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UV like a pro

UV like a pro - Blender Tutorial

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UV like a pro

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- [Narrator] UV mapping, or the process of making a 3D object into a usable flat 2D image to paint on is nothing but exhausting. Thankfully, Blender has some tricks that help us work quickly. Let's take a look. The first thing I want to do is delete our cube. Sorry little buddy. Let's go into cycles. Shift + C to center our scene. Let's make a monkey. Switch our layout to UV editing. Let's turn our monkey to face forward. Turn off T; N; let's make a new image. I'll just call this monkey. Hit enter, and then click OK. You can hit home screen and zoom out a little bit. Hit A, U, Unwrap and let's see what we get. Good Lord! That looks terrible. Okay, so now, this is not a good UV map. It stretched out this whole thing crazy as possible and it's pretty difficult to work with. Now, there's a few approaches here to make these UVs look a lot better, so that when you are painting on them, you can actually know what you're painting on. I challenge you to find the mouth on this shape. The first…

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