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How to Make a Sliced Solid and Wireframe Rendering in Bonzai3d

Here's an example of one of those stylistic renderings of 3d models where there's a combination of solid and wireframe halves coming together at a section cut in the model. I've been doing this type of rendering for a long, long time1 and I thought I'd make a video showing you how to do it too. It's a fairly easy process that involves your 3d modeling program and an image editor like Photoshop.

Once again, this is one of those things you can do in several different modelers but it's one of the reasons I prefer working with solid models in Bonzai3d because when you cut through the model, the objects are automatically filled and the Clipping Planes make it easy to make this kind of imagery. 

Now it's your turn. I'd love to see what you can come up with. Maybe you can take it to the next level and make a sweeping, organic section cut through the model to make it even more dynamic.

 

1. Here's an example from 1997, modeled in FormZ & rendered in Electric Image

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Reader Comments (1)

i'm quite having a challenge on the solid works, gonna give it another try after this vid. Hope i'd grasp into it soon!

November 10, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterDenis Paxton

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