How to use the Polybuild Tool in Blender - Tutorial 12: BLENDER BEGINNINGS.

In Tutorial 12 of the Blender Beginnings series, you'll learn how to use the Polybuild tool, as well as how extrude to cursor can be used as a viable alternative.

It's primary use is to retopologise meshes and is a modification of the original extrude to cursor tool.

We cover:
- What Polybuild Tool is.
- Preparatory settings to Polybuild such as good snap settings and getting your retopo mesh ready
- How to use Polybuild tool.
- How Extrude to Cursor can give you similar results.

CHAPTERS:
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0:00 - What you'll learn in this video
0:25 - I have to be ASMR-like on this video.....
0:59 - What is Poly build tool
1:18 - Set up First poly: Prep
2:03 - Set up suitable snapping: Prep
3:16 - How to use Polybuild: Build with Edges
4:15 - Quick Demo (can be skipped)
4:33 - Edit Retopology using vertices.
5:05 - Colour/Transparency: How it helps with the tool
5:55 - AutoMerge: How it speeds up the process
7:33 - Extrude to Cursor as an alternative.
8:48 - Final (rushed) result

Hope you learn something and thanks a lot for watching - it really means a lot.
If you like - or hate! - the content then please comment. Feedback is the best way to improve the content.

I'll see you in Tutorial 13 where we will talk about the Spin Tool.

I reference the following videos that I created in this video:
Tutorial 1 - Viewport Layout - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAmXfuPCM2c
Tutorial 7 - Extrude Tool - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaFLpP3HFe0

Big thanks to Jamie Dunbar who created this tool for Blender - you can find his excellent channel following the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/c/jamiedunbar

Music used in this video:
Chill Ambient by Coma Media
https://pixabay.com/music/upbeat-chill-ambient-11322/

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