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Concept by Georgia Patton. Sketched in Curvy 3D 5 Beta with SubD's and Lathes.

Trying a simplified anime style head. Hair made from lathes and then tweaked with the pinch and pull brushes.

Head, hands and hood modelled as Subdivision meshes. Clothes sculpted with Custom Stamp brushes. Chains as Brush Strokes.

Another head with the same topology as before, it is very quick to reproportion a SubD mesh to fit a new design.

Same topology, this time with an anime style head. SubDs for the hair shapes too.

There is a new panel of tools for SubD modelling in Curvy 3D 5.0.09. To get started you should create a Sphere and scale the resolution down to 48 tris. Button.jpg Then use the Mesh Grab tool to move a point on the sphere - this turns the object into a SubD object. You also need to turn on Subdivisi...

Added a new wireframe mode that shows how the surface is subdivided. Makes it easier to understand the mesh topology.

Added the grey version ^^^

Soldier made using SubDs and cloth stamp brushes.

Here is a very quick hand model made from a thin SubD shape with added thickness. Avoids needing to do tricky joins on each finger and gives a smooth well formed result ready for further SubD work, or hires sculpting.

There is a rough video of hires sculpting and SuB modelling in the Curvy 5 Beta here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSlFLvsQHVo

Another practice head using SubDs. This one has a high contrast lightmap to reveal the shape of the surface more clearly.

The low poly mesh only has 340 verts so it is easy to edit into new shapes while keeping the surface smooth and well formed - it's a different feel compared to using sculpting brushes on a hi-poly mesh.

I'm adding a new primitive, the SubD object. You can draw a low poly mesh (or retopo a hires sculpt) and then see the results on the subdivided model as you edit.

Here is an example:

I've added a layered stamping mode to allow you to fill in an area with stamps, without them adding on top of each other and making a mess. In this example two stamps are placed overlapping. On the left the second stamp grows off the convulted surface of the first making nasty bubbles and stretched ...