Seven short lessons, about thirty minutes end to end, with nothing padded.
Seeing the shape, driving the form, and making it a real object.
Every tool is named in 3ds Max, Maya, Blender and Cinema 4D as it appears.
Free to watch with an account, including the project approach and every technique.
Most modelling tutorials teach you to build one object. This one teaches you a way of working: read a complex shape, find the simple one repeating underneath it, build only that piece properly, and let deformers produce the rest. Nothing is ever committed, change the fold, the proportion or the thickness at the end and it is one number, not an afternoon.
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
Recorded in 3ds Max. As each tool comes up I name its equivalent in Maya, Blender and Cinema 4D, so every technique here is followable in whichever package you already use.
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.
Before anything is modelled: how to look at a complicated object and see the two or three operations that actually make it. Then the quatrefoil itself, drawn once and drawn properly, because everything after this inherits it.
2 lessons
The flat profile becomes a shell. Deformers do the bending rather than the vertices, so the chair stays editable the whole way through, change the curve and the form changes with it.
3 lessons
The passes that turn a surface into an object: thickness, the edges that catch a light, and the base assembled underneath it. This is where it stops looking like geometry and starts looking manufactured.
2 lessons
Modellers at any level who want to stop rebuilding things every time a note comes back. Comfortable with basic polygon modelling in any package. No 3ds Max experience required. If you model in Maya, Blender or Cinema 4D you can follow every step in your own software.
Any 3D package with a modifier or deformer stack (3ds Max, Maya, Blender, or Cinema 4D). Blueprint references for the chair are widely available; you can also follow along with any object of your choosing.
This started life as a tutorial I recorded years ago, in Italian, and then left in a drawer. I went back through those recordings recently and found 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 a few things are worth saying plainly before you start.
The picture is older than my current work. This 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 that 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 in Italian. Rather than re-record hours of material, or leave it available to Italian speakers only, I used a voice model trained on my own to re-dub it into English. It is declared on every lesson card and at the start of each video. The full courses in the library are narrated by me, in person, their free previews will let you hear the difference.
The method is why it's here. Tools change every year; how you decide to approach an object doesn't. Everything in these lessons is about that decision, what to build first, what to let the software repeat for you, and how to keep the whole thing editable so a change late on doesn't mean starting again. That transfers to any package and any version.
It's free, start to finish. No preview-then-paywall. All seven lessons, all the way through.
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Setting up the reference images so the model is proportioned from the first click: plane proportions matched to the images, real-world scale taken from the chair’s actual dimensions, and the reference planes frozen so you can see them but never select them by accident.
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 insight the whole build rests on: strip away the detail and the chair is a quatrefoil, a four-leaf clover. Build one petal properly, then instance it so a single edit propagates to all four.
Relaxing the mesh for even distribution, adding edge loops only where the surface actually bends, then closing and welding the petals into one continuous shell.
FFD and Bend applied to the shell, and the part most people miss: limiting a deformer so it affects only the band of the mesh you want instead of the whole object.
Refining the curvature of the shell, adjusting the deformers and their gizmos until the profile matches the reference from every view, with nothing committed to geometry.
Turning a surface into an object: Edit Poly for real-world thickness, then chamfering the edges so subdivision reads sharp where the chair is sharp and soft where it is soft.
Building the legs, checking planarity so they sit flat, adding the connecting piece, and using Swift Loop to control the final subdivision. Then assembling the parts into the finished chair.
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