This is my first attempt at a low poly human female, she is currently 3100 tris. Lookin for comments and crits, if anyone has any comments about how to cut down the poly count that would be useful. thanks
it's really hard to give you crit on poly useage when you got all the edges showing.
Here's a link showing how to get a solid render in max, mite be similar to what package you are using if it's not max.
The proportions and overall shapes are fairly good, but the way your mesh is constructed seems very messy. There are a lot of edges that need turning, and the breasts in particular seem to be constructed very strangely. Not very smooth or natural.
Also her feet seem huge and clumpy, why is she wearing shoes when the rest of the model implies she's naked?
do you mean that all the triangles edges are showing? rather than quads? thats because in most areas i did split the quads into tris to try to be more efficient.
oh yeah the feet, well this character is intended to be used in an mmo, she will never be actually naked ingame so im tryna prepare the model to be clothed, of course the clothes will replace the underlying bodyparts. And i was tryna save polygons, no need for toes so no need to make em.
and the breasts, yeah i need to work on em a bit more, but then i will probably replace them with clothing too so not sure whats best.
yeah sorry about the above renders, i triangulated the whole model to check the tri count then rendered them, i realise now thats horrible to look at so heres some better renders i hope, but as i said before, some areas i did actually cut into tris so they still show as tris, nothing i can do about that i dont think anyway.
much better
like MoP said, you got the base proportions down, you just need to clean it up a little. Keep to quads and triangles when constructing a mesh, you've got a lot of n-gons going on (5sided) which are a nono.
theres some crazy mesh flow going on in the face, you could lose a lot on the nose and around the top lip, this would hlep tidy it up also. hope you dont mind, this is some good example of head topology I've got saved, not sure who it's by
You should consider cleaning up the nose/cheeks/mouth area, overall form is good, but it would benefit from doing some cleaning up in areas like that.
I'd suggest pushing the bottom *mouth* lip a bit, and you have enough vertices to make the eyes a bit more realistic too. Just a bit of shaping, you know, instead of having them being perfectly oval. You can also remove polys from the hands I think and add some in mid forearm I think.
Like MoP said, you need to also work on the tits a bit, try removing the triangle edges so that you're left with polys and do a bit of edge turning. Then redefine the shape a tad and you'll be fine.
Boobs are a bitch, I'm working on a chick at the moment and I also have trouble getting the shape right. Now imagine if I wrote the above sentence as "I'm doing a chick atm" instead.
so now i have a question about texturing ethics and technique, i had a quick go at texturing her face using parts of a few different photos and puttin it all together.
So my question is,assuming your tryna make a realistic human how do you normally texture a human character, paint em from scratch, mix up parts of real human parts from photos or what?
What is conisdered more professional, painting the texture from the start or cutting up parts of reference photos?
I find painted textures to look the best because it gives more style, the other alternative is to use photos, as you mentioned. Using straight up photos will look like cheese though, you have to do manual adjusting and painting to blend the photos and to get the colours to match up, as well as removing highlights. So really, regardless of which method you choose, it will look professional if you invest the time
The hands need some geo cleaned up, the wrist transition is a bit too bulky and the fingers wont bend without proper joints. Better posture would help, they feel very stiff and i'd adjust the size slightly, in general the hand is big enough to cover the whole face (from chin to hairline).
well, this is how she's currently looking, ive adjusted the body slightly and re done the hair, and of course added clothes etc, both varients are about 3k tris each. still workin on the textures of the clothes and maybe hair a bit too. comments welcome as always.
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Here's a link showing how to get a solid render in max, mite be similar to what package you are using if it's not max.
http://www.3dnuts.com/tutorials/rendering/wireframe_solid.shtml
Also her feet seem huge and clumpy, why is she wearing shoes when the rest of the model implies she's naked?
and the breasts, yeah i need to work on em a bit more, but then i will probably replace them with clothing too so not sure whats best.
like MoP said, you got the base proportions down, you just need to clean it up a little. Keep to quads and triangles when constructing a mesh, you've got a lot of n-gons going on (5sided) which are a nono.
theres some crazy mesh flow going on in the face, you could lose a lot on the nose and around the top lip, this would hlep tidy it up also. hope you dont mind, this is some good example of head topology I've got saved, not sure who it's by
hope that helps a bit
You should consider cleaning up the nose/cheeks/mouth area, overall form is good, but it would benefit from doing some cleaning up in areas like that.
I'd suggest pushing the bottom *mouth* lip a bit, and you have enough vertices to make the eyes a bit more realistic too. Just a bit of shaping, you know, instead of having them being perfectly oval. You can also remove polys from the hands I think and add some in mid forearm I think.
Like MoP said, you need to also work on the tits a bit, try removing the triangle edges so that you're left with polys and do a bit of edge turning. Then redefine the shape a tad and you'll be fine.
Boobs are a bitch, I'm working on a chick at the moment and I also have trouble getting the shape right. Now imagine if I wrote the above sentence as "I'm doing a chick atm" instead.
So my question is,assuming your tryna make a realistic human how do you normally texture a human character, paint em from scratch, mix up parts of real human parts from photos or what?
What is conisdered more professional, painting the texture from the start or cutting up parts of reference photos?
straight photo with some manip:
OR
painted: