Speed Modelling Challenge #18 My Crazy Chair

[remus]

"My crazy chair, anything goes here, you design and model any chair that's unique, crazy, silly, stupid, customised, gravity defying, old, new, future.
Besides modeling skills, idea should also be a factor in voting."

Rules are the same as usual, check the sticky at the top of the forum if you need clarification.

Closing date is 21st October 6 PM BST.

Good luck and have fun

[david_h]

Wow. Pete won the Speed Challenge. . . .again. That really caught me off guard. . .There's a surprise. I think I will have a heart attack and die from that surprise!

[Vercors]

"It may be uncomfortable, expencive, creepy ,unnecessarily big and anatomicly incorrect...
but who cares? It's a freakin' dinosaur-skeleton!!!"

[david_h]

This is by the great European Furniture Designer. . .Oskar Meier

Presenting The Weenie Chair!

He designed this in about 15 minutes

[pav_3j]

well look at that, my first competition entry.
YAY!

not amazing complex, but kept me busy for a fews minutes.

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[d12dozr]

My first entry as well...I had fun with soap skin bubble plugin. It may not be the most comfortable chair ever, but I'm sure a Shaker would be proud of it.

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[boofredlay]

The Push-Pin.

[david_h]

Bucket Seats.

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[boofredlay]

You are going for comfort there David. Those and your weenie chair look very comfortable, that is unless the weenies were cooked first
Good job.

[david_h]

I like your PushPin Chair. You actually ought to pursue that design. You'd sell a ton of them!

[dmrazor]

Hanging chair. Took about 24 minutes. Chain looks messy in wireframe... forgot to remove the path Left the model in for more interesting shadows.

[david_h]

This is by the great European Furniture Designer. . .Oskar Meier

Presenting The Weenie Chair!

He designed this in about 15 minutes

Companion Piece -- The Bun Sofa.

Once in a while, the idea just takes hold and you have fun with it.

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Edit. . .BTW that's a mustard blanket and little Tomato Pillows

[d12dozr]

Nice, David

[david_h]

I think I better back off now and let others have a turn. . .

[david_h]

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Not an official entry. . .but this just occured to me. . . the perfect chair for any little boy! Say about 6 years old. Think about it!

[remus]

[Ultimatez 32]

I present...... the tube chair! Probably not so crazy, did this in around 15-20 minutes. Enjoy! Plugins used: Weld, pipe along path, tools on surface and joint push-pull

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[thomthom]

I read "My crazy hair" ... o_O

[Ecuadorian]

Ok, here's my process:

First, it occured to me that it would be cool to have a chair that could raise more than a normal chair so I could check the street view through my high window while working at the PC. Then I thought: Perhaps the chair should also be able to walk and take me to the streets. A couple days later it dawned to me: Why not a Star Wars walker chair?

So I found some reference images of the AT-ST walker, and even a blueprint. However, knowing my skill level (or lack thereof) I knew I could not finish it in 30 minutes if I took the simplification decisions while modeling in SketchUp. I needed to decide how to simplify the design before starting to model. The idea needed to be very clear before even touching SketchUp.

Today I found the chance to do a sketch of a simplified AT-ST walker chair while waiting in line in the bank. Let's see what I can model in the next 30 minutes... (nervous)

[Ecuadorian]

And here it is:

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[Ecuadorian]

I recorded the whole modeling process, from the moment I posted the sketch here to when I posted the results. The time is the local time, which is GMT -5.


I see that the 640x470 images I posted were scaled down by the forum software. I have just tried posting two in 640x640 (exported as 1280x1280 in SU to have thinner lines), a former "magic size" that never got scaled here, but now it's being scaled, too . So here are a couple hosted in Imageshack.us:
(Plz change the current forum style for the Xand style)
EDIT: Images are now attached to this forum (Thanks, Gaieus )

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[EarthMover]

Thanks Miguel for posting that. I really enjoyed watching your process.

[boofredlay]

As did I. Thanks.
I especially enjoyed seeing all the little smileys going really fast when you were uploading the images.

[jeff hammond]

neat miguel.. i had to watch it twice because the first time i got hung up on watching the tool selection in the toolbar.. looks like a weird instrument being played or something..
of all the chairs posted so far, i definitely want to try yours out the most

[i think if you don't place the pictures in line, you can then click on them and be taken to their proper size. at least it works like that in this thread

[Gaieus]

[i think if you don't place the pictures in line, you can then click on them and be taken to their proper size...

Also, I have now changed the thumbnail size to 640 pixels so let's see if that fits in without scrolling.

[david_h]

HOW DO YOU GUYS do that stuff? ????? The model . .. I get that. . .which is really cool by the way. . . I just don't know how to "record" and post video.


I guess that makes me a Vidiot.

[Ecuadorian]

I'll start a new thread for this so as not to go off topic.

UPDATE: It's here:
viewtopic.php?f=80&t=22849

[david_h]

Thanks.

I've been off been off topic for years.

[Ultimatez 32]

Made using SDS and TOS in 15 minutes. Rendered with twilight

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[remus]

Nice model ultimatez, but if you check the rules renders are not allowed (i deleted the render from your post.) Feel free to post it in the gallery after the voting is finished.