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5. When you have a new shape, size the model down and snapshot it to the canvas by pressing the Shift S
hot key. Shift S will take a snapshot image of the ZTool in its current position and display it in the docu-
ment window. Once you have snapshot the image to the canvas, press the QuickSave hot key, Alt S. This
will save your model with a 001 extension.
You can also save images with the hot key, but this does not allow you to compare the thumb-
nails on a sheet together, which is an important part of the process.
6. Continue to work your way across the page, making new shapes with the Move brush. You may also
add new subdivision levels while you work if you need more resolution in the silhouette. As you work
your way across, save new versions of the model for each snapshot you drop to the canvas so that you can
easily recover the corresponding model later. Alternately, you can create a new layer for each thumbnail
( Figure 2-14 ). Because you are using the QuickSave plug-in, you can find the model that corresponds to
a thumbnail by comparing the number of its filename with the thumbnail on the page: the fifth thumbnail
across will correspond with file_005 .
Figure 2-14: A selection of thumbnails. There is a model saved for each version, from left to right.