Flattening and exaggerating details

Another common sculpting task is to flatten out an area as if you scraped…it down with a knife.…With just a little variation, we can use the same tool to exaggerate details. Let's try it out.…So, if a seal was sitting on the ground like this, the part of him that's on the…ground would flatten out.…So, let's use the Flatten tool and take care of that.…Go ahead and click on this button or hit F on the keyboard.…I'm just going to look at the seal from the underside, zoom out a little bit so…we can see the whole thing, and go ahead, and start sculpting with this.…

So you can see it behaves just like you might expect.…It's just flattening things out.…Maybe I will increase the Size a little bit, and the Strength, a little bit more…pronounced effect, and let's shrink the size a little bit, and maybe flatten out…the underside of this flipper.…Okay, let's see it from the side. Okay, great!…It looks like it flattened out.…Now, there is one setting that will change how this brush behaves.…I'm going to hit F again, or click on this Lock Plane here to turn on Lock Plane.…