Modeling with Lady LittleFox
Charlie Judge
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Does anybody have this and if so is it a good and useful product? Would it be helpful for absolute beginners? From the description it looks pretty extensive.
Also what modeling software is it useful with.? Would it be a help with Hexagon or Carrara?
http://www.daz3d.com/modeling-with-littlefox-part-collection1
https://www.daz3d.com/modeling-with-littlefox-hair-collection
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It's been my experience that most modeling packages have similar tools and in that sense you should be able to follow what she's doing, whether she's using Modo and you're using Hexagon ;).
Laurie
A lot of the principles are transferable to low end modelers. In one of the other threads someone said they found it helpful with Silo, but I suspect that there are things in Hex and Blender that would apply as well.
The author's own modeler is not low end at all. But there are things that all modelers would have in common.
And at that price...
The modelling is good, and she covers several awakward situations that can come up rather than conveniently glossing over them. Modo does have a 30 day demo, though you'd be dealing with version 10 when the tutorial was written for 8 or earlier so some aspects of the layout have changed, so you could follow the tutorial in that and then look at Hexagon to find the equivalent tools (transalting between applications can be a good way to really grasp the point of the exercise).
I got her Hair one way back when.
She uses modo, but its not "how to model in modo" its much more "the general principles of how to model for the Daz figures" what that means is there's no "click here on the screen for what you want" but "use x tool or its equivalent in your program of choice" so you do need basic familiarity with the program you're using. (I am completely unfamiliar with carrara and hexagon personally as I am a blender user, but as long as they can do loop cuts you should be fine)
The rigging is legacy v4 style, but again because its more about the methodology and principles some of the information is still applicable (less than the modeling though) The good news is that rigging for the geneses is by and large easier than v4, a good number of things you can get away with just using the templates in transfer utility with no to minimal tweaking and this is one time the Daz wiki is actually quite useful!
onside
So, in conclusion, If you're looking for something completely step by step for someone who's never used a modeling program, you might get a bit lost. However even if you are a beginner, as long as you're willing to supplement it with outside information and experiment a bit, theres still a lot of very useful info (particularly in regards to modelling). And at $4 its certainly not a big risk.
I had the whole line on my wish list over at RDNA.
Needless to say, at $4 for each bundle (well, $2.70 because I was also picking up yesterday's PC+ item, and I'm a PC member) they flew into my cart. :)
Haven't worked through them yet, but I work so much better from text than from video, these can only help me.
I bought both while they were on sale over at RDNA. I thought they were well worth the money when I got them there for substantially more. At $4 and especially the subsequent discounts for PC people, it is a downright bargain and a steal! She has a very funny approach and gets you immediately into the modeling. She tells you what program she uses, but then lets you know that the tutorials are not program specific and I managed to follow along while using Hexagon and then, subsequently, Blender successfully. The tutorials themselves are PDFs and well thought out. I highly recommend them.
Yikes... I can feel my wallet squirming again. Thanks for the hint on something useful, even though my wallet seems to disagree. ;)
I snagged them all. For that price its totally worth it. Now I have to find the time to follow along....
I bought both bundles too, for $2.70 each with other stuff I was buying. I thought for that money I was bound to learn something new, but even if I didn't then I've spent more on a pizza before now and got nothing to show for it today. The PDFs seem very comprehensive and I was pleasantly surprised, but they will have to wait for now as I have somehow been motivated to download Silo halfway through looking at them (even though they don't feature Silo at all!) and so I suppose I'd better see if I can get to grips with that first before the thirty day trial runs out. Such are the challenges which beset the easily distracted :)
I bought them too! Thanks for bringing this to my attention by creating this thread.
Thanks, Everybody.
At the low, low sale price I did decide to go ahead and get the bundles. I download and glanced at part one. While they should be helpful with other programs, I can see right away where having Modo could be a great benefit in using the tutorials and it will take me a lot longer than the 30 day demo period to get through them all. so, I will need to really plan when I install the Modo demo. Will the Modo demo work at all after the 30 day period or will it completely refuse to open?
They are all excelent and well worth their full price!
Wait I missed it? I missed such a great deal! Bummer
Watch for the next catchup sale. Maybe it will be in it.
I'm glad you snagged the lot of them. Modo will refuse to open after the 30 days, but you can get Modo Indie on Steam for about $10-15 a month with subscription, so maybe that's an option for you too.
I followed those tutorials in Silo and they are easy to follow and full of usefull information.
I'm really liking Silo since downloading the trial last night. I'm still getting used to the interface, but the program seems to think like I do, if you know what I mean. It's only crashed once so far, but I think that was down to user error as I hadn't done anything as radical as read the manual by that point and was going at everything like a bull at a gate. I'm really liking how simple the UV mapping process is too, although I wouldn't put it past me to do something to complicate that later :) Up until now I've tried a few modelling programs and have always gone back to Metasequoia (stacks of features, but all documentation badly translated from Japanese and some functionality - notably UV mapping - barely documented at all). Silo looks set to change that, and if the trial keeps going this well then I can really see myself buying it eventually.