Deformation Topology advice?

larolaro

Hi folks,

I struggled to find much help on the internet

Could you guys give me some advice on the topology of the waist/crotch/buttocks and armpit/shoulder?

I'm looking to make my character rather articulate, so i need straddles, splits and stretching in all directions.

This creates the problem of maintaining a solid shape under such stress.

What is the best optimization of topology for animation/games?

I guess i'm looking for examples of wires or tuts?

Many thanks in advance, this is driving me crazy, i dont want to spend a week on a model and a rig to find i completely messed up on topology when i start to animate.

Rick Stirling

read this:

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

larolaro

Yeah I've crawled through the scary bottomless pit that is the internet, i've already come across that.

It only really explains knees or elbows. bending linearly in one direction.

I need a good example of topology for complete oscillation of a joint, if you know what i mean?

"waist/crotch/buttocks and armpit/shoulder"

Sandro

I stumbled upon this nice website time ago, I don't know if stuff shown here holds true for game art, but nice ressource anyways, some cool gifs

http://hippydrome.com/
http://hippydrome.com/Sketches.html

Xenobond

kind of need to go back n forth between topology & bone placement/testing. Iterate, refine, make awesome!

larolaro

Thx for the link sandro

ChaosEidolon

On an unrelated note...

what happened to your old website man? I was a big fan of your hand-painted 3d stuff.

Asthane

I'm looking forward to the day we can just model softbody physics over a skeleton, personally ¬_¬

Mark Dygert

Unweld a vert and your character bleeds out...

Make sure to mine HippyDrome for all that is there. The grescale on the wireframe gives you weighting information which most people overlook and just oggle the pretty bending.