i know these are just cool sticks with hair, but holy hell, these are good and creepy, very nice.
Awesome link that you gave Frenchy! I downloaded TopMod looks very awesome.Thanks!
Fleur de knot?
Lol Jason, send them back where they came from and close the gate behind them this time :lol: .
Lemo
Enola’s knot.
Z-BrainSalad at the end of the week.
Lemo (never can’t have enough Knots!)
so very cool, great work
nice collors lemo!
i was really impressed again by the carving machine!
big ups!
Joep.
Femknot.
Excellent!
Lemo
Thank you for the compliment! You and jmeyer are fine influences.
Cheers,
George
The last one is nice,seems you´re getting there.
J.
Hi J,
Thank you for your kind words.
George 
Women weave the World.
I think it was Mark Twain who said:
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.”
Lemo
Superb work here!
@ Lemo. Clemens had an amazing mind.
Hi Aeneas,
I agree 100%.
I am overwhelmed by the knotwork in this thread. These artists offer so much to learn from: colour, composition, flow, and other assorted magic.
Cheers,
George
Thanks Aeneas!
KHC_inc:still Zspheres for the plaiting?
Some remnant mesh from last year.Made in Wings3d after Frenchy
and Lemo posted that Topmod stuff,slightly altered and textured
in ZB3.Preview mode.
Have a good Ztime y´all.
Hi J.
How did you align and apply the texture to the new knot? It looks cool.
Yes, I used ZSpheres for the plaits (and the women too). I created a template in Photoshop and applied it to a slightly modified ImagePlaneX (I reduced the sub divisions and changed the referenced tool to a single plane). Here’s a picture with a nline of ZSpheres going around in a circle:
[attach=61234]Circle-Braid-Start.jpg[/attach]
Once the adaptive skin was made, Subtools were used to put rotated copies together.
I learned the braiding technique from a Newtek video for LightWave:
Lightwave Tutorials
http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/tutorials/videos/index.php
Make Some Braids
Create Braided Geometry quick and easy with these simple steps.
Quicktime Format - 23.0MB
added 03/28/2005
ftp://ftp.newtek.com/pub/LightWave/Tutorials/Vidz/braids.mov
The interesting problem was positioniing the women in a circle. This was done using ZSpheres. Starting with a ZSphere in the centre, six ZSpheres were drawn using Radial+Mirror transforms. Then the Insert Local Mesh command was used to put the women on each one of the six spheres.
Cheers,
George
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