A Work in Progress: Anemone

This guide was made for entry:
Anemone
In Contest:
crystal

step 1 of 19

I started off with a sphere primitive

step 2 of 19

I reduced the segments from 36 to 10

step 3 of 19

Then changed the Phong angle from 80 deg to zero

step 4 of 19

I made my object editable and stretched using the scale tool

step 5 of 19

and flattened

step 6 of 19

I selected some faces and using the scale tool again contracted

step 7 of 19

and again, my aim was to get a leaf shape.

step 8 of 19

I selected a Banji material and changed some properties, then assigned to my object

step 9 of 19

Next I chose an array to place my object in and made six copies in a circular formation.
I selected some faces

step 10 of 19

then deleted

step 11 of 19

I use the bridge tool to close the gaps

step 12 of 19

next I want to seal the hole

step 13 of 19

the create polygon tool is used to go from point to point

step 14 of 19

I use the knife tool to create some more geometry

step 15 of 19

I select the faces and extrude

step 16 of 19

I select some more faces and use the extrude inner tool for the centre piece and use the bevel tool on the arms. I then select the inside faces and plan to use bevel again to form points.

step 17 of 19

step 18 of 19

step 19 of 19

Here you can see the detail a bit better.
I added a floor, some lights and a camera.
Finally I make two renders one where my objects material is set on solid object and another with solid object unchecked. I bring both images into photoshop place my unchecked version above the other and set the blending mode to hard light and reduce the opacity to 40% then apply an adjustment layer of curves to give some contrast.

Final result

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