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>>26740
Pokémon is not anime, Pokémon is nostalgia fuel.

"and the faggot troll thread award goes to..."

~10 minuets

itt:the next CEO of pixar

>>26750
lol open

>>26768
I love that style
>>26753
although it is arguable the inside of a pokéball sometimes looks like picture related.

yeahhhhhhhhh!

>>26779

this ball gets my vote

Reported for weeaboo shit. Back to /a/ fags.

>>26860
poor poland ball.

>>26880
/3/ trolls suck

>>26881

Fag, that's obviously Indonesia Ball.

>>26768

red should be redder.

>>26739
I can do so much better in sketchup

>>26745
Is it that old already?

Turned out a tad low-poly, but I'm fairly satisfied with the render.

Made this in sketchup.

m I doin' it rite?

100 hours in Blender

>>27621
needs more indented black line
use the lathe tool or whatever

modeled in Wings3D, rendered in POV-ray.

I dimpled my button in, like an arcade machine button, instead of out, and now I think the black segment around the middle should be a bit deeper. I also noticed that little peak thingy on the nearest ball due to smoothing errors, but who's going to say anything about it? No one, that's who. Shut up, leave me alone ;_;

I think I might do a better one.

But seriously guys, could we get a tutorial on how to do this in Blender, incredibly simple as it is? I'm a total nublet

>>27801
>but who's going to say anything about it?

/3/ is. They're jerks

I made the first one in like 30 sec to start the thread.
pic related was made in like 3-5, had issues with follow me tool.
>>27801
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klxEA0WhR6k&fmt=18

We could have threads like these to teach people how to model.
people could be nice and write guides after they make The thing and then we could have a rar file and or a site filled with OC tutorials for all kinds of programs to help people get a feel for the tools.
all we would need would to do would be maya, max, lolblender and sketchup.
I can try to do sketchup if no one else wants to but I have only been using it for around a week.

>>27817
meant to send this to you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klxEA0WhR6k&fmt=18

>>27831
>We could have threads like these to teach people how to model.

That would be cool. I want to make a thread about lighting one of these days where we take an existing model and light it.

Anyway, I've never used Blender, only Wings and POV, so unless you guys want to know about those...

Made in Blender

Some small mistakes.

>>27865
I think the black part is supposed to be an innie, not an outie.

>>27865
I think it looks neat that way.

20 min with alotta dickin around

>>27859

what's a good program for recording shit like video tuts for xp?

I'll record something alot better then that.

>>27917
pirate camtasia

>>27859
Thanks man

>>27917
Camstudio is free (and open source) for Windows

carpaint? did I hear carpaint?

>>27894
Artistic freedoms, etc.
>>27902
Thanks.

No one can ever really agree on the button, can they?
Anyway.

>>28011
Why not just look at the pokeball model on the Smash Bros games?

>>28027

>>28031
awesome

>>27967
My new wallpaper.

Fank you.

Reran it in POV-ray.

>>28060
naw dude, the button sticks to the top!

>>28074
OH SHI- for real? I might have to go back and tinker with it, then.

So wait, is the button attached to the red part, and when they open it, they just push the button through a hole in the black part (which I think is attached to the white part)?

>>27992
>laziness

>>26771

yeah, look at:
>>28076
for the mechanism. also note texture on the inside.
there's a white boundary around the button that moves, between the button and the black outline.

>>28080
I'll have to do'er tomorrow. Er... is there a hinge? Mine doesn't have one.

>>28084

But Polandball, that is 2D!

>>28089

sure?

SUP THREEDEESEEGEE

>>28084
I can has deliver

hours figuring out just to indent that circle thing without it being oblong

>>28102
You should bevel the edges, it looks like they would cut your hand right now.

>>28108
might be a good idea, but I really do like how crisp those edges are, I can't do it that nicely yet.

one last bump for luck.
also a upside-down Premier ball just to keep things fresh.
night, t/3/apots

thank god this thread is still open, I've been working on this for hours.

Sketchup. No real textures or rendering or anything.

>>28263
darn it! where's mah pokeballkeys at?

>>28263
I like this one. You think you could change the black lining to sort of an obsidian reflective texture and maybe use brushed metal on the button? I think that would look sick.

>>28316
8/10

>>28052
i feel honored, here have an occlusion pass

>>28316
looks like a soft poop.

>>28316
Oh fucking lol.

