A coin using subsmooth
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This military challenge coin gave me my first opportunity to work with subsmooth. It is not at the level of what the other resident genies have achieved, but it convinced me the tool was a good investment.
My plans is to eventually render it in Kerkythea, but at the moment I have too many projects in the fire and this quasi render is good enough for the mint that will make the coins. Rather than do a full render at the moment, I need to go off and design the second side.
Time, time it will be the end of us!
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Also, look at the first leaf in the wreath to the left of the bottom point. That leaf was smoothed with only one iteration all the rest got two iterations. I like the organic crinkly leafy look of the single iteration and would use one it all the way around if I were to do it again.
Does anyone know if the numerically controlled milling machines used to make the maquetes and dies can be driven from output exported from SketchUp?
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wow..that's pretty great roger!! very impressive.
realistically, it wouldnt be quite that deep, though, right? for these purposes, its nice b/c you might not be able to see everything so clearly..
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Very nice, Roger. I like it...
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It is not too far off on depth. Some of the relief may actually be floating and need to sink deeper and the light is a skimming light to exaggerate the feeling of depth. With a more straight on light the relief becomes much weaker. However for the fixed viewpoint of a still picture I select the extreme since the viewere can't change his/her viewpoint.
I did learn something very interesting about flat relief work where you raise a plane parallel to your background plane. The raised plane will have a defining shadow at the bottom but the top of the raised plane will fade into the parallel background plane.
So I went back and beveled all raised square edged surfaces and poof! There was the magic of a defining high light to go with the defining shadow. Small thing, but it made a world of difference. I am sure this little trick will be extremely valuable to architects who work with so many flat and parallel planes.
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