Arcane University:Blockout
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A Blockout is the inital stage of modeling and perhaps sculpting and rigging a character, or the inital phase to create environment. It is suggested to copy a Block from an existing nif as scale and layout reference. You can see a video how that is done here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfkhjrY5F40 Soon we will add a video from a recent AtomM session where a 3d artist explained the same process in arcane university.