Gabriel's Progress Thread

GabrielP

Hello, I have creeped around Polycount for quite some time, feasting off all the inspiration and learning devices found here. Anyways, I finally decided to make a thread for you wonderful people to critique my art, so that I might improve.

This is my first real attempt at a realistic hand painted character, haven't done any painting yet, just have a head mesh for now. Just wanted to make sure that everything is good before I start painting on it, if there are any huge problems you guys see please point them out so that I might improve the model. As I said, this is my first go at this so its rough.




Wires


Here's a little gif of my workflow so far.



I know its not much, I just want to make sure I'm learning as I go apposed to posting a half finished model and then having to go back and tweak the foundation.

amicochips

Sorry I'm not an experienced artist but it seems to me your work doesn't follow the anatomical rules.
You should have a look to an anatomy atlas and adjust the topology so it resembles the muscular structure of the human face

Dismembered

I am not a character artist, so someone correct me if I am wrong, but the topology you have here is kinda bad. All the tris you have all over are bad for animation. I was told that you should strive to have all quads when it comes to character heads. This is an example of better edge flow/topology.

GabrielP

Amicochips, I did use an refrince image, not quite sure where I went wrong, if you could be so kind as to point out which parts of the face are incorrect so I could fix them that would be very helpful!

Dismembered, thanks for the tip, I did some work, attempting to eliminate tries, specifically around major animation points like the mouth and the eyes. Heres what I got:

amicochips

You should try to avoid poles if possible (vertices with more than 4 edges coming)and it's important that you have a clear set of edgeloops around the eyes and a clear set around the lips, both can provide better deformations but also more anatomical credibility

I've found a useful tutorial:
http://www.phungdinhdung.org/Studies_paper/Realistic_face_modeling.shtm

GabrielP

Thank you so much amicochips, that is a fantastic link!
Had a little bit of time to work on him today, is the anatomy starting to look better?

amicochips

GabrielP wrote: »

Thank you so much amicochips, that is a fantastic link!
Had a little bit of time to work on him today, is the anatomy starting to look better?

Not really I fear...

Organic modeling is a complex topic, I feel that don't have enough experience to teach or outline other's mesh mistakes.

All I could do is pass u another link I think might help you understand how the polygon flow should be set:

http://www.andrewklein.net/bh/modelingahead2.html