NEW! - Weekly Subd modeling challenge

[theoutside (Kyle Houchens)]

We are going to start a weekly modeling challenge using Rhino v7 wip subd. We want you to learn, we want to learn from you, and hopefully have a little fun.

here’s how it’ll work…

We’ll post a simple image and a few hints- you give it a go and post your results on this thread
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We’ll follow up a week or so later with a video showing our methods of building the same part, and we can all hopefully learn more about Subd together!

1st challenge: Build a hand.

hints: lay it out flat and then make it 3d. remember mirror and join work on subd-
Bonus for fingernails, skin wrinkles and a forearm-
mega bonus for renderings that actually look realistic!

have fun!
-Kyle

[Holo]

Cool challenge!

Here is a WIP picture of the process so far:

A bit more details:

[theoutside (Kyle Houchens)]

NIIIICE!! Are the fingernails separate parts, or did you make them part of the hand?

regardless, very well done!

[Holo]

@theoutside

Are the fingernails separate parts

Yes, they are separate parts. And they were a something that I wanted to adjust a bit more since the skin didn’t flow around them nicely. So here that is adjusted.

Still not perfect, but this isn’t a money build, so I think I’ll leave it at this
(The curvature of the nails is a bit too flat)
I also adjusted the knockles a bit so they are slightly better on this image:

[wwmverswijveren (Tony Murchison)]

I’m not sure whether this is quite in the spirit of things - built the wireframe in Rhino WIP, exported to Blender, sculpted there under a subd modifier, then brought back into Rhino and made back into a SubD. But I find that this does make for pretty good results, even if the wireframe is a bit shoddy.

[theoutside (Kyle Houchens)]

not he exact intent, but happy to see the process regardless- Ideally I’d love to see you do the whole thing in v7 and let us know how it goes!

[siemen]

Just tried to give this a go. I realized after starting to make this 3d I forgot to add a few extra faces, especially on the thumb. How would I go about creating an extra edge here after it’s already 3d?

I tried using insert edge to try and get a new loop around the thumb by selecting these edges:

But that doesn’t seem to work:

Do I really need to do insert edge on each face?

200504 Hand.3dm (155.2 KB)

[siemen]

Ok, inserting edges one by one doesn’t seem to work too well either. It seems stuck on that corner on one side here:

[theoutside (Kyle Houchens)]

just extrude the end of the thumb one more time and drag the faces to match your shape, that is a fast fix for this.

[siemen]

Thanks for the tip! I was also just providing feedback to improve the tools, because I mean, this is supposed to work the way I’m trying, right?

[theoutside (Kyle Houchens)]

it should yes… can you post the mode so I can peek at it? I’m curious why it didn’t work-

[siemen]

The model is in my first post above here

[theoutside (Kyle Houchens)]

here is a video of my take on last weeks subd challenge ! I’ll post a new one wednesday!

[PodoTools (Erik Hondebrink)]

A bit to late for the challenge, but modeling wemt slowly. My hand is broken (!) Hope you like the model.
Erik
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[theoutside (Kyle Houchens)]

well done!! Any things you’d like to see changed or improved from this experience?

[Holo]

Rerendered the hand in the scene I made for the whiskey glass:

Only changes were altering the angle of the arm so it leans the hand on the ground, angled the hand a bit (SubD rocks for soft changes like that!), altered the angle of the bracelet so it leans on the wrist and ground, changed the skin tone a bit and darkened the nails a bit. (So minor changes only)

Using PBR emission materials on two boxes to light a scene is intuitive and gives smooth shades, but doesn’t work for OpenGL obviously.

[gustojunk (Gustavo Fontana)]

@Holo

Rerendered the hand in the scene I made for the whiskey glass:

Lockdown is taking you into some weird places dude

[Holo]

Oh, you’ve seen nothing yet…
Here’s some weirder work in progress stuff for ya:

[Holo]

There we go…

Have to say… the whole SubD thing is growning on me. Whipping up ideas and sketches and modifying organic stuff like this is a huge step forward for designing complex stuff.
(And now I consider my self done with this learning project)

[theoutside (Kyle Houchens)]

Well done!!!