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Yeah, ... It's not the deepest repetoire of instructional tutorials, but in time what they do have will prove more helpful. Meaning, ...after you've reached a certain proficiency, ....the tutorials become more useful.

My suggestion for now is just getting super comfortable with the navigation and the various selection modes. Just keep working over a sphere until you can get efficient at producing the shape you want. After that I'd begin investigating some of the other deeper commands.

It's a fairly easy app to get a handle on and to begin producing with. Stay on it and pretty soon you'll be the one making tutorials. good luck.

I don't know of Silo specific tutorials... but you can learn a lot about organic workflow from the luxology modo site...

http://www.luxology.com/community/tutorials/

and these websites...

http://www.vertexmonkey.com/tutorials_g ... atures.php

http://www.cgbeard.com/ ... (go to the tutorial section)

and this one...

http://www.subdivisionmodeling.com/news.htm

I hope this helps...

This is true.

Usually when you say modeling with surfaces you mean modeling with nurbs, which is totally different than polygon modelling, like in Silo or Modo.

With organic forms, do you mean you want to make products, or humanoid/creatures? If you want to model products then nurbs is the way to go.

Also true.

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Hi matcad,

You should try this:
http://www.freedesign-inc.com/index.html

It's a new program - a kind of 'SketchUp for surfaces'.

It doesn't use nurbs but it is a surface modeller.

We don't know how much it will cost yet, though....

Miles

matcad,

I expect there'll be a demo of the Mac version, soon.

Pity that you can't use Rhino, if you're on Mac.

Miles