Lifeform’s Polybook for Core Modeling

[Martijn van Loon]

I happened to see a youtube short about two ways of making circles, so I tried those on here as well, then wanted to challenge myself a little more and used some of the newly taught moves to make a double cross thingy.

[Omar Domenech]

Nice crosshairs detail.

[spikeyxxx]

Well done!

[Mathew Tran]

How did you go about making the crosses? I assume subdivide and inset in an x shape?

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Matthew @Ichitran ,

Don’t know how @Lifeform did it of course, but here is 1 possible way:

So, Inset, Poke Faces, Select the cross Edges, Bevel.

[Omar Domenech]

I suspect booleans. I’m thinking shapes cut through the mesh making that circled X detail. But we’ll see what Lifefrom says. 

[Martijn van Loon]

Martin is correct in the initial cross! Although I didn’t do poke faces, but manually connected the vertices with J. Poke faces is a better option, so thanks for posting that!

Then I manually aligned/snapped these verts to the outside so we have a square outer loop again before extruding out the X

The cross was also a combination of bevels and extrusions, and I think the loop tool circle, but for the life of me I can’t seem to recreate what I did last night, hahaha. So here’s the way the edit view looks at least

[Martijn van Loon]

I also managed to follow along with the football in the selection videos. For some reason, the similar selection worked better for me than it did in the video. Maybe because I’m on 5.0, or maybe I just accidentally hit a better value.
Either way, super cool and useful info in that one.

[Martin Bergwerf]

For the circle, maybe something like this, Bevel the center Vertex (SHIFT+CTRL+B), Subdivide, Dissolve the center Vertex (CTRL+X), then Loop Tools > Circle:

Not exactly what you did probably, but still.

[Martijn van Loon]

Finished the cookie logo. I ended up with slightly different topology in places, maybe a bit more wasteful in my vertex count. 
I also ended up making a bevel for the deepest corner of the eyes since the crease I made first was leaving a nasty artifact. 
 

[Martin Bergwerf]

Looking good!

You did create a few NGons in that corner, which isn’t a big deal in this case, because the area is flat, but it could have been avoided, for instance like this:

[Martijn van Loon]

Ah dang, I missed those That bevel was the last thing I did, and I didn’t check. Thanks for pointing them out 🙂

[Martin Bergwerf]

Excellent @Lifeform!

[Martijn van Loon]

This was fun. I spent quite a lot of time on this, and a lot of that was on texturing even though I only used default texture nodes for everything other than the foam in the cauldron, for which I used a free coffee foam texture.

Everything in the scene is made by me, I used a lot of “scatter on surface” and arrays to fill the scene.
I think most everything is reasonably set up, although I did have some issues with geometry around the the windows/doors, curved table, the chairs, and the folded open book. I also unnecessarily added a wax blob to the bigger candle via a boolean which I regretted immediately because of how bad the geometry turned out from that.

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