Blender Blender Sculpting 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which sculpt brush moves vertices in a grab-like motion, pulling or pushing a region of the mesh?
- Clay
- Crease
- Grab (Correct answer)
- Pinch
Correct answer: Grab
The Grab brush lets you click and drag a region of the mesh, translating the grabbed vertices as a cohesive group without changing their relative positions.
Question 2: What does the 'Radius' setting control in Blender's sculpt brush options?
- The angle at which the brush stroke is applied to the surface
- The size of the circular area of the mesh affected by the brush (Correct answer)
- How deep the brush stroke cuts into or builds up the mesh
- The number of additional polygons created per brush stroke
Correct answer: The size of the circular area of the mesh affected by the brush
Radius defines the diameter of the brush's influence circle on the mesh surface, determining how large an area each stroke affects.
Question 3: What does the 'Strength' parameter control in sculpt brush settings?
- The physical size of the brush cursor
- How many geometry subdivisions the brush adds
- The intensity of the brush effect — how much the mesh deforms per stroke (Correct answer)
- The direction vector along which vertices are displaced
Correct answer: The intensity of the brush effect — how much the mesh deforms per stroke
Strength controls the magnitude of the brush's deformation effect; higher strength causes more pronounced displacement with each stroke.
Question 4: Which keyboard shortcut is used to interactively resize the sculpt brush in Blender?
- R
- F (Correct answer)
- S
- B
Correct answer: F
Pressing F in Sculpt Mode allows you to drag the mouse to resize the brush radius interactively before the next stroke.
Question 5: What does the Clay Strips brush do in Blender's Sculpt Mode?
- Cuts thin linear grooves into the mesh surface
- Adds clay-like buildups in rectangular strip patterns to construct form (Correct answer)
- Applies a procedural stripe texture to the geometry
- Extrudes selected edge loops as flat strips
Correct answer: Adds clay-like buildups in rectangular strip patterns to construct form
Clay Strips builds up the mesh surface in rectangular, clay-like deposits, making it useful for adding broad forms and volume during the blocking phase.
Question 6: What does the Inflate/Deflate brush do when applied to a mesh in Blender?
- Moves vertices outward or inward along their individual surface normals (Correct answer)
- Scales the entire mesh up or down uniformly
- Creates bubble-like cavities on the mesh surface
- Adds or removes edge loops evenly across the mesh
Correct answer: Moves vertices outward or inward along their individual surface normals
The Inflate brush pushes vertices along their normals to puff up the surface, while holding Ctrl inverts it to deflate (pull inward along normals).
Question 7: In Blender's Sculpt Mode, holding which key typically inverts the effect of most brushes (e.g., turning Add into Subtract)?
- Alt
- Shift
- Ctrl (Correct answer)
- Tab
Correct answer: Ctrl
Holding Ctrl while sculpting inverts the brush direction for most brushes — for example, turning a build-up stroke into a carve-in stroke.
Blender Blender Sculpting 2
Which sculpt brush moves vertices in a grab-like motion, pulling or pushing a region of the mesh?