Reply To: Polybook – FrikkR

DECEMBER 2015 – Personal project -Hair clippers

So I was still working away at both the Piero course and the Sci-Fi  helmet course, but I was at stages in both of them where I wasn’t doing  any modelling at all for long periods of time, and as a result, I was  learning lots of new stuff but I wasn’t practicing what I had already  learnt. I was scared that I could begin to forget things, and I was also  eager to try my skills on a personal project with no tutorial to see if  I had actually learnt anything!
I came up with an idea to make  “mini-models” . The concept here was to take objects from my house and  try to model and render them relatively quickly without asking for too  much, or ideally any help. This meant I was practicing the workflow of  modelling to rendering and repeating it on a fairly regular basis. I  decided to do this on a wednesday night and a few hours over the weekend  so that it would fit nicely in between my tutorial learning.
This was the first of my mini-models, my hair clippers. I only had to ask one small question on the forum, thanks @anthony_c  , but the rest was all me. It turned out pretty good since I didn’t  dwell on it for too long as I felt that it would go against the whole  point of the mini models if I spent too much time tweaking things for  ultra-realism.