Article · 3DSkillUp
How to Fix Shading Artifacts on Curved Surfaces in Blender
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
About this lesson
Explains why cutting holes in curved surfaces causes pinched shading and fixes it by transferring custom normals from an untouched duplicate with a vertex group and Data Transfer modifier. Includes normals visualisations and before/after images.
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