My First Female Head Model

badmouse

After 7 years modeling only props, building, roads and basic comical character and after fail several times modeling realistic Characters, I decided try again but in a open form to give my self more motivation and try harder this time.

Everytime I try it, I learn more things, I hope end with a good result.

Here is my map.

Trying to model a original face is not good right now for me because nobody know the real form of it, so Im trying to model the head of a actress, where i can receive more feedbacks of it.

I choose Olivia Wilde. Here my reference.



I modeled it in a classic form using Maya, not sculpting it.

The base form is a bit off, hope anyone can help me with some feedbacks.

The topology was pretty much a disaster, so i imported my model to Topogun and tried to fix topology but it became even worse





BTW, for topology reference, I used this. [I found it here, in Polycount Forum]



I Hope can receive some feedback with this.

thanks!

AbKI

Hey. I'm no expert, but a couple of things about the likeness are standing out to me.

I think there's something a bit off with her cheeks in the third image of your re-topo, they are looking a bit hollow. By the looks of it Olivia Wilde has strong cheekbones and a defined jaw, but her jaw is looking a bit too narrow in your 45 degree views.

Here's a reference photo that might help a bit to fill in the gaps?

The area under her chin could be a bit more defined too, I think the vert under her bottom lip might need pulling in a tiny bit in the side view.

Keep at it, faces are hard.

badmouse

Thanks for the hand AbKI!

i worked a bit more on it but still off

kevino025

Hey man I like where this is heading. But theres something that is bugging me. The head seems to be somewhat narrow compare to actual anatomy. Its not a lot but I feel it needs some fixing. I made a quick paintover as well as posted some skull references.



Other than that I feel the topology needs to be fixed in terms of edge flow, specially on the side of her head.

Good Luck,
Cheers!

badmouse

Thanks Kevino025!

Slowly become to looks more human!

Scote

http://samuelcote.com/ref/casting/olivia_w/index.html

youcould use those references also if you want