Silverwing Long Tip: Diamond Series: The Cut / Modeling

The former UPLOAD had some problems with the AUDIO.
So I reuploaded the a fixed verion. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Made Using C4D 2023.1.3
Downloadable Esxtras (Assets)
drive.google.com/open?id=1o2C...
Hello everyone.
This is part one (of probably two) on the requested closer look on diamond rendering.
This is focussing on the modeling part of accurately modeling a brilliant cut diamond.
Thank you very much for watching.
P.s. leave a comment if you have any good Idea for a future quick tip / tut.
0:00 Intro
0:44 The Importance of the Cut
2:29 Modeling Reference & Modeling Approach
3:37 Modeling: Settings Splines
4:28 Modeling: Creating Line Splines
4:49 Modeling: Creating Angle Lines
6:02 Modeling: Creating Crown Spline
6:56 Modeling: Creating the Facets Splines
8:35 Modeling: Placing Polygons
10:24 Modeling: Closing Diamond with Array
11:12 Modeling: Finishing thee Base-Model
11:51 Finishing Touches: Bezel
12:44 Finishing Touches: Round Bezel (Bool)
16:28 Veryfying the Cut
19:59 Outro

[@jamjama9365]

The amount of knowledge and tutorials on KZbin is incredible. The cure for cancer is probably going to be in a YT tutorial one day.

[@SilverwingVFX]

Hey hey. Thank you very much Jam, Indeed. If you happen to find the right videos, KZbin can be such a source of knowledge. I love it!

[@jasonwilde5335]

Brilliant. Again a great tutorial. Lots of tech info very well explained. No shortcuts that we see in other tutorials where 'teachers' often say "thats close enough to reality" when things are miles off. Too many people out there are teaching that 'close enough' is ok for clients so it's great and refreshing to see that someone takes pleasure in getting things spot on. Im learning loads from your Diamond series and would love to see how you go about lighting diamonds.

[@SilverwingVFX]

Thank you very much for your positive feedback Jason. There are quite some "good enough´s" in there. But I would consider those really good enough! So cool to hear that you like my content and learn from it. Its the best compliment one can get! PT 2 will be more about materials but also a bit on lighting. Working on it already 🙂

[@alfredmb]

This is why I love your tutorials...How detailed & well explained ! Impressive !

[@SilverwingVFX]

Thank you! Very much appreciated!

[@ForgingMind]

Fantastic again. I think this the first time I’ve watched a tutorial that has modelled polygons from splines as you showed 😊

[@sonuraval3228]

Hello sir.. Your tutorials solve many of my problems in C4d octane.. Truly a detailed explanation.. Thank you very much sir

[@SilverwingVFX]

Thank you very much for your great comment Sonu. Appreciate that you liked it 🙌

[@semmussaev]

Thank you so much! So interesting. You tutorials and tips are like diamonds👍👍👍

[@SilverwingVFX]

Thank you very much for your comment! Love your analogy ☺

[@vladasimovic2732]

You're the man. Not only helpful tutorial, but also these help files... Thank you!

[@SilverwingVFX]

Hey thanks. Glad you like it!

[@themidstream]

Wow. just wow. this is ''Brilliant''

[@SilverwingVFX]

Thank you. Glad you liked this one also 🤗

[@yassinedjebbari4819]

Yes Yes !! Was waiting for this so much

[@SilverwingVFX]

You very welcome!

[@whitekraw]

Can't wait for the next part!!!

[@SilverwingVFX]

Thank you very much. Already working on the next part :-)

[@pro.tharan]

Loved this so much, have my brilliant diamond modeled and ready for your next tutorial! 😄

[@SilverwingVFX]

Thanks so much. You can also just download the one provided in the description link 🙌 Though I know that creating stuff on my own always makes me more happy 😇

[@Itsyesfahad]

Dude this is next next level stuff ! I love it !

[@SilverwingVFX]

Hey, thanks a lot for your nice comment. Super cool to hear that you like the tutorial ✨

[@sikliztailbunch]

10:44 creating counterclockwise creates inward normals

[@SilverwingVFX]

It was that way in old C4D versions. They seem to have changed that behavior in the newer releases.

[@dawidd1933]

Thank you! Great insights about dispersion and absorption. Can you tell me where I can download the scan model?

[@SilverwingVFX]

Unfortunately its a long time ago that I downloaded this model. I can't remember where I got it from. Maybe someone else can chime in and provide a link?

[@simontrickfilmer]

Did not notice anything with the audio. Btw for a line: Did you know, you can flatten out a helix? 😛 Just set the both radius to Null and even play with the subdivision.

[@SilverwingVFX]

It was smaller sections where some portions of it were muted somehow. I just wanted it to be properly done for future viewers. And ha ha ha, yeah. Lets please all comment on this vid here again. I need my comments 😁 😇

[@westex13]

Hey great tutorial, i have a problem at 16:24 where you select the edges but you forgot to mention how you got rid of them. I tried Melt and Dissolve but they dont work as intented

[@SilverwingVFX]

Hey, thank you very much for your message. Sorry to hear that you ran into problems. Dissolving the edge works pressing M then N with the Edges to dissolve selected. Maybe you have to scale the upper and lower points from the cut (girdle) in Y to make the slope consistent! Its hard to explain via text but I sincerely hope this helps you ✨

[@yasirjaved6677]

Thanks a lot for grate tutorial. I have a request if possible please share tutorial how to modeling hard surface object with text and icons with perfect mesh.

[@SilverwingVFX]

Thank you very much for your comment and your request. It definitely would make for a good tutorial SDS modeling a hard surface object. I shy away from that a little bit as its so much work. In the mean time you could check John Dickinsons channel. He has also superb modeling video for both C4D and Blender: kzbin.info

[@yasirjaved6677]

@@SilverwingVFX Thanks Sir

[@maxkacher]

nice video. which software are you using. thx

[@SilverwingVFX]

Thank you. I am using Cinema 4D 2023.