As simple as...

[Gary David Bouton]

I like your teapot much better than my redition of a classic.

But...I knew full well that I was designing a "classic" teapot whose body was too thick to be practical. But sometimes art is not real, right? You know, in all the teapot images I've seen, I've not seen one whose lid is off showing the thickness and insides. So as a "pioneer" I get an arrow in the back? Actually, if you inspect the DXF file, only the top lip is that heavy...it just did not look right from the angle at which I rendered it with a smaller lip.


Unecessarily defensively,
Gare

[David Bethel]

Gare,

Here's you teapot less the lid modified a tiny bit in AutoCAD. -David

DXFIN still didn't like the format but I found a way to trick it.

[gidgit]

Wow... cool thread you guys...

Ya Gare, all does not always appear what really is the case... take my modeling for instance... looks like crap, but it is great I tell you.... hahaha, just that everybody else in the world needs glasses, yea, thats it...

naw, seriously way cool look on these tea pots guys...

Jens,thanks for yet another wonderful modeling display and wow on the renders and usual fantasic presentation...

Hey nice reflection your sporting there Dave

keep it going you guys...

[Gary David Bouton]

I finally finished the sucker. This was made completely out of extrudes and lathes of paths. Adobe dimensions has nothing trickier.


Gare

[gidgit]

Gee Gare, from the looks of things it would appear that your app there doesn't require any more tricks... looking good man...

funny thing, my mother inlaw has this same guitar... Les Paul, and though I am not really sure what year the guitar is, it is an oldie that is still in real good condition... I have borrowed it before to play around with but... my music talents are even worse than my graphic talents are... Smoke on the Water anyone ? hahaha

cheers

[Gary David Bouton]

Gidge,
Totally O/T here, but an Internet friend of mine from Belgium owns a guitar given to him by Richie Blackmore, the guy whose power chords begin Deep Purple's "Smoke On the Water".

It's a Fender Strat, and no, I have no intention of modeling one next


My Best,
Gare

[Gary David Bouton]

Here's a teapot that's only 433 K in file size for defining the surface. My copy of PIXAR RenderMan does not include reflection mapping, so a "fake" reflection, a caustic, was used.



My Best,
Gare