Technology is a wonderful thing, but as my young Marines found out, Technology doesn't help you when it no longer works. Most of them hated having to learn how to read a map, use dead reckoning, and God forbid, a compass and protractor to do Land Navigation. I mean, the GPS in their watch worked splendidly, was accurate to within 1 meter and they did not have to carry this extra stuff. Until day 6 of a 20 day operation when their battery that was not in the supply system died, they were in the woods and had to find their way to the next cache point for food and water resupply... Suddenly all us "old timers" didn't seem so stupid with our antiquated ways of doing things.
Maybe a bit of an extreme example, but perfectly applicable to the sculptor. For the one that only learns how to do it digitally, what happens when the system crashes, you forget to save all your work and lose the file, and that deadline is just around the corner? if you had done a sculpt the traditional way then converted it to digital, you could at least maybe* use a 3d scanner to scan your work back into the system and save your butt.
The main lesson here is use the technology, but have a working knowledge of all the underlying principles, just in case :wink:
*(I say maybe because this may or may not be an option depending on where you work)
