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In this chapter,
I will show you my process of sculpting

the head and body of my Hero character.

What I want to achieve
is to have him be more muscled,

like a Viking warrior type of character.

So as a preparatory step,

I started looking at human anatomy models
to better understand

where the main body muscles are
and which areas I need to sculpt.

I found, for example,
these images here by Serge Minhulin

(I'm sorry if I butchered your name mate) :-/

which I found really helpful
for the upper body muscles.

In Blender, I split the screen,

so I always have
the reference images present.

And then I joined the head and body together.

Select both objects and press Control-J.

This operation does not change
the vertex order by the way.

The vertices at the mesh border
are not actually merged together.

Then I created a new shape key for the mesh.

This is optional,
but I like to have the option

to see the change between the original
and the sculpted geometry,

that the shape keys offer.

I then started sculpting the muscles,

mainly using the inflate and draw brushes.

I am by no means
an expert in human anatomy

and probably made a lot of mistakes here and there.

But the important thing for me
is to get it approximately right.

And here is where such references
are really useful.

As you can see, the vertices
at the border of the head

and body mesh kind of separate
when you sculpt over that area.

Since those two meshes are not actually
merged, this can happen,

but we will fix that later.

After I was done

with the upper body,
I looked for other anatomy references,

that also covered the legs.

There are, for example, free images
you can download on the

Anatomy360 website (anatomy360.info)

I decided to use the image of this body builder,

and I did another pass on the upper body

and then sculpted some muscles on the legs.

The last thing was to modify the head a little bit.

I emphasized the jawline
and other facial features a bit more

and then started to work on
some artistic choices.

I wanted the character
to have some battle scars,

so maybe the top of his left
ear has been cut off in the fight

and he has a few other scars on the face.

Using the slider on the shape key,

you can always see the
changes you made to the model.

In the next chapter, I will
guide you through the process of actually

applying those changes to our metahuman
character inside Unreal Engine.