3D Sketches

I first learned 3D with Maya. Back when it was Alias Wavefront Maya in the long long ago. I'm self taught and no two ways about it, it was hard. This was before the internet was full of training and resources, before youtube, before vimeo, before streaming video was really much of a thing. I read the documentation, and went to the bookstore to buy books about it. Ahh yes back in these days bookstores were a thing too.

Anyway, I'm sounding like an old man here. Point being I though all 3D software was going to be as hard as Maya was to learn so I never really ventured out to other software. Then a few years ago as I was trying to do more complex motion design work and constantly frustrated with how difficult some things were to do in Maya, I finally made the leap and started learning Cinema 4D.

Really wish I hadn't waited so long. Cinema was so much easier than Maya. I'm also not missing the fact that I learned all the fundamentals of 3D with Maya so I already knew what everything was when learning Cinema, but beyond that it just makes a lot more sense for a lot of things. I know Maya is the best for a large production because it's a great pipeline tool, but for an individual artist Cinema is great.

One of the things I love about it is the sort of stuff I'm showing you now. I can open Cinema and just "sketch" with the tools there and make something that looks cool in a few hours or even a few minutes. Combined with a few plugins, in my case primarily X-Particles and Octane Render, it becomes an incredibly powerful, fast, and user friendly tool for making cool stuff.

Let me know what you guys think in the comments! As always, thanks for looking!