>>28316

Oh christ I can't stop lolling

what are you guys,,, like /3/ YEARS OLD,,, LMFAO

>>28374
Wow, you guys sure got told.

>>28263
Woooah you spent way too long on a quick doodle.

Or, I'm just jealous because mine looked crappy, heh.

>>27817
>>27831
>>27861
i would also be interested in seeing how this could be done in blender.. i have no idea how to make the black part of the pokeball. The youtube link didnt help since they had the black part sticking out, which is wrong..

>>28392
Extrude inward. I'm guessing that's what most people do...

EXTRUDE BALLS EVERYDAY

>>28399
i have no problem creating the black band that goes around the ball.. but how do i create the black area around the button?

>>28405
Going to sort of second this. Whenever I attempt to intrude on a curve, I get really nasty shading errors.

>>28407
>>28405
Think of the topology of the ball. Some parts are naturally inclined to have this form. hint related.

fyi, I'm the guy that did the carpaint ball, it is nonfunctional, but it easily could be by "extrude, delete, merge, extrude"

>>28414
Blender or wings?

>>28430

You can really apply this technique to any software package. Most suites produce spheres with a pinched/poked top.

>>28414
Yeah, my problem is a little more tailored towards something else too, was a subtle request for help with that really since it's not worth a thread.

Pic thread related, albeit shitty.

>>28439
This is a good exercise, now that I think of it. It get's you thinking about topology, one of my first attempts at a guitar had f-holes in it, and I was totally lost.

>>28414
thanks for the hint.

>>28442
Well, to understand where my problems lie, look at this: Notice that the highlight follows the loops around where it shouldn't.

>>28450

A steampunk pokeball is fine too?

>>28462
Can I view this with my 3d goggles?

>>28462
That's pretty fucking awesome, bro.

>>28462
which renderer and how did you do the chromatic aberration?

>>28450
I'd probably be able to help you better if I knew the end result, so my advice may be somewhat anecdotal. I typically tell my students to work from a lower geometry up, refining all the way. That way you can keep an eye on things getting out of the way, and looking uneven. In Lightwave there is a tool called "smooth" (shift-M) which averages out the selected vertices. In maya, you can use paint effects to do something similar.

Pic related, it's a low poly sphere that's been smoothed, extruded and tweaked. The sphere geometry is still lined up so if...

...to duplicate them, it would still retain spherical integrity.

Also you can always use a regular sphere for a template for 'vertex pushing'

>>28486
Well, here's what it should look like, and only does because I've clayrendered it. Smoothing wise, I'm not sure why it looks off. Here's my wire of the area, anyway. I'll have to try the "using sphere/original as reference" thing, but I'm pretty sure my topo/triangulation is to blame.

>>28486

Is that Lightwave? Man- that takes me back...

>>28490
Try adding an edge loop BEFORE the actual ring, see how in the, there is a loop that precedes the extrusion. This helps the software smooth out.

Also using triangles to go into a quad like that may be causing some of the 'pinching.' Think 'edge FLOW'

>>28485
there is also a modifer in 3ds max called Turbo Smooth that would work here.

>>28490

I'm not sure if it was you or another t/3/apot that was modeling the same thing from GITS (sorry I forget their names), and I don't know if they saw my post before the thread disappeared but here it is again, short version:

In polygonal modeling, if you're trying to maintain surface curvature it really helps to start out with high base detail before cutting/extruding into the curved surface. You're gonna have a very hard time maintaining any sort of precision with topology like that, or even like that >>28486

For hard-shelled, non-deforming surfaces like that robot (precisely the kind of models where you need crisp detail) there's very little reason to skimp on the amount of geometry you start out with.

people contributing
multiple software packages
nostalgian
helpan

I might cry.

>>28496
>>28498
Okay, cool. I'll restart the shell of the tachikoma (dohoho) with a higher base, and make sure to place the surrounding loops in a better place.

>>28497
Strangely enough, that reduced the shading issues. Then I accidentally turned Meshsmooth back on at the same time and Max crashed. :(


Aaanyway, sorry for that derailment there.

My attempt at this.

Modeled and rendered in Cinema 4D, took way to long coz i'm just learning this package (switching from 3ds Max).

What realy annoyed me is that I couldn't bevel/chamfer the cut parts. Gave me some nasty edges, must rethink the topology or something :/

*going to render a wallpaper as well

>about 3000 tris
How is mine going?

