Are you new to Blender? Learning about normals is a good thing to understand. Hardened normals can be very useful, but can also cause problems. In this tutorial I show when and where to consider using them.

A short follow-up to this video where I talk about subdivision surfaces as they related to Hardened Normals is here:    • HARDEN NORMALS and Subdivision? Shoul...  

00:00 Intro
01:26 Face Normals
01:40 Vertex Normals
02:20 Mark Sharp
02:55 Split Normals
04:25 Use in the Bevel Tool
04:44 Harden Normals Option
06:35 Clear Custom Splits Normals Data
07:55 Example in a model

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