yes, that's the point I made over there bb, that a case could be made that modeling is simply one "station" in a long pipeline, and I listed the stations (later lengthened by Dale.) Further reality check on the inflated notion of modeling being 'all that?'.....Shouldn't they be working with their hands sculpting objects in clay with no intermediary? (and then they could call in the technicians to scan it.)

I was exaggerating to make a point, not that modeling is not important and a highly demanding skill/craft/art, but that other stations in the pipeline were no less worthy of the same status as modeling.

A sculptor, or a digital modeller, must be brilliant in conveying the human form in an abstracted medium. So also must an animator be able to capture the subtleties and nuance of human movement in keyframes.

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