>>28077
But this is too generic.

How about some actually nice renders?

>>26969
looks tf2'ish

>>28588

I wouldn't make that inner extrude so deep I think.

http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/c/cf/Allballs.png

>>28594
Yeah, I kind felt that as well... Thanks

Awesome thread. Gave me something interesting to do on my Sunday. :)

btw, I think this is what the button is based on. A real button. And that's how I modeled it.

>>28607
that looks great, which program did you use?

>>28613
Maya with the built in toon shaders and mental ray contour rendering. Then I did the bounced light and fake Depth of Field in Photoshop.

>>28586

Really cool!

>>28622

Thank you :)

Finished with the wallpaper version of it...

>>28637

Man, you guys rock. Looking at this thread, there are so many talented people on this board. Sometimes I just come here to look at the stuff you people make.

Keep up the good work, everyone.

>>28637
These depht of field thing you guys do isn't quite perfect you know, it looks more like a fog...

>>28637
What is happening right here?

>>28643
Balls are touching.

>>28643
Now, if this was set in a forest and in 1920 x 1080 I'd make tender love to you

O SHI-

This one was older, and part of an animation

your all smalltime

>>28643
gay

I think I made the buttons too small. . . I should try again tomorrow.

>>28672
>your

>>28688
sup Souler? :D

a challenger appears

>>28693
thatsthejoke.jpg

Cinema4D.

Yes, really.

>>28724 yep, same here >>28700

cinema4D FTW !

>>28672
>>28672
I wasn't satisfied with this shit, I'm gonna re-make all of them.

here's the normal and the luxury balls, I'll make the rest tomorrow or something.

>>28787
aww fuck, just now noticed i fucked up on the smoothing of the white accents on the luxury ball.

>>28672
nice.... excellent material for a wallpaper

>>28672
In my days there was a JS Ball.

Where the hell did that go?

>>28709
>implying it was a joke in the first place

pokeball catch pokeball?

>>28820
>>28821
well well well

what do we have here...

>>28818
now your getting it.

>>28817
did you mean the GS ball?

>>27967
>>28263
>>28462

You guys just got me interested in CGI. I'm gonna go acquire software and start learnan now.

I followed the Blender noob tutorial and I even included one of the new 5th gen pokemon ( http://ds.ign.com/articles/106/1065010p1.html ) inside the ball

>>28027
>>28031
1: Because Smash Bros isn't exactly the source for all things pokemon.

2: Because there are full 3D pokemon games.

3: Even in the official 3D pokemon games there is a difference in button style throughout the games.

>>28834
the tutorial does it wrong
the black areas are suppose to go inwards not outwards..

>>28832
oh yeah that's right

>>28838
So I've heard. But I don't know how to go about that...

I think the toys go outward like that

Because inward doesn't work so well in the real world

>>28790
>>28688
>>28637
>>28607
>>28462
>>28668
I am loving the variety
here.

I need a real modeling program bad.
brb, not gay computer

>>28168
Damn, that first image is perfect proportionally.

>>28840
It's not actually considered as the official part of the series as it was nothing more than a one time recolor plug for the Gold/Silver release.

My attempt. Some nice stuff here. Interesting to see people different take on a simple object.

>>28817

In my day, there was a pokeball, a great ball, an ultra ball, and THE godamn master ball, and that's all there fucking was too it.

>>28643

The balls are cloned by an particle emitter, too bad it doesn't see them as rigid body's. Need to fix that.

>>28645

You mean reflecting a forest or have a real background of a forest. I'll see what I can cook up today.

Heres my version of pokeballs

Look at mah balls!

Another shot of mah balls.

And yeah, I'm rather late to the party, eh?

>>29148
Kind of
I like the button, it keeps the spherical form without actually doing so, in an odd way.

Great job to everyone in this thread, there's been some good work. A Pokéball is always the first thing I try to make when I try out programs for some reason...

Anyway, needs more Master Balls.

I really dig this thread, particularly:
>>28607
>>28671
>>28688

Bonus points for manga translucent balls with a miniaturized Pokemon inside.

>>28842
It depends on the top, most go inward though, it doesn't matter really because the ring itself is on connected to the top part of the ball, and while its from the inside, the hinge on the back is connected to the outside of the ring and to the outside of the bottom part so the ball can be opened up to a 90 degree angle without problem.

