[WIP] Character design.

Spent some time on his head today, made some hands that I'm not happy with at all (Maya crashed roughly seven times while making them...)

I'm not happy with the arms, and I still have to make the sleeve for the right arm. I'm not sure how I'm going to do the holes in the sleeve and pantleg yet.... if I'm going to do it with mesh or with alpha. Originally I was planning on doing it with mesh, but I don't know how weird that will be to paint weights for so I'm a bit worried about that.

The pants still need a ton of work, and the chest I'm not really going to model anything into, that'll all be in the normals. I don't know how I feel about the feet, they're not really the center of attention on this guy so I don't wanna mess around too much with em, but at the same time... they look funny to me. I dunno.

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/2919/day2a.jpg

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/340/day2b.jpg

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/4648/day2c.jpg

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/1838/day2d.jpg

I got a little bit more work done on him.... turned him in about two hours ago.







I'm not pleased with the normal map for the shirt or pants, the belt buckle I didn't even take into zbrush, and I had a really weird seam on his chest on the normal map... so I tried painting it out... but painting a normal map is weird... so... yea.

I'm going to rig him with a really simple rig later tonight.... but... yar.

He's 6114 triangles btw.

How u do dat white black drawing bro?

.... photoshop? lol

I sketched it out, then went back over it and cleaned up the lines to make em pretty. You can see in my colored one I didn't bother to clean up my lines so it's a bit messy... but... yea. *shrug*

Look nice doood. Good job.

My rig was pretty horrid, so... I'm not even going to bother posting pictures of the silly pose I put him in.... I might make a new rig for him later, but I just didn't do a good job on this one and my weight painting skills are... non existent soo... yea. haha.

I doubt this thread will see much more progress though, so... yea. /FIN

So, like, are there any good character modeling tuts out there? All I can find are gun/weapon tuts.

Character modeling's always something I wanted to try

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He stood up and left during the MTV movie awards last night.

i suggest you study some basic human anatomy after this project.
aside from that, i think you're doing well with it.
awaiting your next update.