Week Six pt 2

I attempted to have a go at an ear. Although I didn't get time to stitch it to my model I thought it would be good to have a go at modelling one. I created it in the same way I started off creating the face using exactly the same techniques such as drawing the mesh over the top of the topology I had created in Photoshop and the extracting the various points to add dimension. However I was introduced to some new modifiers, I used the inset modifier to add indents and the ridges in my ear which I found very useful. I also added the eyeballs to my model which were created using spheres which I then added a bitmap material to and then using a UVW map to position the material correctly. I found I had to alter the eyelids slightly to accommodate the eyeballs.
I think I under estimated the time this project would require. 3D modelling and animation is so time consuming and I don't think I allowed enough time to complete the entire model. I would have liked to of had a better look at texturing the model but 6 weeks just seemed a very short time to complete this project considering the amount of time you can spend making one of these models.

However what I did I was fairly pleased with and I am sure I will go on to complete this model in my own time to give myself more experience of textures that will be useful in future projects.

Week Six pt 1

I started the skull and neck this week. I followed the tutorial and started off with a sphere, I then deleted the polygons that I didnt need to used. Once I had the basic shape I used the same copying polygons technique I used for the nose to do the rest of the head and neck.

After I had made the shape I wanted for the head and neck I then connected it to the face using the attach tool to make it all one mesh. I then played around with the vertices again until I was happy with the shape.

Week Five

This week I had a go at the nose. I followed the tutorial and duplicated the polygons that were already there and split them into smaller sections to add more detail. I then played around with the vertices to achieve the shape I required and I was fairly pleased with the results. I think I manged to get a fairly good nostril especially after the turbo smooth was re applied.

I then used a similar process for the lips. As there was no section of the tutorial to follow for the lips I found this slightly more difficult. However I followed the same princilples as before and again I was reasonably happy with the results.

Week Four

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This week I finished pulling out the points horizontally. I had some difficulty with the eye just because there were so many points so close together, I found the perspective view very useful here.

I then added two modifiers to my mesh. The first was a symmetry modifier which duplicated the side of the face I had modeled so I then had a complete face. My problem with this was that my reference picture was at a bad angle so the second half of the face didn't line up properly with the reference plane.

I then added the turbo smooth modifier which smoothed out edges of the whole surface by putting more iterations in.

Week Three

This week I started pulling out the points horizontally to add dimensions and depth to my surface. Along the way I have continued to make changes to my mesh as every so often I encounter a problem with it such as a triangle instead of a quad or two vertices's that have not been welded properly.

Week Two

Once I had imported my images onto planes in 3D max I then started to draw on my topology using the line tool. The next step was to convert the mesh into a usable surface which required me to convert a section of the mesh to an editable poly and use the attach tool to join the rest. I then had to join the vertices's together using the weld tool.

Week One

In the second part of week one I finished drawing my topology in Photoshop ready to be imported into 3D Studio Max.