Organic Shapes

JHuman

I am modeling an "accent" piece for an interior lobby. The shape is somewhat oval in plan but I need to cut out shapes (see attached image).
I managed to do most of this conceptual peice in Photoshop but now we are doing a flythrough and I need to figure out how to do this in complete 3D. If anyone has any ideas that would be great!

Thanks

Gaieus

Hi JH,

Fixed the image links (they didn't show in your post - note that you cannot embed the URL of a page they are displayed on - you always have to embed the image URL)

Anyway, the two images (and their URL's) are the same so there's still something going wrong.

@jhuman said:

I need to cut out shapes

That's exactly how you do it. Make your (full) oval shape then make shapes that you can "poke through" your oval - select both shapes, right click > Intersect... With model (or selected) and those cutout lines will appear.

Now you only need to remove unnecessary geometry.

JHuman

Sorry about the images, I knew how to do this with intersecting shapes and cutouts. Once I get the images up it will make more sense. Thanks for the reply!

honoluludesktop

Simple example to get you started?

A model

JHuman

I figured out how to sort of make it work. I ended up having to cut the oblong oval shape into about 5 or 6 different groups, then intersecting and subtracting from each one individually, then combining them back into one piece. The intersecting shapes had to have a very high segment count to appear smooth.

Honolulu, that’s pretty much the same approach I took, but since my shape was not a perfect circle and the soffit drops down and goes back up and snakes its way around the oval shape, this wasn’t as easy as it looked. I will post a final image once it’s all rendered in vRay.

Thanks for the help, if anyone else has more suggestions that would be great!!!

honoluludesktop

Oops.....Sometimes I don't read a post carefully. To make the basic shape did you consider "scale" as attached?

JHuman

Hmmm, no I didnt, but thats a good idea! I will give it a shot, thanks for the advice. There are a couple of those scale rubies out there for circular shapes I might give one of those a shot. Thanks Honolulu, opened up a whole new thought processes!