Speed Modeling Course - Discussion on Specificity

Speed Modeling Course - Discussion on Specificity

rbwhitaker 25 Mar 2017 15:56

I'm creating a separate thread to open the discussion about how specific we want to be in terms of topics for our little 3D modeling course.

Do we want to be very specific, so that everybody is basically modeling the same thing?

Do we want to make it more of a category of things, like "Something on your desk"?

Do we want to make it extremely generic, like "a mythical creature"?

Do we want to just say, "Make anything. Just pick something and do it in the allotted time"?

I'm actually OK with any of these options. If you're participating, please vote and share your thoughts.

Re: Speed Modeling Course - Discussion on Specificity

PiscesMike 25 Mar 2017 18:43

I think there is a lot of value in "Make anything. Just pick something and do it in the allotted time"?

With the caveat that I expressed on the other thread: I think we should go for Inorganic modelling for the first round.

There is also something to be said for "everybody is basically modeling the same thing?". It would help get us all closer to the same level. Going forward on that idea, we could up the complexity successively and try to get everyone to a point where we can all do some basic rendering.

I think it would be neat if we could each work on a couple objects over the course of this exercise with the goal of being able to create a 3D 'world' of sorts, populated with our objects. That would take a bit more coordination and guidance so things don't overlap, we have some sort of consistency with the objects and within the 'world', and in the end it has a logical, if not realistic layout.

Just ideas and brainstorming!

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Re: Speed Modeling Course - Discussion on Specificity

rbwhitaker 26 Mar 2017 15:16

The more I think about it, the more I start to lean towards the "make anything" approach. The overhead of needing to pick a topic every week will add at least another hour on top of the actual work hour for whoever is organizing it (which would presumably be me, though if somebody wants to volunteer, I'd be open to that). It's definitely simpler to just say, "If you've signed up for the modeling event, then we expect you to submit a 3D model that you made in 60 minutes or less every week. Make whatever you think will help you the most in any given week." There's no week-by-week discussion on what the group should do, no voting, no needing to assemble lists to vote on, or anything like that. It's definitely simpler that way.

And if we do choose to keep it simple this time around, that doesn't preclude us from deciding next time around that we want to formalize it a little more and have actual topics.