Panton Chair

[Dave Buckley]

I've seen this modelled many times before, but i've never really tried to hone my own modelling skills so that is my focus for the next couple of weeks.

 

i was wondering how people would approach this chair as i believe it could be done numerous different ways.

 

At the minute i'm using splines/cross sections/surfaces but it just isn't holding out the way i want

[mattclinch]

i'd poly model it personally.

[Nic H]

id box model it from a plane (using symmetry) then turbosmooth and shell,

 

id use as many edit polys modifiers as you need as they are basically like undos.

 

keep the base level very simple and use photoreferences in the viewports to get the right porportions (or splines if you allready ahve it drawn up - could evel snap your verts to the splines)

[Dave Buckley]

well the turbosmooth/shell route is exactly the route i took on the method i'm using but it didn't like the subdivide modifier i'd used for some reason

[Nic H]

why do you have a subdivide modifier on it for? let the turbosmooth iterations take care of teh subdividing for you.

 

you want all quads as well, try not to have triangles. you should be able to loop and ring / edges / connect / slide / pinch to add sharp edges easily.

[Dave Buckley]

subdivided because initially my model only consisted of 3 splines which i then cross sectioned

 

picture attached, just a quick off the top of my head example, not using any reference pictures to get exact curves yet

[Nic H]

hmm yes that wont with turbosmooth as crosssection/surface stuff makes triangulated meshes.

 

start over with a plane using the turbosmooth method, snap to what you have allready, will make it lots quicker.

[Dave Buckley]

ok cheers guys

[Nic H]

here is a quick sequence of how i would start doing this.

(please excuse teh disfigured panton but you get teh idea)