Help needed with creating a metal sheet jacket

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#1

Hello all! I have started using Blender again after years of no interest and am stuck on the last part of my model.

This is my model as it stands.

http://rednikcam.deviantart.com/art/Bass-Man-3-WIP-71638802\

(this model is after a physical model of the same that I bought in Turkey earlier this year)

As you can see it is a figure holding a bass that, once completed, will look like it’s been created from pieces of metal. There is a jacket that will go around my figure and I’m seeking help on creating the jacket. The jacket will be a thin piece of metal (like the bass) but will obviously wrap around him. What’s the best method to do this?

If you don’t feel I have explained this well enough please just say and I will post a picture of the physical model I am modelling this after.

#2

one way to make clothing is to select vertexes from the person wearing the clothes, duplicate them, alt S them a bit ( scale along normal ) then use the knife tool to tailor the edges. another way would be to use the retopo tool, and, also, I think a couple of people have been fooling around with softbody clothing for animated meshes as well.

#3

But as you can see I can’t do the first due to the body being… well, a tube.

Could you explain the second one to me. Do you think that would be a good approach to it? Remember that the jacket is a thin piece of metal that doesn’t hang.

#4

there is an explanation of the retopo tool in the release notes for 4.0 or somewhere around there. It allows you to use one mesh as a form to create a new mesh on top of. like a shoe, or hat form.