Practice question · Multiple choice
Why does adding surface detail before the structure is settled cost a modeller time?
Hints
- Ask what happens to a refined passage when the mass beneath it moves.
- Work built on something unresolved is destroyed when the something changes.
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A. Any later change to the structure destroys the detail built on top of it
Why
Because the detail sits on the structure. Move the mass and the surface built over it goes with it, so every hour spent refining before the structure is resolved is an hour spent on work that will be destroyed. The sequence exists to stop that, not to enforce a style.
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