March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
8h 43m
English
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Lesson 06Editable Poly Modeling
In this lesson, you will model the fighter LiuJing. The character will be created starting from a primitive. You will use many polygonal tools and modifiers until the desired shape is achieved. Throughout this lesson, feel free to take extra time to experiment and refine the model to your liking.
In this lesson you will learn the following:
• How to model starting from a cylinder;
• How to model and refine polygons;
• How to mirror geometry;
• How to weld vertices together;
• How to use the Cut tool;
• How to change an edge smoothing group.
Set up your project
Since this is a new project, you must set a new ...