I've 3 under 16. They see me do stuff all the time in 3D and understand the fundamentals. Kids have a ton of options to get into 3D. Roblox, a gaming sandbox, allows them to delve into coding, modelling and animation. My eldest lad does tech drawing and engineering in school and it's Autodesk products that are pushed. But he did do the Donut Tutorial in Blender and nailed it. There's also apps like Godot that are great to get kids into coding, game creations and 3D. I think if SketchUp was part of the school curriculum here then maybe there would be more uptake. But Open Source software is easiest point of entry for kids interested. It comes down to parents and teachers helping them discover 3D. As soon as it becomes homework you've put a red flag up!

Wow! Well done!

@Box No worries mate all good ,and yes it is a simple model. I was just being lazy. I just was curious to see if there was an aesthetic solution to make it compliant

It may have something to do with the chip shortages.

@L-i-am said in retopology?: @L-i-am Thanks Rich, might it be easier to import the model into blender? There's a workflow I use where I exported quad meshes from Blender to OBJ format. Thomthom's Quadface Tools has an OBJ import that converts the OBJ quads to SU quads. Its probably a topic I should put together an article on so users can benefit from that type of pipeline. Having it my head it not benefitting anyone. I know @panixia also has a particular approach to go from SU to Substance Painter and support UDIMs which is something the community would benefit from.

I do not know about that, But you do have to mark your works with AI or no AI. I have no AI in my work so all good. Fun fact I used a language model Ai to critique an image. I then for fun asked it to generate cant remember exactly, but something like "Make me in image of a high tech steam punk bridge in a jungle at sunset" It sent me an image of children singing in the snow around a charismas tree. I told it that it was not getting it correct it did one more image that was just as irrelevant. I politely told it was not what I asked. It apologised in the most cute wat and finally admitted that it was not the correct type of AI that works well with creating images but said it thought it would give it a try. It was so cute. sweet and childlike, was amazing

wow! professionell!

I must not be one of the cool kids…. Suppose I’ll just muddle along with the full version already sitting on the iMac.

@L-i-am said in Clothworks and subD: @Rich-O-Brien Very good result. When you build a model for subD do you start with a plane, extrude the face, then scale rotate and move that plane, and on and on to create the quads. Is that the basic way to create the the model for subD? Not really. I'd make the most primitive silhouette possible... [image: 1737214786259-1bfce7c1-fd89-41ed-b11b-41aa3072d694-image.png] Then I add some loops and begin shifting them about to get some type of crude volume... [image: 1737214942023-5e947dd6-e673-4d4f-a0e9-060ef3cb0ce3-image.png] It's easy if you start with a very crude silhouette to begin with then just iterate from there. Saving snapshots as you go.

Love it. Great mood and framing.

Nice render. Interesting design. Only one comment…. I’d get rid of the manhole cover. Find it a little distracting.

Mea culpa, I must think things through a bit mnore.

@pixelcruncher said in Tadao Ando stairs( Render): @Rich-O-Brien There's a lovely seaside town called Sidney in BC, Canada. Maybe they referred to that? https://www.sidney.ca/ Yup,, that is it, I was referring to the time in Sidney Canada Phew got away with it

Thanks Rich

Inspiring! Thanks for sharing!

Chat GTP critiquing its own image

@L-i-am As Rich intimated, "Rather you than me, Ghunga Din". That being said, I think you will pull it off if anyone can.

That about say's it all. Great sentiment and thanks for posting. I wish everyone the very best for christmas and the new year, make the next year one to remember for all the right reasons.

@L-i-am Thanks for that, rotflmao. I shall have to go back, often. I shall post the result in the diffusion render I did recently. I have tried several rendered views with thgis 'ere ai critic, thought provoking and makes me think it might be useful during the render setup phase, comments on personal items and sterility of a scene come to mind. Hmmm, I might have to change my workflow a bit.

@Rich-O-Brien Ah thank you