Hand Drill - Tutorial Full Process

A hand drill, fourteen hours, and one argument: that a mid-poly model can be the deliverable. No highpoly is sculpted and no lowpoly is retopologised — the mesh built in the first six hours is the mesh that gets textured, which removes the bake entirely and spends the saved budget on form and silhouette instead. If you have only ever worked high to low, this is the tutorial that shows the alternative running end to end.

Six parts, and what they cover

• ✓Six video archives, Part 01 through Part 06
• ✓6 hours of mid-poly modelling in 3ds Max
• ✓8 hours of unwrapping and texturing
• ✓A separate UV sheet for every part, laid out in Rizom UV
• ✓Texture sets built in Substance Painter with no highpoly at all
• ✓A closing render in Marmoset Toolbag

The modelling chapter begins with a proxy matched to reference and then commits to mid-poly for the whole object. Because the polygon budget is not being spent to hit an engine target, the form can carry its detail as geometry rather than as baked normal information, and the silhouette holds up from any angle instead of only from the one the bake was judged at.

Eight hours — more than half the tutorial — go on UVs and texture, and that ratio is the point. Each part gets its own UV sheet in Rizom UV, and each becomes a separate texture set in Substance Painter, so resolution is allocated where the eye goes rather than spread evenly over the object. Substance Painter is entered without any highpoly to bake from, and the recording works through what that changes in practice. Marmoset Toolbag closes it out with materials, lights and camera.

Intermediate, with the same software prerequisites the rest of the series carries. The drill itself and its project files are not included. There is no narration and no subtitle track on any of the six parts.