Simple Artisan examples collection

[Rich O Brien]

Very nice Rich What's the workflow...does it rely a lot on vertex tools?

Actually TIG's EebyV and the native scale mostly.

Thomthom's AutoSmooth has meant I'm using vertex tools less and less.

[Hieru]

Thanks Rich

[alvis]

funny shapes and simple chair

[cotty]

Nice chair and making-of video!

Another funny shape (with 14 legs)

cotty_14legs.jpg

[cotty]

Another version with motion in it...

cotty_14legs_motion.jpg

[olishea]

making me worried, because they look fragile!! lovely render.

[cotty]

A simple lamp...

cotty_lamp_01.jpg

[cotty]

Another simple lamp...

cotty_lamp_02.jpg

[olishea]

nice work cotty, first one reminds me of the Biagio lamp that Massimo modelled a while back.

[pilou]

A flower lamp!

[pbacot]

Nice jacks. I just realized how long it's been since I've seen jacks or any reference. Do girls still play with thems somewhere in the world? Great lamps too!

[TheBone]

Hello Guys,
im starting with all those nice Plugins
I created a chair for testing thos plugins and i would like to post it but like you guys did witht the finshed model and the same only the frame on it ..

could anybody of you help me ?
would be nice to know how do i do that .

(Sorry if there are some mistakes in the text
English is not my main Language)

Have a Nice Day

Tbone

[cotty]

For the line view, you have to activate "view -> hidden geometry". Export an image and combine it with a rendered version of your model with an image editor (e.g. gimp). (max. dimension 1600px!)
You can add this image and the model as attachments to your post.

[TheBone]

Thanks for the help

here is my first try :

[cotty]

A quick champagne glass...

cotty_champagneglass.jpg

[cotty]

A sculpture ...
(Rendered fur: displacement map, wood texture)

cotty_sculpture.jpg

[cotty]

And because of the nice displacement fur, another test, this time an ugly fur-man...

cotty_furman.jpg

[pbacot]

Thanks Cotty. Fur makes it all wonderful, haha.

[Hieru]

Great tutorial showing real-time subdivision modelling of a car:

Video

[cotty]

A quick baby rattle...
Screencast (making of) which covers the main part: http://screenr.com/ITOH

cotty_baby_rattle.jpg

[Rich O Brien]

Image 1.png

You should run Split Donut on the n-gons. It will give smoother results with less geometry.

[cotty]

You should run Split Donut on the n-gons. It will give smoother results with less geometry.

I changed the model accordingly (V2)...

[Rich O Brien]

You should measure the poly count between the v1 & v2.

I don't use Artisan to sub-d but have noticed that quad based meshes have lower face counts than those with Ngons present.

Obviously the catmull Clark algo doesn't know how to efficiently divide an Ngon. Which creates lots of unnecessary polys and noticeable pinching.

You should also run Quad Face detect poles to see where the pinching will happen and then tackle those.

But I love to follow this thread. One of the gems in a sea 'it won't load' topics.

[d12dozr]

How cool would it if if Split Donut (or something similar) was integrated into Artisan, and helped figure out the n-gon topology??

But I love to follow this thread. One of the gems in a sea 'it won't load' topics.

+1, yes!

[cotty]

You should also run Quad Face detect poles ...

I don't know this, can you explain it a little bit, please?

But I love to follow this thread. One of the gems in a sea 'it won't load' topics.

Thank you!

How cool would it if if Split Donut (or something similar) was integrated into Artisan, and helped figure out the n-gon topology??

Or directly in SU. I hope that Thomthom changed to Trimble to change all internals to quads and to implement his subdivision from this promising topic...

+1, yes!

Thank you too!

[cotty]

I often wonder why Artisan shows a nice (more quad-like) mesh in the preview and it is not possible to choose this mesh instead of the triangulated...

[Rich O Brien]

http://www.screenr.com/iUOH

[cotty]

Newer looked at that context menu
Very helpful, thank you!

edit: there seems to be some poles in the above example ...

[Whaat]

I often wonder why Artisan shows a nice (more quad-like) mesh in the preview and it is not possible to choose this mesh instead of the triangulated...

Well, the preview mesh uses openGL to render (which supports non-planar quads) and we all know that SketchUp itself does not allow them.

Nice work as usual, cotty!

[Rich O Brien]

there seems to be some poles in the above example ...

There are because the faces are not Quad Faces...

Image 2.png

Having them as Quad Faces reduces pole count to 4.