Prosthetic

Concept

read the full concept post here

I wanted to create an abstracted freeform looking shape and had varying levels of success at this. The shape came out well overall and I'm very proud of it. In the design stages I decided I wanted to stray away from shapes that conform too much to the shape of a leg, while still being functional as such, so there's a big hole in it showing the pipe The water design came around that, finding an excuse to have that shape and a good design reference for the kind of curves I wanted to have.

This early design features the hole in the front, the end result has the hole in the back for functionality's sake It's less likely to get caught on something that way. 

Modelling

 The base form of the leg was created using curves and then the sweep2, that got the baseline.

early attempts to create the abstract curvature I was going for were clumsy but the introduction of flow surface to my skill set made it much easier. 

in progress shot

the surface was created using extruded curves and then edge surfacing them and joining them together, and softening the edges. Then I wrapped it around the base leg using flowalongsrf and a lot of added randomized bubbles streaming up the top of the leg. Split along the surface of the leg and then joined. the interior section of the leg, necessary since this is a hollow object, was created by shrinking the base leg and extruding the edges where necessary to make it big enough to fit. The interior edge of the area with the hole was extruded inward in order to connect with the interior leg so I could split it in that spot. 

Materials

all glass, with a wavy bump map, different colors and levels of reflectivity were used throughout. The lighter parts have a higher reflectivity so they don't look too see through, and the darker parts have a lower reflectivity to accentuate the color. a matte black metal for the pipe and foot, I experimented with different metals but the shiny metals all distracted from the rest of the leg.