Crown Royal 1.75 Liter
Work In Progress, Part 2—Cap Top
Part 2 begins with the Crown Royal logo drawn in Affinity Designer with an orthographic view of the top as a guide. To flatten the perspective of the cap as much as possible I photographed its top and side with a 200 mm lens mounted to my DSLR.
The logo is then imported into Modo as curves, kept flat on a 2D plane and used as a guide for laying down Catmull-Clark subdivided polygons via the Topology Pen Tool. But before the logo is extruded it has to conform to the curved surface by way of a background constraint.
I thought MeshFusion (a plugin now part of Modo) would be the best approach to help model the top of the cap. The plan was to use its finesse with booleans to create fillets for the Crown Royal logo and hemispheres (excluding the texture) and retopologize the result. Displacements will generate said texture covering the knoll (what I call the broad curved surface rising and falling across the diameter).
Retopologizing the logo began with repurposing the upper half of the original subdivided object. The MeshFusion object played a limited role as the background constraint. For that function I relied on a bare mesh of the knoll to assist in creating the fillets.
Regrettably, for the bulk of retopo, the MeshFusion object saw limited use as a background constraint. Rather, it served mostly as a guide for more traditional subdivision workflows.