Monday, 30 November 2009

Swordfish cleanup

Looking at my original model, I found a number of inperfections in the vertices as well as the shape and angle of some sections. Because of this, I needed to completely Re-edit the model to reduce the number of vertices and cleanup some 'sloppy' edges which were incorrectly angled and contained some isolated vertices.



By doing this I have crafted a much 'cleaner' and maintainable model. i have also added some extra detail on the fins and nozzle.



One major problem i encountered while doing this re-editing came when I attempted to turbosmooth the model. Doing this created a huge gap through the middle of the swordfish. So in order to work around this I simply welded the suitable vertices together to close the gap. this took time but allowed me to keep a good end result.

I now need to add a few more details around the back of the head before creating and applying my texture to complete this model.

1 comment:

  1. It looks good mate but it sounds like you had a mission!!

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