Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:

> 
>   That's incredibly professional looking... are you a shoe modelist, or 
> it is a hobby only? I know some professionals here who will kill to have 
> such skills.
> 


Thanks for the praises!  Hobbyist only, though if I could earn a living 
making cg models of shoes I would be a happy individual. This is really 
my first full fledged attempt at modelling shoes in mesh.  There were 
some very early attempts in sPatch when I first discovered POVRay 
(making a glass slipper was an obvious idea to try), but it was beyond 
my patience and skill at the time.  Couple years ago I got involved 
briefly with Maya and did some models of generic shoes using nurbs. 
They can be seen in my entry for Worlds Within Worlds.  That entry also 
has a shoe modelled entirely using POV generated splines ( the ruby 
slippers ).  I also played with that POV-spline technique in modelling 
shoes for abortive entries for "Gardens" and "Fantasy".  I had intended 
to have topiaries of shoes in the one and, you guessed it, a crystal 
glass slipper in the other. My current interest in the subject was 
revived when I needed a break from my "Primates Series" efforts.

Most of the shaping is much easier in polygon mesh.  The real power came 
with a combined use of the Wings' Extract, Extrude, and Intrude 
commands.  The main drawback is the inability to create spline-curved 
edges but clever use of the Bevel command can be used to improvised this.

Maybe I will make a short tutorial.  Shaping a shoe is really not so 
difficult and it would demonstrate some of the power of Wings tools

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