OK, going a bit off the rails on a crazy train here but we’ve come so far and can do such cool things now right?! (plus I have some old Ozzy blasting in the studio right now) [image] I saw a sketch of a robot fish somewhere and liked it, but couldn’t find it again, so I decided to design my own- …

Name: Modeling a Robot Fish Toy in SubD (Timelapse)
Uploaded: 2020-06-26T23:06:53Z
Description: [Modeling a Robot Fish Toy in SubD (Timelapse)] full build video- total time about 4.5 hours, sped up 4x-

render of the finished model- full time lapse video coming shortly! [fish_render]

[Modeling a Robot Fish Toy in SubD (Timelapse)] full build video- total time about 4.5 hours, sped up 4x-

Thank you for sharing Kyle :thinking: Your Sub-D workflow like friendly touch. J.P

[4viewport Sea_horsbot] [Sea_horsbot] Sea_horsbot Side girl and cat asset to //3D in Windows 10// All Sub-D and I used main tools this challenge 9 Sub-DThickenCurves. Have fun~ :slightly_smiling_face: J.P

Robo shark… with a friggin’ laser on its head! :smiley: No fancy renderings this time - just a grab from Rhino. Something a little more tight in terms of shape. Used a pic of a mako shark as reference. Major pain point was trying to use softtransform, eg. to create the fall-off for the edges. I even…

love it!! Things to try when soft transform doesn’t get you there… bend (i’ve found bend on SubD verts is really great) cage edit cage edit using a curve or the mac daddy… cage edit using a curve and using bend to edit the cage curve! [cageedit]

[image] Normand: We really need some sort of visual feedback on the radius I added your vote to an open feature request for this RH-55559. Thanks.

Very Cool and thanks for sharing! Questions: How come your symmetry objects are visualized through that red gradient?

Hi Kyle, First, congratulations for such a nice work!! I have a big problem of my WIP: why I can’t find the full subD functions as yours? Is your WIP downloaded from the Rhino website? [subD] Thanks!

SubD Challenge 9! Robot Fish! (wait, what?! )

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full build video- total time about 4.5 hours, sped up 4x-

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SubD Challenge 9! Robot Fish! (wait, what?! )

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