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🧱 Blender Reference - More Tools

Activity: Interface & Object Manipulation

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🎯 Objective

Learn additional Blender tools that help refine your character’s shape and structure. You’ll explore how to join shapes, edit with vertices, and use new modifiers to add more definition and creativity to your design.

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Tools (✨New Options)

Tool	Shortcut	Use for…
Add Object	Shift + A	Add basic shapes
Move / Rotate / Scale	G / R / S	Place and transform objects
Join Objects	Ctrl + J	Combine multiple meshes
Shade Smooth	Right-click	Soften surface shading
✨Select all	A	Selects all objects/vertices/edges/phases
✨Switch Modes	Tab	Switch between object mode and edit mode
✨Join Objects	Ctrl + J	Combine multiple meshes
✨Shade Smooth	Right-click	Soften surface shading
✨Snap Tool	Right-click on mesh	Align shapes perfectly
✨Undo	Ctrl + Z	Undo steps/actions
✨Delete	X	Deletes an object/vertice/edge/phase

Modifiers (✨New Options)

Modifier	How to access	Use for…
Mirror	Modifiers Tab	Build symmetrical characters
Subdivision Surface	Modifiers Tab	Smooth rounded shapes
Array	Modifiers Tab	Repeats objects in rows
Boolean	Modifiers Tab	Combines or subtracts shapes
Solidify	Modifiers Tab	Gives flat shapes a thickness
✨Wireframe Modifier	Modifiers Tab	Start with a line “skeleton”

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