Ooooooof. Yeah your explanation is spot on! I myself am an add-on junkie. That E-cycles carries a hefty price tag though and I just don’t render enough currently to feel the pain. But when I do I plan on buying it.
I love Retopoflow. Another great tool in conjunction is Quad Remesher (makes using retopoflow more of a fun exercise because most of the mundane retopo parts are already done quite well).
Between fluent and hardops and boxcutter to machin3 tools and Serpens I’m a little addicted to working more efficiently.
However my SKILLS came from doing things the vanilla way and I appreciate you sticking to that teaching style. Yup I can agree with only teaching vanilla skills. Makes the playing ground fair for everyone and that’s where the skills are learned,
In engineering I learned to do really stupid-tough math problems by hand for hours (and some of them took all week for 1 homework problem……thanks Advanced Dynamics for teaching me pain 😛 ) and then I leave university and everyone uses programmed tools because it is impractical to sell stuff waiting on an engineer with paper and pen to draw up the same equations every day.
The same goes with Blender. I just figured this would be a use case where E-cycles would probably shine.
