Quick-Crit 2011

Things I personally would change (All imo ofc)
-Nose is to flat (make it more "longer"?)
-Upper cheek bones are coming out to much making his face look wide
Again, i haven't studied human face yet, and haven't modeled one... so I am not one to really say. I suggest looking at a lot of refs of heads and try to sketch out the bone structure of the head. Study that, and then you will know which parts are off because you have an understanding of the structure of the human face.
Maybe someone else can be of more help. :)

First attempt at a head, had to model my own for Uni assignment. It turned out alright which surprised me. Still some things to fix and tweek, look un-needed loops.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...all/face_8.jpg

Why is the model so dense?
It seems like there is a lot of wasted poly's all around, apart of the hair.

Well it was only like 2.5K triangles, and we have a limit of 6K. I was going to mesh smooth it but it took it up to 8K, cant get it lower, so I just tessallated it. need to remove some loops though and fix things. Got the limit, might as well use it. Gotta be tomorrow, just done this today, quick job.

I don't understand why you tessellated it... was it for the fun of it? Or did it somehow effect the look of your model? Also, if you post an un-tessellated model, someone could probably point out what areas you can save polies and what you can fix.
Is this supposed to be really stylized? Or are you trying to go for realism?

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Originally Posted by UnevenElefant5

Yeah so it's my first time attempting a head. What am I doing right/wrong?
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And a 360 degree rotation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXYz6lNbrJI


I know the back of the neck/head is pretty flat, but there's something else bothering me about this face. I know something's wrong, I just can't figure it out.

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Back of the neck and is way too flat and needs to be more rounded. There's not enough detail to really crit at this point... topology looks decent enough, from my inexperienced eye. Use references, as always.

http://anatomytools.com/

http://www.posemaniacs.com/

And I personally wouldn't go with straight-up lowpoly modeling for characters, given the engines and graphical capabilities out there these days. You're probably going to want to sculpt a character first then retopo it then bake normals later in another program. I suggest Sculptris or Zbrush.

http://www.pixologic.com/sculptris/

Here's a tutorial of how to retopo in Blender.. I'm sure similar methods could be used in Max.

http://vimeo.com/14560538

I would prefer to use MeshSmooth or TurboSmooth, but they could not be used. It was half the triangle count that I had available, adding more triangles means smoothing lighting,so why not. This is for a simple assignment and wont be going ingame. Supose I could undo the tessellation, it has got to be submitted tomorrow though so no point.

End result will be photorealistic, it has got to go through ZBrush ect still and be re-topped.

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@t3h m00kz

Thanks, but like I said it's for a Uni assignment, that what we have got to do is model it in max like so, I know these days it would be sculpted :P And I will sort the neck out.

Those cheek indents under the eyes (midway through the face) really don't exsist.

Think of drawing a face. You don't put harsh outlines through the drawing, instead you use shading to pronounce shapes. Same thing with modeling, try creating a nice smooth face with out any harsh abrupt areas. Unless you someone who really looks like that in real life, I think that needs re-work.
Good luck with the assignment man!

@Nero
THAT'S what it is. The cheekbones are all off. Thanks for pointing that out, I knew something was off, I just couldn't put my finger on it. The nose is still one of the areas that I need to work on. I basically just dragged out some verts as a placeholder.


@Mookz
Well I was following a tutorial and the guy started out with a low poly and then just applied a turbosmooth modifier to add detail within the existing mesh. Is this a good idea? It seemed like one to me, but I don't know much about this subject so yeah.

Thanks for all the resources. I'll be sure to check them out.

The video tutorial is nothing more than retopologization/optimization of a high poly to low poly model, and should not be your starting point.

The process of actually creating a sculpt should be your first step which can be done in a program such as Zbrush or Sculptris, and yes, in Blender as well. Though I highly suggest screwing around with Sculptris and trying to make things before following the retopo tutorial, Sculptris automatically adds in geometry as you sculpt, and there is no need for tools like turbosmooth.

If you pick up Sculptris... learn the hotkeys! I cannot stress this enough. There's not may of them.

Once you have created a sculpt, then you can start worrying about retopo.