If it helps any, consider this much like learning a foreign language. Sure, it's easy to memorize the basics of "How do you do?" and "Where's the bathroom?" and "Why does this cost so much?" -- but if you really want to express yourself, you need to learn the subtleties and nuances that make language expressive. Well, it's much the same with 3D: it's easy enough to start with the basic shapes and make something fairly decent -- a table, after all, is just five distorted cubes. But if you want to create something expressive, like any of Dreampaint's props, you have to know a little bit more to make it happen. And sure, it's not easy. But if it were easy, what would be the point? :)

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