I double dawg dare you
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Gnarly, man. What is the tree species? Looks a lot like crepe myrtle, or "crape" myrtle. Is this in a location with high prevailing winds?
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Eucalytus?
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it's an Australian Snowy Gum... I believe.
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@juanv.soler said:
before or during the sketching, it maybe useful to watch this, :
hands positions
cheers krisidious
wow Jaun, that was very interesting.
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I am still trying to get my head around the CUBE challenge. BIt out of my league here.
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Looks like a Fred Bartels creation....................wonder what he's been up to anyway?
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before or during the sketching, it maybe useful to watch this, :
hands positions
cheers Krisidious
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Here's a wip, without looking back at the image, and just contemplating the sequence of operations. Now that I have looked at it again, I may start over and try to replicate the branching better.
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@mitcorb said:
Here's a wip, without looking back at the image, and just contemplating the sequence of operations. Now that I have looked at it again, I may start over and try to replicate the branching better.
awesome...
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Thanks.
Mostly done with FollowMe on strategically placed Bezier curves.
Fiddled with DrawHelix31, but only used a fragment.
Then a bunch of sequential pushpulls with Fredoscale on the faces.
Did some retopo on the bifurcation notch to make smoother transitions to the branches, which you may not be able to see, and continued with followme on beziers. If I keep going on this one, the next steps would be tapering. I would either use FredoScale taper, which unfortunately can generate additional poly's or sequentially "isolate/select" the clean loops around the branches and then FredoScale on the loop's plane.
I am pretty slow--that was about 5 hours work, mostly contemplating procedure. -
@krisidious said:
it's an Australian Snowy Gum... I believe.
Indeed it is! And they are stunning by themselves or on mass! We have another very funky one - Red Gum (which isn't actually a gum at all), they grow in the funkiest of places and the funkiest of shapes. I've been trying to get a friend to do a photographic book of some of the weird ones I've found on sides of cliffs and other weird places. One of which is on a wind blown headland where nothing escapes the general canopy, the tree to keep growing has gone up to the canopy, then back to the ground, then back to the canopy and again!!
The wierdest thing though was to see a gummy that has grown just lighly touching an overhang with a hanging swamp above. The touching tree has provided a capilliary escape for some of the neutriant rich water and over the years the trunk has become coated in an inch think layer of flow stone for about 3/4 of it's girth!! The most amazing and incomprehendable thing I've ever seen! Nature and time are an amazing mix!
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