I have done this. Well I’ve done to about 95% complete when I took ‘a break’ for Xmas that turned into 18 months off. Then had to effectively start again from scratch. I did Toaster guy as the submission to the core texturing homework but also as my companion to Pothead. I wanted to be able to create a suitable environment for the final Pothead render and just don’t know enough to be able to do it to a level I’m satisfied with.
The robo beetle has gone from following a tutorial practice into a full blown proper project as there’s lots of little mini projects as above that will all hopefully come together although my current assessment is ‘commendable failure’. I don’t know what the most efficient way to learn is but I think doing my own mini practice projects that touch on modelling, texturing, lighting and rendering works best for me.
