From the course: Blender 2.8 Character Creation

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Importing reference images

Importing reference images

From the course: Blender 2.8 Character Creation

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Importing reference images

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- [Instructor] All right. Here we are in a brand new scene and before we begin modeling the character, I'd like to bring in some reference images so that we can have a front view and a side view here in the viewport to help us while we're modeling. First of all, I'm going to to get rid of all of these. Let's just press the A key and hit X and delete. So we have a clean stage to begin with to bring in our reference images. What I'm going to do is create a couple of empties. An empty is just a position in 3D space. It has no size, it has no texture, it's just a position. That's all it is. So what I'm going to do is press Shift + A and then I'll come down here to empty and you can see different kinds of empties here, but right down here in the bottom, this is the one we want. We want image. So I'll click that and there you go. There is our empty. Now we want to import an image into this and place it so we can view…

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