HMC #20 - Expressions - Olivia Wilde

#1

Since Roberto confirmed this would be the next challenge I just wanted to put my thread down in preparation.

So my subject for this challenge is going to be none other than 13 herself, miss Olivia Wilde.


[left]I’ve been gathering ref for a while now since the first murmours of this challenge popped up, because if it wasn’t the next challenge I was going to model her anyway. I’ve never modeled a female head before and my past attempts at heads haven’t been overly great (I think the last time I tried properly one was the Hollywood Icon challenge).

As for expressions I’ll wait and see if Roberto gives us certain ones to work with or if it’s for us to decide before I decide on them.

Wish me luck.
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#2

Good luck and Good Choice. !!

#3

wah, you are really fast, Good job~

#4

but i haven’t done anything yet…lol…that’s just a photo…i mean i wish that’s what my model looked like…but sadly it is just a photo and mine will probably pale in comparison

#5

That’s really good. I mean at least you know to do which model. But I am still thinking~ :slight_smile:

#6

great that someone decidedly started hehe…must think of mine now :slight_smile:

#7

GL Robo! Your reference has a very pretty face, good choice.

#8

@Intervain - it’s always good to be the one to get the ball rolling

@waterlilly - thanks, I’ve always thought she was beautiful which is precisely why I mpicked her, you never want to get bored of your subject…heh…

As for my goals on this challenge I want to try and achieve the following

  • Achieve an accurate likeness through poly modeling alone…
  • Successfully work with the Mental Ray fast sss skin material and get some photo real results
  • get some solid practice in on unwrapping and texturing a model
  • try and navigate the pipeline from max to mudbox to max (for skin details)…i’ve never been able to get a grasp on the whole normal map situation, I’ve only ever exported hi-res meshes…which isn’t a good practice…lol
  • I also want to have a go at hair, and see if i can get some realistic results with the hair & fur included with max…

if I can get close to achieving these tasks over the course of this challenge I’ll consider it a success…

#9

Thems good goals. Though you can acheive half of that in a couple of hours, the mray sss and realistic version of the character will be the main goals.
Im thinking of entering this one too, but Im very busy. Dunno if Ill be able to manage.

#10

Aww. Come on and join in anyway, Airflow. You know you want to.

#11

Love the subject, she was great in the black donnellys

#12

Okay I’ve been working away at this all morning here’s the front and side ref i’m using to make the model.

and i don’t particularly have a plan of how to tackle this so i started with the nose

from there i made my loop for the mouth and filled it in…


yeh i did put a shell modifier on it but only so the SSS material (which is kinda rubbish atm) would render better…lol…

the mouths not great in the corners so i need to work on that…

oh well…off to mothers day lunch now…will probly have some more updates later on tonight…

#13

quick little update

i made some eyes, best ones i’ve ever made so far…but they still need improving…

after i placed them using the ref i then set about modelling the edges of the eyelids, the bridge of the nose and the beginning of the brow

and filled in the gaps and extended the brow up a bit to include a little forehead

more later

#14

Man, you are good!

good luck!

#15

Wow. pretty lady. Nice start on the model so far…

#16

made some real progress since i last posted…

firstly i filled out the cheeks and the chin, and whacked a modified version of my front ref just simply planar mapped onto the model for lining up purposes

did some face tweaking and added some ears

then i fiddled with the skin shader a bit and added the top of the head and it became quickly apparent that the eyes were waaaaay too far apart…lol…and i suck at eyelashes

moved the eyes in a bit, did some new eyelashes and fiddled with the skin shader a bit, it was a bit dark but it did look better…also got rid of the hairline on the texture

that was where i was at in the early hours of the morning…when i got up this morning i got right back into it and just tweaked the model and shader a bit more to try and get the likeness closer, also had a first pass at eyebrows…this is after about 3 hours this morning

i’m quite happy with how it looks at the moment…although i still need to work on the likeness some more…

#17

the forehead is to big, but your making some good progress, and nice job on the eyes

#18

Yeah, her head is way too tall.

#19

what they said, but it really does look like her good job. Could you post a side view? Also it looks like there’s a little too much space between her eyes.

#20

Good start, looks like her, but agree with Wyattharris.