Forum: 3D Modeling


Subject: your app and your modeling process !

TRAVISB opened this issue on Dec 13, 2002 ยท 26 posts


twillis posted Thu, 19 December 2002 at 9:04 AM

My app: My main app is Carrara 2.0, and my secondary app is Anim8or (for goofing off on my lunch hour, heh). My approach to modeling is still "a work in process". My background is engineering, so I tend to look at things in terms of drafting. For example, I'm more comfortable entering numerical coordinates than just "click and drag". In some ways this is good, as I think it give me a better understanding of how things fit together. In other ways, I think it can lead to stiff looking characters, so I really need to learn to "loosen up" a little. Another aspect of my technical approach is that I'm more interested in figuring out how to do something than in actually making any finished art. I've got a lot of unfinished scene files that started out as "I wonder if this technique would work?" On the other hand, I have discovered I am more interested in making things look cartoony rather than realistic, which seems kind of at odds with my tech approach. Go figure. Anyway, the above picture is just about my only "presentable" finished product. It's a Poser character I made in Carrara. It's available in Freestuff if anyone is interested (search for "Cring").