I know there’s a ton of training resources out there for Rhino, but i’m looking for more curated experiences for new hires/interns and other designers that ask for advice of where to learn.
One of my most recommended courses for the fundamentals or Nurbs modeling is @sgreenawalt’s Primary Surfacing:
Questions:
1. Is there a similar fundamental’s training for SubD workflows? There’s a lot for Blender work, but we find easier and more approachable to nudge folks into subD in Rhino first so they can start floating, and only them push them to the Blender abyss where they have to fly or sink.
2. SubD-aside, what other good training resources (paid & curated are welcomed) are out there for Rhino Nurbs for industrial design, using advanced workflows and modern Rhino (including Rhino 8 tools, not olde V5 stuff).
Dave Schultze has a good series on Lynda.com that I recommend.
Sky’s stuff however should be mandatory for all new modelers.
we have not done a subd series per se, but there is a subd playlist that is project based for subd on our Youtube.
In 15 years or so of teaching subd the three major concepts that seem to resonate with most if not all students I have taught are build with postit notes, (to understand you topology) paper doll modeling, and rule of three.
if you can grok those three concepts, you are 90% of the way there on a successful subd model.
For advanced Nurbs stuff it gets pretty thin as many of the techniques are pretty industry or task specific. I know here we focus on a broad lev 1 and 2, then do custom training for folks who need more based on their specific needs.
Kyle, the content from Dave/LinkedIn is not what I’m looking for, nicely done, but too basic, and no form development, or design intent being taught.
You are right that there isn’t much out there for advanced learning. We have a ton of institutional knowledge here with our most senior team, so that’s why we know what we are looking for, but we also know that we are not teachers and and we are fully aware that a good modeler/designer does not necessarily make a good teacher.
Andres, your SubD course looks promising, I had no idea you have made that course! I just bought it and I’ll check it out. Are you making an updated version for Rhino 9 launch, with the purple icons?
I think after Andres’ course we’ll have to go hunter-gather a few tutorials out there, but everything I see is either too basic, too hacky, half-ass or sloppy for what we need.
Someone should make learning content on how to model in SubD with precision, dimensional controls, smooth surfaces, etc.
