Hello everyone! Here is a short introduction about, well, me :)

[yukino hatake]

@3dioot thanks. And that is indeed most important to have fun. That’s why I want to start this as a business later. For now i keep it with modeling. I also looks forward to you’re poly book. Have a nice night /day

[Scott McClellan]

@3dioot … Welcome to the club. Glad to see you aboard. And so what if the competition is intense, you’re never too old. It’s all about what you want to get out of 3D and what you put into it to get there. Looking at your stuff, you’re lightyears ahead of myself – still trying to model stuff. Hope you can rekindle the fun of this and really looking forward to the shorts (micro or whatever) you come up with. That’s mostly why I got involved in this area so late in life. Wanted to do something different. Always loved computer programming, unfortunately life threw me a few curveballs and before I knew it, computers were a distant thing. Thirty yeats later rather than delving back into programming, I decided to go a different route.

The community here is great – lots of fun and lots of help too. Same goes for the kind folks at CGCookie.

… let the ‘short’ development begin

[odunov]

@3dioot  Hello and welcome! I checked your gallery and your sculpts look great. You’ll get back on track in no time.

As far as my hopes and dreams go, getting half as good as you in terms of sculpting in early 2019 would nice 😀

Good luck and have fun!

[Jan-Willem van Dronkelaar]

@pffsfs Hello Scott McClellan. What a lovely name and thank you for the welcome!

You are certainly never too old to have fun and learn new stuff and I fully intend on doing both. Thank you for the compliment on my work. I saved some of my earliest works in a separate gallery to remind myself of my progress and to share with others. Humble beginnings I hope it shows you there is no base level required for this stuff, we all start somewhere. From what I see in your gallery you are beyond my beginner stuff so your well on your way. I also feel CGcookie is a pretty good environment for learning this stuff “right” the first time around. I think you will be surprised at your progress if you keep it up. 🙂

[Jan-Willem van Dronkelaar]

@drgnclw Thank you!

As far as my hopes and dreams go, getting half as good as you in terms of sculpting in early 2019 would nice 😀

Oh dude, thats a lot of praise. All I can advice you is to just get your hands dirty now.  Open blender (or sculptris) and start bashing in that sphere. It requires minimal setup (in the case of dyntopo or sculptris it actually requires zero prep) and you can treat it like a sketch. Doodle in 3d so to speak. 🙂

[smurfmier1985]

@3dioot @drgnclw Have you guys watched this gestural sculpting tutorial? It’s a technique to literally ‘sketch’ in 3D, with sculpting, super fun to do and a great way to get better at sculpting! Highly recommend trying it out if you want to improve on your sculpting skills 😊 It even has an graded exercise that goes with it 😄

[John Sanderson]

@3dioot As a native English (American) speaker, those were pretty much my exact thoughts.  “3deeyoot?  Sounds kind of like idiot… is that intentional?”  So I am curious now, and would like a translation.  Welcome to the cookie!

[odunov]

@3dioot Thanks for the advice. That’s my plan for January . I’ve done some sculpting last year (some rocks and Melvin) but haven’t done anything else in terms of sculpting since.

@smurfmier1985 Successfully doing that tutorial is in my to do list for the next month even though it seems like a tall order.

[smurfmier1985]

@drgnclw I believe in you, you’ve got skills 😎👍🏻

[Jan-Willem van Dronkelaar]

@smurfmier1985 Oof!

I was already aware of its existence but that looks like a bit of a tall order right now (for me). I agree its a great, great exercise though. It will also really show how much you know about anatomy because you have to nail a lot of structures in a very short amount of time. I am intimidated. I’ve bookmarked it for now. 😉

[Jan-Willem van Dronkelaar]

@procyonlotor 

You interpret it correctly. The Dutch word for idiot is idioot and the pronunciation is pretty much identical except for stretching out the last oo part. The way you described that phonetically is exactly how it sounds. Its intentional of course, a nod towards my passion for 3D (nuts about 3d) and my tendency to ramble about it to every victim I can find. You should ask my colleagues about the day I remembered how an “inverse foot rig” works and build one the day after. I couldn’t shut up about it and they are probably still traumatized. 😉

Oh, and thank you for the welcome!

[Jan-Willem van Dronkelaar]

@drgnclw I look forward to your journey. I am certain you will enjoy it. 🙂

[smurfmier1985]

@3dioot @drgnclw It’s honestly less difficult than it looks, really!

@theluthier did a live demonstration of this in the beginner modeling class, starts at about 1 hour 11 mins:

https://cgcookie.com/live_streams/bc1-1808-week-4-next-steps-as-a-modeler

Highly recommend checking it out 🙂

A couple of us beginners with virtually no experience at sculpting tried it out during class and made some pretty good stuff! 

Just start with something easier than a human body, like for example @yukinoh1989 did some amazing Pokémon gestural sculpting (search the forum for ‘BC-1808’ and check out her class thread, you can see the pics at the top). You can build up from there once you get the hang of the technique 🙂

[Aaron Rudderham]

A little late to the welcoming party but it’s great to see some new blood, welcome! I think we all get plagued by self doubt in this profession/hobby, so don’t feel bad there. You’re never too old to learn, so welcome aboard, and I’m really looking forward to what you create in the future! 

[Jan-Willem van Dronkelaar]

@thecabbagedetective 

Thank you Aaron! I appreciate the encouragement. Its true that as artists we all have to deal with our inner critic which, regretfully, grows right along with our skills. I just hope my passion wins out over it this time so I can keep enjoying this hobby instead of burying it. 🙂

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