Blake’s Polybook

I’m really interested in all these tools and shortcuts. For example, when the rip vertices/rip and fill was shown, it was like I got an ‘aha’ moment on how this can be useful for creating mouths. With so many ways to get something done, I’m worried about forgetting things, however as long as I ask myself ‘is there a better way to do this?’, I think I can retain it all, just comes with practice.

First model with no tutorial. Not the best topology and edge flow, unfortunately. I’ve also found making circles really hard, and a lot of my time was remembering my tools at my disposal from previous videos. Some other concerns I had is that approaching the best way to model something is challenging. For example, should the button have been a separate cylinder object?

Something to note too is that I am finding ways to accomplish something faster. For example, I made a wine glass in Blender. A month ago I’d extrude the top-most vertices up to make the cup shape, but I found proportional editing + adding loop cuts and scrolling accomplished a better shape and saved me so much time compared to the old way I was doing it.

Not really a model update, but I’m finding how I could have done things differently even in my most recent projects. Take this circle for example that I thought was hard previously, now knowing boolean tools as well.