Backhoe Contribution – Blanchsb – Exterior Loader Arms and Interior Chair

[Shawn Blanch]

I think I have the bottom cushion mostly done now. The organics in this seat is way different than my loader arms haha.

[Kent Trammell]

The rump cushion looks spot on. Heh it’s funny how different organic shapes and boxy shapes are to create. The benefit of relying on global X, Y, and Z axes is soooo convenient.

[Shawn Blanch]

Spent a good portion of the day on something that won’t get a lotta detailed screen time in the demo reel but IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT because it was a topology challenge to make stuff happen along an angled surface and still look good.

I did the base plate and cover and support structure working my way up to the rump cushion. We are gonna use the air-ride seat assembly. It’s the pricier of the two options for our DOG but I think we can all agree it will be worth it.

Once the rump part is done I will go to work on the seat back. and supporting hardware.

[Rita Geraghty]

You know what, Shawn Blanch (blanchsb)? I am going to remodel armrest and copy what I exactly see in the manual you give. I am going for simpler designs of an armrest and other parts. Thanks for link. 

[Shawn Blanch]

Continued onto the next major piece before the rubber boot.

[Shawn Blanch]

Finalizing the shape and moving into the internal assembly.

[Shawn Blanch]

I think I am going to call it a night. I got some really good progress done on stuff that will obviously never be seen but I wanted the experience and I ended up learning even more about curve properties through this exercise. I’ll try to share more in another video. Suffice it to say that turning on wireframe on a curve with Bevel depth leads to some great learning content when adjusting curve options in the properties panel under the Geometry section.

The is the inside of the Air-Ride assembly and is the lower portion. Going to be working on the scissor lift part of the assembly next.

[Ingmar Franz]

I like these details and the organic shapes 👍😀!

[Shawn Blanch]

@duerer thanks for the kind words. It helps with the motivation! Yeah these parts actually make the chair assembly come to life for me.

[Ingmar Franz]

I’m just contemplating and seeing these parts moving in front of my inner eye 😀.

[Shawn Blanch]

Got a little progress done to half of the scissor lift.

[Kent Trammell]

Geez @blanchsb! Those base mechanical pieces are begging for an exploded-view render 🤩

[Shawn Blanch]

Hope I am not being too detailed here. I probably won’t do every piece inside but there are just sooo many challenges I keep telling myself: “I wanna try modeling that” or “I wonder how I would go about using modifiers for that” or “I could use a curve here for this and a solidy for that” and the next thing I know I am sucked in!

[Shawn Blanch]

Who would have thought that scissors would give me such trouble???

The transition from the straight to the curved got me again. There is a slight amount of pinching/pulling where they meet but I’m going to have to keep moving cause I spent over an hour trying to fix it. I’m sure@spikeyxxx has an elegant solution. I bet I need more geometry or just a different angle on the cylinder to mate up to. I lined everything up perfectly and I think I created needless poles because of that.

I’m calling them good enough for now. I have some major pieces to tackle this week still.

[Shawn Blanch]

Here’s cover plate #1

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