Short lessons, about 24 minutes end to end, with nothing padded.
The high poly, the low poly, and the bake.
Every tool is named in 3ds Max, Maya, Blender and Cinema 4D as it appears.
Free to watch with an account, including every technique.
Model it once in full detail, then bake that detail flat onto something light enough to actually render. That is the one workflow separating a model that looks good in a viewport from one that survives a production, and a flat panel with perfectly round holes is exactly the case that punishes guesswork.
This is not a 3ds Max course. Every tool used here exists in Maya, Blender and Cinema 4D, and the equivalent is named as it appears.
Originally recorded in Italian and re-dubbed in English with an AI model trained on my own voice. Sorry for the inconvenience if it grates a little, it was the only way to get this to you in English rather than leave it on a hard drive. Full note in the details below.
The toolset
The curriculum
Every module is a self-contained step of the build, and all of it is free to watch. You follow along in your own scene, there are no project files with this one.
Why the two-mesh workflow exists at all, then the high poly itself, cutting a clean hole through a curved face, and keeping topology that survives being smoothed.
3 lessons
The low poly, built with instances and arrays so repeated parts stay genuinely repeated. Edit one, and every copy follows.
1 lesson
The bake: the cage that controls how the projection reads, and wiring the maps up so the high-poly detail actually lands on the low-poly mesh instead of smearing.
2 lessons
Modellers moving from viewport-pretty to production-ready, and anyone who has never baked a map. No 3ds Max experience required.
Any 3D package that can bake maps from a high-poly to a low-poly model (3ds Max, Maya, Blender or Cinema 4D).
This started life as a tutorial I recorded years ago, in Italian, and then left in a drawer. Going back through it recently, the thinking still holds up, the software has moved on, the approach hasn’t. That felt worth putting out rather than leaving on a hard drive. So, plainly, before you start:
The picture is older than my current work. It was captured years ago at 720p, which is what screens ran at then. Everything I record now is 1080p. It is not up to the standard of the paid courses in the library, and I’d rather tell you than have you notice it thirty seconds in. What’s on screen is a real working session, not a polished re-shoot.
The voice is not me speaking, it’s an AI trained on my voice. The original narration is Italian. Rather than re-record hours of material, or leave it to Italian speakers only, I used a voice model trained on my own to re-dub it. The teaching, the decisions and the demonstration are mine; only the delivery is synthetic. The paid courses are narrated by me, in person.
The method is why it’s here. Tools change every year; how you decide to approach an object doesn’t. That transfers to any package and any version.
It’s free, start to finish. No preview-then-paywall. All 6 lessons, all the way through.
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This one came from a request. Someone needed a light switch panel at very high detail, and asked how to approach it.
The idea: model it once, bake it flat · How the plate was built · A guide for the hole
Narration is AI-generated from a clone of my own voice, the original recording was in Italian. Paid courses are narrated directly by me.
Eight sides on the cylinder. Enough to describe a circle, few enough that I can still control every vertex by hand. Back to orthographic, position it, scale it. Three centimetres of radius here.
Geometry only where you need it · Snapping to the guide · The finished part
Narration is AI-generated from a clone of my own voice, the original recording was in Italian. Paid courses are narrated directly by me.
Here’s the rule everything else serves. To keep a corner sharp under smoothing, you need at least three points across it.
Three points across a corner · The rest of the panel · Build one, repeat it
Narration is AI-generated from a clone of my own voice, the original recording was in Italian. Paid courses are narrated directly by me.
The Projection modifier, and it comes in at the right size. This is the piece that makes the bake work. The cage is a slightly inflated copy of your low-poly object. Rays fire inward from it, hit the high-poly mesh, and record what they find.
What the cage is · Reading the failure · Getting both maps
Narration is AI-generated from a clone of my own voice, the original recording was in Italian. Paid courses are narrated directly by me.
Occlusion arrived as diffuse, normal as a normal bump.
Reading the material · What the occlusion is for · The result
Narration is AI-generated from a clone of my own voice, the original recording was in Italian. Paid courses are narrated directly by me.
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