Mending or Ending

Countless times I've been hours or days into a model, iterating endlessly on a junction or intersection, thinking I've completely exhausted my options. It's in these moments I wish I had taken that leap. Back to the beginning. It would have given me a new perspective and many new avenues to attempt. On every model I learn something new about Alias: how to mend its will with my ideas, and how to work with its power rather than against it.

I have a project on this site, the "Ferrari 12 Cilindri," where I learned such a significant amount about surface during its life cycle that it felt like I was trying to fix the leaves of a rotten tree. Deciding to continue the project meant a full reassessment of the model. Starting from zero could only create improvements across the board.

This is not to mention the importance of history. For the longest time I never took it seriously. Getting rid of important history for B and C surfaces when in reality I should have kept the original surfaces in their own layer. Copying out segments to iterate on. This was a practice I learned the hard way more times than I'd like. This led to models that couldn't grow past what they'd already been.

Going back to my models is informative for me, it illustrates my progress and having past iterations is still useful to reference from, there might lie clues to real solutions within them. For that reason, I may still end avenues of thought, but I never erase them. Mending together ideas to craft something new, trimming as much clutter as I can.