Critique & Help Needed

microgramms

Hello all!! First time poster here,even though I lurk these forums for quite a bit of time! Just a couple of words,I work at a retailer and I taught myself to model,render,animate etc. some products. Even though i get payed for what I do, I don't consider myself a pro because I need to lurn so much more! I am heavily interested in hardsurface modeling and I use C4D and Octane for the renders,I really enjoy working with these two softwares. Now,my difficulties lie in cutting holes in the surfaces of smartphones. Let me show you an example. What would be the correct way to cut that hole,so that there is no pinching in my surface..????? I am trying to support all edges and make all quads,but i just can't make it work for the small hole (where the flash is)! Hope this is the correct place to post!

Thanks all!

This is what I am trying to create



This is where I am at. There are obvious phong breaks and the small cut is problematic pinching the whole geometry close to it.



Subdivided.



This is what the surface looks like. Lumps and pinch on the border..



I need to preserve the curvature of the model and at that particular poing I am failing close the small hole!

RustySpannerz

To start with, this appears to be a 5 sided polygon. So that probably isn't helping. 

To answer your question, I think you just need more supporting edge loops. 

microgramms

Hey I din't even see that 5 sided poly! So I cut an edge loop and its fixed!!! But i just saw a triangle that I need to remove! The one with the question mark on the image!  




Thanks a lost Rusty..A noob like me is easy to oversee even the most obvious things! Love modeling and trying to become better!

Maxilator

Looks alright, the best tip I can give you is try to utilize the flat surface you have and keep the corners clean, the flat surface can pretty much have any topology you like and it wouldn't matter as long as it's level.

Vincent3d

Check that youtube channel if you have any modelling question,he probably answered it! Just type what you're looking for in the search bar! (holes,gun etc.)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSLLdTBwLMfTKWS56tOiQpw

RustySpannerz

microgramms said:

Hey I din't even see that 5 sided poly! So I cut an edge loop and its fixed!!! But i just saw a triangle that I need to remove! The one with the question mark on the image!  

Thanks a lost Rusty..A noob like me is easy to oversee even the most obvious things! Love modeling and trying to become better!

No problem! Happy to help! I don't know much about C4D, but to get rid of that tri you just need to delete the edge and then add an edge loop like you did last time. 

microgramms

Hey Vincent thanks a lot mate,I just looked around his channel and it seems that guys rocks!! Rusty thanks again bro,will do what you advised me! Will update the thread as I go along until I render the finished product!!