Blocking In - Blender Master Class: A Hands-on Guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Materials, and Rendering - page 35

Figure 4-7: Making a simple door

Figure 4-8: Blocking in with simple elements. I began with the door and then added a ground plane, walls, and cubes to repre-
sent major elements in the scene.

I accomplished this by turning on Snapping, set-
ting the snapping target to faces, and enabling
Project onto Surface (Figure 4-10). This projects
the curves onto the other objects in the scene
as you move and extrude them, allowing you to
“draw out” the trees over the top of the existing
scene.

Select
snapping
target

Snap to
Active
Mesh

Project
onto
Surface

Toggle
Snapping

Snapping
method

Figure 4-10: Snapping icons

Figure 4-9: By snapping the tree roots
to their surroundings, we can quickly
block in tree roots crawling over the
surface of the ruins.