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Model to orthographic reference

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Model to orthographic reference

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- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri, and today we're going to take a look at how to model to orthographic reference. So, that is the type of reference where you have a front, a top, and a side view and you model from those views. So, we're going to actually work with a chair, so I have this chair here, and as you can see I have a front view, it's called Chair_Front. It is in your Exercise Files folder. We also have Chair_Side and Chair_Top, and with these three views we should be able to get an accurate representation of the chair. Now what we need to do is actually bring in these images, and then align them and then use them as reference. So first thing we have to do is some importing, so I'm going to go File, Import, and then here I have my three images here. We're going to have Chair_Front, Side, and Top. So I'm going to start off with Chair_Top, and then I'm going to import it as an image, not a texture, or a matched photo. So let's go ahead and import that, and as you can see it's…

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