A Work in Progress: Classical suits best



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Create a cube and make it thinner

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Add an "Subdivision Surface" modifier on it, with "View:3 / Render:3", don't apply for now

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Switch to edit-mode, an add "Loop Cut & Slide (ctrl+R)" horizontally...

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...and vertically

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Shape it like this:

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Bend it a bit

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Mirror the Glass...

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Create a "Bezier curve" and shape it like this:

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Add a "Bezier circle" and set it as "Bevel object". The circle will follow the curve which acts as a path:

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Bend this one as much ass the Glass

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For the details of the nose-thing, another "Bezier curve" and a long sphere will do it

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For the arms, use a "Bezier curve" again, and put a long sphere for the rubber part at the end

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As background, I've scanned a Newspaper article:

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I only scanned 2, this is the second, whichi I duplicated:

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And here, the final image:

For the materials, the glass is:
Transperency on, Raytrace, Alpha: 0.01, IOR: 2.2, Depth: 2

The plastic of the nose-thing is Transperency on, Z Transperence only

The chassis is a basic metallic material with little mirror reflection.

As light, I positioned 3 lights to get a nice reflection in the glass... just experiment around, to get an result...

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Final result

Creation of Classical suits best: Final Result

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