Today I was planning my next video tutorial, which will be more advanced modelling. For this, I wish to build an original robot character inspired by my research of what I was considering modelling in Maya. To start with, I needed to create some original sketches for robot designs, which was quite fun and rewarding to do. I needed to make sure I drew a front and side view because I plan to model from an image box, as I have found this an especially useful technique for my Maya work, so I feel that teaching this in my next tutorial will work very well. I sketched 5 different robot designs, for Neil to then give feedback. He liked my designs, but felt that I should choose a design that would be simple to model.
This afternoon I started to model what I would build for my next video tutorial. I spent a long time trying to remember what to do to create an image box. I was fine modelling and texturing it, but I couldn't remember how to make the texture appear inside out, so I had to do some extra research, which didn't make too much sense, and also tried to find something in my journal which would help me with this certain problem, but for some reason past me was an idiot and DIDN'T WRITE IT DOWN!!!! grrrrrrrrrrggggrrrggg sooo annoying!!! I eventually needed to ask Neil, who mentioned I needed "Backface Culling" selected in the viewport, and then Reverse the Normals by selecting Normals > Reverse. So now for future reference, I now have it written down! I feel that the next tutorial may be more about showing the image box, and how to create more advanced models than actual controls. I didn't finish modelling the character by the end of the day, but the model shouldn't take too long to complete. I have a busy weekend this weekend, but I should still be able to complete this video tutorial for next week.
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