Need a critique please

#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.

#51

Thanks folks !

I realize that modelling the creases in the hand was ā€¦ crazy ā€¦ but Iā€™m a detail freak.

Now that I have all of the main geometry shaped in the way that the skin would actually move, I can begin deleting splinage and form a low ( er ) patch version of the same hand for use in animation.

( I have yet to animate a simple ball bouncing though ā€¦ so animation will come much later . )

Actually, this high patch count model will serve as a ā€˜primitiveā€™ of sorts to create other characters.

I find that it is easier for me to delete details in a model vs. add them later.

( And ā€¦ hey ā€¦ I was bored. )

BTW, I do not intend to animate ā€˜Rachaelā€™, but I am building her with the possibility of doing so in the future.

Could you folks also give me advice on my car design as well ? I wanted a combination retro/futuristic look.
I loathe the ā€˜return of the boxā€™ in automotive styling, and this was my counter strike against it.
The car was meant to suggest the styling of a 1971 Dodge Challenger, 1971 GTX, and a bit of Ferrari thrown in as well. How can I make the car more retro-modern looking without getting boxy ?
Iā€™d start a new thread on it, but Iā€™m not sure if Iā€™m going to finish it anytime soon.

Serg2 : Thanks ! The hair is blend of the new hair and the last version ( 10.5 ) hair ( which had a clumpiness feature ).

#52

You must have just posted.

Glad you like the car. What would you change on it ?

Actually, I donā€™t have a clue what I doing. :scream:

#53

Nice! Yeah, the hair is really giving her personality. She looks hauntingly like Fairuza Balk! Really great job, itā€™s been fun watching her develop.

#54

YEEESSSS !
I used Fairuza as one of my sources of inspiration.

#55

My god, she really does look like she could be, like, Fairuzaā€™s sister. I mean, theyā€™re not identical, but definitely related.

Your model is so sexy I had to add one crit:

In the ponytail pic, her lips look a lot fatter than in the modeled glasses pic. I donā€™t know if itā€™s an illusion or if itā€™s due to how you set the camera up or something, but the fatter lips rock. You should totally play that up a little. Not in a ā€œLara Croftā€ way, but enough to separate your model from Fairuza a little more.

And I agree that you should look up the pony tail thing. I know that Hash has elastics you can use to tie hairs together, so the addition shouldnā€™t be too hard for someone whoā€™s built something so complex already.

Oh, also, I find adding detail to be more difficult as well. Plus, you could take your high-res models, render them from angles, and assemble bump maps that way with photoshop. Itā€™d at least be a good starting point.

(BTW, I have only a passing familiarity with Hash, as Iā€™ve yet to buy it and only get to play with it at a friendā€™s house, but you seem to really be putting it through its paces.)

#56

Thanks kattkierr !

#57

Elastics is also a Canadian term used for rubber bands (they use that over in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, across the river from us wacky Americans here in Detroit). Maybe thatā€™s what he means?

??
Kevin

#58

HA! Shimatta! I am discovered! (^o^)/

Actually I lived in Canada for 9 years, the formative years IMO, so I guess some of my lingo swings that way. But Iā€™d never have considered ā€œhair elasticā€ to be a Canadian thing! * notes that away *

I canā€™t find the tutorial right now, but there was a way to constrain hair into braids using, I believe, other splines. Iā€™m not quite that advanced yet (I just figured out hooks ^-^; ), so you might want to do a search on the net for things like hair +braid or hair +tie or even hair +elastic. ^-^ I unfortunately donā€™t recall the name of the feature, but perhaps someone else on this board could help you with thatā€¦?

#59

Aha! Thought so! :slight_smile:

Kevin

#60

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