Thyme and Lilly ducks ;o))))

[lilly]

thyme have made this duck with " Rhyno " and Seamless
thanks thyme for my blues eyes ! ;o))))
bisousssssss

[thyme]

Thanks Lilly they look very cute and nicely framed bisous

Actually the ducks were 100% made in seamless but they are copied much off the rhino3d intro tutorial that shows how to make a rubber duck using NURBS. The rhino duck tutorial demonstrates how easy it is to join 2 shapes together with a third joining shape that is tangently matched so that the model has continuous smooth curves like most organic shapes do. Seamless too is about being able to do this and I wanted to see how easy seamless was able to make something as simple as a duck like this but I can see now I forgot to tug the tail! lol
Seamless is not a NURBS modeller like rhino3d is and is very different in how you use it but at the same time it can achieve much the same results and shares a number of concepts with a NURBS modeller like rhino.
I tried simply tugging the beak using SineTugs from the head which would have been similarly done in the rhino tutorial but it used NURBS control points instead of SineTugs. Because the triangles were getting thin at the beak from a simple sphere shape I decided to make the beak as a separate object as this would be easier to do to get the triangles well structured also I think I ended up having a better shaped beak because making it a separate part gave me more control over the shape of this feature.

Rhino has a free demo download that only lets you save 25 times but it never times out which is pretty good for anyone like my self who just wants to learn about NURBS modelling.

download rhino from their site at:

www.rhino3d.com

[lilly]