“Course #1”.

6 Months website access to all website based video tutorials, 167 Euros (200 USD equivalent Nov.2011)

“Course #2”.

167 Euros (200 USD equivalent Nov.2011) per month. You get your .wire reviewed by me every 15 days and you will receive : feedback, instruction, tips and advice from me personally. Access to all videos including my ” Private Student Training Videos”. You will build at least 3 complete automotive exteriors. The course also includes an intensive Reverse Engineering section, which required by most employers.

“Course #3”.

Fast Track Full Pro. “One to One” Course with weekly reviews and coaching 250 Euros (USD. 300 approx. Nov. 2011) per month. One to One Private tuition. You will receive specific geometry and meshes and modeling from me personally where required, to help you to complete your exteriors quickly to an Industry entry level standard. This means a bigger investment, but once in an Alias modeling job you will get back what you invested many times over and be able to work anywhere in the world

For more info,

Just register on my website and I’ll send you all the details
www.learningalias.co.uk

USA:

If you are in the USA, just register and login, then go to Profile and you can pay your subscription with your US credit card. Absolutely no extra charges for currency conversion.

Regards

Graham Bullock B.Ed.(CNAA)Des.Tech.

Thinking about upping that degree? please, think twice.

Consider the situation: you have a degree 3×3 surface and you decide you need more cv’s to work with, so you go to that control panel and reach out to up that degree.

That is perfectly alright, but think twice, do you really need that extra row of cv’s? consider the mathematics at work for a second.

(IMAGES COURTESY WIKIPEDIA)

This is a degree 2 curve

It interpolates between the three control vertices. At the start and end it is absolute so it touches, while the middle cv acts like a magnet influencing the curve towards it.

As we know the middle cv’s of bezier/nurbs geometry do not lie on the surface or curve, they hover over like the center-of-mass of the old “ducks” used before the computer. This is, without doubt, one of the trickiest parts of nurbs/bezier modeling.

Now consider a higher degree curve, degree 4

Mama mia! what a ballet. this is getting pretty complex.

I wish to leave you with this one, a degree 5 curve, and this is pretty common. I conjure it up to your own imagination to imagine the interpolation of still higher degree geometry!

and no… weighting cv’s or spans are not the solution! sound surfacing judgement is.

By Kevin De Smet
Advanced student at