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lisa · 27th November 2008, 03:14 PM

Hi ultracougar!

There are some AC3D tutorial movies you can find here:
http://www.inivis.com/tutorials.html

Also, the manual has a lot of stuff in it and is pretty well illustrated:
http://www.inivis.com/ac3d/download/ac3dman64.pdf

This is probably one of my favorite tutorials. It's very brief, but it really made some of the ideas "click" for me: (The tutorial is for Maya, but you can do exactly the same thing in AC3D)
http://www.3d.sk/tutorials/Modeling_a_foot_in_Maya.htm

This tutorial is also very popular:
http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials...c/joanmenu.asp

Everybody here has different methods they use when they model--if you dig around the forums you can see lots of the nifty things people have made. Personally, I like the "box modeling" method. You start with a cube, and keep slicing surfaces and extruding faces until you get the shape you are looking for. (like the foot tutorial I linked)

You can find 3rd party plugins for AC3D here:
http://supercoldmilk.com/ac3dplug/index.html

And also here:
http://www.independentdeveloper.com/...ls_and_plugins

(A number of these already are included with AC3D, so check before downloading as the ones with AC3D are the ones you want when in doubt.)

27th November 2008, 03:14 PM	#2
lisa Senior Member Professional user Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 917	Re: Some help for a beginner, please? Hi ultracougar! There are some AC3D tutorial movies you can find here: http://www.inivis.com/tutorials.html Also, the manual has a lot of stuff in it and is pretty well illustrated: http://www.inivis.com/ac3d/download/ac3dman64.pdf This is probably one of my favorite tutorials. It's very brief, but it really made some of the ideas "click" for me: (The tutorial is for Maya, but you can do exactly the same thing in AC3D) http://www.3d.sk/tutorials/Modeling_a_foot_in_Maya.htm This tutorial is also very popular: http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials...c/joanmenu.asp Everybody here has different methods they use when they model--if you dig around the forums you can see lots of the nifty things people have made. Personally, I like the "box modeling" method. You start with a cube, and keep slicing surfaces and extruding faces until you get the shape you are looking for. (like the foot tutorial I linked) You can find 3rd party plugins for AC3D here: http://supercoldmilk.com/ac3dplug/index.html And also here: http://www.independentdeveloper.com/...ls_and_plugins (A number of these already are included with AC3D, so check before downloading as the ones with AC3D are the ones you want when in doubt.)