Quote - However, my biggest challenge is the teapot. I really like the design I chose from a reference image on google. I would really appreciate assistance in completing this. I'm at a loss on how to connect the handle and spout seamlessly.

Bandolin, the techniques we reviewed in this thread should be helpful to achieve what you're looking to do with that teapot, but there's some additional workflow to getting the kind of shape for that style design.  It's definitely a bit more challenging than just a circular spout, or handle; but still possible, and not that hard overall, with the proper technqiues.  Later this evening, I'll work on reproducing your teapot as a single geometry, or at least with a connected spout and handle, and post the results and scene file for you to review.  I'll share the steps I take to get there, and hopefully it will help.

Meanwhile, I was also going to show another technique called "Hinge From Edge", which is what I used to quickly create the spout on my teapot in the challenge.  It's not a new feature; it's been in 3dsMax for some time now (at least since version 6), but is often overlooked, or misunderstood. It can be tricky to control the results of the tool, but it's a great little feature that can make short work of many common modeling issues.  Not sure if you've ever experimented with it or not, but that was my workflow for the type of spout I went for.

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