Difficulties
 

Hello,

I follow some of the tutorials that are on this site of wich I think I learned a lot.
I was trying to practice the new knowledge into a model of a candle wich i would like to let it burn.

However I must be doing something wrong during the modeling because a portion of the model transforms a bit strang when converting the polygon model to subdivisions (see the attached images).

I'm sure I'm making some kind of a basic mistache but I don't know exactly what. Can someone give me some advice in this ?

Thanks in advance.

Willy

part 2
 

This is the polygon model :

dont know anything about subd's but I'd check to see if all the polygon edges are joined together around the problem area.

hmm im too much of a nob to know why not just smooth polys and keep away from sub'd's

This indeed looks like detatched edges/vertices.

Try dragging a selection square across a single poly vertice in the problematic area, and examine the channel editor.
You shouldn't be surprised if there is 2 or more vertices there, and not just the only one you expect.