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Your point about knowledge of tools being an effort multiplier is so true. I can't count the times when I've spent hours pluggin away at some geometry for a 5 minute tutorial to show a tool just an icon away that does what I wanted perfectly. I got the autodesk license through my high school's "Intro to animation" class which was pretty unserious, the teacher showed us some general animation techniques (rotoscope, some photoshop stuff) and then second semester pretty much just turned us loose on Maya. Consequently my technique is pretty awful and the edge/vertexes of any of my models would surely make someone who models to make assets scream in terror. I'm much, much closer to the "3 hours" than the "3 years" in this video's thumbnail https://youtube.com/watch?v=XEaoHoH4qf0.
My magnum opus was a Swedish lvkv 9040 which i partially rigged. Here's a link to a short animation I made: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11s1bSzpLSJnz7_a6pG_C7_OgAUAdfrS5/view?usp=share_link If you have a way to view/use .mb files I'll link it here so you can investigate my horrid practices: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X64xO_ntBB5mi5vNSQ3WmhXdEhXSwMVp/view?usp=share_link
The only other thing I can find right now is a short video I made using a mig-25 model I made where I messed around trying to make flares. The flares don't look very flare-like but I'm happy it at least sorta looks like smoke. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sn9iKo5-A0kdspeqOepa5ydOXmXk4FF_/view?usp=share_link
I also made an XM7 (the gun) model and in combination with a barebones human rig I made some (in my opinion) pretty decent POV animations, things like running, reloading, and aiming/shooting. It's also the only model I tried to texture, although that was pretty barebones (rubber grip, gunmetal, tan plastic). I can't find them on my laptop, but maybe they've been preserved somewhere on my desktop. I'll check when I get home next week. Anything you want to show off?
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