SubD examples and models

[HornOxx]

@vanpi said:

Bottle
this is a so cool bottle design! could you please add a picture of your control mesh as well?
(btw: nice avatar picture )

[HornOxx]

@box said:

...Thought I would throw it in here if anyone wants to use ... and see what you can make of it...

Thanks to Box for sharing his most lovely and cuddly figure - I love it
This is my scenes idea

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Box_CartoonMan_Dancers Proxy.skp

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[boofredlay]

@vanpi said:

Bottle

Stellar!

[Box]

@hornoxx said:

This is my scenes idea

They were too cute not to print.

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[HornOxx]

@box said:

...They were too cute not to print...

Box - that´s so great!!! I am impressed - did this 3d-printing work right on or had anything to be prepared?

[Box]

Yep, straight from your file, exported as .stl, both together and printed as one.

[HornOxx]

Mike Wazowski, the cuddly green Guy from Monsters Inc
time for a little SubD practice - I thought this green guy should be pretty simple - but he wasn´t

Proxy is attached below

...or the final render poly mesh model can also be found here:
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/eb026d84-43cf-4b0e-9427-6afa08966d8b/Monsters-Inc-Mike-Wazowski

[sunglasses taken from the 3d warehouse - everything else pure Quadface, VertexTools and SubD stuff - rendered with ShaderLight]

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Mike_Monsters_Inc___Proxy.skp

[faust07]

Really cool! The blues monster brother - monster blues brother -... And now bring him to life with MSPhysics...

[Box]

Excellent.

[thomthom]

Whoa! Awesome!!

[tuna1957]

HornOxx, little green guy is the bomb !

[MikeWayzovski]

SUPER!

[MikeWayzovski]

Absolutely fantastic!!!!

[alvis]

wow

[HornOxx]

...thank you all !

[pilou]

Nice images of tutorial!

[thomthom]

HornOxx - you ROCK!!!

[HornOxx]

Thanks again Guys

[HornOxx]

Various Transitions
Hello All - nothing new or even sophisticated but rather a repetition of some geometry exercises which are shown and discussed in this thread already.
I've created a small kit (pic1 & transitions 01.skp) to make transitions easier for me. Meant here are things like pipe- or tree branchings, the arms of a Minion or Monster-Mike´s arms and legs (pic3) etc etc ...
All these transitions pass from a quad-face-body or -shape into an 8-sided "pipe" (which is my vavorite pipe shape somehow).
This kit even allows to combine different variants to one transition (pic2 & transitions 02.skp) - this results in the advantage that you can merge shapes with a different number of quad-loops (at least in a certain extent). Something like this always happens to me since I do not work particularly clean or planned often

Best & I hope that this small "building"-kit may be useful for you too...

[ 2017-09-23 / Updated picture2 and transitions 02.skp - some little mistakes ]

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transitions 01.skp

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transitions 02.skp

[optimaforever]

Nice schemetic views indeed!
Thanks for sharing.
Just like substances, I tend to see quads in everything now. Just a mental exercise.

Now, I wanted to ask, is it a recommended thing to regenerate quads on quads?
I mean, let's say I model a raw mesh in several clicks, then apply a subD on it, then explode it, then remove some redundant loops generated by subD, add some new vertices here and there, subD again, explode again, remove some redundant loops here and there, tweak some crease values, subD again, explode again, remove some loops, etc. etc.
The objective is to be able to get rid of some redundant loops that only add useless polys and keep adding details only where that matters.
I'm pretty conservative in my workflow so I don't know if this is a common method as nobody seems to talk about this?