When I was a kid I had quite a few of the toys, all of them had an inward ring, I had a simple pop-open one, and one that played music when opened, even had a few with a pop-out pokemon, they were all inwards.

POKERBAWLS

PUH-PUH-PUH POKUHBAWLS
PUH-PUH POKUHBAWLS

>>28688

Samefag here. Made more pokeballs that look a bit more decent. Used Yafaray render this time instead of blenders internal.

>>29202
looks a bit weird with all of them reflecting off of each other.
and let me recommend some DoF

my go, eventhough a tad late

>>29224
dude, this thread's like 2 days old, almost everyone's late.

>>29227
Still worth posting renders as long as it's bumping.

>>28790
>>28787
>>28672
here.

Still got 6 more to go, than I'll post the re-made collection.

>>29343
When the hell did they make all these . . . I haven't played since Red/Blue

>>29384
Gen 1- red/blue
Pokeball
Great Ball
Ultra Ball
Master Ball
Safari Ball

Gen2- Gold/silver
Level Ball
Lure Ball
Moon Ball
Friend Ball
Love Ball
Heavy Ball
Fast Ball
Compé Ball

Gen3- Ruby/Saphire
Premier Ball
Repeat Ball
Timer Ball
Nest Ball
Net Ball
Dive Ball
Luxury Ball

Gen4- Diamond/Pearl
Heal Ball
Quick Ball
Dusk Ball
Cherish Ball
Park Ball

and some time this year there's Gen5 coming, it's been anounced and all its just a few weeks from when they start announcing the data for the new region,. items, and pokemon, after that, you can expect AT LEAST five more types of balls

nintendo loves its balls....

I lost interest, I'll do the last three whenever.
here's the progress so far, as you can see i put more effort into some than others, you can tell which ones i like by how well they're done.

>>29180
>Bonus points for manga translucent balls with a miniaturized Pokemon inside.

>>29412
Nice work Anon

>>29419
Thanks, I'm actually a little disappointed that so few of us chose to make something other than the normal ball, considering there's such a nice selection to go with.

>>29417
OH HOHOHO

>>29422
I dunno about the other anons, but the only balls I was aware of before this thread were "Poke", "Ultra", and "Master". There may or may not have been a "Super". 1996 was a long time ago.

>>29435
>>29435
well now you know so there's no excuse.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9_Ball

pick one and just do it.

>>29202
Agreed with some DoF.
Also it would be cool if you could make it into a 3D stereogram.

>>29417
DORF, I CHOOSE YOU!

Contributing.

bump

>>29451
Nice!

Just for the hell of it, here's an even bigger render of the cherish ball because its my favorite.

I messed with the settings a bit too much I geuss. But oh well.

Whoa, that's fucking awesome? What prog did you use and how did you do that?

>>29642
instanced geometry particles?

>>29412
here.

Anyone wanna make a low-poly pokeball? here's a texture map i just rendered. the two shapes on the left side are the joints.

>>29654
>Forget to add image

Bah, well I made one, I like your texture.

archive?

>>29654
pokeballs have never really been shown with joints

>>29675
High poly with GLOW MODE ENABLED.

>>29684
>>29684
I know, and that fact pisses me off to no end, that's why i make all my pokeballs with joints.

>>29688
Are you going to make any others?
It's cool to just slap on a texture and feel like I've accomplished something.

>>29689
If I feel like it, This is my first time making actual textures and not just ising max generics, we'll see how it goes, maybe i make all of them, maybe i make no more...

>>29690
Like this, no matter how I tweak it, I just can't get the top of this ultra ball to be straight when placed on a sphere.

anyone gonna model Mewtwo's black pokeballs?

pun intended.

>>29767
The ones with the ancient eye for a button?

its pretty much just a recolor of this guy's work
>>28462

>>29689
>>29689
Here, I think this one turned out pretty well.

my rather meh attempt

holy shit, this was made months ago. good thing I found it before 404
I gave up on this project because I kept getting artifacts on the buttons, trying to make a pokeball, with black indent and button from one sphere.
looking at >>28414 I had a real ....durrrp... moment.

MMPH

>>29831
oh shi

>>29817
why would you want to make it all from one sphere?

>>26779
poland is white over red. thats monaco

>>29831
i can see faceting.

since it wasn't on here before

+ file

>>29451

oh. my. god.
it's... BEAUTIFUL.

