Hello everyone welcome back to PJ Chen Design. Today we're gonna talk about this
ribbon, and what is the most easy way to model something has different depth. Are
you ready? let's get started!
We're going to start roughly about this dimension 20 by 30. I mean you can make
any size here. This is just a area that we are going to work for. We will start
drawing a curve this curve is gonna go roughly like this. It doesn't have to be
pretty at first, because we are going to do a lot of adjustment. So we just need
to draw something like this, and you can go ahead just it to make it look nicer,
smoother. So I'm going to delete this block, if you do want it to be
symmetrical sometimes what you can do is you can have one and then a mirror to
the other side. I would like to keep it something like that. It is not super
symmetrical so it has the human touch in there. Second, we gonna draw the
profile, I'm going to use the rectangle tool with the conic corner
so with this conic corner, it doesn't have to be super big and depends on what
size of a stone you want to set, but I would like to give a cushion looking
rectangle. Let's go ahead to make a copy so I need to have that one. It's going to
be copy once here, once here, and once here, on the bottom. and once here on the
right bottom. We need to kind of rotate it with the Gumball, and
again, you don't have to worry about if they are perfectly aligned with
something else. We just wanted to put it there, and we can record a history later,
and moving with the history is on. Next step,
Let's adjust the curve. I know this one and this one gonna be a little bit
higher like that. We're gonna move something like this, so it's a little bit
smoother. the one is cross on top of it. and the other one on the flat we don't
change it. And over here, those two seems a little bit
to low, so I'm gonna go make it a little bit higher, and this one will be a little
bit higher even more, and because I wanted to be flat to the bottom. I may
want to just increasing the size instead of just moving up right. So the one on
the bottom is all right, we can move it up a little bit, and all of this will be
changed later on If you want to. So don't worry about what exactly position they
wanted to have. This one I actually want to tilt it a little bit something
like this, and moving a little bit, so that will be a little bit different
angle there. And we're gonna go to the surface, we have Sweep 1. I kind of pick
up all of them, all of the cross-sections. One thing we need to keep in mind that
is we need them to all aligned and point the arrows to the same direction. So I'm
gonna use the bottom one in the middle, so everybody will snapping into the
bottom and make sure they all come into the same angle, the same direction. So the
arrows facing... this one facing in, and the other direction. Okay so that look
alright, then you will have the option here. You don't have to do much about the
option at this point. Make sure you Record History is on. Okay so now what we
want to do is we need to kind of modify it, because we recorded history.
Now we can change the size on that. If your Gumball is not aligned to the
object, you could just go ahead and click on this, and align to the object. So that
way that allows you to stretching with the Gumball, so let's go ahead to make them
a little bit bigger this way, and again I wanted to pick up this curve, and stretch
a little bit right. So right here, this may not be a good angle, because it does
kind of caving a little bit, and this one as well. I wanted to rotate in a little
bit this angle, and then you can kind of play and tweak with it until you
get the form you. So we are going to do
a lot more tweaking here, you can kind of moving in, if this is like too much
too big of an opening for you. So they kind of play with it. The reason I'm
doing this way is I can see in real time how they are twisting/ changing, so I
can size up and down everything. Not only about the cross-sections, you can
also change the curve in there. If I select the control point I can kind of
moving in like this, and that is helping to changing the form as well.
so you can keep tweaking until you like it, and that's how I get my
ribbon, and after that, you can cap it and just trim the ending off then you will
get something like this. I hope you like the video. Please like and comment and
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