Cut Glass Fruit Bowl

CJRyan

Hello again,

Happy Halloween for those that celebrate it.

OK, I thought it would be "fun" to model a cut glass fruit bowl I own.

Well...not so much.

Is there an extension similar to soapskin that allows you to make an entire circular group concave?

Adding a file and an image.

Thanks all,

Chris

Fruit bowl cut glass.skp

L i am

Hi CJ, I wonder if this topic may be adapted to what you want to do?
However looks a bit like self flagellation to me

https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=388&t=68495

CJRyan

Hey L i am,

Thanks for the reply.

I read that post, watched the tutorial, but decided it wasn't something that would work for me.

I'm getting somewhere with "Smart Drop" though.

Another few hours of tweaks and I might get it!

I did appreciate the response though.

Chris

Getting there.JPG

CJRyan

Well L i am,

I got it, just took me a few days longer than I had expected.

Chris

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Fruit bowl final in trans.JPG

L i am

Legendary CJ Could you pass on how you achieved it? I would put that in the great modelling gallery it diserves to be there for sure. Have you rendered it?

cotty

Great result and model!
(I couldn't resist to render it...)

CJRyan

Thanks guys!

Yes L i am, I did render it. But I like Cotty's much better!

My render was too black through the sides. I used Render_nXt, with their "Thick Glass" preset.

Cotty, what did you render it in? Do you think that that preset had the caustics too high?

L i am, I did it by making all those little facets and scaling the heck out of them with the native scale tool, Fredoscales Box Tapering, curviloft, hand stiching, lots of rotating and lots and lots of erasing and redoing!

Smart drop got me the bottom, but not without issues. I do wish there was a plugin like Chris Fulmers Shape bender that created concave and convex group/components.

Mostly it just took a lot of time, and I was fairly determined to see if I could do it!

Thanks again for the kudos!

Chris

Price Kitchen cutglass1.jpg

cotty

I've rendered it with Indigo as a standard glass material and an EXR as the environmental lighting.

solo

Cool model thanks for sharing.

Took a break from work to play.

fruit bowl with apples.png

andybot

Nice work Chris! Thanks for sharing.

CJRyan

Cotty, thanks for responding, I'll look into Indigo more thoroughly!

Solo, that's almost exactly how it looks sitting on my kitchen table!
I'm flattered that you took the time to render it. I've seen a lot of your work over the years. Thanks for showing me what it could look like.

I know because of you experience rendering, you could probably get nearly the same results in many renderers. But out of curiosity, not that I could afford it, what are you using?

Chris

solo

Thank you for the distraction, have not played in a while.
I used Thea Render, a fast 5 minutes Presto render.

Box

@cjryan said:

I do wish there was a plugin like Chris Fulmers Shape bender that created concave and convex group/components.
Chris

For future reference, Shapebender will bend a bunch of components/groups as long as they are nested in another Group/component.

CJRyan

Solo,

LOL, I let mine grind for hours. And it ain't all that slow! Six core running at 3.7.

Box,

Do you mean to tell me that if I'd have bent it on the red axis, then re-bent it (after switching my axis 90 degrees) I could have done it that way? Please show me. But, that's sure a doh moment if that actually works! (and where the heck where you when I asked about that in my first post?)

Chris

Box, this was what I was going for. I wish shape bender could have done it!

View for box.JPG

CJRyan

Never mind solo, I just realized I was rendering an entire model, just not the fruit bowl and a floor.

But thanks!

Chris

pbacot

Wow guys. Incredible!

Box

Here's a rough version using shapebender just as you describe.
It starts off as a group of components but ends up as one component.
It may not be as clean as you want, you'll notice some of the faces are split to allow the bend, but it is very quick.

You could also use Fredo's Radial Bend, part of Fredoscale.

Crystal Shapebender.zip

CJRyan

Thanks for the example Box,

It never occurred to me to bend the bottom twice!

Because I sure would have! Oh well, I learned about "Smart Drop" anyaway!

Chris