Hello,

i wanted to model a big fat bow to place onto a giftbox or as decoration for a hat.
i use hexagon, but all i can achieve so far is a flat ribbon, i wanted to know whether someone knows a tutorial out there for learning the basics.
thanks

You might need to add shadow on the texture? To make it look like it was round?

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Mariane Cordes



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Spline modeling is what you want for a knot or the like.  You can do it with simple polygonal modeling techniques but it's a lot harder.  With splines, you basically draw a line that describes the path of the ribbon, and then use something like Sweep to create polygons along that path.

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If you have a lat ribbon you should be able to use the thicken command ti give it a little depth. Not sure what it is , but I made ropes from curves in Hex.

Attached Link: Gift and Bow

Have you seen this tutorial?

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