davidstoolie opened this issue on Feb 16, 2015 · 54 posts
LuxXeon posted Thu, 26 February 2015 at 6:28 PM
Luxxeon, please make more Blender tutorials like this one! Audio would be even better, but as long as they are annotated in detail, it's ok. Just as long as they are around 5 minutes or less in length. Longer tutorials tend to lose me faster. This one was perfect for me. Thank you!
David, the length of the tutorials will usually depend on the complexity of the object in question, and the mesh to be created. However, I don't know if you've seen my latest Blender video yet. I uploaded it shortly after posting this beer cap tutorial. This is my second modeling demo using Blender, and it's actually more of a modeling exercise than a proper tutorial, but I think you'd benefit greatly by this one. It's a technical modeling exercise, intended to illustrate several useful tools you might not commonly think about using in your workflow, but when used properly, can exponentially reduce the time it takes to model some fairly complex geometry. In this video, we aren't working towards achieving a typical real-life object (although it can become one with some imagination), but instead focusing on topological aesthetics, and quickly building an arbitrary shape of some complexity, in very little time. The resulting model in this tutorial is actually more complex, but can be constructed in less time, than the previous model you've already mastered in the first tutorial. If you're feeling brave, and have about 4 minutes to spare, you might wanna give this one a try, The process is faster, and easier, than the beer bottle cap, in my opinion.
Of course, I'll check this thread for any questions you may have. If you get stuck for any reason, just contact me. If you complete this video exercise successfully, as you did the last, then I recommend doing the same thing you did before; go through it again, several times, until you can do it without looking. If you fail or get frustrated, take a break, then let me know what went wrong. Most of all, have fun with this. In the end, there's no right or wrong shape here; just get to know the tools used, and the hotkeys to call upon them. One step at a time. Good luck!
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