CG Character Cont'd Development 8

Session Notes

Continuing on from last night, filling in the remaining empty area of the skull and connecting it to the face mesh.

I contemplated on the visible triangles on the side of the face before I connected my existing ear from the old nomad head mesh.

Furthermore, I later imported the old nomad head and combined it with the new face in order to visually understand how the topology lines would connect and form around the shape of the head.

I also created this fusion of the new and old head in order to serve as a Frankenstein backup should my current progress with the clean new head take longer to model. (figure a)

Figure A

In addition, there was a slight error of the old imported ear not displaying the smooth preview. Thus, in order to solve this issue, the model history was deleted and I combined it with a cube in order for Maya to think the ear mesh is a freshly created cube with no errors.

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By Sebastian Jones

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(OLD) CG Nomad Final Session Log

Session Review During the events of this final academic session of the nomad, my current concentration was focused on applying more detail to the nomad's helmet and creating a new skin texture. Moreover, the reason for me creating a new skin texture from the previous face skin was because of the previous skin had a harsher completion on the character and a fellow classmate found it unnerving. Moreover, browsing through my photography CDME module folder, I used a portion of my skin an d re shaded indigo in order to create a smoother and more tillable face skin for the nomad. I must say I was very impressed with the quality of detail with the final skin render (figure a). Furthermore, returning to the class I continued to face difficulty successfully, uv mapping the characters head. However, thanks to constructive criticism from both the lecturer and fellow classmates I proceeded to follow a tutorial from Vimeo, which I personally felt was much simpler to follow a...

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Session Review Continuing from yesterdays session, I have created the eye sockets using the same techniques I followed to shape the mouth hole. Furthermore, I simply adjust the anatomy of the nomad body further by pulling in vertices along the chest area to create further muscle definition and make it look less weak and wimpy. Moreover, after following Ryans tutorial where he creates the box for the ear, i had to return to following the 3ds max tutorial and follow the steps to shape the ear In addition, duplicated the head I had so far and combined it with the African shaped head. References http://st.depositphotos.com/2036511/1987/i/950/depositphotos_19872483-Male-human-anatomy-and-muscles.jpg http://www.harvard-wm.org/organ-in-the-human-body-heart/heart-human-cryo-staining/ https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya-lt/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/MayaLT/files/Combining-separating-and-splitting-Combine-polygon-meshes-htm.html By Sebastian Jones...

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