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CG Character Cont'd Development 7

Session Notes

After frustratingly contemplating on the changes James Taylor made in his tutorial. I decided to stop attempting to match my character head to his exactly and simply use his steps as a guideline instead of a rule.

Furthermore, drawing the final moments of adjusting the upper vertices of the face. James Taylor interestingly makes use of a sphere to form the shape of the skull.

However, as adjustments were being applied to the sphere's vertices. I had to grudgingly repeat my steps since the edge lines of the sphere did not accurately align to the face mesh. (figure a)

Figure A

In addition, to those issues, I had to reacquaint myself with the soft selection feature which allows me the flexibility to move the vertices of a mesh fluidly compared to the standard rough and cut movement.

Figure B

However, the soft select feature was incredibly tedious since I had to change the "Fall off Radius" settings. Meaning the area in where I could drag the vertices like clay repeatedly for each particular object. (figure b)
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References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl1utGRX9aw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhtI-vKx8YY&t=761s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LpQd7WcYmY

https://simplymaya.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=33746

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya-lt/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/MayaLT/files/GUID-C693E884-F81A-4858-B5D6-3856EB8F394E-htm.html

By Sebastian Jones

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