Agreed, the website isn't exactly the most easy tutorial out there, although it works if the user has a simple understanding of all the tools (especially extend if you're a LightWave user). The book tutorial, however, goes through everything in detail, which is nice. Well, it goes through modeling a skyscraper, animation, texturing and stuff like that in the previous chapters.

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