Connecting legs to body

[.:shortdog:.]

Making a character from one of my drawings (I don't have a scanner so I can't post that) and So far I have made legs and feet. However, I am not sure how to continue. Should I make arms and head and improvise torso? Or maybe make torso and attatch to other parts? Pict shows how far i am now. Help, please.

[Mr. Jaqe]

wouldn't it be smartest to just begin with the head and work your way down? that might just be my opinnion, but if you're going to do it from below, you should do torso now, I think. Im not sure, tho

[.:shortdog:.]

it may be smarter to do head>down...but I like to save head for the last part.

[Xtaz]

Hi shortdog,

 

when im modeling a character , I just make half of the model then copy/flip/attach it, in your case, I would make the torso now ..

[.:shortdog:.]

Yes...I guess torso is the next step. I suppose it is logical to do half. Leaves room for less mistakes, and less work too. Thanks.

[Mr. Jaqe]

the only problem is: how do you make half a torso? but yes, torso would be the logical next step. btw, I like his feet, if Im not all wrong, I think your model will turn out pretty darn good. ("you can say a lot about a model, looking at it's feet" Chineese proverb(yeah right, as if the Chineese know anything about modeling ))

[.:shortdog:.]

ty...and now I am in the prosess of finding out how to make half a torso <_ hopefully it will work. hopefully. if anyone knows how i would go about making half a torso which sure is obvious then copy it...could you share your knowledge src="https://www.hash.com/forums/uploads/emoticons/minecraft_wink.png" alt=";)">

[Mr. Jaqe]

well first of all you should start by making half+, not only half. let some splines fly over on the other side just to make sure everything will work together with the upcomming copy, if you get anything of what im saying. And when you're ready to copy/flip/attatch, just remove the splines that are yo be replaced with the copied/flipped/attatched copy.

[.:shortdog:.]

yes...that is all true. But when I copy/flip/attatch, it attatches vertically, not horizontally. Where do I change this?

[Mr. Jaqe]

I dunno, but it's easy to just detatch it, patch up if any points were erased, rotate it and connect it(just remember to make sure that the lines go left/right and up/down, not left/down, right/down etc etc

[.:shortdog:.]

should I attatch torso to leg, or leave leg unconnected and connect when copy/flip/attatch - ing

[Mr. Jaqe]

now that's a very good question... a question I have a hard time answering without knowing what the charracter is going to look like.

[.:shortdog:.]

I'll try to create a rough picture on paint...in a few min post again or something

[sculptorpro]

Check out this tutorial on modeling a body, it is one of the best I've seen.

http://demented3d.com/tutorial/

[.:shortdog:.]

erg. really bad picture. in paint. I will look at the tutorial in more detail...it seems very helpful. Thank you.

[Mr. Jaqe]

legs/torso/everything should be one, that would be best

[.:shortdog:.]

okay, sounds good. when I get a rough torso and copy/flip/attatch I will post image.

[Xtaz]

nd now I am in the prosess of finding out how to make half a torso

import a 32 patch sphere from cd .. use S tool to scale it up in Y axis .. select half sphere ( dont select the middle spline ) delete it .. use K tool to break lines ...

Now attach leg and arm

 

But when I copy/flip/attatch, it attatches vertically, not horizontally. Where do I change this?

 

you must select all model then hold SHIFT key and select a horizontal spline

 

should I attatch torso to leg, or leave leg unconnected

attach leg and arm to torso then c/f/a it ..

[.:shortdog:.]

did this really quick...Yes, I know it has a few mistakes. Thats me being lazy and not cleaning it up.

 

xtaz, not sure what you mean with the 32 patch sphere...

[Xtaz]

I did a little avi showing how to attach leg / body quick ...

its simple but works ...

AVI / 3.8Mb / 49 sec

[.:shortdog:.]

sorry, I couldn't see it.

[.:shortdog:.]

here it is with the arm...am I doing this right?

[Mr. Jaqe]

actually looking quite good! (considering your mentioned lazyness ) but is the torso really supose to be that small?

[.:shortdog:.]

Yeah, the torso *should* be bigger. Hmmm...Won't take to long. My mentioned laziness is shown in the hand...I stole it from shaggy and tweaked it a bit

[Mr. Jaqe]

that was actually a good idea! to "borrow" parts. ane when it comes to making parts bigger, all you have to do is scale

[.:shortdog:.]

borrowing took a lot of time off...I'm afraid I would have had trouble with the thumb.

[Mr. Jaqe]

thumbs are hard, yes... just look at my logo post in showcase, if you look closely, you can see that his thumb is...well, very twisted and wierd(Im talking about my wrok here). btw, is it going to be an elf women? was a bit hard to tell from your paint picture, but it looks like an elf, or something like it.

[.:shortdog:.]

btw, is it going to be an elf women? was a bit hard to tell from your paint picture, but it looks like an elf, or something like it.

 

I dunno quite yet. One of my creatures in my sketchbook that I liked. I love elf ears but...hmmm...prolly something like a primitive elf...sort of. I could show you if I could give you one of my picts, but i can't. <_>

[Xtaz]

Hi Shortdog ...

 

I did another version of quick attach ...

avi / 2.9 Mb / 2:06

I noticed some creases in your model, they indicate a modelling that should be gotten better ..have in mind, always use the minimum of patches ..

[.:shortdog:.]

yes...that was helpful, thank you. I can delete some patches.

[.:shortdog:.]

Is it just me, or does AM not like Ctrl+Z? Half the time I do it AM shuts down. But I'm used to doing ctrlz...not the back in time thingy. Arg. I keep forgetting to save so I have to do the same thing over and over. Rar.

[Mr. Jaqe]

it crashes whenever you use ctrl+z or the backintimebutton. i dunno why, but some things AM just doesn't like to erase

[.:shortdog:.]

just did it again when I only pressed Control to get a group of cps. This is going to take a while...AM is dieing like every 3 minutes

[Mr. Jaqe]

ok, 1 rule, never EVER deselect with ctrl! it screws up EVERY time!

[.:shortdog:.]

humph. what about shift...can I use shift?!

[.:shortdog:.]

farther along now...My brain isn't working. Why is the part on the left not a patch, but the one on the right is. btw, those are the little nostril-like things. Not sposed to look like human nosrtils.

[Vash]

This will probably make creases and jack things up big time but break or detatch the top or left spline segmant. Keep detatching until you can break and start re-modeling it. stop before you get to the unrendered patch. Now with a hanging cp, make a four point spline (somewhere). attatch one of the middle points to the hanging cp. attatch the other to the side of the nostril or how the point was attatched before. Now delete the other two end points. Sorry but the picture is a little messy (more like completely blurry ) .

 

 

Hope this helps.