pauljs75 - You've made an excellent comparison of  the approaches of both poly and box modeling, but I think your choice of words was errant in suggesting that both methods "tends to be followed" by subdivion of any sort.

While subdivision may be the route a modeler chooses to go, there's plenty of cases where neither method receives any subdivision [ low-poly / game-art for example ], and both methods can be used to make a quality finished mesh without any further subdivision.

I do agree, once you get past the initial phase of laying in the geometry, the workflow for both methods tends to blur a good deal.

Generaly I agree with you, I just don't want see anyone drawing the conclusion from what you've said that subdivision modeling is the best or only next-step for either modeling approach.

Non-subdivision modeling [that' isn't hacked together using boolean operations :rolleyes:], is becoming a lost art of sorts, for high poly work anyway. :unsure:

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