Sittin' Around the Pad

A Work In Progress

Modeling the dragonfly;
The head.





   The head was the next object I needed to model. This part was pretty straightforward. I started with a cube for the lower 'mouth' part. I selected the front face and quad divided it a couple of times. Then I selected two of the resulting faces while holding down the Control key. these were then swept, scaled, and rotated down a bit. Sweep again a couple times, and move each 'floor' into a satisfactory position before you exit the sweep tool. A little Point Editing on the sides, then Bevel/Sweep the back face  to break up the shape of the cube. Add a small sphere and position it between the two 'fangs'. The eyes are four spheres,with the bottom two scaled flat and a little wider than the upper two. They were painted with different colors to differentiate them from each other. A torus was placed between them as a 'nose' to seperate the two eyes. Two squished spheres booleaned together and placed behind the head became a 'neck'. This whole mess was booleaned and glued together and voila!- a dragonfly head. The eyes went through a few different paint settings until I was happy with the result. I used the Paint Over tool to change the material, since they were booleaned to the 'eye sockets'
The head was saved off, then loaded into the main scene and placed on the front of the thorax.
 
 



 
 
 
 

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