Creating chairs with modifiers and curves

Modifiers in Blender can be layered together in complex stacks to accomplish some fascinating modeling results. With just a few basic modeling techniques, modifiers can make impressive results and the puzzle of getting the stack just right is fun. Blender's curve objects also expand your modeling toolbox, allowing quick tubing or the arraying of meshes along a curve. We'll look at three methods for putting chair models together with increasing complexity.

For examples of the chairs made in this section, examine the ch05_chair.blend file.

Let's take a look at our first type of chair.