Project Retrospective:

This project gave me a lot of opportunities to play with shapes, and offered a ton of overlap to improve my organic modeling approaches, especially when it came to curves / profiles / nesting collections. I used a ton of booleans on the base platform, and let simple shapes with modifiers build up my forms/proportions, pushing and pulling with grab brushes / proportional editing. Staying inside one program allowed me to focus more on the design, rather than the tedious process of import/exporting meshes across applications.  I also used geometry nodes to help build up where grass/plants can spawn from the platform (along with hand placed details), mask out where Noodle stands, etc.