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Subject: subdivision-topology-artifacts
That's a good one, very clear and fairly thorough. A whole lot of detailed discussion on topology with many illustrations can be found here:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=93651
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Guerrillacg tuts are fantastic, I saw them some time ago. They are short but extremely clear and go straight to the prob.. On subDmodeling site are very large discussions regarding topology, allot of great info :)Tihomir
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Quote - That's a good one, very clear and fairly thorough. A whole lot of detailed discussion on topology with many illustrations can be found here:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=93651
No offense, but I wasn't that impressed by that. Seemed to me like someone who either doesn't have a very good understanding of things or is bad at explaining. Maybe it gets better, but I lost patience after the first few posts.
That video on the other hand is amazing. And subdivisionmodeling is definitely good for these things, as well.
-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.
He just needs to explain now how to use such knowledge when modeling a human head instead of the top of a mailbox. The cartoon gorilla used hair to hide his "artifacts". But artifacts don't matter all that much for topology or animation when it comes to cartooning. He should be using a realistically modeled gorilla to show off his modeling rules.
And lose the bongos.
www.youtube.com/user/ShawnDriscollCG
The "top of the mailbox" is just there to show how Catmull-Clark smoothing handles the subdivs when vertices occur on a surface transition and also inline edges work (but I call them "control edges" because that's what they do). Nothing more special than that. And for demonstrating that point, it works perfectly without any confusion.
As for the tutorial itself, I think the presentation is very nice. Anytime there's a "dumb newb" question, I think that particular vid seems like it would be worth linking to. Greg seems to know his stuff, and does fairly good presentation. I just wish he'd speak up a bit louder. Some people either have crap hearing or crap laptop computer speakers, and in either case it's a bit hard to make out the dialog. (Optional subtitles might not be a bad idea.)
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Interesting video on the importance of good topology in subdivision surface creation, the need to maintain quads and how to remove non-quad faces.
http://guerrillacg.org/home/3d-polygon-modeling/subdivision-topology-artifacts
The explanations and examples in the video are plain-as-day simple so anyone can follow along. Thought I'd share.