CG Character Development Session 40

Session Review

Removing the dotted lines by un ticking an option box

Continuing from last nights session, after the forums on cg society failed to solve my issue with dotted lines appearing on the smoothed out nomad body.

I instead discovered how to fix the issue myself and it was simply right clicking on the model, then selecting the model name under the right click options and un ticking the box "display sub divisions" under the "Smooth Mesh" tab.

Shaping the shoulders

Furthermore, I continued to clean up loose ends and clean up the file further by giving names to the numerous duplicated limbs and cloned bodies, The reason for this is the duplicates that still have use, will be given relevant names in order for them to be reconcilable.

Purging visible triangular geometry

Moreover, the nomad's anatomy was improved further by apply additional muscle definition such as applying curved shoulders and converting as much hidden triangular faces that I could see on the model into quads.

By Sebastian Jones

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