TopMod / Mathematical Models

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September 13, 2012, 07:53:45 AM Last Edit: April 18, 2013, 09:21:12 AM by biomechanic
A couple of years back i did a whole load of models with TopMod, lost them in a system crash and after that pretty much lost interest in the program...

until last week that is - when i rekindled my passion for it, all the modelling is my own and TopMod was the only app used ;D

Anyway here are a few renders, tell me what you think, comments are welcome and if anyone wants a model to play with I'd be quite happy to oblige - but be warned some of the meshes are quite heavy on the polygon count / filesize front, i.e the two spherical ones weighed in at nearly 600 MB each for the .OBJ

Although Keyshot handled them admirably...

Thanks for taking a peek

Best J


Speedster

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September 13, 2012, 08:02:43 AM
Yikes!  These are really exciting!  Great job modelling, and cudos for the renders.  Thanks for sharing!
Bill G

Josh3D

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September 13, 2012, 09:41:55 AM
These look incredible. Will have to check out topMod!

swashbuckler

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September 14, 2012, 12:30:30 AM
Wow, those are killer models, and the renderings are fantastic! Looks like it must have been fun to rediscover the fun of modeling! :)

What HDRIs did you use for these? The lighting works extremely well for you on these, good job!

Despot

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September 14, 2012, 03:23:05 AM
Quote from: swashbuckler on September 14, 2012, 12:30:30 AMWhat HDRIs did you use for these? The lighting works extremely well for you on these, good job!

Hello mate, a lot of these are custom hdri's that are used at my place of work for studio renders, in a few cases the contrast was increased by 30% or so for a little bit more colour vibrancy - thanks very much for the compliments, its much appreciated...

J

Dylan

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September 14, 2012, 08:42:50 AM
Wow those are great. I never heard of Topmod, must look at that. Is it easy to use?

Despot

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September 15, 2012, 02:47:56 AM
Quote from: dillster on September 14, 2012, 08:42:50 AM
Wow those are great. I never heard of Topmod, must look at that. Is it easy to use?

Hello Dillster, its not really that difficult, but I suppose that depends on your level of competency with modelling packages... i read /saw a few tutorials and just picked things up, all those models originally started life as either a Dodecahedron, Icosahedron or a Geodesic Dome, then i just used the different subdivision algorithms to get some interesting surface topology.

I then performed other operations like 'Add Hole / Handle', 'Rind Modelling' and various extrusion techniques to get the final meshes you see here...

.OBJ's were then exported from TopMod and then imported into Cinema 4D R13 for a final smoothing subdivision

J

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