Safety Boot | John Dickinson | 3D Artist

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3D Modeling | Rendering | Asset Creation

Safety Boot

The Jallatte Jalarcher Safety Boot with its detailed, moulded sole and side zip with velcro flap was a good challenge which required a range of modelling and texturing techniques, including sculpting and hair.

Client / Personal Project

Role / Modelling, Texturing, Lighting

Software / Cinema 4D, Substance Painter, Redshift

Process

Beginning with the sole, laying out the topology flat before adding extrusion.

Sole topology prepared and ready for extrusion.

Using splines with an Extrude object as a target to the Shrink Wrap deformer.

Using two versions. One to define the top curvature and another to define how the tread touches the ground.

Selections define the top and bottom of the tread.

Deleted the selected polygons

Bridged the remaining polygons to create the depth.

The result under subdivision.

Extruded the sides outwards and reworked some of the topology.

Working upwards and now ready to start fashioning the main boot shape.

Split the top loop off and reduced the polygon count. This will make it easier to manipulate when fashioning the upper boot shape. Used HB Even Distribution to evenly distribute the points.

Master shape coming together with liberal use of the Brush and Sculpt tools. This will be the base onto which I'll shrink wrap the various panels which I'll create using the Polygon Pen tool.

Shaping the toe under Shrink Wrap deformer. Once shaped I'll make it editable and weld it to the sole.

Shrink Wrapped toe merged with the sole.

Added the eyelet panel using Shrink Wrap Deformer and Symmetry Object.

Continuing on, blocking out the next two panels. The left side will have a velcro flap covering a zip.

Shrink wrapped panels complete. Next I'll add control cuts to tighten the corners ready for extrusion.

Adding extrusion starting at the bottom-most panel. Strategically inserting loops and reshaping geo where necessary on overlapping panels to ensure they fit snuggly and each panel has the same extrusion depth

Further progress. Manipulating the points to create these overlaps whilst the model is still low poly ensures smooth results. I'll push the outer edge of the leather to give a pressed in look where the stitches run.

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The zipper teeth were created using a Mograph Cloner Object.

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Zip in place. It'll be covered by a leather flap which I'll peel back slightly using a Bend deformer.

Adding in the Bend deformer to get the flap shape correct before adding thickness.

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