SubD examples and models

thomthom

@box said:

Ok, but I can't say I am a fan of farsebook or their proprietary gif setup.

All up to you. If you don't want to deal with Facebook then that's fine. I just thought you wanted to set up a page for your own services.

Yea, the GIF system is awkward - I have to upload to Giphy first then link that in the post.

@hieru said:

What workflow is everyone else using for their creation? At the moment I create them from layers in PS. Is there a faster method I'm missing?

I'm using ScreenPresso to record and export GIFs.

Hieru

That's great guys. I'll check those out next time I put together a mini tutorial.

Box

.gif screen capture software records whatever you do.
Two well known ones, Licecap and Gifcam.
I actually prefer gifcam but it won't work with mac.

ZahariStoyanov

Hey guys, this is a wonderful thread! Here's my current project using QuadFace Tools and SubD:

Box

Excellent. Looks suspiciously like a modified Trabant.

ntxdave

1+ on what Box said............nice looking model.

Box

@thomthom said:

I know!I just saw the numbers - it's blown away anything else posted!

I've just noticed that's 23,000 people in about a day and this thread is coming up to 20,000 views over two months, which is bloody fast by forum standards.
No doubt someone will share my own gif with me on my personal facebook page very soon.

ZahariStoyanov

@box said:

Excellent. Looks suspiciously like a modified Trabant.

@ntxdave said:

1+ on what Box said............nice looking model.

Thanks! Yep, it's supposedly a track Trabi

garydorn

@thomthom said:

@garydorn said:

save during progress often - 3 times I got bugspats, when I didn't save in SubD view, then when I go back to base geometry - BAM - got me!

Oh - that's disconcerting! Are you able to reproduce? Btw, can you make sure you submit the BugSplats? Please include some info in the BugSplat message so I can look it up. Then let me know after you submitted them - and let me know what version of SU you use and what OS.

Hmm, I wondered about that when it happened - i.e. sending you the bugsplat. Sure if it happens again I can do.

thomthom

@garydorn said:

Hmm, I wondered about that when it happened - i.e. sending you the bugsplat. Sure if it happens again I can do.

Technically the BugSplats doesn't get sent to me directly - but my day-job is working for SketchUp so I'm able to look up these crashes.

Box

A quick tip.
You can crease individual vertices to get specific results.
The creases here create the tent poles and flap.

cotty

cuttingedge

Thanks for this tut Box. Crease is awesome.. it minimizes the geometry of your proxy..Here is my WIP of my neighbor's wiggle car. I used different crease levels. I think its beginning to look like it.

leminilab

Another basic stool proxy:

stool-3.skp

leminilab

Gifs is the trend...

ZahariStoyanov

Playing around with Visualize

HornOxx

Stool - a pefect example for "subdeeing"

HornOxx

Olaf the Snowman
recently I discovered this cute snowman Olaf on YouTube and since the weather was cold and wet, I decided to make this guy as an exercise. The most difficult challenge was to make the shape of Olaf's head. So I googled some images which seemed suitable as template. One template, I placed in the background for modeling in SU´s X-Ray mode. A copy of this template I placed next to it in order to have always a clear view on Olaf's face. The interior of Olaf´s mouth I made outside of the head - for this I copied the lip line, then I created a new shape by moving and scaling it with VertexTools. This mouth-shape I placed back in OLAF's head after it was finished.
(there is no post pro, the render is done with shaderlight)

Render 1600.jpg