Arno Villard

This official tutorial name is:

StudioTools Techniques™’ | Art to Part.
Skill Level: Advanced
Format: DVD , [120 min]
Date Published: Oct 2003

Well…Let’s say it’s not the sexiest tutorial in the world: Modeling…an iron!

But I think it was a really good tutorial, an interesting intermediate exercise, also a good introduction to blend curves, evaluation curve tools , surfaces continuity, and also a good way starting modeling with a sketch basis.

On today’s date, this tutorial is no more available on the Autodesk/Alias website but:
THE TUTORIAL CAN BE ‘FOUND’ WITH THESE LINKS TO THE ZIP FILES: (lucky you!)

• The tutorial itself (.html files and images):
  StudioTools - Techniques Art To Part - Iron -docs.zip (37.5MB)
  
• The support files (.wire files)
  StudioTools - Techniques Art To Part - support_files.zip (16.2MB)
  
• The completed iron (.wire file) , included in the support files package
  StudioTools - Techniques Art To Part - Alt-iron-complete.wire (1.8MB)
  

…isn’t the life beautiful ..

Well, beautiful, I don’t know: I spent hours and hours to model with the more accuracy I could: do, redo, do redo… to finally decide to redo it from the scratch.
But here is the first version:

Here are the different reasons I redo it (but basically once rendered the differences won’t be visible)

1- Do cleaner surfaces (Body, handle, nozzle) and transitions
2- Replace the pinch surface in the nozzle part
3-Find a way to do a cleaner corner on the back part
4-Upgrade the general

The way they can get such nice surfaces,nice spans, still mysterious for me, … I see only one option, they use the rebuild tools! But in my mind it’s not good (you loose history)…

The re-done version post: StudioTools tutorial: Techniques | Art to Part (#2): A Ferrari Iron!

Advises, suggestions or questions are welcome.