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Hey Sculptors - What materials do you use, why and what do you think of them? 

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37 deviants said Polymer clay - sculpey, super sculpey, fime, premo
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9 deviants said Combination of the above - please explain!
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5 deviants said Epoxy clay - magic sculp, pro create
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5 deviants said Other - please explain!
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4 deviants said Water based clay
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3 deviants said Wax - toy wax, azbro, Gary's
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2 deviants said Oil based clay - chavant, roma
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No deviants said Wax based - castilene

All things digital....

Journal Entry: Sat Apr 24, 2010, 12:05 PM
Currently trying to learn a bit more about digital sculpting.

Zbrush was starting to make more sense so the most logial thing I could do was try learning Maya - r-i-g-h-t!!!!

So, here's the run of the few attempts to date and the various sources of the tutorials and lessons used:

Just messing around on my own -



Trying a few things from books -



Decided books might not be the thing this time, need more visuals. So I looked around online and found Digital Tutors. Been working out so far -



Finally getting some where!! Next up are a few more mechanical items and then finally some organics!! Can't wait!

Need to learn more about getting these images out of Maya, rendering and what not... these aren't the best quality.....

Hopefully soon I'll be back with my own characters done in digital and a couple of traditionally sculpted characters!

See you soon,
Shalon

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:iconjengabean:
Thanks for the favorite!
:iconkonstantinz:
thank you for the fav. Good luck with Maya. What book are you using as a guide?

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:iconsculpturalmyth:
Maya books - well, I first tried Mastering Maya (Eric Keller) and Introducing Maya (Dariush Derakhshani) both had limited visuals... next up tried Learning Autodesk Maya: The Modeling & Animation Handbook and the Foundation book - both put out by Autodesk. Much much much better. More visuals of what was being taught. All the books came with cd roms that have videos of everything, but some of it just wasn't clear enough for me to really understand what they were doing or more importantly why they were doing it - I felt like I was just following along.

The other issue that I was having was that most of the books that I had were more interested in teaching the animation side of the program and not the modeling. I ended up getting the shortest subscription at Digitaltutors.com It's been working out quite well so far - when I can find the time for it!

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:iconryantottle:
Hey very nice work. Thanks for the Watch!

Ryan~

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:iconlovettart:
Thank you for the :+fav:. You're very talented so its quite a compliment. I've been working on a Calvin and Hobbs sculpey piece. Taking 2D into 3D has proven to be more difficult than I thought. Especially Calvin's hair, ha.

I'd love to update you when I finish it to get a critique if you have the time. I'll be in touch. Thank you again.