Human Character

commander riker

Working on a human character just to use as a base template for various projects. I looked at the Makehuman model, but it has a decent amount of geometry.

Two questions:

•Anyone know of any good references to show me good geometry flow for optimal facial morphs and rigging?

•Also, a good 95% of the tutorials out there are for making nude characters. I need clothed characters. What is the best way to go about this? I know creating polygon clothes over a rig is a pain in the neck when assigning bone weights...do you create multiple meshes in the same object and rig the whole thing with clothes? Doesn't seem efficient if I want to change clothes...

Any ideas for either/both of my questions?

Thanks in advance!

commander riker

Cool, that is helpful. I also found this if anyone else is interested: http://vimeo.com/9059831.

Still wondering about rigging disjointed meshes. Not getting the greatest results. How do you rig a character with clothes on? If anyone has any good tuts they would be much appreciated.

Cyrael

Usually the clothes are modeled right on top of the skin and the body underneath deleted bc its unused/un-needed poly's. So once you model the clothes weight them as if you were weighting the body skin itself.