Box Modeling - Simply Maya User Community

# 1 22-06-2004 , 08:12 PM

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Boc Modeling

Recently I have been reading alot about a technique of modeling called "Box Modeling" What is box modeling? Also, what other types of modeling are there? Thanks in advance

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# 2 22-06-2004 , 08:15 PM

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If I'm not mistaken, Box Modeling is the process of starting with a cube and splitting, extruding, etc from there.

Not sure what the other modeling techniques are called persay, but there's the process of drawing your model in the side view on a plane and extruding that out (HobbitGuy has a tut on this, I believe).

Stuff like that.

I'm a box modeler myself, although I primarily use cylinders now-a-days.

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# 3 23-06-2004 , 04:53 PM

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I use cylinders also... I kind of have problems when im doing SubD organic things cuz it creates that nasty ripple thing at the top of the cylinder... I would like to be a box modeler haha but i just dont have the patience (or skill) to pull it off... theres also the technique of starting with a polygon and extruding out and out and out and it just keeps adding to the face, and you just keep pulling the edges out and soon you have a rough face user added image

RubberKidney has a tut on that... ill get you the link

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# 4 23-06-2004 , 04:54 PM

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https://www.unspokenvibe.com/tut/tut.htm

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# 5 27-06-2004 , 06:20 AM

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patch modeling and poly by poly all the way!

box modeling... bleech user added image

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does not always give accurate result for organics, ,i see can its use in the game or real time industry. because they mostly just need a quick approximation of a character, the rest is textures (although some engine these days have normal technologies... ) but box modeling is not the most accurate way to model organic models if you model pixel for pixel (like me!)

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# 6 27-06-2004 , 08:31 AM

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vladimirjp: that is not actually true.. a lot of high quality 3D is made with boxmodelling. Its all a matter of patience user added image

have a look at some of these animated gifs from one of the really good boxmodellers, Bay Raitt (one of the modellers on Gollum)

https://cube.phlatt.net/home/spiraloid/movies/movies

Kim Rotbøl-Larsen

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