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just finished this :) @Cerbera sorry for the caps in the topic title, but the title of the video just required it ;)

Fancied a quick little personal weekend modelling project, so thought I'd do the Golden Snitch from Harry Potter. Painfully easy to do with either Volume builder or Sculpting, I fancied more of a challenge so I did it properly, with SDS. Here we are at the end of Day 1, most of the modelling done, but no textures yet... 100% quads, but still the odd 6 point pole remaining, not that it creates any artefacts here :) Of course it's different in every film, and you can tell they didn't know it was going to have to open until film 6, but I'm doing the film 3 version, arguably the best of the series because Alfonso Cuaron was in charge... Texturing tomorrow... CBR

Finally got time to have a first texture pass and to get a bit of (Cinema PR) motion-blurry goodness in there... Not even slightly happy with the wing texture yet, so I've fixed that by making this render 'in-flight', and then when I've sorted it, I'll do a nice scene in its (presumably) velvet-lined lovely wooden box, amongst some attractive drapery to show them off when its magic is recharging :) Also please forgive my generic 'hogwarts-stylee' stone wall backdrop - very lazy - must do better. The main body I am mostly happy with; very scratchy, but perhaps not ingrained-filthy enough yet ? CBR