Also don’t be afraid of being very specific about your medium. I did get into drawing somewhat but once I realised just how much work acquiring certain skills would’ve been, in particular around shading, I tossed all of that and focussed on sculpting where I don’t have to do work a GPU can do for me. I can bloody program the GPU to do projection and physically-accurate shading, could do that for a good decade back then, I’m not going to do it in my head.
So start up blender and give it a whirl. Only thing you need is a PC that’s not entirely ancient (though a beefy one is certainly nice) and a graphics tablet. (Don’t sculpt with a mouse. I mean you can give it a spin to get a conceptual impression but the results will never be good due to lack of control and your index finger is going to die – if you don’t want to buy a tablet right now try hard- and subsurface modelling).
Youtube is your friend, start here if you never used blender (and enable right-click select, last video, to instantly be a pro) because blender on first startup indeed looks like this, then do the obligatory owl and by that time youtube should know what you’re doing and recommend stuff.
Also don’t be afraid of being very specific about your medium. I did get into drawing somewhat but once I realised just how much work acquiring certain skills would’ve been, in particular around shading, I tossed all of that and focussed on sculpting where I don’t have to do work a GPU can do for me. I can bloody program the GPU to do projection and physically-accurate shading, could do that for a good decade back then, I’m not going to do it in my head.
So start up blender and give it a whirl. Only thing you need is a PC that’s not entirely ancient (though a beefy one is certainly nice) and a graphics tablet. (Don’t sculpt with a mouse. I mean you can give it a spin to get a conceptual impression but the results will never be good due to lack of control and your index finger is going to die – if you don’t want to buy a tablet right now try hard- and subsurface modelling).
Youtube is your friend, start here if you never used blender (and enable right-click select, last video, to instantly be a pro) because blender on first startup indeed looks like this, then do the obligatory owl and by that time youtube should know what you’re doing and recommend stuff.
Funny you mention blender, I’ve been working with it for a couple years, and just started on maya a year ago.
Fallen to the dark side, you have. Train your mind to resist, you must.
its sad I get it, but there is no real choice when working with 3d as a job
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
start here
obligatory owl
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