finger nails

[road]

with polys...

[Exterminator89]

polys or box modeling.

[road]

are they going to be part of the same mesh that are the fingers...
if yes then i would use box modelling and extrude them out of the fingers ...

[Exterminator89]

they are gonna be with the mesh all together, but this is what happens:

[road]

I can't really tell what's going on ...
post a wireframe of the low poly before meshsmooth and wireframe after meshsmooth...

[Exterminator89]

ok, I rendered the wireframe ones

before meshsmooth:

http://uploader.axsstudios.com/images/Finger_nail_before.jpg

After meshsmooth:

http://uploader.axsstudios.com/images/Finger_nail_after.jpg

[dvornik]

I think you put crease on it or something.

Here's how I learned it. Basically box > meshsmooth (1) > convert to polys. Inset polys, move, inset, move. Extrude and move a couple of times. Add detail with selecting edgerings and connecting them. Move and scale vertices with soft selection on to get general shape, I skipped the last and most tedious part. But you meshsmooth and see where it needs tweeking and more details:

http://home.earthlink.net/~dvornik/cgt/tech/nail.png

Here (http://home.earthlink.net/~dvornik/cgt/tech/nail.max) 's the max 5 file. It needs more work, I know.

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