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CG Character Cont'd Development 3

Session Notes

Resuming progress with the new nomad head model. I finally adjusted my reference image to have accurate measurements for the eys, nose and lips in order for me to accurately use the tutorial and model a geometrically clean head. (figure a)

Figure A


Furthermore, during the past sessions of creating the old nomad model I found the tutorial by James Taylor to complicated to follow although using cylinders to create the eyes and mouth area is a faster and more efficient approach to creating a loy poly character head. (figure b)

Figure B

Interestingly as I slowly adjusted the vertices for the second cylinder to form the lips. The multi-cut tool (figure c) as used in James Taylor's guide, was extremyl efficent at creating intricate edge loops.
Figure C

However, I had to delete some o the additional vertices the tool created and simply reconnected the vertices together in order to form a clean line with three verts on each lip line.

Referances

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya-lt/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/MayaLT/files/GUID-12DF0D57-6E5E-48E3-8FBF-F787BA4E5410-htm.html

By Sebastian Jones

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