Digital Modeling
by William Vaughan · William Vaughan
Software-agnostic book on professional 3D modeling practice, from reference gathering and polygon topology to subdivision surfaces, hard-surface and character modeling. Readers learn to build clean, production-ready meshes and plan models the way studio modelers do.
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