3d Head Model: Ma Face

Anthricus

Been working on a base mesh to take into zbrush of my head for a week or two now and think the topology is about ready, theres a few uneven densities around the ears where they have been connected on but apart from that i think it flows fairly well and has a reasonable likeness to me ( my reference)

Reference:


Model No Hair planes:


Model With Hair planes:


C&C Welcome,

Many thanks,
Anthricus

ysalex

Your topology flow seems alright, but try retaking your reference photo. Try to use a zoom lense from far away, to minimize perspective distortion. Idealy, you'll be able to clearly see your ears, and it should make your nose smaller and face more square. This way you can model with a low POV or even in non-perspective.

Olli.

I've been thinking of this for a long time myself. Im probably going to do it sooner or later, but its nice to see others also taking this task on

youre doing great so far as far as i can see..

BARDLER

Like ysalex said I think you might have some lens warping going on.

This is the difference you will see with using a proper lens.


You can see the right picture is much more natural while the left one is warping around the face similar to your pictures. If you don't have access to a fancy camera then try taking your pictures from further back and using the highest zoom the camera has, not digital zoom though.

Anthricus

Looks like im going to have to find a freind with a nice camera and bribe them into letting me use it
Is there anyway of getting around the distortion? ( photo manipulation ?)
the camera i used was digital and unfortunately is the only one i have available too me at the moment ,

Im going to try and use photos to texture so i probably need a few decent shots with a nicer camera , il ask my friends who are on a film course if they can hire one out for me

Thanks for the crits guys,
Keep them coming there much appreciated!
Anthricus

Fingus

As they said. Stand far away and zoom in as much as possible. The further in you zoom the less distortion you get.

Anthricus

Only optical zoom will work though right? i think my camera has that and it has a fairly decent level of detail on it too il try later tonight after work

Anthricus

Few more references tried fixing the skews with lens correction tools as i couldnt find any exernal cameras too use , started sculpting and done some self analysis
C&C welcome guys

Anthricus

further developments and analysis too , changed material as its kinda hard to see the shading properly in the red wax material,
C & C welcome



Bit of work around the ears to be made and trying to inset the bridge of the nose a bit further too

Anthricus

Bit of further progress on the head now i think its looking fairly realistic cant really see anywhere to improove it but its probably because ive been looking at it for so long :P

Need to put some alpha skin pores and lip cracks on it but not sure what else it needs!

C&C welcome

Anthricus

About there on the sculpt i think,
Ive got some pores on a seperate layer that i will turn on and show later but i think its looking fairly lifelike now

C&C welcome

AlexCatMasterSupreme

You're really missing the depth of your face.

fish4brains

You're doing great, I'm seeing a few little things though - I think the eye socket area needs to be pushed back a little more and/or the brow ridge needs to protrude more just to make that depth of the eye socket more pronounced. I also think that the brow ridges may need to be a little more arched to match the shape of your eyebrows on the reference. From a perspective view the corners of your lips look a little fuller on your sculpt than on your reference.

If you have a little mirror that you can put on your desk while you sculpt then you might find it useful to use this as a guide (but remember it's a mirror image of your face and you'll need to mentally flip what you see).

Keep up the good work

Anthricus

Tried to fix the sculpt and now textured in zapplink and taken to engine ! thanks for all the crits guys


UDK (lighting neeeds to be fixed a bit

KyleJensen

Press 'P' to put your viewport in perspective mode. If you've been sculpting in Orthographic mode this whole time, that might be why your sculpt is lacking depth.

Anthricus

All in perspective looking much better guys dont know how i got his far through without doing that haha :P cheers KyleJensen

Anthricus

Final Submitted images coming up guys didnt manage to get any SSS on it but thats always something to play around with in the future. C&C welcome!!