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This work on this blog is in progress and the blog is intended to be a process diary, not a portfolio.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

interesting discovery that makes a lot of sense

been working on peter's hair a bunch recently and something struck me that i've been doing the past 2 nights.  i've switched my move and scale gizmos to operate only in screen space.  now, i know that you can adjust the move gizmo to have that little box where the 3 axis meet, but i'm talking about switching the damn thing into screen mode and that's it!  now, what happens with screen manipulation mode is you have to spend more time rotating around the model to get your proper move position and angle.  think about it.  what happens when you're rotating more?  light is passing over your model more and you are forced to focus more on the form of the model while you're getting your gizmo position and angle right.  this is great because no model is great without strong form.  i have noticed an improvement in my form because i can't use a predictive gizmo.  i am forced to rotate much more to get my gizmo oriented properly.

food for thought.

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