Making of Raindrops by Paco Morales, Mexico


Modeling the Buds of the Branch

For creating the buds we make the following steps. Select the edges to begin creating the buds like in the below image. Chamfer the edges and move the vetices.


Select the polygons that showing in the below image and extrude them, then scale and extrude once again, then again scale and extude once more... adjust the vertices and create more edges on the top of the bud. Finally apply a meshmooth modifier.


Modeling the Leaves

Create a plane and convert to editable mesh or poly. Press Shift and move the edges of the planes to trace the half side of the leaf.  Apply meshmooth for seeing the result and adjust the vertices according to the shape of the leaf.


Select the vertices of the edges and move down. Mirror the leave and weld the vertices. Now apply the meshmooth modifer for smoothen the leaf. Now I applied a FFD 4x 4x 4 modifier and play with the shape. You can also apply the noise to the leave.