SPEED MODELING CHALLENGE No. 114 (Seashell)

[Stryker]

Welcome to 3dm3 Speed Modelling Competition

New Speed Modelling Challenge!

Subject: Seashell

Description: I know it will be hard to create such model. You available to model any kide of Seashell.



Modeling Time: 2 hours
Start: Monday, 10th August at 12:00 am GMT
End: Sunday, 16th August at 12:00 pm GMT

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Post your entries in this thread!

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[bkg0786]

wow cool

[alexgeorge]

My brain cannot calculate such wires :P im still an uber noob! I have a feeling im gonna be wrapped up in crazy wires for the rest of my life if I enter this one... So... Im in!

p.s

Great Topic.

[alexgeorge]

My entry of a big whelk:

Modelling time: 1:30 hours
Texturing time: 1 Min
Rendering time: 1 Min

M-Software: Autodesk 3DS Max v9 - SP2
T-Software: ...
R-Software: Mental Ray

Here it is guys... pretty tricky to get this shape.

[bkg0786]

Originally Posted by alexgeorge

My entry of a big whelk:

Modelling time: 1:30 hours
Texturing time: 1 Min
Rendering time: 1 Min

M-Software: Autodesk 3DS Max v9 - SP2
T-Software: ...
R-Software: Mental Ray

Here it is guys... pretty tricky to get this shape.

thats nice man,and that too very early,good work

[alexgeorge]

thanks, well see sometime i look at a competition and think, YEAH ill enter that in the week sometime... then my girlfriend drags me around everywhere sorting stuff and going to hers and shopping and stupid things and never youst to get round to entering... now im gonna try and be first on in... in every competition.

[bkg0786]

Originally Posted by alexgeorge

thanks, well see sometime i look at a competition and think, YEAH ill enter that in the week sometime... then my girlfriend drags me around everywhere sorting stuff and going to hers and shopping and stupid things and never youst to get round to entering... now im gonna try and be first on in... in every competition.

in that case i wud say here "thou shall drink" it helps hehehh

[IRAFK]

Originally Posted by alexgeorge

My entry of a big whelk:...


Here it is guys... pretty tricky to get this shape.

how did u get the spiral so perfect?

[alexgeorge]

Originally Posted by IRAFK

how did u get the spiral so perfect?

I pretty much did this:

1. Helix spline <<< Perfectness
2. Extrude Edges
3. Weld Edges
4. FFD Box - Shaping
5. Edit Poly - (half sphere to cap top)
- mouth of shell extrusion
- loads more tweeking
6. FFD shaping again
7. Shell
8. Meshsmooth

Im no genius :P

[ani2in]

am in...easy to watch...difficult to model.. haha

[bkg0786]

Originally Posted by ani2in

am in...easy to watch...difficult to model.. haha

hint:but if u use maya,i wud say its quite the opposite lol,trus me!

[IRAFK]

yea, i dont think maya has a helix spline

[alexgeorge]

I am not a maya user however im sure running a script like: Spiral

May help you create a helical spline.

If not could you not use a cylinder and then simply move each edge / verticies upwards or downwards by a set amount of each edge around the parameter. Then copy and weld?

http://www.christerb.com/tutorials/m...ral/index.html

[IRAFK]

might be easier to use a spline, move the points into a spiral, and then use the rest of ur method. tons faster. im not sure ill have time to participate, but ill at least give the spiral a go. thanks alex

[rgarcia]

Originally Posted by bkg0786

hint:but if u use maya,i wud say its quite the opposite lol,trus me!

maya have the helix and can make all u want
i show u how