CGTalk - First Maya head

Shirley

02-12-2004, 04:32 AM

After playing a bit with Maya, I decided to start directly to work on my first complex model. I use Polygon proxymode, with CPS and MJpolytools. All these tools are great :)
The goal of the exercise is to create a face without any photo reference.
Now I arrive at a point I would love to recieve comments to make the character better (for the moment, just the face, I didn't designed the clothes yet.)

Also he'll have long white hair.

first render (http://membres.lycos.fr/garbager/wips.htm)

thanks for helping and comments :)

FerryvD

02-12-2004, 08:56 AM

it looks ok for a first try.
But why making it without refs?? It would be much easier and the result would be much better if you did.

Shirley

02-12-2004, 09:07 AM

The reason is not my initial decision.
In fact my Geforce just died, so I had to put my old TNT2 on the motherboard again. And it doesn't like AT ALL background pictures :)
As I'm kinda broken, I have to work that way for the moment :)

Tahl'eN

02-12-2004, 09:35 AM

Not bad, especially for not using refs. But hard to crit from just one angle/no wires.

From here it looks like his eyes are a little bit too big, and the area between his nose and chin is too flat.
Certainly is a nice eye shader in him. (-:

FerryvD

02-12-2004, 10:33 AM

Originally posted by Shirley
The reason is not my initial decision.
In fact my Geforce just died, so I had to put my old TNT2 on the motherboard again. And it doesn't like AT ALL background pictures :)
As I'm kinda broken, I have to work that way for the moment :)

Then it's a pretty good head, some other comments.
The nose is very weird, try to look at some pictures, the bottom of the nose isn't flat at all, and it looks a bit too much like a reversed T, if you know what i mean.

Could you post a wireframe please?

Shirley

02-12-2004, 06:02 PM

I worked on her a bit more.
Here is a new render, and a wireframe

http://membres.lycos.fr/garbager/test2.jpg

Shirley

02-12-2004, 06:04 PM

and here is the wireframe

http://membres.lycos.fr/garbager/wire.jpg

Tahl'eN

02-12-2004, 06:06 PM

A definate improvement. There's still something odd about it, but I can't quite put my finger on it...

Shirley

02-12-2004, 06:17 PM

I think the zone beetween ears and eyes on X axis is far too large. The skull is too large on this part. Also there's a problem with the back neck, but I was too lazy yet to move those two vertices :)

Any other comments would be very precious, and don't hesitate to ask for particular wire closeup if it can helps

Thanks a lot

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