I dunno there's not much to tutorialize...

Step1: Find the repetitive pattern in the design.

Step2: Draw your poligons to draw the pattern of the embossed shapes, but keep your object perfectly flat. Let the embossed shapes of the original object only return in your wire topology at this point. (No really, don't extrude anything yet. One step at a time.)

Step3: Repeat the pattern as many times as needed.

Step4: Bend it 360 degrees.

Step5: Weld the ends together.

Step6: Use an FDDbox to taper it as u get closer to the bottom.

Step7: Extrude the embossed bits one by one.

Step8: Camfer edges where needed. (really narrow camfered edges are actually really good for keeping points sharp later on when applying your smoothing modifier)

Step9: Smooth.

Sidenote:
Don't extrude before the FFDbox because then the FFDbox would deform the height of your extrusions.

Message edited on: 02/21/2006 12:32

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