OP here, I was feeling left out of the high poly crowd.

>>29922
dark balls look like futuristic gernades man

>>30066
that and "sammy's old pokeball".
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Sammy's_Old_Poké_Ball.png

can some of you explain how you're modeling these in detail? Specifically the functional pokeballs. The non-functional sphere-in-a-sphere are pretty intuitive, and they were explained earlier.

But the real thing I'm wondering about is how to make the black ring that smoothly rounds into a circular shape that becomes the baseplate of the pokeball's button.

What does the topology of those black rings look like, exactly?

Model time: five Minutes
Model Render: two Minutes
Model Program: Blender 2.49
Render: yafaray 1.0.1?

>>29647
Blender if you're reffering to me. Rendered with Yaf(a)ray
>>29650
Yes well..... Objects as emited particles.

Here is mine. It is pretty terrible ... Any tips?

>>30134
use reference (I used second Google image result.)
black "ring" is the same with as the "line"
The line normally goes into the pokeball if you want to make it the most reconcilable.
pokeballs are not mirrors, allthough they can look cool that way, they are most likely made out of painted matte metal.
right now it looks like a 2 tone sphere with a belt, if you are not trying to make it your own vision and have it be true to the games, you should make the line go in, make the line and button larger, change the shader/texture whatever and round the edges of the red and white caps so it looks like a 3 piece assembly.

>>30134
>>30134

>>30113
>>30113

>Critique mode: Engaged

Disappointed. The "belt" that you have around your pokeballs should be set into the ball, not tacked on to the outside

>>30147
I think >>30113 is doing his own interpretation of what a pokeball looks like.

>>28316

I'm sorry, but this threw me into a giggling fit. I don't know why either, but thanks anon, you totally made my morning.

first attempt at making anything in a long time. slight sense of accomplishment

>>29922
>>29922
you forgot to tweest

>>30097
>>30097
>>30097
The black ring is a simple cylinder, it's not a whole sphere, the difference between top and botom is boolean'd and than you go over edges to remove any artifacts, you should try to make every piece a different element, its a lot easier than making the whole thing out of one or two spheres, see:>>29412

>>30240
lolboolean

Boolean always does shit I don't want. I found it was much better to just make a sphere and cut out the ring myself, and then clone it and shrink it and attach and bridge the caps. I did >>29148 >>29139 btw.

>>28316
that's the pokeball you get after ash has already taken all the cool starting pokemon and that's all that's left

there's an autistic missingno. inside

>>28672

>>30643
>hurdur I can't use boolean

there's nothing inherently wrong with using boolean, the problem is just that its extremely bugged, but if you know how to use it properly, and when to use it, it can be a powerful tool, instead of being a "lolboolean" bitch your entire life, it'd do you some good to learn to not suck at it.

i made a terrible one and deemed it terrible
tried improving it and made an awesome button, i was receding the band and blender freezes and dies irrevocably, and i dont save enough
so here's the terrible one, point fingers and laugh

>>30732
/points and laughs

amidoinitrite?

>>30778
>digivice

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

>>30732
Definitely gets the idea across though, you could always follow the blender guide to get an idea.

>>30781
well that one took me like 5 minutes, and i didn't care to improve at the time, i went to make a better one, and i had done some, and blender crashes, i dont feel like going and remaking what i had remade, so i just gave up and moved on, so it's not the best i can make, i could make worlds better, i just dont really deem it important, right now im working on my texturing, just made a rubik's cube, which was a bit more exercise, but gonna go do some more complex things

>>30804
have fun :3

>>30712
Actually, I have used boolean for some things, when the bugs in it don't mess shit up too bad. I tend to use the most appropriate solution for things though, instead of using a bugged system and then having to correct for it. The way the post was written that I replied to, it sounded to be implying that boolean was the only way to do it. I was just trying to point out that it is not the only solution.

using vray

anyone know where to dl vray for maya?

re-redid the button, looks worlds better compared to the first one, still need to fix the rest of the ball though
mine: >>30732

>>30858
mediocre render

>>30886
finally finished
i work too slowly

>>30858
Vray is cheating, we can't all afford it.

>>30958
>Vray is cheating, we can't all afford it
oh lol

>>30960
All the vray cracks have watermarks >_>

>>30963

The one for Max 2009 is cracked and works fine. It's just the 2010 version that's fucked. Random watermarks and renders are artificially lengthened to unusable times.