New tutorial!

Ancient-Pig

I wrote a new tutorial - this one deals with proper joint construction for optimal deformation with characters.

Kind of a mini-tut for less experienced modelers...

http://www.pig-brain.com/tut02/tut02_01.htm

breakneck

gotta say thanks man for spending time sharing your knowledge to help other people out. Thats pretty cool.

Jeremy Lindstrom

is nice, learned a few things meself.

Japhir

nice! one question though: why do you have nine sided arms (the part where you extrude the shoulder area)?
thanks a lot, my knees and fingers always looked wrong so thats a great help

dolemite

WOW! This is great! Muchos gracias!

bounchfx

awesome stuff man, keep it coming

Emil Mujanovic

That's awesome dude, thanks for that.

-caseyjones

Dazzle

*epiphany* Nice tutorial.

xysdf

nice, thx for sharing!

Xenobond

handy-dandy!

Rick Stirling

It's superb. Pretty much exactly what I'd recommend.

However, I LIKE the little bit of collapsing on the inside of a finger joint - though to be honest, who is going to see it?

tremulant

Yes, thank you so much man. Always great when people give to the community. I love both tutorials.

Dave

Austin

Awesome tutorial, bookmarked! And thanks man!

Miguelito

Thx for sharing! I smooch you!

Por@szek

Compared to U i'll be always less experienced XD
Thx for sharing mate

Ancient-Pig

Thanks guys - I'm glad you all found it useful

I get asked about joints a lot, and figured I'd compile what I tell others into a quick tutorial.

Japhir - I always go for an odd number of sides with limbs. To tell you the truth, I'm not 100% why... it seems I've just been doing that for a while. If I had to guess, you get an economical and good looking silhouette with an odd number of sides...

Rick - It's true that in these low poly examples you don't see much of a difference in the fingers. The difference becomes much greater when you start adding more polys into the equation. Not only that, but the gold finger is 12 polys less than the green. On a character with full hands, that's 120 polys saved, and when working with as low a tesselation as described in the tutorial, that's a shit ton! :P

Also, having the solid form without the break will save you on shading errors as well.. it can get to looking pretty nasty...

Eric Chadwick

Great stuff man.