Quote - Really great mini tut. Well done. Thank you for this. :)

Thank you!  I'm glad you like.  I didn't really intend to make it a tut, but it turned out that way I guess. ;)

Here's what I'm doing for the holder rack:

Started off with just a circular base, with an inner-radius of edge loops that matched the size of the hole in the middle of the paper towel and cardboard tube, and just extruded those inner quads up to the same height of the paper towels, like this:

Then, I wanted to make it look contemporary while still being functional for what it is, so I extruded some more faces, but added some twists to them, and ended up with this object:

I had to play with those twisted extrusions a little, to get them to match up with the paper towels, because they are holding it in place (I'm sure you guys have seen many varieties of these things in real life). So once I got those extruded "arms" positioned snug to the roll of paper towels, I added some support loops to the corners in preparation for subdivision:

After some subdivision smoothing:

I went with a marble texture, just for kicks, but I may change this to something else. I kinda like it though. I tried some wooden textures, and my original idea was metal, but I kinda like the marble look:

Here's the whole thing together:

I think I will do a production render next. I'll post it when I'm done.

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