Dear pros, especially sculptors, please help. I'm obsessing over this and can't stop. So I have this anime figure head I'm recreating (Super Sonico). What makes it different from lots of others is that the front bang/hair is smooth until gets cut into nice sharp edges. As if one continuous mesh. As as you can see from the…
Hello everyone! Hope you're doing good. This discussion rocks! Recently I've tried to be more careful with edge loops keeping an eye where they will be ending. A few days ago I didn't have any idea how to tackle this model, and now with better topology I think I did better, but still there are a lot of problems and…
Hi all I have problem with smothing groups in MODO (indie) [cant use vertex normal tool kit...] Can someone check this ?! As you can see i have litle hard eges on the two island any one know solution ?! here is picture (left and right uv is have problems with smothing groups. Here is normal map form it: This is just Defult…
This is kinda a lame question, but I'm not sure whats the best way to handle this for speed and results. Basically when dealing with a curved surface, I realize that you need to have a certain amount of density to maintain the shape first then you can worry about making hard edges where needed. However, this is a basic…
Hi Frank, Thank you so much for this very detailed explanation. This was very clear. I've tried and tested all the different approaches you described and this has given me a whole new view on how to use the bevel/chamfer tools and the inset tool. Insetting n-gons to create edge loops around the details you wish. Using the…
@SignalFlare07 Welcome to Polycount. Consider checking out the forum information and introduction thread. This reply is a bit late but you're on the right track. Try to match the segments of the intersecting shapes and their support loops with the existing geometry of the underlying curvature. This will help prevent…
@guitarguy00 In the previous example: the base sphere has 12 rings with 24 segments and the subtracted sphere has 22 rings with 28 segments. Both quad sphere and UV sphere intersections tend to produce topology that requires some additional clean up. Minor differences in scale and position often prevent the perfect…
@macaron10 Welcome to Polycount. Consider checking out the forum information and introduction thread. There's a few different topology layouts that would work for this kind of shape but the answer really depends on how "beautiful and correct" is defined... Quad grid topology can be nice to look at but it isn't always…
@Deqa You have the right idea. Drawing out the shape borders and topology flow over the reference images can be a great way to start the block out process but it may also be helpful to gather additional reference images with cleaner lighting. Single piece tubs and shower surrounds can be difficult to model because they…
@KungFuCactus Edit: I thought you used max. Oh well, this is how I would do it in max.. For ease of modificatioin you can do displacement with a heightmap, or even bake the heightmap into the normals, but if you're like me you want to model it in because you want to model it in. In that case, you can get away with some…