6 Replies Latest reply on Nov 8, 2010 8:47 AM by Paul Marsman

    1-UP Mushroom: my first solo surfacing model

    Paul Marsman
    Paul Marsman Nov 5, 2010 1:42 PM

      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.

      1UP screen shot.PNG

      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.

        • Re: 1-UP Mushroom: my first solo surfacing model
          David Denwalt
          David Denwalt Nov 5, 2010 2:59 PM (in response to Paul Marsman)

          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.

          • Re: 1-UP Mushroom: my first solo surfacing model
            Robert Stupplebeen
            Robert Stupplebeen Nov 5, 2010 3:10 PM (in response to Paul Marsman)

            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!

             

            Rob Stupplebeen

            1-UP.JPG

            • Re: 1-UP Mushroom: my first solo surfacing model
              Robert Stupplebeen
              Robert Stupplebeen Nov 5, 2010 3:33 PM (in response to Paul Marsman)

              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.1-UP-Mohawk.JPG

              • Re: 1-UP Mushroom: my first solo surfacing model
                Daniel Melendez
                Daniel Melendez Nov 5, 2010 3:43 PM (in response to Paul Marsman)

                Nice Paul I need to ge on the band wagon too. Thanks, Daniel

                • Re: 1-UP Mushroom: my first solo surfacing model
                  Matthew Perez
                  Matthew Perez Nov 7, 2010 6:10 PM (in response to Paul Marsman)

                  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.

                    • Re: 1-UP Mushroom: my first solo surfacing model
                      Paul Marsman
                      Paul Marsman Nov 8, 2010 8:47 AM (in response to Matthew Perez)

                      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:

                      blue glow.PNG

                      or these lights:

                      lights.PNG

                      I think the lights would be pretty easy, just have to find time to play.