Organic water tap

panixia

This is the base mesh, if you want to play with.

alvis

Here's my entry. As Alvin said, photo reference is bad.
I just quickly eyballed this, focusing mainly on the proper topology.
I believe the shape can be perfected a bit, but the topology itself should be basically something like this.
(I did it solid just for the sake of fun

i'm saying that there are people who do it better than me. i can see where my mistake was, but i was on the right track.

panixia

@alvis said:

there are people who do it better than me.

Thank you man, I really appreciate it from you.
You were one of them I really looked at as "teacher" in the past years, when I was at the beginning.
Your clever modeling has always been a source of inspiration for me.

I believe in this case, you did it right with the vertex count (8 is the way here), but you had to rotate everything 45° and then the topology naturally follow along.
I did the exact same mistake on first try, then realized I had to rotate stuff and having the base octagon facing flat forward.

pbacot

Cool work guys

panixia

Played with it another bit in the afternoon.
I think it has decent overall shape and improved topology in the top handle.
Also fixed bad naming and pivot orientation, scaled it properly and saved it in skp 2017 version.
Attached here the improved model.

Sub-D_DamixaWaterTap.skp

alvis

Bravo

Builder54

How is the perfectly round faucet mouth done? It looks like you both added a circle to the mesh.

panixia

Yes, you can basically add some 8-sided circle and then loft/bridge with existing topology.
You should also try to use way less segments for the top rounded part and avoid those nasty star poles (those vertices where 6 edges are connected).

Builder54

@panixia said:

Yes, you can basically add some 8-sided circle and then loft/bridge with existing topology.
You should also try to use way less segments for the top rounded part and avoid those nasty star poles (those vertices where 6 edges are connected).

Thanks for providing your model. It took me a long time to figure out even with your model loaded to pull the spout from the stem. I learned a lot here.

Your model is on the right

panixia

Glad that it helped

Epix3D

WoW! Some really great results here! Unfortunately I could not get a reference photo straight on from sideview but it seems you got great results from "eyeballing".
I learned alot from this and will use your tutorials to improve Sub divide modelling.
Thank you all for your effort ; )