I need some reference for learning ornamental modeling

maya_phenomenal

Hi guys first of all I really appreciate for you helps.
1-I need some tutorial for learning ornamental modeling with Lovely MAYA.
2-what is best DCC for ornamental modeling?
3-what is best pipeline for ornamental modeling?
Thanks in advance.

TheGabmeister

Check out this previous thread. Might be useful:

What's the Best Way to make Filigree and Ornamental 3D Objects?

Alex_J

I haven't read the linked thread there, but I made a ton of ornaments recently and the way I did it was to use clip art images (or make your own. photoshops new radial symmetry is great for this), project them onto a plane in zbrush, mask by color intensity, poly group, delete the excess part, then either mirror+weld weld or use panel loops to give thickness. Sculpt details from there.

I manually retopo'd all my stuff. It might seem like that takes a lot of time, but it makes for cleaner, easier UV layout so I'd say that is a big time saver compared to using zremesher alone. And for hard surface/semi hard surface stuff, hard to get really optimal results with an automatic solution.

Eric Chadwick

 You should read thread, Alex. Time well spent IMHO. 

sacboi

@TheGabmeister thx for the link, there's definitely some cool resources posted on that thread - bookmarked, yah mon :-)

Alex_J

@Eric Chadwick , thanks for suggestion. I am a few post into the first page, and it's bookmarked. Wealth of resources right there. Too bad I didn't read that before I spent like three months making ornaments, haha.

thanks @TheGabmeister

maya_phenomenal

TheGabmeister said:

Check out this previous thread. Might be useful:

What's the Best Way to make Filigree and Ornamental 3D Objects?

Thanks for your consideration I'll  read thread.