Character Process Page 2
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Now I am going to disobey everything I taught you about
box modeling. For the head, start with a box. There are several reasons
for this. One is that the head does have planes. Many people think of
the head as round, but it has definate planes that it is broken into.
the box helps define these planes. It also fits into the process of dealing
with the head in quadrants. There is a special box to use though. Not
just any box can be versatile enough to use for a human head, no no! This
box must have one lenght and width division, and two height divisions.
The reasoning for this will become evident, but trust me, it works.
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Now like a bad boy, I went along way without saving between
the last step and this one. Normally I save a new file about every 5 minutes,
but I went kind of long in betwen on this one. I am doing all these screen
grabs after the fact, so I can only capture from the files I saved at.
I hope you can see what I did though.
The top division line becomes the top fo the brow, and
the back of the head. The lower one becomes the tip of the nose, and the
lower edge of the skull. the lower block should be deleted from your box
so that it now as 2 quadrants in the back, and 3 in the front, when viewed
from the side. In the mouth, I started defining the lips and then the
nose in sections. I dont do an all over approach, but more a fine detail
on one section, then move on, and so on.
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Below, I started to draw in the lines of the cheek.
I know that the detail is a little high here, but I like to be able to
take away versus having to go back and add in detail on an area I already
finalized. I did this all over the model, as an exercise on realism, as
well as anatomy.
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More detail in the cheeks.
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started on the eye brows
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more detail under the eyes
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Now that the face is detailed, I went in and started
rounding out the back of the head, as well as the forehead.
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For the ears, I did them too quickly and there were
no saves for me to screen grab. I created a box just like the one I make
for my heads. Two division from top to bottom and one from front to back
and one from side to side. I deleted the faces that were facing the head
for when I attached it to the head. I used the peaks and valley's technique
to define the topology of the ears inner detail.
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The hair is a separate piece so that I could really
get the neck attached correctly, and so I could play with different ways
for the hair to look. I delted the faces under the hair when I attached
it, but I could have left them in for a bald character, and just alpha
out the hair. (alpha is the term for transparency in gaming)
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