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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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Compound Paths in the 8.2.1 Update

Christopher Tyler Jul, 23rd 2017 1 Comment
In this tutorial I show how changes in 8.2.1 make for a much better experience when working with bezier data brought in from Adobe Illustrator which has compound paths. The updated handling of this data makes for easier modeling and can help improve render performance (polygons render faster than bezier structures generally).
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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Creating a thin label for the outside of of a clear plastic bottle

Christopher Tyler Jun, 17th 2017 0 Comments
This tutorial creates a thin label that applies to the outside of a liquid bottle. It shows how to generate the label geometry using the bottle component as a starting point. It then walks through the process of using a boolean operation to ‘slice’ the label into the correct shape.
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
8.0 Specific

Using the UV editor to determine a closed curved object’s length

Christopher Tyler Mar, 22nd 2017 0 Comments
This tutorial shows how to use the UV editor and the Conform ‘unwrap’ function to help determine the correct length for an 8-shape object. The object needs to have a specific length when in its final form and this tutorial shows how to use the UV editor for this purpose.
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