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Living Jewels: SubD Creature Sculpting

Sculpt six creatures into jewelry with RhinoArtisan's SubD tools: a textured snake ring, a pavé teddy bear, a turtle pendant, a dolphin ring, a dragon and a panther pavé ring. Organic modeling from reference images, brought to life with textures and gems.

€300 · or free with a Commercial license (subject to current promotions)
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By Paula Jiménez

Living Jewels: SubD Creature Sculpting

What you'll learn

  • Build a textured snake ring by unrolling a cylinder, drawing the snake flat and flowing it back around the finger.
  • Sculpt a pavé teddy bear in SubD from reference images, fully set with automatic pavé and prongs.
  • Model a turtle pavé pendant with organic SubD shaping.
  • Bring a dolphin ring to life from reference imagery.
  • Sculpt a dragon with textures and fine detail.
  • Crown the collection with the Wild Majesty panther pavé ring.

Requirements

  • A computer meeting the minimum system requirements
  • RhinoArtisan installed and updated to the latest version
  • Completed the Kickstart course, or equivalent RhinoArtisan experience
  • Basic familiarity with SubD editing (faces, edges, vertices)

Who is this for

  • Jewelry designers
  • CAD professionals
  • Jewelry manufacturers
  • RhinoArtisan users
  • Jewelry design enthusiasts

What's included

  • Video demonstration of each project, showing the full sculpting process end to end
  • Illustrated step-by-step guide for every tutorial, to follow online or in print
  • Downloadable reference images, textures and 3DM files for the exercises

Creatures, Cast in Metal and Light

The hardest test of a jewelry modeler isn’t a band or a bezel — it’s a living form. Living Jewels: SubD Creature Sculpting is a project-based course where you’ll sculpt six creatures into finished jewelry with RhinoArtisan’s SubD tools: a coiled snake, a teddy bear, a turtle, a dolphin, a dragon and a panther, each built from reference images and finished with textures, pavé and production-ready settings.

Every tutorial pairs a full video demonstration with an illustrated step-by-step guide, plus the reference images, textures and 3DM files you need to follow along.

Curriculum

5 topics · 29 lessons

01

Textured Snake Ring

6 lessons
  1. 01.01 Overview
  2. 01.02 Cylinder, Unroll & Guide Circles
  3. 01.03 The Snake Outline
  4. 01.04 Flow & Ring Profiles
  5. 01.05 Texture3D, Closing & Head
  6. 01.06 Video Lesson
02

Pavé Teddy Bear

5 lessons
  1. 02.01 Overview
  2. 02.02 References & the Head
  3. 02.03 Body, Legs & Arms
  4. 02.04 Pavé Prep & Gem Layout
  5. 02.05 Video Lesson
03

Turtle Pave Pendant

6 lessons
  1. 03.01 Overview
  2. 03.02 References & the Shell
  3. 03.03 Head, Eyes & Legs
  4. 03.04 Remesh & Gem Surface
  5. 03.05 Pavé, Prongs & Cutters
  6. 03.06 Video Lesson
04

Dolphin Ring

6 lessons
  1. 04.01 Overview
  2. 04.02 References & the Outline
  3. 04.03 Sculpting the Dolphin
  4. 04.04 Fins & Final Form
  5. 04.05 From Dolphin to Ring
  6. 04.06 Video Lesson
06

Wild Majesty Pavé Ring

6 lessons
  1. 06.01 Overview
  2. 06.02 References & the Panther Head
  3. 06.03 Ears, Shank & Union
  4. 06.04 Eyes & Gem Areas
  5. 06.05 Pavé, Prongs & Final Cut
  6. 06.06 Video Lesson

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Sculpt six creatures into jewelry with RhinoArtisan's SubD tools: a textured snake ring, a pavé teddy bear, a turtle pendant, a dolphin ring, a dragon and a panther pavé ring. Organic modeling from reference images, brought to life with textures and gems.

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