Modelling

Models are the main building blocks of scenes. When creating a model, it’s important to model just enough detail to make a good rendering. It’s easy to get bogged down in small details that take a long time to model and won’t even be noticeable in the final rendering.

The sections we will cover in this post are:

1. Links to some good tutorials.
2. Tips

1. Links to some good tutorials.

• Creating a human body a great tutorial teaching you how to create a human body from an editable poly (could be adapted to create anything).
• If you want a really good human modelling tutorial with great explainations on tools and their purpose, then this is it! Click here.
• Creating a realistic human head using a different method. Click here.
• Short tutorial on modelling cloth. Click here.
• PDF on modelling a hand drawn character. Click here.
• Creating a creatures hand superb tutorial on creating a creatures hand, very useful if you intend to animate fingers.
• Creating cartoon a rabbit Another nice tutorial to give you an idea how to model from editable poly's.
• Creating a realistic dog A video tutorial showing how to model a 3D dog.
• Creating a cartoon dog A tutorial teaching you how to model Bolt!
• Excellent cartoon slug tutorial, including teeth! Click here.
• A VERY simple tutorial showing you how to create a human model. Click here.
  

2. Tips.

• How to apply smoothing to specific parts of your mesh. Click here.
• If the images on your image planes seem to be low quality. Follow the advice on this link. Click here.
• How to reduce the poly count of a model. Click here.