Create Clothing Manikin/Doll In Blender

This tutorial is to guide you thru the process of creating a clothing manikin/doll with

in Blender. This tutorial is based on these previous works and modified for the current

version of Blender 2.69

1. “MAKING A DOLL FOR HEXAGON by Sanbie”

2. “Create a Poser clothing rig in Blender 2.49 3dOutlaw”

3. “Infamous T59 Hexagon Clothing Workshop tutorial”

I wil l be working using Poser 2012 but most of the steps are backward compatible

with previous versions of Poser and the steps should also work with Daz Studio as to

how to export your character. So let’s get onto and have some fun Modeling.

Get Blender http:/ /www.blender.org

Open up Poser and Load your preferred character

Blender is a powerful modeling program and over the last couple of years and has

made great advancements in usabil i ty and UI enhancements to make i t more user

fr iendly. Granted i t is st i l l int imidating when you first start i t up but once you

develop your own workflow and become familiar with the tools and even customize i t

your way I think you will l ike myself wonder how you l ived without i t . The Default

start up scene or screen of Blender can be a bit int imating so let me just go over some

of the basic regions so you will be able to further follow along with the rest of this

tutorial .

Blender Navigation

One of the obstacles most new users encounter when first exploring Blender is

navigation especial ly when coming from other applications. I wil l not go into too

much detai l on navigat ion as that would be more for a beginner’s tutorial which would

make this one longer than need be but I wil l cover a few things you will need to know

to be able to accomplish this tutorial . I highly recommend and encourage that you

watch the Blender Basics – Introduction for beginners at Blender Cookie there are 6

lessons in the series that wil l give you a good basis of how to do things with in

Blender.

Your Number pad is your fr iend when i t comes to navigation in Blender become

familiar with i t since you will be using the Numb-pad often

The Numb-pad keys are not to be confused with the number keys above on your

keyboard they do not perform the same functions as the Numb-pad keys. I wil l be

referring to these keys as we proceed thru the tutorial . Also as a note as you see the

“5” key is your Perspective and Orthopedic views creating our Doll we will primarily

be working in Front Orthopedic view.

Other keys that I wil l be using thru the tutorial is the “Delete” & “Tab” key

which will get you from object mode to edit mode more easily. Keyboard shortcuts in

Blender wil l speed you thru your workflow process I wil l add a l ist of the most

common keyboard shortcuts at the end of this tutorial that you can print out and have

by your desk when modeling in Blender.

OK lets go import our poser exported obj into Blender

I hope this tutorial is helpful in encouraging you to explore Blender and add i t

to your workflow for Modeling. I would welcome any comments and cri t iques as this

is my first at tempt at making and putt ing together a tutorial . One of the things I know

I did not mention earl ier is that you save often. Blender has had a reputation of

sometimes crashing when you least want i t to I have not experienced this as much with

the latest versions. Blender has many features that are constantly being developed and

improved on and the community for i t has also seen growth in leaps and bounds so if

you get stuck do not hesitate to ask for help.

Thank you reading this tutorial and if I can be of any help I can be reached thru

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