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Using masks to create hard surface transitions

Using masks to create hard surface transitions - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Using masks to create hard surface transitions

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- One thing we have not discussed yet is the Mask Tools in the Sculpting Tool Set. If you're familiar with Photoshop or After Effects or probably most editing, composting, drawing programs, you're probably familiar with the concept of masks, so there's probably not a lot of need to go into what they do and what they don't do. In the context of sculpting, they can be used for a couple purposes. One thing is the traditional one you're familiar with, which is, simply, to protect the area of your work that you don't want to affect with another tool, so in that respect it can be useful to employ at lower subdivision levels. So for to go down... I have five levels here, so I just took it down to level one, and let's see what happens when we do some masking here. I'm just going to use Line Mode and get a bigger brush size. Say we wanted to do something along the surface of this wing. So you can see what happens when you have this few polygons. Let me go back to Quick Shading Lines, and you…

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