Lesson 1: Modeling a polygonal mesh from a reference image

Topics in this section

• Introduction
• Setting modeling preferences
• Using 2D reference images
• Creating a polygon primitive
• Modeling in shaded mode
• Model symmetry
• Selecting components by painting
• Selecting edge loops
• Editing components in the orthographic views
• Editing components in the perspective view
• Drawing a polygon
• Extruding polygon components
• Bridging between edges
• Adding polygons to a mesh
• Splitting polygon faces
• Terminating edge loops
• Deleting construction history
• Mirror copying a mesh
• Working with a smoothed mesh
• Creasing and hardening edges on a mesh
• Beyond the lesson