Modeling Candy Wrappers in Maya

all right i know a lot of you guys are

also making candy wrappers so i figured

i would take a stab at that

um so disclaimer i have never actually

tried to make a candy wrapper before

um i know some things that'll probably

work but i've never tried this you get

to see this insane live demo

um so i'm going to go for a few

different types of candy wrappers as one

might

want to do what are you doing give me my

channel box

oh okay here we go don't know what that

was um

all right so i'm just gonna start with a

random sphere and the first one that i'm

gonna try to do

is something like maybe one of those

weird like chocolate balls or like a

mint or whatever

um where it is a spherical object

wrapped in

candy i guess uh so what i'm gonna do

is just sort of start out like this i'll

just do the top um because i feel like

that'll just be sort of easier to

see but i'm going to i guess isolate

select this

and with no particular plan in mind

uh i want to get the sort of

wrapper like the sort of like janky

wrapper effect so i'm just gonna sort of

start grabbing random vertices

and maybe you know fluffing them around

a little bit to use the very technical

term there

um just to see if i can get a little bit

of that sort of

overlapping candy wrapper shape and i'm

going for like kind of ultimate quick

and easy here

so i'm going to go ahead and extrude

this scale it in

maybe pull it up a little bit and you

can see we are actually getting

something that kind of looks not

totally terrible in terms of a candy

wrapper so i'm just going to kind of

keep

scaling that and maybe you do another

one make it a tiny bit smaller

my scaling is like going kind of crazy

oof going kind of crazy

um all right so that honestly gives you

like a not totally appalling candy

wrapper look um

and if we you know pull that yeah it

actually doesn't look too bad i'm very

excited about that

i can totally live with that as a as a

candy wrapper um

so i think the only other thing that i

having having seen

this um and and done this thing

just now um the

other few things i might maybe consider

doing is going

for the ends of this because like that

looks kind of weird uh

maybe what happens if you do like an

edit mesh average

um um just to try to sort of

even those out a little bit and then you

can just sort of scale that out

um it's basically going to go through

and just sort of um

get rid of the super aggressive corners

and stuff in here so like let's

let's try doing it on this curve here so

i'm going to do hit g to

redo my last command uh it's going to

try to kind of bring everything back

into something that's like maybe a

little bit more of like a normal

position

um so we'll do that there as well just

see kind of like what that does

um you can also go through if you're

like maybe i need a little bit more

um like i want more of these sort of

wrinkles in here now you can go back and

sort of cheese those as well so i'm

gonna grab this edge

open up my tool settings and

go into my move tool and i'm going to

set this to component

uh which is usually

usually does a pretty good job of moving

stuff straight out from the edge's

surface

so what you should be able to do is then

again sort of like pull that in

i'm just gonna do faces um sort of smush

that

in pull that out and then you have again

something that's not like totally

terrible as a candy wrapper

um and just i usually leave average

vertices on for this um

so i can go back in and just sort of

what am i doing so you just sort of go

back and forth and just make something

that's again like

not totally terrible in terms of like

generic candy wrapper

um so the other thing that you can do so

this is good obviously for like balls

um the other thing is

you can do cylindrical objects and you

can kind of try to do it

um in a maybe slightly more realistic

way

so let's pretend perhaps that we have

i'm gonna make a crappy cylindrical

candy here's my lovely crappy

cylindrical candy

and i am going to make this beautiful

wrapper for this candy it's gonna be

awesome guys

don't even worry about it um i'm like

be afraid be very afraid this is gonna

look ridiculous um somebody did the same

thing that i did before

pretty much i'm just gonna add like a

crap ton of uh assorted

uh subdivisions to this again with no

particular plan in mind

um the only the only plan that i have

for this

is i would like some subdivisions

kind of towards the end of the candy

so that i can actually control what's

happening there otherwise if i don't

have enough geometry you're kind of like

screwed

um all right so what i'd go through and

do the exact same thing that i did

before where i kind of just

randomly grab some assorted uh sorted

vertices that was probably a lot of them

and i'm gonna see what happens if i do

it on the top of the bottom same time

what the heck

live on the edge um okay cool and i'm

just gonna grab these and i'm going to

use saw select this time

that was a weird decision okay maybe i'm

not going to use soft select for this

particular batch

um i'm going to okay

the random experimentation part of this

is coming out

um so i'm just gonna like i said sort of

try to do

more or less the same thing that i did

last time or i just go through and have

like a little bit of variation to this

uh maybe i shift some of these to the

side probably that was too much whatever

um all right so i'm just going to say

that that's

not completely horrendous for a rapper

if this is something that you were

actually

making for real you should totally do

better than this um

i think actually the circle was like way

easier um all right great

terrible wrapper so i'm just going to

kind of try to move this out into the

front of my object a little bit

um and i'm going to go ahead and add a

bend deformer to this so i'm going to do

a few things i'm going to do bend

uh and then i'm going to do a twist i

think

probably there's a few different ways

you can do this i'm just going to kind

of go with it

so i'm just going to make the curvature

full 180

and then i'm going to rotate this so

that it's you know rotating it the

direction that i want

in this case apparently that is 90

degrees

um question mark and then i'm going to

flip the curvature around so that it's

rotating backwards

as it should do and this is clearly not

covering my object so i'm just gonna

that's actually really weird normally it

will do

okay cool i'm just normally it'll do the

full 360. i don't know why it wasn't but

i'm just going to go ahead and manually

type that in

so that's going to give us basically

like a perfect little sphere around our

object

grab the deformer and the object itself

wrap it around the candy

probably scale both of those slightly

larger wrapped around the candy better

and then my theory is that you should be

able to by moving this to former ever so

slightly

get that actual sort of wrapping effect

from that candy where you can see that

the the wrapper is actually sort of

overlapping

uh where it was so it's like actually

doing basically what a real wrapper

would um so this is just by again sort

of shifting where i put this band

deformer

um and now we have this really weird

sort of shaky

terrible looking candy wrapper here um

so i just deleted history on that it got

rid of the form at the same time moved

back with my object

and now what i'm going to do is more or

less the same thing that i did before

except this time i'm going to just grab

the edges here

and wherever the heck the end of my

candy is well it's not even close to

being centered

um turn on

soft select i suppose and then i'm just

gonna go ahead and scale those in

and now you have again another sort of

very janky candy wrapper

i think in this case i'm probably not

gonna bother with more deformers what

i'm just gonna do

is go through and grab just randomly

sort of the bottom

few uh loops here and just sort of twist

it with soft select so i'm just gonna go

in

and um you know

go through and just very aggressively

twist this until you have something that

looks like a twisted candy wrapper

um you should technically speaking also

twist these uh

the opposite directions because i think

that's how candy wrappers are normally

wrapped but i could be wrong

um in this case the only other thing

because like obviously the ends of this

look

catastrophically awful um i am going to

go through and just grab these faces

delete them and then go oh yes because

it's the top

edge and then just go through and sort

of re-re-extrude that and it looks

still looks crazy but if you hit that

with an average vertices

um it's going to give you something

looks a little bit more normalized as a

candy wrapper

um convenient thing about this is it

will have except for like that area

where i just extruded

um it should have pretty standardized

uvs um

and you can basically just you know make

a candy wrapper label and slap it on

there

more or less be good um so that's my

weird thoughts with candy wrappers

i think that's probably honestly the

only two that i see people usually

struggling with but yeah so hopefully

that was helpful