Turtle Pave Pendant
Lesson 12 of 29
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A turtle carries its own canvas — a domed shell made to be filled with stones. The trick is getting there: a clean, perfectly symmetrical body you can pavé without fighting the geometry. In this project you’ll sculpt a turtle in SubD over a reference frame, unify it into one clean mesh, and pavé its shell into a finished pendant.
Design a turtle pavé pendant using RhinoArtisan.
In this tutorial you will learn how to:
- Set up the reference frame and sculpt the shell from a symmetrical SubD sphere, keeping every edit mirrored with Reflect.
- Grow the head with an open mouth, the eyes and all four legs from spheres, extrusions and edge loops.
- Unify the turtle with Boolean Union and a 0.5 mm Quad Remesh, then extract the shell as your gem canvas.
- Fill the shell with Automatic Pave at 1.3–1.0 mm under Y symmetry, then finish with prongs, cutters and a Boolean Difference.
By the end of this project, you’ll have the skills to sculpt a fully pavé-set turtle pendant from scratch.
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