3d

This week I am studying “Beast Lighting”

Haven’t had much occasion to play around with the Beast Lighting plug-ins for either Maya or Unity 3D and I felt I was falling behind on both those fronts. Time to correct my oversight. Based on the (on-line, interactive) class content, it appears this will take me 30 or 50 hours of studying to plow through if I do all of the examples. It is supposed to be a three-month class, but I think I can get through it reasonably quickly if I push myself.

This week I am studying “Texturing in Substance Designer”

I admit I am a terrible texturer and texture designer, and I don’t think I will ever be anything but terrible, but I am willing to at least try.

This week I am studying “3DS Max”

I use 3DS Max quite regularly, and have been using it since it was just 3DS Studio back in the mid-90’s.

However, I am much more facile with Maya and SoftImage and have never sat down and just got to know 3DS Max inside-and-out.

Looking to fix that oversight this month with this extensive workshop from Gnomon.

This month I am studying “Google SketchUp Pro tools & techniques”

This is an in-person class. Two day workshop at local art school.

New version of SketchUp Pro, new skills to learn. Have been using the package for years to design the furniture I build in my workshop.

Update: Logged 25 hours between the 12 hours of the workshop (8 hour days but not counting lunch and coffee breaks) and 13 hours of extra studying and practice.

This month I am studying “SketchUp Pro master class”

I use SketupPro on my Surface a lot for furniture designs. I also like Mischief too.

Logged 26 hours of total study time and practice exercises.