Thanks, although I think there are some crossed wires here - I am frustrated about something else at the minute. Kitchen time has passed.

Forgot add, if you've tried that already and it wasn't what you were after, apologies if it sounded like I was trying to teach you to suck eggs.

I'm keen to give Grease pencil a go

Tedious, but if final grading is what matters hopefully ok??

Only got 7 weeks left so better get on my projects eh!

Early days sculpting in Blender.

Not given UV unwrapping much thought yet though... whoops!

Wanted it initially to be more Robot like, but it's ended up quite organic.

Uncertainty with Uni and Work has put a real pin in my progress. I've started and destroyed a few sculpts, and have been practicing with Ev's graphics tablet.

After a few dozen hours of attempts and videos watched, I think I have settled on taking primitives, subdividing them, and then messing with the vertexes to get base shapes. Will be merging everything soon, and then sculpting detail onto it. Grease Pencil was a bit of a revelation last night, with symmetry on it turns even cackhanded artists like myself into people capable of doing good design!





Still unsure on how the Retopo flow will work, as a lot of people seem to exclusively texture in blender, but I specifically need to bake a high poly mesh onto a low poly mesh as part of the coursework, so I may need to export back to Max at some point. I really do enjoy Sculpting though, far more than hard surface modelling. Blender is nice and intuitive too, find myself using shortcuts far more than in Max, but it might just be that i've watched better videos on it.

Ye, just wish I could paint it in Blender, cos it seems fun!

Blender has always been build around using shortcuts, so it's not that odd that you're using them a lot! It's also a good thing you jumped in when they redid the whole interface, things are supposed to be a bit more normal now (I haven't tried it yet).

What are you struggling with? trying to eliminate tris?

Yeah it is pretty rough. I think it is one of those things where the more you do it the easier it is to see the optimum way.
I've not really done it too much for soft body work.

I'm not sure how strict they will be on marking for this but something I was taught is that sometimes you just can't gedt rid of a triangle, in that scenario try to move it along so the pinch it causes is hidden. So under a hat/hair, deep inside the mouth or inside an overhang.

Nice one Tempy.
Hopefully you learnt things along the way, even if it was to approach things from a different angle next time.

I have knuckled down to my Unreal training again. Decided that is gonna be my thing to do in this lockdown.

Do you have to rig it?

Dodged a bullet there.
Perhaps with the environment go for something that can be achieved to a presentable state quickly but added to later.

So something like a space ship interior that is mostly flat, non-organic shapes and surfaces. Then add to it with some destruction or piles of aliens guts etc.