Wednesday, January 31, 2007

4.1 Nurbz Are Not For Noobz




Some experimentations with the Nurbz Cross Sections tool. After creating a cross section, I used the Nurbz tool to create the shape and then had some fun from there. The first is a simple water vessel placed in a scene of its own. The second is a strawberry I created and placed in the scene from the Rarebit Fiend and Metal Cheese bit from earlier. It is entitled The Strawberry Fiend.

Basically, these forms began life as a series of lines. Rather than just drawing a couple of random lines, I chose to create one and then rotate it to create something that looked like a 3D object. After that, I selected all of the objects before applying the Cross Sections tool. Once I had the cross sections, I selected the circles that were created and applied the Nurbz tool to create the solid planes. After that, I decided to have some fun (ie, add water and leaves, respectively).

(Okay, so somebody else claimed the Nurbz tool, but I needed it to actually do something with the cross sections. Sorry to whoever claimed it!)

1 comment:

Erik Bishoff said...

True... Nerbz are NOT for Noobz. I'm flailing...

That top "thing" you creatd looks so real. Sitting there on its desktop it looks like a paperweight-sized thing. I wonder what it would look like in different contexts... at building scale. I bet all you would have to do is change the perspective to ground level and remove the wood grain... make it concrete or a solid color or something.

Fun!