1-UP Mushroom: my first solo surfacing model

Discussion created by Paul Marsman on Nov 5, 2010
Latest reply on Nov 8, 2010 by Paul Marsman

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so I've been daveling in surfacing recently to expand my brain and try new stuff. I've been going through Perez's camaro tutorial, reading Lombard's blog on surfacing, going through many other models/presentations/references/tutorials found here on the forum. (soap,ipods,iphones,razors,etc)

so after getting many general ideas on different techniques I've decided to try my own hand at something I haven't seen done before and see how it goes. here's the result.

I've also attached the model. I know there are some small curvature issues on the back and front down the centerline, but what do you want? Any comments/critiques welcome. I'm going to do a couple fun things and do some renders in the future.

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David Denwalt Nov 5, 2010 2:59 PM
Very cool, Paul. I and my 7 year old son do Mario Super Galaxy 1 and 2. We are big Mario fans. i will show him your model. I would like to teach myself surfacing, I follow some of the posts on it. I just have to work on time to do it. Anyway, this looks great to me, Thanks.
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Robert Stupplebeen Nov 5, 2010 3:10 PM
Really cool idea for a first surfacing model and great job on it. I think that you could have avoided the curvature issues and the resulting mohawk by changing the first boundary surface. It has 2 sides and boundary surfaces typically like 4. Fills seem to work better than any other surface feature if there isn't 4 sides. Really cool way to get the spots. It took a couple to figure out how you did it with only 1 split line. Attached is a quick PhotoView360 render. Nice work!

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Robert Stupplebeen Nov 5, 2010 3:33 PM
Well I could not get the image of a 1-UP with a mohawk out of my head. I just did a Split line and a Freeform.
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Daniel Melendez Nov 5, 2010 3:43 PM
Nice Paul I need to ge on the band wagon too. Thanks, Daniel
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Matthew Perez Nov 7, 2010 6:10 PM
Good job Paul! thats pretty good

I went in a modified your split line and your boundary surface a bit. I took out 100mm from the middle where you had the ridge between the surfaces. Then i changed your boundary end conditions from curvature to tangent. Ive also uploaded a sample file to show you the difference between the two. There are 3 surfaces. A base boundary surface i created to drive the other two. The blue one has curvature end condition and the red one has tangency. You can see a slight difference. Now edit the first boundary surface and change Sketch2 Tangent length from 2 to some other number and you will start to see more of a difference. Using curvature will carry the radius of curvature from one surface to the other. In the case of your mushroom a tangency between the two will give a much nicer smooth surface.
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- Paul Marsman @ Matthew Perez on Nov 8, 2010 8:47 AM
  Thanks guys, glad you liked it. I thought it would be a fun way to start (I too like all things Mario... now there would be a fun surfacing project, the Mario Kart Wii cover)
  Yeah, that mohawk section was about the only thing I couldn't get to be the way I wanted (seemed to have a little bit of a ripple no matter what I did). I thought when I started the eyes were going to be a pain to get just the right reflections and look to, but they were relatively painless. I guess I should have thought to make a larger atomic bomb.
  
  Really my first couple attempts went through trying to create the entire half in one shot... obviously not something that worked well if at all. Then I got to the multiple surfaces and then kept getting that mohawk and decided I'll just blow it out and make a new surface and that was good enough.
  
  the other stuff I want to try is to imitate this look of a flourecent glow:
  or these lights:
  I think the lights would be pretty easy, just have to find time to play.
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