Well, I held my mouth shut to avoid making a scene, Now, I can finally see his point. I attended a talk once, by Steven Stahlberg, and when the talk finished, all I wanted to ask was: how dare you sir, use tris and ngons on a character? all of my indoctrination told me otherwise. I am not advocating the use of tris everywhere and every time, but, I just suggest that you know your goal in modeling before starting, and then deciding what method will achieve the best results. Perhaps for this project, I only needed this level of quality, and using tris and ngons represented a faster and more efficient way of working. Is the topology for the car above wrong? Just because there are tris, it doesn't mean it is a bad thing. Look up VFX breakdowns, making of and anything you can get your hands on. You should always study all the material you can find. There is no shortage of wireframes and 3D models you can download. Look them up! how about high quality scenes, vehicles and characters? It's all out in the open. The beautiful thing about working in 3D, is that everything is out in the open, and you can learn anything you want quite easily.Īre you ever curious how Pixar wireframes look like? Well. This is not in anyway to depreciate our craftsmanship, but It's good to remember, so that you work with enough relaxation for optimal performance. What would be the worst thing that could happen if you did a wrong topology? not much really, you can always correct them and if you do a wrong topology for the most important part that needs a topology which is the human face, and it somehow passed all the directors and animators and went on screen, you are only going to have a few unconvincing facial features or glitches here and there, it's not a matter of life and death :). Suppose, I give you a scanned 3D model, and let you do all the retopology, will you find it a difficult task? If not, but you somehow find it difficult to 3D model in general, then you better work on perception Apologies for repeating this one more time in a tricky way, but I had to make sure to state the difference. At most, there are few rules of thumb that you can use as guidelines, if anything, it's an art. to be quite frank with you, it's not a science in it-self. Topology can simply mean how things are connected, in a way, think of a mesh wireframe. You can check my 3D Modeling Fundamentals Tutorial, watch this primer video, learn more from any traditional art source or simply practice, practice after all makes perfect as they say!
Anyway, I will not go any further into perception in this tutorial. Traditional artists went into a lot of effort and different exercises, to improve their perception, doing things as far as fetched as trying to feel touching the object while drawing it. In the tutorial, 3D Modeling Fundamentals. I emphasized the importance of perception and proportions for a good model, here again I would have to state that most modeling difficulties are usually found in how you see something and translate your vision into an "understanding" of the model. But, like anything it needs some practice and time. In this article, I hoped to give some of the practical basics to keep in mind when modeling, and avoided being too technical.Īctually, modeling is far easier than many believe.
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There are a lot of tutorials on how to model specific objects, and ample material as well on theory, using terms which might seem too intricate for someone who is not familiar with them. It's quite common for someone who starts out with modeling in polygons, to find some challenges in completing a high quality model, which is a faithful representation of the reference and have a topology that is suitable for the task and on top of all finish in a timely and efficient manner!
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