SubD Challenge 8!

[theoutside (Kyle Houchens)]

Thanks for the kind words, but I have to disagree about car bodies… It can do car bodies, and quite nicely I might add…

also fwiw, our subd is not tsplines based- It’s catmull clark based, was written fresh in house here by the unsinkable Dr. Dale Lear (with supporting help from many Mcneelies) and and is a much less fragile than early Tsplines was. I understand Tsplines has come a long way since Autodesk bought it, but when I was there it was still pretty easy to bork your model pretty bad.

Our set up is super flexible, meaning you can make ugly stuff with terrible topology, and it won’t break or crash in my experience so far. I have been POUNDING on it here and it’s performed really nicely. With this and the new render tools updates, I’m really excited about v7!

see these posts-

My 1st deep dive into sub d-

I have been playing with subd for some time now, but this was my 1st end to end project. This model took 9 hours start to finish…and most of that was fiddling with the render. The body itself took about an hour and was all subd. The details were nurbs and the two played very nicely together. I hope you are enjoying subd as much as I am. I’ll be cranking through a bunch of these in the next few weeks… (render in raytrace viewport in rhino which is also pretty cool…) [image]

this one for more-

Even deeper dive into subd-

Here is my next build trying to push subd harder- Focus was on sharp/soft, and detail- built the same way as the 907 Amazing how fast these come together! Main model took about 8 hours, then I picked at it for a few days adding details and render set ups. rendered using decals, and standalone cycles in rhino (hitting the render button as opposed to raytraced mode) [render_standalone]

this one for a basic starting point layout-

Subd cars-

more playing with sub d for making cars- here’s a base model (loosly based on the honda ev concept car from last year) you are welcome to play, dissect, crit or improve on- My one request, post your successes and more importantly your fails here! [image] oneboxcar.3dm (3.1 MB)

and a David Bently video (not with rhino) but great for subd layout and modeling concepts.

David Bently videos - subd cars

David Bently Videos- ( intermediate to advanced subd stuff ) Although not using our software, David is an extremely talented designer and modeler (who I have personally followed for quite some time), and has an awesome 2 part series on making cars. Video 1 is likely as far as you need to go, but I included both because they are great if you want to go further and go into zbrush later. His process for laying out his topology and base mesh in Maya is totally transferrable to Rhino subd. Watch t…