Head/Body modeling

[BiGiNnEr]

:thumbsup: Hey thats nice, Im learing how to us box modeling and i think that real good. Post some more of ur work. I would like to see and i will post some of mine when im done.arial white

[Grey]

the results speak for themselves!

Beautifully done!

[kiwi]

Nice work Kormendi :thumbsup:



Try all sorts of modelling methods and then find one that you feel more comfortable with :)



Stu.

[Grey]

I personally have been doing it by adding points and using the bridge tool.

I don't know why, I just like it better. It's slow as molasses, however, process wise.

[kiwi]

Dont you find it tricky though when you start ending up with lots of points?



Stu.

[LucentDreams]

I use quite a few methods, I just posted my tutorial in another thread called my old tutorials, on a more realistic style (though not real) head, but it would apply to this too. Box modeling is my main method, though I always keep my eye on edgeloops, wanna have them as much as possible, and keep my on triangles, wanna have them as llittle as possible.

Love to see your work though, I personally love to see more cartoony work, that is sorta what I would like to focus on along with NPR.

As for a crit, the only place I have any issue with is the ears. the seem to flat on oneside, or something like that well they look odd. as well I just noticed there is a troubling area where the jowels meet the neck, I think thie crease goes down a little too far. not really a helpful crit sorry.

Here is a sample of the cartoony stuff I am trying to do.

http://www.bhodinut.com/home/gallery?f_display=images&f_view_by=artist&f_artist_id=KaiskaiBhodiNUT Gallery (http://www.bhodinut.com/home/gallery?f_display=images&f_view_by=artist&f_artist_id=Kaiskai)

and here is another pic:
http://www.cgi.third-era.com/~kaiskai/moosesmall.jpg

[kiwi]

Excellent stuff Kai :thumbsup:


How about a belly button for the Moose?...just a finishing touch :)



So the toons are cel shader and which bhodinut shaders are you also using bud?



Stu.

[LucentDreams]

hmmm I'll think about the belly button, wann keep him simple but that might not be a bad idea. As for the shaders used, well the penguins (I think they are penguins, made them in a few minutes) are using shaders from my Shades of Cel preset shaders for SLA, and so is the tiger actually. I am trying to build a marker effect using the shader that is on the tiger.

As for the moose, well it uses falloff and NAAM''s Chanlum to get that nice softness. I am thinking of chnging the chanlum to more of a furry slightly velvety look for his body and leaving the antlers as they are. Just wish I had time to rerig him and do some animation.:annoyed:

[kiwi]

On second thoughts a belly button could just make you need to put detail in the hands and legs as well to balance it all :hmm:



I must try some ani with the cel shader :)



Stu.

[Kormendi]

Thanks for the feedback. To respond to kiwi's question, I do find it confusing when I start getting a lot of points on the model. That's why I was wondering if people had a better system to model.

[LucentDreams]

I use a system of cutting with the knife and quickly replacing the tri's by deleting and creating new polygons, not the fastest way to model I guess, but I don't have tri's, and its keeps the points and polys down.The trick they use in the Messie tutorial of using selection tags to hide polygons and the restore them later is a great trick, that is the one thing I really got out of the tutorial. really helps out a lot.

[Caravaggio]

I've gotten used to having a lot of 4 point triangles in my models. where has diamon cutting up the mesh producing (or combining depending) two rows of squares. It seems to work pretty good. But sometimes it's annoying that I can't directly see which way any given quad is cross cut without triangulating it first, sometimes if it's going the wrong way I'll get strange dents and have to delete that poly and re bridge it.

[kiwi]

I use box modelling with the same trick that Kai uses for hiding polys,I find I can get in almost anywhere that way :) ,but as for whats better I cant dis point modelling because I have not done enough of it to have the right to an opnion it.



Caravaggio try this approach to tris


http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/type/tutorial.asp?id=27973



Stu.

[kiwi]

Heres some practise I did recently using Messie tags method.


Stu.

[Grey]

is it a Borg Alchove or a funtime playhouse at McDonnalds?

Either way, you could do some fun stuff with that thing, Kiwi!

[Grey]

is it a Borg Alchove or a funtime playhouse at McDonnalds?

Either way, you could do some fun stuff with that thing, Kiwi!

[kiwi]

Its file name on my HD is "Thingy" :D


Or hows about a Mc Donalds fun house on a Borg cube in a Borg alcove.They serve assimilation burgers,and the fries are live wires :D



Stu.

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