How did you start 3dcg?

[element]

Hey!

Some time ago I asked you when you started that cool CG-Stuff but now I want to know how you started it. Did you buy a book and did the things written there or did you use tutorials on the Internet or what?
Well, I don't know where to start at. I bought a book about 3ds max 7 and I already used it but I forget some of the things shown there when I'm done with the section and I don't have anything to say about "I did it!". There are just some tiny descriptions how to use a specific tool and what's it good for.
You know, I got some (a few) Photoshop skills and I learned nothing of that from a book or something. I was just doing crap with that program and some of that "crap" didn't even look bad.

Greets,
Alex

PS: My English-skills aren't the best. Sorry for that. ;)

[minimus]

i started with flash but i wanted to advance so i started with 3ds max 7. just made some spears played around in the wievport and mixed som buttons. after i found out some of the basic buttons and stuff i go to the web and found som tutorials. after i learned some of the basick modelling teckniks i began messing around some more. (it is a hard time wen you dont understand every thing but wen you gett over it you see a space of posibilities) then i found this forum made some friends. (friends is always good to have) we share ideas. and help each other.

my tip. read tuts on the nett. make friends and mess around. ;)

[GOOOFY]

Um, it was back when I was 14, I started to want to be a filmmaker, and I thought 3d animation would be great, because of the advantages of effects. And I learned about the program from a friend. I then stopped using it till I was about 17, when I started taking a course in school. Then I really got into it, and started looking up tutorials on websites like this. I still think I learnt way more with the folks around here than I did in 2 years at school with 3dmax

[Rage_ele]

Hi guys;

I am a fan of cars since I was a child, I used to spend lot of time making drawings and sketch of my favorites cars. When I had a computer, a 286 with 4 mb of ram and a hard disk of 40 mb I started drawing on it, of course cars. I strated with paintbrush and then I migrate to powerpoint to make vectorial graphics. Then I knew that 3d tools exists and with an upgrade of my computere I got AutoCad and I start with solid modeling using splines, extrusion and booleans commands, this is my first work using that technique:



Then, looking for smoother and cleaner results I started modeling using surfaces, with AutoCad. You set a wireframe with splines and make ruled surfaces, and the ones with four curves, and so on. That was the last effort with AutoCad:



Then I started using 3ds max mostly as a renderer and to make simple animations, migrating from AutoCad is difficult to start modeling there but lately on 2004 I enconunter this site and I found new ways to make 3d cars so I learn to use polygonal modeling. This is my first 3dploy modeled car in 3dsmax:



Now I am looking for new techniques and practicing to improve my skills. And this is my last job of february 2006:



Rage_ele