Shelton

Paul you are right. He is a company rep! It took me a minute but when I got what you were saying I was LOL. Gene thanks. I have to finish him tonight with eyebrows. and interior of the mouth and then it is on to the female character. Steve

Here are two more shots of the hair. I am not happy yet with it. Steve

Nancy, He is in the short I am doing. He is Pharmaceutical Man! Steve

Finished the colors and layout of the character. Here is an update. I will have the hair on tonight along with the glasses. The only thing after that is the inside of the mouth. Steve

You got it right on the mark. Changed a couple of settings in photoshop. PNG worked great. Thanks Steve

I am tired and can not remember this. I have a decal that I have created in photoshop. I have applied alpha as I don't want the white background. I have imported it into AM, but when I apply it puts the white background. Can some remind what to do to remove the background Steve

This one will be easy to be clothing on! Gloves and shorts and the rest will be skin tight clothing. The other ones I have been looking at what Jesse did in his forum. Steve

It took me a while today but got the hands on. I tried a different approach. I shot two pics and used them as rotoscopes. I then simply followed the profile of the hand, then split the splines, pulled the cps, split, pulled etc, until I got a smooth line. Most of the time on the hands I lathe and form Here is a shot of the super that is all thumbs! Steve

Thanks David! All of these characters plus a couple of more are going into a short I am doing called Cupid's Sick Day. I have to create two more main characters. I have the basic story down and now working on story boarding the plot. Steve Edit Got the ears on last night

Thanks Robert! I had not even thought of separating the settings from the hands and arms. I will give that a try. Steve

Face completed and ready for hands and feet. Will try something new with hands Steve

Very nice! She looks great. What about the clothing- are you going to use dynamics or part of the rig? Steve

Here is the next character in the story line.

Thanks for the reply. I pulled out the video that Will Sutton did. I have been able to apply decals his way without any problems. Steve

Thought I would upload a sss test. The color is not excatly what I want. The darker color in the fingers has me concerned. How do you remove the darker tones such as this?

Thanks Mark for the quick response. I will keep trying tonight. Steve

Finished the body and got his clogs on. Working on clothing him and hair. Steve

I can get it to work in 15d but not 15e. Steve

I am still having difficulties with decals. I know there was a thread earlier concerning the corruption when a decal is placed on the model. Can someone direct me to that thread or tell me what to do? The decals when placed on the model appear fine, but when rendered they are stretched or pixelated. Steve

Mark I am trying to get hair on my new characters. Did you make a skull cap or use the mesh of the character to place the hair? Did you groom him in an action or on the model? Steve

New pic of the body in place with the head on the body. Steve

Thanks guys. I have finished the head and working on the body. Should have an up date shorlty. Steve

I got the ears in and now clean up on the face and ready for the body. I am going dress him business causal. May have some questions on textures. I still can not decal an object correctly without the decal being corrupted. Steve

Yes the red arrow is pointing to a three point patch. There is a spline that goes behind/in front of the 5 point and there is a 4 patch hidden behind the nostril. I learned this from a tutorial from Jim Talbot I think. The Clothes were put on in both action and model. When I finish the weighting of this character I will dive more into the cloth simulation. I will keep you posted. I have learned more from Vern and his rig with the stage. Steve

Here are the 3/4 and front of the finished character Steve