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If computer graphics is of interest, BRL-CAD (https://brlcad.org) is very welcoming to new contributors and has lots of projects you could take on. Source: about 1 year ago
Mike Muuss[0] approves of this message. 0: https://brlcad.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Join an open source community that is welcoming to newcomers (e.g., BRL-CAD, Haiku OS, OSGeo, ..) and work on a little bit of code every day. It can be a simple feature, specific bug, or something new you want to achieve. Many open source groups are very welcoming to newcomers if you do the work and ask smart questions. Source: over 1 year ago
You could also try out free AutoCAD alternatives like libreCAD (2D), or brlCAD (2D&3D, I believe). Source: over 1 year ago
So, uh ... Learning curve. If you want anything and everything under the sun, go with BRL-CAD. It was designed for ballistics testing and simulation, but it can do pretty much anything. The learning curve for BRL-CAD is immense. Otherwise, I recommend OpenSCAD. Source: over 1 year ago
If you need the equipment soon, you can look for available vehicle models on sites such as sketchfab and turbosquid. The models can be imported into Fuzor and the parts animated with sequence animation. Source: 7 months ago
4 - Go to sketchfab (https://sketchfab.com/): You'll find 3D models of the most varied things for free so that you can see them from different angles and allow you to draw assertively. No, you're not going to literally take a photo of these guys' 3D work and paste it into your comic. But you can use their incredible work to help you make a gun, for example, without making perspective errors. Source: 8 months ago
Most project I know use perforce to store a few terabytes of art data and the game project. Another project used Google Drive for the same purpose. Some groups built entire platforms https://sketchfab.com (Epic Games) or https://github.com/nuxeo-archives/nuxeo-platform-3d (Electronic Arts). - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
The Sikh Museum Initiative (UK) & sketchfab.com are bringing Sikh history alive through the exploration of Sikh relics and artefacts in 3D, for other good work worth looking https://sketchfab.com/SikhMuseumInitiative. Source: 12 months ago
I get nearly all of the models I use on Sketchfab. There are a ton of institutions like museums and colleges that are scanning and uploading chunks of their collections and you can find a ton of incredible stuff that's available to download. Pretty much everything uploaded from the scientific community is under some form of creative commons license, and pretty much anything downloadable is good for personal use. I... Source: about 1 year ago
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