hcschwarz

Giver of Life

The Indomitable (Spring 2022)

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  • The Indomitable (Spring 2022)
  • Sharing the Knowledge
  • Giver of Life
  • Dimensional Dominator
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    8:27 PM, Tuesday May 16th 2023

    Hi ThatOneMushroomGuy, thank you so much for your detailed critique. Firstly I want to apologize for including too many pages - my intention was only for the TAs to critique the non-demo pages, but by including my demos as well, I accidentally made more work for the team. I didn't even think of that when I included them so I sincerely apologize for adding more work to your plate!! I will avoid that in the future.

    I appreciate the narcissus demo you included - I was stumped somewhat on how to do the cylindrical pieces to make it more three dimensional. I tried out several ideas on the different bulbs for the muscari page on how to do the small bell-like petals - some less successful than others for sure. Deceptively tricky!

    I definitely have a tendency to add line weight throughout instead of just at key areas, so I will be mindful of that in the future. I didn't realize edge details was part of the main construction and not texture (although now that you point it out, it's obvious). I will add edge detailing in as my main construction moving forward.

    Thank you & the team for the help!

    2:59 PM, Thursday September 2nd 2021

    Hi Rob,

    Thank you for the positive comments and critiques! This course has been awesome so far and I have really enjoyed it.

    I agree with your critiques - the ellipses are a weak point for sure, especially with tilting on the minor access and not having a steep enough angle to start with. I do also notice I have a really difficult time with actually rotating the boxes as opposed to just turning or pushing them. I promise I was really intentional about trying to start them in a way that would end up being rotated, and then my brain just breaks or something. It's like I'm physically incapable of picturing them as rotated! I'm hoping the 250 box challenge will help with that, but if you have any other advice I would be greatful!

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