Sometimes it's tough to pick up

[Shelton]

I started over last month on a model that I started in June of last year. I quit working on it in July of 2007 but recently I wanted to create a small animation and decided he would be the star. So I started rigging the character with the poseable rig and it has taken me three tries to figure out the model itself was the problem. So I rebuilt the chest and shoulders and then worked on the head, reduced splines and now I am asking for critiques once again on the look.

 

Steve

[ruscular]

Looks pretty good for a character!

Are you looking for a realistic anatomical critique?

 

or how well he would be animated?

 

Because I could tell you better if you render out the wireframe, and take a look at that. Otherwise I think you have a nice looking character. The body is very good, and I wish I had that body for my animation.

 

Anatomically tho the head needs to be bigger, roughly 1/8 of the body. There should be 8 head to fit a body length. The eyes should be halfway on the head. the bottom pert of the nose halfway between eye and chin, and the lip halfway between nose and chin.

 

The ears are between eyes and lip! spot on! To solve it all I would give him more forehead space.

 

Looks like 8 1/2 head height, classic comic book character build?

[phatso]

The body is very good, and I wish I had that body for my animation.

 

I wish I had that body... period!

[Shelton]

Correct, he is built around a comic book frame. Thanks for noticing. He will serves as a Conductor by day, Super Conductor by night!

 

Steve

[3DArtZ]

A shaded wirefram would be helpful too.

 

Looks pretty good to me though.

 

Mike Fitz

www.3dartz.com

[Shelton]

Here is the link for the forum from last year.

 

http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...mp;#entry237179

 

Also I have u/l a front and back wireframes

 

Steve

[3DArtZ]

Looks good to me.

I probably would run more horizontal splines in th hips then how you have them

but that is due to how I set up the bones in rig on my models hips.

[Shelton]

Ok that would explain some of the wierd deformation I have with the bones I have installed. Would you run straight across just above the crotch line?

 

Steve

[John Bigboote]

Looks like a well-splined model and should rig and animate very well! Congrats!

[3DArtZ]

Straight horizontal and vertical.

I would have no diagnolly running splines at all.

 

I will try to find a picture from my tutorial to post.

found one, the front splines are probably too curved for my taste today.

But I time I thought it looked like it flowed nicely.

 

You dont have to do it that way, but I find that it helps keep things managable and

while the way you have it, the mesh is elegant and pretty, but in my rig it does not

contribute to good deformations.

But you can certainly work out a system that does work with your mesh layout.

[Shelton]

Straight horizontal and vertical.

I would have no diagnolly running splines at all.

 

I will try to find a picture from my tutorial to post.

found one, the front splines are probably too curved for my taste today.

But I time I thought it looked like it flowed nicely.

 

You dont have to do it that way, but I find that it helps keep things managable and

while the way you have it, the mesh is elegant and pretty, but in my rig it does not

contribute to good deformations.

But you can certainly work out a system that does work with your mesh layout.

 

 

Thanks. I have your tutorial I will look through it again tonight.

 

Steve

[ruscular]

I had an old model that had diagonal line on the legs and rework it to be more straight. However, I did mange to get it working but end up adding another 2 bones each side to handle the diagonal spline. Many hours wasted, and learn to do it different.

 

been there done that!

 

I would rework it the way Mike suggest!

[Shelton]

I have added several bones in the hip area to take care of the diagonal splines. Will let you know as the rig comes together

 

Steve

[Shelton]

OK the rig is in and I am working on resetting the compensates. I have got the skull cap in ready for hair and reworked the hands and torso. Just playing around with lighting. i hope to have the rig completed this week and will begin weighting the cps. Thanks to David Simmons who has helped me get this far. I will try to upload a pose by the end of the week.

 

Steve

[Shelton]

After talking with David Simmons i think i am going to wait until the new rig comes out, so I thought I would touch up the model somewhat. Here is another update.

 

Steve

[Tai Shan]

Looks great!!

[Shelton]

While I am waiting on the next squetch rig I thought I would dive into hair for the character. I have found the hair portion in v15b to work really well. I have begun to experiment and I like it. Here is an upload with the first try with hair

 

Steve

[Shelton]

I have been playing with some of the shaders and I have noticed wherever there is a hook, the diffuse skin shader leaves a black dot. Has any else noticed this?

 

Steve

[Shelton]

I rigged the character and never really got it to work correctly. Then work happened over the past 7 months I have been busier than I ever have. Being an insurance claims adjuster full time has been rough over the past 5 years with all the catastophes. Anyway three nights ago I decided to start on the face again. Here is the character with the new head in place. I have placed "helmet hair" for now. I have reworked the hands and head shoulders and back, etc...