I'm sure the comments when my homework review comes through will cover it

nnavik Take a look at this https://cgcookie.com/tutorial/modeling-an-ornamental-shield-with-blender-2-8
basically a lattice mod is used to deform a mesh

Wow.

we wont really know until they're in the scene anyway.

hunter-x I have a similar uncertainty, but perhaps if we just submit something, and when kent puts them next to each other he'll have some feedback on the matter.

Local County Council have wanted to CPO our place and demolish it. Petition has helped. https://www.change.org/p/save-geraghty-s-shop-and-family-home?recruited_by_id=617e1610-6a71-11e5-bae0-b1d936caba22&use_react=false

Thanks iironsoul. I think that's reasonable.

[Q] if you want, you can turn on auto-merge for the verts. it quite a useful tool. you can find it right above the solid mode button

of course I'm not sure how linking files and modifiers works in blender, if that causes slowdown or any other issues.

My vase is basically one big curve; I can reduce the number of edges easily but a metric for how many is appropriate would make this more straightforward