low-poly character tutorial I just finished

[mindrot]

Nice one Athey. Musta taken you a while to compile.

I think a PDF version would also be a good idea for those who want to keep a copy of it on their PCs (beats trying to save every page) ;)

~M~

[Psyk0]

Very nice, and PDF is a great idea.

[blacker]

Quite nice!Very good instruction!

[Athey]

You can download a pdf from my DA page
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/54513925/

The link that says "Download" on the left-hand side of the image is the one you want.

I don't entirly like the PDF version ^^; I used a crappy freeware print driver to make it and I think it came out kinda funky, but it'd probably be eaiser for printing / whatever.

[Ardeni]

Very nice tutorial, thx man !!! :)

[boytoy]

hey man. really cool for you to take time and do this for the comunity. pretty awesome.
you have my respect:D

[Tiberius]

A very thorough and well laid out tutorial, especially considering it was done in Notepad. Your work flow mirrors my own almost to the last detail except that I just take whatever UV template I have in Photoshop and set the layer blending mode to "multiply" or "screen" depending on whether it is black lines on white or white on black. I don't usually go to the trouble of deleting all the dead space. I also generally model my hands with the fingers straight to ease texturing and pose them after the fact. Other than those "crits" (more accurately, "microscopic differences"), I can't find anything to fault since, as I said before, your technique matches mine virtually from start to finish.

Well done.

[capone_adam]

Thanks. Been looking for a decent new modeling tutorial for ages. Nice work.

[BigErn]

Hey Athey, thanks very much! I`m just having to learn 3dsmax over Maya so its just on time! thanks for the pfd, mucho greatful :thumbsup:

[adam-crockett]

Nice tutorial, Athey.

Using a denim skirt for texturing jeans? Brilliant!

I personally like to drop the whole face photos into my uvs, and then use layer masks to hide/reveal parts of the photo.. pushing them back and forth until I get what I like. The liquify tip is a great one though, for some reason I always forget about that awesome tool.

[SPIDER2544]

fantastic tutorial, my buddy just linked me to this earlyer its a really great.

ive been looking for a low low poly tutorial like this to show my team the process for getting the general forms from simple low poly meshes

[Athey]

I'm glad people find it useful, I'm thinkong of making another, just not sure which I should do first - lowpoly terrain/level art or maybe a ps3 spec char tut (normals w/ zbrush. etc)

[Athey]

oh - had another idea - would any of you find a custom facial rig tutorial useful? I've been thinking of doing a tut for that for a while.

[bcloward]

I enjoy doing facial rigging and animation - and I'd be really interested to see how you go about it. For sure - do a tutorial on that! If it's anywhere near as nice as this one on character modeling. we're all in for a real treat.

Thanks a lot for posting this fantastic piece of work. I've done a few tutorials myself and I know how time consuming they are. It's extremely generous of you to help out the community with this kind of quality resource.

[capone_adam]

I'd like to see a ps3 spec character model with zbrush personally.

[FreakyDude]

I'd go for the facial setup, lol sorry capone

[steffenk]

nice, thanks a lot

[Rion411]

Very nice and helpful tutorial. Much appreciated!:thumbsup:

[ashe]

Excellent tutorial!!! Loved the texture part. Reminds me of the old school ways of texturing.

[BigErn]

something next gen ( or current gen I guess now :thumbsup: ) would be great. Normal mapping, cool shaders etc in Max would be good to know! need to find it out for myself asap anyway ;)

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