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Netvudu
07-17-2003, 10:51 AM
I´ve been working on a character for a persoal project I´m doing in my spare time and I got a WIP which I think is nice enough to show you guys. I´m using Lightwave.

I still got to improve a few things like the part where the hair grows from the upper forehead (I HATE Sasquatch interface, I tell you) and the strange squared shadowing at the lower part of the eyebrows.
I could take a few hints on how to improve the blend between the hair and the head at that forehead part.


http://usuarios.lycos.es/Netvudu/Images/HeadWIP2.jpg


I don´t know why I took so much pains with the hair as the guy is wearing a cloak that covers most of it but I´m tired of watching bald models around.
The "fixed gaze" effect will be easily solved playing a bit with the eyelids.

The cool thing is I have the whole body finished AND with the setup done. I was just finishing the head separated for a quicker workflow but I´ll now integrate it.
There´s yet some more texturing to be done on the body as well.

Feedback? Things to improve?

EDIT: by the way, I´m not going for absolute photorealism a la Final Fantasy (*sigh*, as if I could). I just want to obtain enough realism to match the backgrounds. Usually we see great realism on backgrounds and many times the characters don´t match as much or look too cartoony. My goal is just to obtain a coherent output.
koroko
07-17-2003, 11:48 AM
Hi there,

Thats a real nice head, all it need its some more tweaking here and there...

For instance, the pinching on the chin...

I will smooth out all the part below the cheeks...

And raise the zone where the hair starts, at least on the sides...


PS: tb de paso podias mostrar el cuerpo, y el background esos q dices, taría guay verlo...
Y a ver si convences a algun amigo q haya por ahí, para q postee en este foro, necesitamos mas españoles q usen lightwave, aunque sea sólamente para conocernos entre nosotros...
Arriba España!!, ya se como suena y no es eso... ;)



Keep at it, and post more...


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angel
Netvudu
07-17-2003, 01:39 PM
Hola Angel!

If you don´t mind I will use english not to keep anyone from understanding the thread.

I totally agree with the hair stuff on the sides. I will try to raise that.
I don´t understand though what you say about smoothing the part below the cheeks. Could you clarify that?

As for more spanish LW users, we already have quite an active community, but they´re all at the Yahoo spanish LW mailing list. They seem to prefer that to a forum. I think a few of them are a bit weak on Shakespeare language which is why they don´t reply at this forum more often, though many of them do lurk around here.

Did you attend last year´s LEM in Madrid? A lot of spanish LW users were over there.
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