Autodesk Alias Studio Tutorial – Fireman’s Helmet Modelled – Alias Course

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Here’s how my students first Try at Building a Helmet with 5 Surfaces Came Out

No Tweaking CV’s, Rebuilding Surfaces, Just the Raw First Model

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This is a tutorial from the Autodesk Alias Learning website Posted August 13, 2009, 1:20 am by Fridolin Beisert

http://aliasdesign.autodesk.com/learning/This model is based on a primitive (sphere) which has been transformed and trimmed berfore having transisional surfs built on to its curves on surface.

There is a fair bit of “Proportional Modification Control” used for

creating the peak from a square built onto the surface of the sphere. The sphere’s surfaces were dodgy after transforming and he should have perfected them before continuing.
pulling down the rim to form the neck guard
pulling out the rolled edge on the visor

“Whilst I did learn a lot, I also struggled with certain aspects of this model”

Getting a really true surf. once he had transformed the orig. sphere
Getting the peak to look as though it is a continuous surface with the sphere (even though the Curvature Locators showed “C” on the long edge of the peak’s surf. boundary, in the rendering the surface join is obvious)
Lighting. It took him 2 hrs. to get the scene even reasonably lit for rendering

Well although he is pleased with the first attempt, I can see lots of areas where he needs to improve his modelling and we will be working to improve those, so that he ends up with a product model that he can feel proud of, before moving onto a more challenging tutorial

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