Subdivision modeling: mesh density Vs loop structure on curved surfaces. Sharpening corner details by adding support loops that interrupt the segment spacing of a curved surface will generally result in some kind of smoothing artifact. The example below demonstrates how adding the highlighted support loops to the existing…
Subdivision modeling: use more geometry or create better geometry? Removing subdivision smoothing errors from shape intersections on curved surfaces is a common theme for questions about hard surface subdivision modeling. A lot of these questions are about pinching and stretching issues near corners and around shape…