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Speed modeling thread (mod approved)[NSF56K]
MKR
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"What the heck is speed modeling!?"
It is a most wonderful thing! Fire up your 3D suite, and start modeling. The goal is to make things with less attention to details, and more attention to getting what's in your head on to the screen. It's like sketching with polygons.
Blender tutorials: http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/
Maya tutorials: http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/
3DSMax tutorials: http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/3DS-MAX/1
My 15-minute model:
It helps to set a timer for something like 15 or 30 minutes so you're less likely to waste time detailing.
Let us see what awesome models you have created!
It is a most wonderful thing! Fire up your 3D suite, and start modeling. The goal is to make things with less attention to details, and more attention to getting what's in your head on to the screen. It's like sketching with polygons.
Blender tutorials: http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/
Maya tutorials: http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/
3DSMax tutorials: http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/3DS-MAX/1
My 15-minute model:
It helps to set a timer for something like 15 or 30 minutes so you're less likely to waste time detailing.
Let us see what awesome models you have created!
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It's a bit too slow for this
(And I'm too shit)
http://www.blender.org/
It takes a little while to adjust to, but Blender is easy to model with once you get comfortable with it.
http://www.nevercenter.com/
Rendering & Lighting: 20 minutes
Hey, I haven't touched any of my 3D CAD software since like...last year. No kidding. I'm amazed I even remembered how to use arrays.
This is actually more of a test image to see how it would kind of look like to have a village with a huge tall structure to cast a shadow across the entire village, since I'm doing an environment painting based on it.
Plus I was bored.
Also Max 8 doesn't play very well with Vista. =\ I mean WHAT THE FUCK DO I BUY DUAL CORES FOR YOU KNOW
For speed-polymodelling ZBrush and modo are kind of cool, though I never really trained myself in modo, but Zbrush is seriously awesome though I hate the UI SO MUCH
Also I would love blender if it wasn't so fuck easy to hit a wrong key by accident and OH THAT WAS THE HOTKEY TO SEND YOUR MODEL TO HELL AND DELETE YOUR PARENTS IN THE PROCESS OOPS
Yea, I know I should just set my own hotkeys and prefs to match XSI/Max, but I am a sucker for defaults.
EDIT: Wow rendering with dual core processors is fuckawesome how the hell did I live without this my whole life???
EDIT: And I forgot how fun polymodelling was. Another 20 minutes, couldn't help myself. I think I'm actually starting to remember how to use 3ds max! And actually remember what my dad's old camera looked like! (Sort of)
Which is kind of amazing considering I ditched it in favour of XSI about a year ago, but XSI doesn't work at all on this new rig...ugh. And I'm also trying to learn Maya, too.
Oh now I remember why I preferred XSI...Fuck max smoothing groups. 20 minutes, about 5 minutes was wasted on selecting those goddamn polys to smooth. Oh how I miss hard edges
And now I really need to sleeeep
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Lighting is really a bitch when it comes to speed. So hard to get it right.
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It would be a little lame unless it's exceptional. Remember there's no hard time limit. If it takes you an hour or two to make a kickass character, then it takes that long. The goal is to give yourself a time limit, but that doesn't mean it has to be one that's too short. :P
Also rendering pretty stuff is annoyingly long. Yes I know rendering from viewports is instantaneous but I love pretty.
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