First facial modelling - CRIT!

martynball

Hey, doing a facial modelling assignment at Uni, need some crit. My first face model, it's me as we have to do ourselves lol.

It was early in the morning, so no dissing the REFERENCE PICTURE! :P lol.
I just print screened as being lazy and trying to get it done. I see some edge flow problems already, but hit me!

Dimfist

Have fun. I wouldn't put a turbosmooth on that stack. Just keep pushing and pulling to obvious landmarks. I see two that you need to adjust, the brow and the top lip.

martynball

Bit of an update, fixed up the flow a bit.

Psyk0

The loop for the nasolabial fold is missing, the eyelids are pretty much tacked on, you're trying hard to make stuff connect together, but it's not quite there yet.

Check this out for topology guides:
http://wiki.polycount.com/FaceTopology?highlight=%28%5CbCategoryTopology%5Cb%29

This one in particular is great to understand muscle based topology for the face:
http://wiki.polycount.com/FaceTopology?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=bunk_poly_regions.jpg

With that in mind, let's destroy and rebuild a few areas, see how that goes.

martynball

Just seen your post, I have left it till late to complete this and deadline is tomorrow at 3:30PM, so not going to aim for perfection but still try to make it as good as I can thanks, I will look at these.

Also a update:

chrisradsby

It feels like you're not completely nailing the side-view, the eye-brow area needs to be pushed out a little bit, and the area under the nose as well. The mouth looks a bit pursed and should be more relaxed. However it will look less harsh/sharp when the texture is slapped onto there as well.

So if you create a simple texture from your face and overlay it it might help with the final topology, if UVd right you can then move vertices around without messing up the UVs. Good work so far!

Really nice that you're going with this workflow instead of jumping into zbrush immediately. *thumbs up*

Neox

for facial topology i'd suggest you to go over to cgfeedback, there is lot of great information in this thread

http://www.cgfeedback.com/cgfeedback/showthread.php?t=1449