Images of project

Images of progress

Theses are images of my progress with creating a super Mario power up with 3d max.

I started off creating a sphere with oval shapes for the eyes and pointy triangles for the top, I then froze the main body so I didn't make a mistake, while editing and experimenting with other parts. I then created a basic root like shape for the bottom portion.

Once the roots were finished I decided to change the roots because they looked far too rigid, so I began experimenting with different tools so that the roots would look more organic. i began experimenting using  nurbs curves which would give the roots a more organic feel.

 I had quite a bit of difficulty trying to give it a more organic look I couldn't get it to look the way i wanted it to. Once I finally managed to make a flexible and smoother looking root I replaced all the rigid roots with these ones so i could further improve its look.

 Once that once done I separated the roots from the central sphere so I could change the roots positions as well as change the directions of each root so they didn't look the same as each and so that I could try out different tools.

 After joining the roots back with the central Sphere then I grouped them together so I could move it all around without misplacing anything. I also moved it up so that I could change the lengths of the roots.

 After undoing the grouping I had a lot of trouble with trying to find the length  of the root  with which i was happy.  I couldn't chose an appropriate length so I continued to alter the roots individual lengths most tools weren't helping make the thing I wanted. while trying to give the end of the roots pointy edges i used cones shape but that never felt right.

 Now that i got it the way i wanted all i have left to do is scale the roots to the proper looking size and then stick it in an appropriate setting. The end of the roots still need to be made to look pointy instead of flat once.