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making a fast Valentine's heart
by Eric Chard on Feb 14, 2009 at 9:26:17 pm

Quickly whipping out a nice Valentine's heart is quite easy:

Make a sphere with 24x24 divisions. Color it red with some specularity.

Delete one half.

Squash to taste on Z-axis.

Use the SHEAR tool to distort the hemisphere.

MIRROR across the Y to make your heart.

MERGE POINTS.

For extra smoothness, turn on SUBPATCHING (TAB). Export to Layout.

The tastiest lighting involves putting 4 lights beaming at the various corners of the heart. I like to give the two bottom lights some color: blue and purple make nice highlights.

Then use an appropriate texture map on the heart to personalize for your SO! Happy Valentine's Day.

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