Thought I'd post a hidden geometry shot if anyone was interested in seeing the mesh. Not going to respond to political comments about the model except to say they are being done for a client as part of a larger job. Thought they are good examples of organic models that can be done in SU. Guess if some find it offensive , don't look......

Still building the critters. Caribou shoulder mount finished today.
SU2015 Pro, Artisan, Vertex Tools, Cuviloft, Shape Bender, Tools on Surface, Fredoscale and several other plug ins I'm probably forgetting. The antlers were a little tough on this one......

Have seen posts in the past that this is an issue with mac's retina screen. Not sure if it relates to yosemite os. Have the same problem with new macbook pro w/ yosemite and retina screen. Kind of non issue for me as I run a bigger moniter when I'm working in SU.

Mike, Fantastic job so far ! Looking forward to the finished model. One question, are you planning to put a good looking blonde behind the wheel ?

Thanks hellnbak. Your right it is rewarding when you finally figure it out but there was some nights I was ready to bash the keyboard over my head !

Kris, Mike , thanks for the positive comments. Mike I don't know about the brilliant part, if you only could have seen the late night struggles to figure out how to do this stuff .......

Did someone say wireframe ? Sure thing Kris.... These critters can get a little heavy, around 14,000 faces !

In responce to hellnbaks request for the rest of the elk, here is an elk shoulder mount. Guess I'll build it a piece at a time.
Hellnbak thanks for the thumbs up.

What Box said! Arrow keys are your friend. I bend some crazy stuff with Shape Bender, the only thing you need to keep in mind if your model is complex , scale it WAY BIG or you'll blow the mesh full of little holes....

Another organic model ( need some counterpoint to all the architecture ), SU,Artisan,Vertex Tools,Curviloft and
Shape Bender. Quick render in Twilight.

pretty slick work.... I'm with pbacot about their "sticky" mortar , wonder what the ratios of the mix is. You'd think there would have been some slippage of bricks but didn't seem to be a problem. know a few structural engineers that might start twitching a little if they watched this...

I had the same problem for several weeks after switching up to SU 2015 pro from SU8. No clue why and it stopped occurring with no intervention on my part and hasn't returned! Go figure ?

SU 2015 pro , imac / mavericks

pilou , jeff , thanks for your responses. I'm always willing to look try new software if the prices aren't crazy steep. Starting to get a handle doing the animals in SU but damn the meshes can get pretty ugly.... guess I just need to pull up my big boy pants and get back to trying to wrap my head around Blender. thanks again.

Jeff, I really am not familiar with Rhino. Would it be a better tool for doing organic models (animals) for import into my SU models? Or should I just go back to banging my head against the Blender wall? thanks.

the name caught my eye, had to look. great modeling even though I have no idea what I'm looking at? really clean and slick ... 3 thumbs up!!

majid, dtrarch, Daniel, thanks for the kind words. I need to work more on projecting photo textures. Drives me pretty crazy at times...

First post of a model. Have been having to make a variety of animals to populate models for a client. Figured I'd post a pic of one. All SU with assorted plugins and a quick render in Twighlight to see how it will look in various models. Not perfect but not terrible, fits the need of client. Still struggle with photo texture of this stuff. Did a little tweaking of the image in Gimp.

Dave, cool stool, really like the first image. Fyi curved seat for us old guys means drawknife, spokeshaves and compass planes!

cotty, what everyone else said, nice model.. now if I can only find the explode button in my toolbar.............

rangerrick , cool model and render. I can't critique it, no clue what a technics turntable looks like! I had a panasonic eons ago. glad to see another Twightlight user posting their work.