Need a critique please

#31

Homer Simpson voice : " Woohoo ! "
Thanks a million man !
I have a new question regarding hair : Where is the setting at to adjust the hairs clumpiness ?

( crosses fingers )

Today I put a few hours into creating some test textures.( Nothing worthy of posting.)

Iā€™d like to ask why that most folks here do not use photographs to texture with.
I understand how that using a photo to texture the high-lights and shadows on your model is cheating.
What I am talking about is using a photo collage of varius skin areas on a face without any high-lights or shadow areas. The end result looks photo-real ā€¦ because ā€¦ it is a photo.
Done correctly, the high-lights and shadows look and move correctly.
Is there something wrong with photo textures ? Photos save a hell of a lot of time and almost always looks better than painted textures.
(I know that in movies such as LOTR and Star Wars, they use photos as textures.)

#32

Hey Vegan,

I have been waiting for a while to see what you come up with and I am pleasantly surprised!

I canā€™t offer any crits really - the only thing that I can think of is that you might want to make the face slightly a-semetrical. If you are going to do this then it is best to do it in a pose. The reason for this is that some features in AM rely on symetry in the model. Pose motion is added on top of that and is undoable/editable.

Good luck with the hair. They took the clumpyness setting out but a lot of people would like it. The equivelent is to use direction variation. I have considered using multiple patches under the scull for emmiting hair in clumps.

Hope that helps,

I look forward to seeing more.:thumbsup:

#33

Going OT here : Where is the spell check here at CGTalk ? ( I keep imberrising miself. )

#34

Iā€™m still having a hard time with controlling the hairs stiffness.
I tried setting the stiffness in the properties like it was suggested, but Iā€™m doing something wrong. Iā€™ll try again.
I think I might need to lower the density some on my scalp mesh. Moving all of those guide hairs around is a pain.
Here are some sloppy temporary textures that I threw together, and my futile attempts at a decent hair style. I still have to fill in the bald spots, apply the symetry changes etc.
(I notice that when I dropped her into the chreography, that some of the hairs got messed up too.)
I 'd like to thank all of you once more for the help. The video was very helpfull.

(ā€¦ Image deleted :smiley: )

#35

Love the textures, especially the eyes. Even the hair is good, except where it goes through the scalp :). What kind of shadows are you using?

#36

BWAHH HA HA HA. This crap is just temporary W.I.P. stuff .
I just put it up to show any progress ( or the lack of :smiley: ) that I was having with the hair.

Maybe I should take it down .

Thank you for the comment though. I hope you did not think it was going to stay like that !

As far as shadows go, I just dropped her into a standard choreo.

Thanks again.

#37

I think Really itĀ“s a great model, itĀ“s one of the best realistic look IĀ“ve seen done whit AM, just work a little in the hair , nice work vegan thanks for share it with us :thumbsup: ā€¦I would like to see it finishedā€¦sorry my english:) greetings!!

#38

Well, I assumed it wasnā€™t going to stay like that :), but I can see by what you -HAD- up that itā€™s going to look awesome when you are done.

#39

Thanks folks. I have been just kickinā€™ back the past couple of days .
Iā€™m inspired to add some to the model now .
I have a new question for you folks : Why does A:M create two images ( "TEST.tga "and "TEST 0.tga ?
When you open the images that are saved without a number, the image opens in Photoshop as a blank document .
This does not really bother me too much except that sometimes the renderer will crash halfway through a session ( when I use multipass ). Where does the image that has rendered to the point of the crash go ?
( In all fairness to A:M, the program rarely crashes on me, although I would not call myself a ā€˜power userā€™ )

Thanks.

#40

I was wondering that as wellā€¦

#41

The ā€˜0.tgaā€™ is a known issue for Hash, i.e itā€™s a small bug thatā€™s cropped up in the last couple of versions.
If you are rendering a single frame, and if it crashes before it completes that image, it wonā€™t be saved anywhere.

#42

Trying to get the hair just right is really becoming a major pain.
I created a semi half decent looking ā€˜wigā€™ last week.
Since it was just a test, I saved the wig and continued to add small refinements to the face.

I thought I would just import the wig onto the current model, but I lose all of the hair and just end up importing a bald scalp when it is imported.
What should I do to solve this ?

Thanks

#43

This thread is dead.

Should I request that it be removed ?

If I ever get around to finishing this project, I can create a new post.

( I notice a lot of people have viewed this thread, and there has been no progress on my part in months. )
no excuses

#44

Much better then my first one Iā€™m just finishingā€¦ :thumbsup:
great work.
rogerio

#45

Thanks roger1o.

I guess dead posts donā€™t die around here.

Better post something new thenā€¦


I started this hand this morning. I know ā€¦ I should have just used a displacement map.

I plead insanity.

BTW This is not supposed to be offensive in any way ā€¦ I just havenā€™t gotten around to adding the other fingers yet. :slight_smile:

#46

Well folks, after ā€˜tearing my hair outā€™ trying to figure out how to style my models hair, I have decided to go back to what I had originally ā€¦ just an all too common ā€˜Pixieā€™ cut.
Here is a W.I.P. test of her with the hairdo.


Iā€™m going to do a ā€˜punkā€™ version of her with the nose/tongue ring and all, but Iā€™ll also do one without the accesories.

Do you think she would look better with a braid in back like in the sketch above ?

BTW, I took a break from my Rachael model and have also been working on a model of a car that I wish they would build in real life. ( It is also being done in A:M. )
Here is a pic. http://www.geocities.com/cgreality/GTXXX.jpg Let me know your opinions on it.

#47

Now that you have textured her, sheā€™s gaining some real personality.:thumbsup: The hair looks good and I reckon judging from your braid sketch, itā€™s worth pursuing that too.
Canā€™t believe youā€™ve actually modelled the creases in that hand :eek: It does look great though, but I would have stuck to bump maps and therefore given myself an easier time when it came to rigging. I suspect your motivation isnā€™t animationā€¦ aye?

#48

This is some really strong work. And yes, you are insane for modelling the hand like that. It looks great though. Donā€™t worry about this thread not dying as it is good to have around.

#49

Bravo Vegan! Cool women!!! Exellent hair. Is this decal bitmap or particle hair?

#50

LOL, if I didnā€™t know you knew what you were doing I would give you the Ole ā€œEconomy of Splinesā€ speech. Itā€™s still looking great. And that car is sweet.