@martianlion Modeling the complex shapes of cabinet inlays flat then deforming them into shape can be a good option. A lot depends on what the final model will be used for and how accurate the details need to be. A couple of other options would be to use floating geometry or to create a clean high poly of the basic shape…
@Stoicx93 Welcome to Polycount. Consider checking out the forum information and introduction thread. Adding parallel support loops down the middle of the guitar body will sharpen the inside corner of the recessed surface but will likely produce a smoothing artifact on the outside curve. There's a couple of different ways…
@byas There's a few different ways to approach this. One way to optimize for limited mesh density and overall sharpness is to block out the basic shapes to establish the basic topology flow. Then use a bevel / chamfer operation to add a set of consistently spaced support loops that automatically use 2 to 1 loop reduction…
@perna: nice solution.. a bit simpler and easier to edit later on. How dare you one up me! :P @Bad Spleen: As far as I know Turbosmooth and the NURMS smoothing in Edit Poly are the same but different routes to take when smoothing your model. They both use the NURMS method to smooth the object. The main difference is that…
@BladeSharpe looks like you're almost there. Exspanding upon zachagreg's well thought out examples that really is a key aspect to think about or in other words pre-planning prior to modeling anything, will mostly mitigate potential problems from occurring, any how a few additional points to keep in mind: 1. Where possible…
Ok so here we go @rogue1 Proportions might still not be correct, I was not really going for that! Adjust segmentation for your needs. ... Im showing a sequence, steps after each other... - On the first one, we can see a 64 sided cylinder - other segmentations would probably work too. - On the second one we can see a 1/8th…
Hi everyone, my first post here, and I can't believe how useful this forum is. I thought other ones were helpful, but there are so many amazing resources here. I'd like to show you a project I'm working on, and an area I'd like to improve I'm trying to build an AT-AT walker and I decided to actually model the panel lines…
Great video Pedro! And awesome work on that console. I laughed when the mouse danced around some of the boxes, "this is important shit, pay attention!" A few points to expand on the technique: * Sweep gives you more options then loft. It's modifier based so it stacks well with other modifiers. Loft is a Compound shape and…
I think that sub-d modelling is technical job since you really have to understand the proccess. I do belive it's a crucial skill in this cg. I just think that it's knowledge + experience. Problem is that the knowledge is here. I feel like you have written posts about this thousand times. It's not like suddenly you started…
The best advice I can give is to look at what you like to do, figure out where you want to go with it and reverse engineer everything from where you want to be to where you're currently at. As an example: Start by deciding film or games. Then look at which studios, what roles, what tools, etc. Build up a workflow around…