Catherine Fox 3D Sketchbook

RealBarenziah

Here is where I will post small things I create in Maya. Feedback and critiques are appreciated.

FIRST ENTRY: Taako's Umbra Staff, a prop from The Adventure Zone podcast
model

RealBarenziah

I whipped up some simplistic flower petals for use in a visualizer I was prototyping:

I'd like to make more of these sometime.

http://foxbyart.tumblr.com/post/158983965032/testing-out-some-tweaks-i-made-to-my-plum-blossom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-XGgs0jHl8

RealBarenziah

Quick and simple knife!

RealBarenziah

I restarted an old character today. It's kinda freaking me out. I'm still pretty unsure about how to deal with the eyes/eyelids and inside the mouth. Any tips would be nice.

ArNavart

For organic modelling, you'll do your life easier if you use, smooth mesh (that's for Maya).
Here's a good topology guide (it's the Sintel):



And here's a good explanation of facial topology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN-GnqSKCgU

Generic_Human

The umbra staff!! haha im a huge fan of the podcast ! and for the character i agree with ArNavart when you are box modeling the face its easier when you use a good topology, its gets very annoying when you have a great concentration of vertex in just one spot, having a good flow of the loops will help with having all the faces well distributed along your model i will encourage you to spend some time just doodling in zbrush, study anatomy in there and in paper doing some drawings and learning all the basics this will help you a lot very quickly

Brian "Panda" Choi

If you need some solid base meshes for cartoon heads, I can toss some models your way i've collected over the years.

RealBarenziah

@Generic_Human thanks! I just picked up Sculptris and been toying with it. I'll be restarting some old character designs there soon.
@Brian "Panda" Choi Hi Brian! That would be awesome! 

RealBarenziah

Spent today building up a Tracer base that I can reuse for stylized character projects.