Modeling Organic Shapes

[yourfather]

Does anyone know how to model wood as seen here? Im going to make a natural edge table but dont really know where to start.

 

Sample Picture

 

[Ismael]

Maybe look at finished tables as such. It will probably take modeling, texturing and displacement.

Here is an unfinished piece... http://wunderwoods.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/martins-top-pick.jpg

[Chris MacDonald]

I'd do that using subdivision modelling. Turbosmooth is your friend.

[Chris MacDonald]

This took about 3 minutes:

 

 

Obviously it's only basic, and getting the noise/displacement to look right would take a bit more work, but subdivision is almost certainly the way forwards because it affords you the ability to add more detail where it is required.

[yourfather]

Thank you both.

 

Chris, that's great. You used, noise, a displacement map (only for the edge?) and turbo smooth?

[Chris MacDonald]

Yes, though the noise was last on the modifier stack. I just started out with a box, and using an edit poly & the swift loop function added geometry where I needed it, then turbosmoothed it, and added noise to the end result but only to the x & y axes.

 

I didn't use displacement on this example, though there is no reason you couldn't.