Simple Render Thread.

[davidhalo]

Guy who made poopinmymouth.com, a site with tons of tutorials on how to model/uv and all that stuff. Very good tutorials on a bit of everything but by axman's post I can assume he's a prick...led pepper.

 

[sven-da-man]

lol is ben mathis seriously a ***? like a homosexual?

J-Dude, yr starting to get the hang of it. Good progress.
Tho I still dont get how you can be at this level while you say you have been modeling for 2 years allready.

 

[ShadyD]

the body from the ribcage up is what you should aim for, gj on that, now the rest. Also.. your character is going to have clothes.. why are you modeling him naked?
Ben mathis isn't *** =/
I have him on my msn too.. Hes a nice guy actually
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Ok, crit away now.

 

[TeKNiK]

okay for the amount of polies you have in the face you don't have as smooth a shape as most would like. I'd take some out.

 

[ShadyD]

Thnx for the crit, Will do, just tried a different approach on this one.

 

[J-Dude]

@sven-da-man: Thnx Well, Its not just modelling I've been focusing on, its the whole shibang. Even my worthless high school 3DS Max teacher only taught the class what tools did and how they were useful for moedlling. When it came time to make our own characters, he just had us draw our own ref, okay it with him and then let us loose. I don't think he mentioned polyflow once, and for that I'm pretty steamed that he would neglect such an obviously integral part in character design. I remember how many characters looked like ****. Its no wonder I won the expo, nobody there was properly trained. I only had the advantage because I'd been self-teaching for a year before taking the class, and none of them had the program at home.

So of course I thought what you see is what you get. That's why my models had crappy polyflow, because I was taught to aim for look, not functionality or flow.

@Shady D: Thank you again =). I'm glad I'm finally on the right track. There are some tweaks I'd like to make as far as the clavicle/neck area goes but hopefully I can knock it together nice and neat. I focused last night on eliminating 5+ sided polys, which thankfully were in short supply. I think I'll have to work with how I divided them though, because I don't think I want really squished polys replacing the 5+ polys. I'll see what I can do.

Yeah, since I'm trying to do 3D movies, I like my characters to have everything "under the hood" and then have seperate objects for clothing. It adds a realism factor, especially if my character's clothes are damaged in the scene, or if he changes uniform. I prefer having a solid "flesh and bone" base to which I can add features like different hair/clothes/etc. so I can say...have him transform into a Super Saiyan without having to make another model specific for the form. So the character's features change, but the character itself does not.

Of course, for a physical change, like for the protuberant eyebrow ridge of the SS3 transformation, I can just have the eyebrow ridge be a morph target along with the facial animations. When I animate him as SS3, I just remember his eyelids and mouth make up his expressions and his eyebrows remain rigid.

That's why I start nude. Of course, there is always the problem of skin poking through the clothes. That thankfully, is an easy fix. I just go into the geometry and hide the polys that will not be seen, and summon them again when needed. That's how it works in movies isn't it?

 

[Almighty_Gir]

 

[ShadyD]

nice, somehow reminds me of kotor.. Whats ther other hand doing? =/

 

[bapplebo]

VERY NICE!

I love it Lee.

 

[sven-da-man]

wow axman! thats hawt.. definalty looks like a female darth vader

 

[Mr. Phonso]

yea really nice

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something i started yesterday

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/3584/e60jm2.jpg

working on interior

 

[Almighty_Gir]

nice car... looks kinda broke though =[

 

[ShadyD]

female stormtrooper jedi?
ooookay..

@ Phonso, slick! U gonna pimp this one?

 

[ray_1301]

Love the new style of render ur doing gir... Shady ur modeling has improved alot from what i can remember.

An for the record, a poly with more than 4 sides is ok aslong as the triangles within the polygon are flippedthe right way....

 

[Mr. Phonso]

WIP

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9585/e60yl5.jpg


interior coming along... next time i post hopefully will have more stuff done like the dash, wheels, etc

@ shady: right now im aiming for stock bmw, ill prolly do something with the skin

 

[CM]

Phonso, is that a 330i?

My bro has a 330i 2007.

 

[Mr. Phonso]

probably not, it's called M5 e60

 

[ShadyD]

Slick man, If its not too much asked, gimme an SDK?

 

[Mr. Phonso]

yeah sure why not (when its done ofcourse)

 

[TeKNiK]

Update.