MS3D Academy

Patryk Bamburski
★★★★★
The course shows you examples of how to work on a model based on sketches. Everything is explained well by a skillful mentor, so it’s easy to understand even starting from scratch.

Danut Stanciu
★★★★★
The couse explains the basic tools to get started with SUB in Alias and after that shows you how to create a car step by step. After going through the lessons I feel that I have the knowledge so I can create a complete car exterior by myself.

Alex Craciun
★★★★★
Overall the course is nice, it helps a lot to have someone guide you through the process and explain you the path you need to take and to show you what kind of quality do you need for auto industry ( one of the most demanding industries in terms of reflection quality 🙂

Still there are a few things that need to be mentioned :

1. The music.

It’s a bit much and repetitive to the point that it becomes tiering. I understand the background music as a white noise if you wish, but it is a bit too loud by default and not everybody enjoys the same music. So the solution could be a lower volume and maybe some variety ? like 2-5 songs for the entire course ? or no song at all ? maybe 🙂 Still the mentor/ owner has the last words.

2. Subtitles, the lack of.

For some people it is hard to have volume on or maybe they can’t wear headphones or they don’t have ones or they don’t want to. Still it would be nice to have subtitle when the mentor speaks 🙂 I know maybe it is a bit nitpicky, it is a suggestion.

3. Some video skips

At some point the video skips and the mentor who did the videos for “Audi RS Q8 2020” does not mention they did a part of the rear light, instead they just continue and the student it is supposed to guess how the mentor build that light and than continue as normal ? In some parts of the “Audi RS q8” videos it happened again and you would not notice if you are not very careful.

Also there are some inaccuracies at the rear wheel where the panels split, the bonnet cut line, the rear light shape. And the blueprints were misaligned copied/ recopied. And there was no explanation on why.

Or maybe the course it is designed that why so they try to force you to think how the mentor did it and train your observational skills. In that case I am sorry this point it is to be ignored :).

4. The tools

I feel like the other transform tools were not explored enough or at all. for example at the construction of the wheel the rotate tool could come in handy if you try to do a fifth or third of the wheel and than divide a 360 to 5 or 3 (or whatever the number depending on the case). The rotation tool it is used but I’m not sure if it’s the most efficient use. ( my opinion, I’m aware there is more than 1 way to do anything)

I don’t recall the flip tool / array tool / thikness being used in any of the videos ?( or it is not stated) pretty universal tools, not just for NURB but also SUBD. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe our models would benefit more from such tools, they would be more sharp more precise, so better quality ? I am aware that the mentor mentions that SUBD is a very manual process but still in some cases it is good to use more precise tools :).

5. The order of the videos

After finishing the “AUDI RS Q8” and getting the green from the mentor I went to the “more about subd” section and there were a lot of very useful information that would have helped me a lot in the construction of that Audi but they were closed off behind the Audi tutorial. I think that information would be better before the tutorial with the RS Q8. like the very first things after how to navigate and move things in software. 😀

6. Some tips and tricks maybe ? 🙂 ( nice to have)

It would be nice the have a sections with tips and tricks from the mentor, things that the mentor learned through the years and are not so self evident like how to arrange the faces to have a specific reflection or how to build a wheel much faster if you follow a few guide or things like that that are not so easy to spot outright, but only from experience 🙂

7. Yes

The owner seems to be open to discussion, a good mentality to have if you want to grow in general.

The sound is good.
The video quality is good.
The site is nice but it needs a few touches 🙂

You actually learn to do stuff. Useful. ( yes there are paid tutorial where you don’t learn almost nothing, I don’t understand how those are legal.

The price is not that high which is good, but the best part is that the owner is open to give discounts ( very good).

8. Yes Yes

I would recommend this course for learning Alias SUBD.

Overall 4.4 / 5 just a few more touches 🙂