Create Shapes with Trim Lasso in Blender Sculpt Mode - Blender Secrets

Daily #Blender Tip: The Trim Lasso tool lets us quickly sketch geometry in the 3D viewport. Combined with some modifiers, this is a powerful tool for creating base meshes for sculpting.

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The Trim Lasso tool lets us quickly sketch geometry in the 3D viewport. Combined with some modifiers, this is a powerful tool for creating base meshes for sculpting.

The Trim Lasso brush in Blender is a powerful tool that allows you to quickly create shapes in the 3D viewport. It can be particularly useful in combination with modifiers to sketch 3D blobs and create a base mesh for further 3D sculpting. Let's delve into a more detailed explanation of this technique.

Open Blender and switch to Sculpt Mode
To access the sculpting tools, launch Blender and select the object you want to work with. Then, go to the top of the screen and click on the "Sculpting" workspace. This will set up the necessary tools and settings for sculpting.

Activate the Trim Lasso brush
Once you're in Sculpt Mode, locate the toolbar on the left side of the screen. There, you'll find a set of sculpting brushes. Click on the "Trim" brush to activate it. This brush is designed to create sharp cuts or trim away parts of the mesh based on the strokes you make. It’s quite slow when removing geometry, so I recommend mainly using it to create geometry instead. It’s fast when used that way.

Adjust brush settings
With the Trim Lasso brush selected, you can modify its settings to achieve the desired effect. The main parameter you'll want to adjust is the "Join" setting. Enabling Join mode ensures that when you make a stroke with the Trim Lasso brush, it creates a new shape that is not connected to the existing mesh (but it is a part of the same object). By ensuring that it’s not connected, we avoid any slow boolean operations.

Utilize modifiers
Blender offers a wide range of modifiers that can be applied to meshes to modify their appearance or structure. To create 3D blobs or shape the base mesh, you can combine the Trim Lasso brush with modifiers. For example, you can add a Smooth modifier to smooth out the mesh and create a more organic shape.

Sculpting the base mesh

With the Trim Lasso brush in Join mode and modifiers applied, you can start sculpting your 3D blob or base mesh.

By using the Trim Lasso brush in Blender's Sculpt Mode, along with the flexibility of modifiers, you can quickly create organic shapes such as 3D blobs and develop a base mesh for further sculpting. This technique offers a versatile approach to 3D modeling and allows you to unleash your creativity in the realm of digital sculpting.

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[bll]

This is like using meatballs without the complicated process. Sweet! 🎉

[eagleowl]

Adding geometry so easily ?!? AWESOME !!!🤩

[herculeholmes]

What is this sorcery! I continue to be amazed by the tutorials on this channel.

[SilentRedaction]

I've been struggling to find a method for making basic sculpting shapes that jives with me, and this makes more sense compared to stretching and arranging a bunch of basic shapes.

[Shieverski]

Another one! - I've always been using the lasso to remove the mesh, but I never thought to use it like that to build up the model, great tip... thanks!

[Mamika_AFK]

Just awesome! I usually don't do sculpting but box modeling only... but this just makes me want to learn to sculpt too! 😆

Thank you for all the value you provide us 🙏😄👍🩵

[URoblivion]

Having already forgotten the thumbnail by halfway through the video, i got all excited thinking you were modelling Piccolo. Very nice video, ill have to try this out

[Dudewithmacchesse]

Thank you this will save time when sculpting a model 👍

[Tranmaart]

Thank you! I subbed few months ago and your tips are really hidden and very useful stuffs. Since i started Blender in '22 october, every day brings something new to learn about, which is amazing. I trear my hair on every day why i didn't start Blender years before.

[denismelnychenko]

Thanks for you tutorials. At least 10 addons i just throwed away from my basket at blender market last year

[paulofeliznariz]

Hello friend can you make a video about how you paint it and make it looks like this textures?

[Stickia]

I'm having an issue getting to lasso trim. I tried double-clicking on box trim, but didn't work. Other than that, keep up the great work

[LightninKng]

Found one more alternative to box cutter

[eagleowl]

I have tested this. At the beginning it was working. But after a moment, the new shapes were disconnected from the first one. And when i wanted to correct this, I noticed that I couldn't use another tool anymore. Every other tool in the sculpt mode was made "nonoperational" ☹

Do you have an explanation to this problem, and if you do, a solution to it, please ?