Does JB use computer models so he can save time?
It takes 40 hours to complete a single 3D model? I didn’t suspect that using computer for drawing could be so hard. JB: Not so much “hard” — I wouldn’t do it if it was hard! — as time consuming. Working out the shapes, creating the maps appropriate to those shapes — it eats up the hours. Saving time is one of my lesser justifications for using the models, of course. If it really was a case — as some seem genuinely to believe — of basically typing in “Daily Planet Building” or “1940s Batmobile” and then walking away and letting the computer do the work, I would not use the technique. But the fact that the end result is something I spent time and energy actually creating means it is, to me, just as much a part of the process as a pencil or a brush. (Since it only takes a couple of minutes to draw some of these things — the Planet tower, the Batmobile — it is, of course, not particularly a time saver to use the models. Say it takes even ten minutes — much too long, but… — to d
