Blender? Well, in this week's Blender's Tips, Tricks, and Techniques, I'm gonna show you just how. First, let's delete this camera and this thing. Select this cube. Hit Tab. Control, Tab, Face. Let's bring this up. Right about there. Let's bring this one up a little bit, too. Control, R. Put this here. Control, R again. Put that here. Control, Tab. Let's go to Face. Select the bottom ones. E, Enter. S, Shift, Z. Let's do it all over again up here. E, Enter. S. Shift, Z. A little bit different, so you can tell that they're a little different there. Cool. Now lets hit A twice and G, X, let's move it off to the side. Without doing anything else, just hit Alt, R. And you'll get this really wicked looking 3D mesh. What's happening here? Well, what you've done is you've turned on the spin tool for your mesh…

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