Tim's Polybook - modelling

Some modelling practice and stuff!

  • Tim Hurst(Tim_00110011) replied

    Car wheel with modifier workflow. Trying to improve my general subd modelling skills. Lots of trial and error to get this working but basically wheels were made with a shrinkwrap  over a torus to maintain curvature and then solidified.

  • adrian replied

    Looking great @echobeach 

  • Tim Hurst(Tim_00110011) replied

    Thanks Adrian, I'll admit to some swearing doing this but satisfying to get a result!

  • Tim Hurst(Tim_00110011) replied

    Having a crack at a retopo of the orb. Just the top for now. I ended up with one less vertex in the eye circle so it finished up a little different to the reference model.

  • Tim Hurst(Tim_00110011) replied

    And the base

  • Tim Hurst(Tim_00110011) replied

    Some wire frames of my model from the revolver tutorial. Commited myself to "good" topology and it took a looooong time. Several re starts on each part to try and learn an optiomal workflow. Found weighted bevels really useful for tightening edges on the square edged parts - not much use on anything rounded though. Everything has 2 levels of sub division.

  • Tim Hurst(Tim_00110011) replied

    Just noticed I made ngons all over the grip without realising it!

  • Ang Deaver(shegeek) replied

    looks great. I am no expert but it seems the ngons are well placed. As it seems that you have a material change between the areas where your hand rests and your finger rest area. If that is the case won’t it reduce the stretching of the material ?

    But I may be wrong, as this is all new to me. 

  • Tim Hurst(Tim_00110011) replied

    Thanks Ang. Yes they're on a flat area and haven't caused any shading issues so no big deal. Not sure about helping with stretching. Making the screw heads a separate mesh would allow reducing the holes to 4 verts each and would clear the ngons away.

    You got me exploring and found this rundown of pros and cons:

    https://www.creativeshrimp.com/ngons-tutorial.html

  • jammingammon replied

    Did you take the Introduction to Retopology course while doing this? If so, did you find it useful? I've been considering checking it out, just a little hesitant because of its age.

  • Tim Hurst(Tim_00110011) replied

    Yes I did and it's worth doing - all same concepts still apply. I would recommend the mesh modelling boot camp first though as it introduces the basics of topology. I'm not sure the two courses appear in the right order on the learning flow page.

  • jammingammon replied

    Sounds like good advice, I think I'll check them out after I'm done my current set of courses. Thanks!