Hi resolution modeling tut

Daz

Finally got around to finishing this this morning. I hope it's of some use, since it became much more work than I'd anticipated. Alot of it's pretty obvious, so its really aimed at folks just starting out in modeling beyond realtime resolutions.

http://home.comcast.net/~dpattenden/hi_poly_tut.htm

feedback welcome.

Sean McBride

:O i love you daz, reading through it now.

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finished reading good stuff. I can't belive you model like that... hehe. Whatever works for you though. I'll definantly be doing a high poly head soon.

qubism

im suggesting to use stylesheets in that html if u know how.
cuz of my browser settings the background is black with black font on it.

gauss

excellent stuff, daz. i'm reading through it and downloading the speedmodeling vid capture now--those of us who have approached high poly stuff a little more timidly appreciate this a lot

FatAssasin

Added to my favotires. Thanks a ton Daz.

spacemonkey

much appreciation for the tutorial. I must try and do something like this soon.
I dont know what the big deal is about your modelling. In my opinion you do over complicate the mesh too early on (I prefer to shape things out before I add extra polies) but its not a hugely unorthadox method, is it..?

Daz

Maybe not spacemonkey no. It's just that as you pointed out, the method in the video somewhat somehwat contradicts what I said earlier in the tut about not adding detail too soon. And furthermore, I dont really model like that anymore. I hint at that in the tut, but perhaps I should make it more obvious ( or take out the video altogether and make a new one! )
qubism: dont know anything about stylesheets no. I dont know much html. Im using frontpage so I'll take a look a the help.

malcolm

Nice one Daz, I will definately refer to this when I get to shading my character.

Jeff Parrott

Daz, that is great stuff. I'll be showing that to loads of people.

MoP

Excellent, Daz. Useful info in there. Thanks for sharing!

Mark Dygert

wow this is exactly what I was looking for. Some of that may have been common sense to you but I am VERY thankful you put all that down. Yes, the hand hit the forehead a few times. Especially when you brought up the idea about drawing edge loops on your ref.

Jeff Gran

Thanks, Daz, this is helpful and well-done.

Scott Ruggels

This was excellent info Daz, especially about the UV unwrapping. Here I was getting all knotted up about it, when it's just keeping things simple,and a judicious use of the Relax tool.

About the only Nit I have is that a little more attention on how to draw the elements of the face (and skull ) out, and some examples of edge placement for wrinkles would have helped quite a bit.

Other than that, a nice quick tutorial, that takes a lot of the Intimidation factor out of High Poly Modelling. Now only if I had software to do screen grabs of actors off of DVD's...

Scott

tpe

Really nice tut daz, i would have loved to have see a couple more inbetween stages like the uv rollover that was very cool. Great stuff.

tpe

Wells

wow. this would have been very helpful prior to the contest deadline.

great stuff. just what i need.

John Warner

awesome tut daz. thanks for taking the time. rock on man.

i've been considering putting together a modeling tutorial myself lately, but haven't really found the time...

Daz

Well, gradually fleshing out some more.

Scott: refresh the reference page and check the paragraph I added under the Jaws pic. I also update modelling page #2 which a fair bit more detail.

poopinmymouth

Great work Daz. Thanks for taking your time.

Thermidor

baking out the lighting to a texture is proving quite usfull , thanx daz

pior

Thanks a lot Daz, great info in there.

I especially enjoy the way you show the colormap on the model at 100% self illumination. I've never seen such an image in any highrez modelling tut, in witch models are almost always shown with some lights on, which is a shame.

I think your approach really helps for lowpoly artists who have the habit to put all the info in this map.

Seems like the highpoly jump is going to be easier thanks to your tut

LeJomphe

Extremely usefull Tut. Instant favorite.... 2 thumbs up by Siskel and Ebert.

Seriously though, it answered a lot of questions. Great work. And many thanks for doing it.

Daz

Hey thanks all. Im gonna flesh out the modelling side more, and probably do a better timelapse at some point.

gauss

sounds great daz. there's a lot of great info here but the more you can elaborate on your technique the better

killingpeople

daz! thanks for the tutorials. everything read smoothly and was very informative. i am still learning quite a lot from it all. well done, you pointed me in a lot of good directions as well. thanks again.