I've been avoiding creasing as much as possible, I think because of the courses I've been following here always mentioning how creasing wouldn't give the best result and should be a second option most of the time.
But I found this video that had some interesting recommendations on how to use all forms of adjusting edges with subd:
https://youtu.be/4p7yhxSJsrs?si=g8fqU-s1NAMrVwbp
I figured I'd ask here since your advice and experience never really fail me: is it sound advice, or would I be creating bad habits?
Certainly would take some practice the application of all three features, but if it's not a bad workflow, it might be worth it.
Thanks for any insight!
Like everything, it depends. I also avoid creases because both Kent and Jonathan Williamson always gave the advice that it is better to model being software agnostic. So if you only do Blender centrist functions, your model wont work well if you then have to export it. Crease tends to be a hack as far as I know and will give you more muddy results. I will use supporting edges all the time, unless it gets too cumbersome, then I will change to marking edges sharp and in very rare cases I would use crease if there is no other option, but that almost never happens.
There's a great old video from Jonathan Williamson where he goes into all of that: