[Exercise 11: Giraffe]

Thanks for your help, especially the vid.... I don't know what i'm going to do with only 4 class periods left before everything has to be turned in (3 behind remember?). I did alright on the legs but now I'm having problems attaching them. This is definitely the instructors fault for trying to have us turn so many when the book says completion time 5 hours, and that's without having to redo it half a million times.

 

EDIT: progress pic... i'm starting to attach the leg on pg 124. Back leg still looks really thick but I can hide it with the camera angle.

[Exercise 11: Giraffe]

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[Exercise 11: Giraffe]

- 6 point spline

The book isn't clear in it's directions. The book just says "From the Left view, extrude along the leg all the way to the hoof." which I would take as meaning I don't need to rotate it, but the picture in the book shows the6 point spline rotated so it looks like a circle from the left view.

[Exercise 11: Giraffe]

I meant like shaded or wireframe, which view, do you want me to rotate the 6 point sline when I extrude it etc.

[Exercise 11: Giraffe]

Thanks.. I'll try and get some images next time I'm in class. What all do you want? I sadly can't move on to the next ex until this one is done.

[Exercise 11: Giraffe]

I certainly hope this forum isn't dead... My questions may have been answered already but I don't want to read 10 pages of posts. I am having a rough time with this giraffe. I can't even get past modeling the legs. I have been fine for the most part up to this point (plane took me some time because I had to start over), but these legs are going to be the death of me. It doesn't help that I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, but when I follow the instructions in the book (create 6 point spline in top view than extrude in left view) but it comes out looking nothing like a giraffe leg. I know tweaking may be necessary but I have been tweaking with these legs for who knows how long. I've even rotated it using the advanced manipulator to make it look EXACTLY like the picture in the book (down to control point being the same exact place) to no avail. It usually comes out too fat, or too blokish, even though I follow the rotoscope and the images in the book. When I scale it down, the side view gets skewed too much and then the top looks too fat. Another problem is the knee. I can maybe get it to look kind of like it is supposed to, but then the leg gets skewed. Please someone help? I'm supposed to be two to three exs ahead of this complete (in a class). I don't know if more ref pics would help or what, but any advice what so ever.