Thank you guys for the kind words, i could yse some since i didnt get much of that during the time i did it. Keep em coming! 
As for the face and other maps (eyes, hair, some armor, skirt etc) they are completely drawn in photoshop.
ix|reactor: yeah, i really found her “original ass” (<–lol) too tiny for my flavour. I mean this is a hot babe, and you dont want her body features to resemble some 12-year old…
take care // and3x
Hello All!
I checked out the tutorial and thinking that I want in on the action as well, need alot of help with human characters, so all get some practice here. Getting started tonight.
Work here is looking really good keep it up!
Frappu u’re doing good, i like it. I’ll be waiting for the ears (not an easy one).
P.S. what about the body ?
CU.
Hey thanks 
Yes, done the ear (and screwed up some parts that I’ve been unable to correct :surprised !) Anyway, here’s a little 360Ko zip of a little avi file (divx codec 5.02 I think) to see the flaws with some kind of metalic shader :
Also, here’s an earlier version of the body, but there are many things to correct :eek: : The hips, the armpits, the general weight and much (too much !) more, but I prefer to let it cool down a bit while I do the hands to see it with a fresh view in a few days :
Anyway, I just begun 3D modelling with max 3 weeks ago with this amazing Joan of Arc tutorial… A zillion tons of things to still learn…
Hey guys, I just got 3DSM 4 about a month ago, and I want to start getting into modeling straight away, so if you don’t mind, I’ll be joining you :).
and uh yes step 1 he’s referring to stuff i don’t know ANYTHING about 
anyone care to help?
Infusion design, I did also start modeling with Michel Roger’s Tutorials, but the fact is I started with all the little tutorials that are before “Joan of Arc”. There they are :
You can easily begin by the “Crash Bandicoot” Low Polygon tutorial, it is divided into first theory, then the character modelling itself. And then follow each tutorials until you reach “Joan of Arc”. They are done in a way that make you learn the basic tools one by one. Of course when MR uses a tool in “Joan of Arc” that he has already explained, he doesn’t explain it again… This is why you’re getting a bit lost.
Now the problem is those tutorials are in french only, but there’s a workaround for this, just copy/paste the text into a web-based language tool such as :
Here’s a little example of the result :
Create makes it possible to create isolated vertexes with which one will be able to build a face. Station-wagon which is the opposite function of Weld (Ci below) creates as many vertex as there is of face surrounding the point.
Of course, “break” (already an english word) has been morphed into station-wagon :surprised and there will be things like this with this tool, but in the average, with the screenshot showing the quad menu or else, you should be able to make it.
Hope it helps…
Yo, dude…are u from Sweden by any chance?
Cause I have resembling mail-adress on the weblink to the pictures that you posted.
Telia… thats my internet provider too.
Cheers.
Click this for => a little (less than 300k) avi file (divx codec 5.04 required) to show the sword with some chrome shader
Hope you like it
Hello guys!
I want to ask those guys who have finished this tutorial (or simply know the solution of the problem).
Ok, first of all i finished the tutorial and in the end it is said, that i can make a preety pose of Joan, but no way i can do that, coz the skinning was done for everything except the body (legs, arms).
Yes i skinned the clothing (vetement)… and the question is - if i have 100 clothings overlapping each other, should i skin all of them individually or there is another way out, coz it really sucks.
The tut. is finished but i can’t do a pose… :((((( and i’m lazy to skin all the body again.
Thanks in advance.
found this thread today… hell, this is GREAT!!!
I started at once.
this how far igot after 3 hours. I´m not that unpleased…:airguitar
Eye-of-Hawk, I’m not there yet and I don’t know about the english version, but in the french version, everything is skinned, not only the clothes.
Also maybe (just a guess out of the blue) you need to attach every element (or at least the skin under the armor with the actual armor).
Another help would be to contact Michel Roger directly, you can find him here at CGtalk (He posted a few days ago in the WIP forum).
Hope that helps…
:hmm:
Frappu i checked the French version and compared it with the English by pictures and it’s absolutely the same so no way it’s explained there how to do that, maybe if u finish it u’ll get the problem i have or u’ll find that i missed something :surprised
In the tutorial were skinned clothing (vetement - legs, arms, torso), gloves, on the body - the neck, and all the accesories. Almost everything skinned but no legs, arms and torso on the body itself - surely i can skin them myself but i want to find another way out - how to do that.
Well i didn’t really understand what u meant by attaching it but i tried to attach objects with the button “attach” and skin modifier disappeared at once so that didn’t work, another way how i tried to attach it, simply by linking the objects (like with the bones) but it also didn’t work, so i don’t have any clue how to do it.
I also tried to ask at maxforums.org but noone has answered the question yet and that’s really annoying coz i don’t belive there are no character modelers there…
Thanks Frappu for trying to help!
Hey folks…
just wanted to let those concerned know that this thread isn’t dead yet…I started this tut about 6 weeks ago and kinda shelved it but after seeing this thread started again…learning loads in the process…in particular, there HAS to be a better, more efficient way to go about the ear attachment…way too much time spent on the tedium of matching vertex placement etc…I found the actual shaping and morphology of the ear a breeze compared to this end of things…anyhow, I noticed there was tons of sharing in terms of the body and early head but things trailed off as people progressed…if anyone would like to share how they did this (the ear attachment) more efficiently I would appreciate it…
onto the leg armour for me…and I would love to see a similar approach to another tut, this is a great idea…perhaps we can start sharing thoughts on the next source?
Ryan
UMMS '05
To attach the ear in MAX, why not just use the ‘attach’ command. Is this practice not acceptable?
