Hardsurface Tutorial Collection — VOL 02 - Vacuum

A futuristic vacuum cleaner, drawn as a 2D concept and modelled from nothing in 3ds Max: at 640 minutes this is the longest volume in the Hardsurface Tutorial Collection, better than ten and a half hours of continuous screen capture with no fast-forwarding anywhere in it.

Length is the whole argument for this one. A ten-hour recording of a single prop shows the parts of hard-surface work that shorter tutorials cut — the slow blocking of a silhouette before any detail is committed, the re-doing of a panel that did not read properly, the long tail of small mechanical additions that turn a shape into an object.

Inside the pack

• ✓640 minutes of unedited 3ds Max capture, never sped up
• ✓A complete futuristic vacuum, taken from a 2D concept to a finished mesh
• ✓Aimed at beginners, and built so one software package covers the whole build
• ✓No commentary of any kind — the videos carry no narration and no subtitles

In practice nobody sits through this in one go, and it is not meant to be. Treat it as a build you return to: match where you are in your own file to where the recording is, work a session, stop. Because the capture is silent, following it is a matter of watching the viewport rather than listening for instructions, so the useful habit is to keep the video paused more often than playing and to rebuild each step yourself before advancing it.

What you need first

Basic knowledge of 3ds Max — how to move around a scene and use its primary functions. Everything specific to hard-surface modelling is shown. You do not receive the vacuum itself: no model file, no project files, only the recording of it being made, which is what is being sold.