base meshes, base library ?

kreativ

I am a beginner modeler and am looking to build up a base library. Anyone know of any sites or resources? I will be rigging my final models and animating them so the topology need to be good. Much appreciated.

PS - long time lurker, hoping to be more active now that I can actually model.

kurt_hectic

Try to search on a turbosquid.com. Some models are free...but IMO you won't find great & free models. This is interesting, 99$:

http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/708551

sargentcrunch

n/a

kreativ

sargentcrunch wrote: »

It really all depends on what kind of modeling you will be doing, for stuff like, Transformers, you might make a file that is full of random car parts and small technical bits, and then 'kit bash' those onto some basic meshes and go from there. You can look more into kit bashing and its uses. It works for almost everything, for guns you can make a scene with different mounting rails, screws, triggers, etc.

wow, thats exactly what I was looking for. modo offers something similar for space art http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/store/kits/modelbashing/

but if one has a basic library of say human forms (like the one kurt posted), cars, sci-fi, then we can increase our efficiency a lot more by reusing components.

although it can be argued that if we are clothing human characters later ourselves, we might just start from 0 instead of base mesh. just wanted peoples take on this or whether such a base library really does facilitate productivity.

MakeHuman is interesting as well.

Eric Chadwick

This might be interesting to you.
http://oldwiki.polycount.com/BaseMesh

(need to fix this page on the new wiki)