Character : Combat Sports character

[Ghostscape]

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[Ghostscape]

An update:

http://www.rit.edu/~mpc2613/battlelax2.jpg

[YerEvilTwin]

he's got wheelchairs legs, no butt, the torso is one bland shape, you have octagon arms and legs, you either have 2 sholders or 2 bicepts, you have wasted too many polys already. Get some pictures of naked men and study there anatomy. I would start over and box model. When you box model you only add edges when you need it. you have added a bunch of edges that serve no purpose, and are not needed to add form or deformation.

[Ghostscape]

Thanks for the help.

As far as his chest being bland, he's going to have armor/padding over most of it, so I'm not too worried about that. What do you mean by wheelchair legs, and why are 8-sided arms and legs bad?

this was box modelled, so I'm not sure why you're under the impression it wasn't. I know there are places where I can optimise the mesh, but as I'm trying to get the basics of his form down before I give him his padding, I didn't want to start heavily optimising him yet.

I'd love to find some pictures of men that were posed such that I could study anatomy and proportions. However, it's a bit difficult to find ones that are both free and not gay porn. If you've got any good reference sites, I'd love the links.

Also, I'm not sure what a well-deforming shoulder and crotch look like, if you have any links or examples I'd love them.

some more work :
http://www.rit.edu/~mpc2613/battlelax3.jpg

[franklyn]

here is some reference on human anatomy that might help you a bit
the model needs serious owrk in some areas.
http://www.highend3d.com/boards/printthread.php?Cat=1,2&Board=mayaanimation&main=120667&type=post
http://www.planetquake.com/skindom/...esh/index.shtml
http://www.bartelby.com/107/279.html
http://www.bartelby.com/107/
http://www.onnovanbraam.com/index.p...umans&id=humans

[Tree Of Woe]

I don't think that you need to start over but normally it looks better the second time around. Some things to take into consideration are you going to model the armor and accessories seperate or make him one mesh. It seems most people sweat it over the modeling part, like making the verts and stuff perfect, but it isnt neccessarily what grabs peoples attention, its having a good understanding of anatomy and proportions. This helps give your character some depth. I hope i explained that right. well here is a link for some anatomy

http://www.fineart.sk./

Tree Of Woe

[Ghostscape]

Thanks for the help. I've tweaked him some more, and he's looking better. I'm still not sure what else needs work, though, and I'm still not sure he's going to deform correctly when I animate him.

http://www.rit.edu/~mpc2613/battlelax4.jpg

And with some armor:
http://www.rit.edu/~mpc2613/battlelax4b.jpg

the tri count is 1136 for the first one and 1570 for the armored one.

[franklyn]

it ceratainly is looking a lot better now i dont know about the armor ...but the area where the but meets the leg looks dodgey and the shoulder plate looks really small .
i think it shud cover the top .

[Ghostscape]

Another update. I think I'm almost to the point where it's time to texture this guy, but I'll probably give him a quick rig first to check deformation, because I'm not sure he's going to deform properly. It won't be the final rig, because he's most likely going to get broken up into multiple pieces because the .x animation tools apparently only support two tracks of animation blending...Although there is talk about redoing the game in the MUPPETS graphics engine ( http://muppets.rit.edu (http://muppets.rit.edu/) ) because my friend that worked on the original battle lacrosse game wrote the animation system for the muppets engine and it's better than Microsoft's .x tools.

http://www.rit.edu/~mpc2613/battlelax6.jpg

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