Day 20: Paper Swans

Day 20:  Back to the 12 days of Christmas! So for the 7th day and the final day for birds I modeled a paper swan! This was more challenging than I thought.  Getting the model to look like it was made from paper folds was more tricky than I was expecting.  I actually thought about trying from a plane and folding it like you would real paper but then figured I might not have enough time if it doesn't work but its still something I might try in the future.
Happy New Years Everyone!!

Day19 App Stuff

Day 19.  Ok so I didn't manage to find time to build my 6th day of Christmas since we all went out shopping today and I only have a few more days to finish the App I am currently working on with Jen's little brother.  So today's modeling was spent putting together some game assets :)  Should be back to the 7th day of Christmas tomorrow!

Day 18_Gold Rings

Day 18.  On the 5 day of Christmas I had fun Mo..de..ling: 5 chunks of bling!  This was a nice and simple project and with a bit of texture work could really shine.  But when I added all the colors it started to remind me of the Mandarin from the old Iron man cartoons!!

Day17 Low Poly Birds

Day 17.  On the fourth day of Christmas I had fun mo..de..ling: 4 cool low poly faceted birds! I really like the low poly faceted look that has been so popular for the last few years.  Having said that I have never actually tried to model that way.  So yay for getting a chance to try it out! I do like the finished look and it looks even better without the wireframe but I think I need to spend some more time working with shading networks etc to get an even better result.

Day16 Three Cooked Hens

Day 16: For the third day of Christmas I had fun mo-de-ling: 3 cooked hens... and there's a flag so they are French too.  I have switched to starting with cylinders almost all the time now rather than planes.  It seems to be working too, even for more organic shapes.  French Hens, calling birds, Geese and Swans... there's a lot of bird shaped things in the 12 days of Christmas song...

Day 15 Turtles!!!

Day 15: On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me: Two Turtle Dov...... Turtles just turtles! two pretty turtles... yea.
Spent most of the time getting the shell to look right :) with my third approach I got the shell topology to work.  The fins were nice and easy but the head was a little tricky and I only had a minute to finish it.

Day 14 Cider Goblet

Day 14: On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me.... well if I did try to model a partridge in only 1 hour it would most likely come out looking like a lemon with a beak.. So instead I modeled a lovely wooden Cider Goblet... cos pear tree... pears... pear cider.. yea!
So begins my 12 days of Christmas modelling challenge! same rules as before 1 hour per model but each day will be themed around each of the days of Christmas from the song.