heyas; i have these sketches that call for like squished, wrinkled, puffy, messed up cloth bits. something sort of like legwarmers, perhaps, where they get compressed and develop rolls, but i'm thinking even more chaotic than that. er... i have no idea how to go about doing this. specific shapes i can do, but chaoticizing them and messing them up.... any ideas? in my arsenal i have zbrush (although i'm not very familiar with it), amorphium pro, lightwave and rhino. perhaps lightwave's jiggle filter will help....

Some clever point editing and a good use of the point wieght and scale tools can do what you want. Heck, you could even throw in the bend tool and the rotate tool (if you rotate the points) for some added varity.

hi bloodsong i can probalygivve you some advice but tiwould be easir if you had a pic to show ?!

Or you could use Lightwave's Jitter... ;) Set the distance to a percentage of your objects size, then try the different modes, uniform, gausian, normal mode gives a nice effect, especially in subpatch mode. You can also use smooth afterwards, to smooth out if the mesh gets too jaggy. Try a stength of 1 and an iteration of 4 or higher, just try different iterations, I've used values up to 200 with some objects. Regards- Lemurtek

heyas; jiggle, jitter.... whatever. a picture huh? it wouldn't show much but a scribble, though. :/ all right, well this is the scribble. there's supposed to be some sort of semi-organic wrought-kinda loopy THING that goes over the forearm. which goes over the wrapped loose cloth, and the cloth is kinda squished around and sticking out of it. i have no idea how to model either bit, actually. :)

oops, i seem to have saved my gif with transparency on :/ sorry.

Jitter would probably work for the bunching, for the loopy thing, you could draw a curve in the backdrop layer and rail extrude for that. Regards- Lemurtek

Metasequoia has a nice magnet tool that lets you make bulges & depressions & generally pull the surface about like putty. Mick.