[Soul-Blade]

3d design surely goes under the topic of graphic design. In the end, "level" design is utter nonsense. Hopefully levelmakers won't read my post, so no harm done, but making a level is extremely simple and pales in comparisn to graphics. And 3d design is even harder then normal 2d design; you must make an image in 2d of great quality and convert it to 3d.

As far as actual modelling goes, it is extremely simple once you get the hang of it. Took me about 1 week to get the hand of it, then I was off building spaceships and other nonsense =P. The skinning and texturing aspect is where 3d design gets very difficult. People thing modelling is the hard part, and it never is....anyone can make a nice model. But few can apply the materials needed to make it look like something you can understand.

Anyway, aside from that, it looks better then anything else I've seen posted around here as far as 3d design goes. I didn't realize there were some fellow decent 3d designers here. If my old hard drive that has the models for shifting ages was not fried I would show you some of the models for space ships I made....because it was pre-rendered I got away with some mesh smoothing which made it appear considerably better, but even without mesh smoothing the models look very nice, and if rendered in real time would not appear any different then a smoothed model because of the distance it would be viewed.