Reply To: 2:26 – is there a need to unwrap the cables?

I don’t mind the unwrapping but I’m a details man. It’s just trying to understand what’s being done as essential and what’s just being done as ‘best practice’

eg. if the goal of unwrapping is to balance making seams/islands then what’s the point of creating another island to unwrap the joint of the finger that can’t be seen even in massive close up?

So often JL stresses about getting a perfect unwrap for the base on the pot which you can’t / won’t see. He even says ‘you won’t see this’ but then spends ages doing the unwrap. When you don’t know anything it makes you less certain of if it’ll come back to be a problem. With the topology I knew enough to be able to be able to diverge from the lesson and be confident.