Reply To: Collab 2020: Modeling Heavy Equipment (Backhoe)

@theluthier  Sorry for posting this here Kent, but I couldn’t find an official thread of the Shark Course, plus Backhoes and sharks feel like they have a common relative distant ancestor and since this thread is really active… Well this will be quick.

I decided to face some of my fears and kryptonite: Sculpting and doing characters. I have mainly ever focused on poly modeling and hard surface stuff, I really like it, but I get this sense of nervousness every time I see someone post of a freelance job or portfolio work with characters, of course because I can’t do them, this always haunts me and I am tired of it

Last time this happened to me was on Wednesday stream with Wayne, he showed a cute kids animation render of a freelance work and I got anxious imagining what if it was me that was asked to do that job, it had models of animal characters. And on top of that I posted my portfolio on BlenderNation and it got published, and I was like alright cool… little did I know people were going to start writing to my email asking stuff, I freaked the bad-word out, and I was like what is happening? Then I thought well of course you dummy, you put your email at the start of the demo reel.

So, I started to watch the Shark Course and the things that I wanted to ask was, how in the world do you make it seem so buttery smooth? sculpting I mean, doesn’t your hand hurt? Am I holding the pencil on the tablet wrong? Do you use “Emulate 3 Button Mouse” so you can move on the 3D view with ALT on the keyboard? Or do you use the click’ity thing button on the side of the pencil as the middle mouse and hoover your pencil above the tablet and let the pencil guide the 3D viewport?

I don’t know if you remember Bob Actually, the gorilla sculpt I did, but now I think the shark is going better.

This is only one hour of work. I give myself a limit so as to I don’t waste hours an hours. Right now my strategy is, I have to finish the sculpt before a 3 hour Joe Rogan Podcast is over.

By the way Kent, feel free to move this to a more specific thread if there is one.