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WORKFLOW

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Workflow is a systematic step-by-step process of creation. It applies to any skill, including sketching as well as modelmaking. It needs to be learned, but with time becomes a natural process. Developing a good sense of workflow is perhaps the most critical aspect of improving your modelmaking skills. The experienced sketcher knows how to draw a perspective view of an idea with little effort. Similarly, the experienced musician is able to play the instrument as an extension of his or her own body. Prototyping is a similar type of skill, where practice will make it more natural and effective to go and build to explore, test, communicate, and verify your designs. You will develop a ...

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