Hey @Eric Chadwick i used a whole lot of references of sculpts, bot not a human ecorche like the one you posted, thanks for that, helps me with some mistakes before i collapse and for muscle fiber direction, any tip for relaxed/contracted muscles on posed figures? Thanks.
Feels like it's being held at the butt and forced to run on a treadmill. And its head motion's in reverse. Try it. It doesn't feel relaxing (per se) to nod like that while running. And ditto on Blaken's post. (casual comment: the preview frame for the video looks like the horse's on noclip :poly122: )
Well here is some more refinement to textures and posing. The poses are still rough (dangling bits aren't placed and there are penetrating areas) but I could use some input on the overall pose and textures. I made two poses since I wanted a relaxed pose and dynamic pose.
first WIP EDIT : quickly corrected the strange shoulders EDIT 2 : correct me if i'm wrong, but I just figured out that the pectorals aren't good mainly because the clavicles are pointing in the wrong direction, they are going up but the shoulders are in a relaxed position, which seems illogic to me
I'm with jesse on DeepUV there. If my UVs are extreme, like huge chunks for minimizing seams, UVHelp or Max's relax will twist some of the edges around and around, but DeepUV handles them OK. If the mesh has acute angles in geometry space, Max/UVHelp both give me trouble.
thanx for the tips! i did a little work on it. this is how it looks now http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g210/Jalechah/254man.jpg is that what you were talking about? i hadnt used the relax mod before, so that was new to me. also the poly count is down to 254
Smirnoffka - I get the EXACT same treatment. My face apparently looks evil and pissed off when I'm just relaxed and calm (or I guess even pissed off, when I'm working). I just concentrate a lot. I have a lot on my mind! :)
the way of getting anything through to "the people" is through excitable reports of your actions, from the tv and papers, local and national. "Breaking news : greenpeace release a clear and concise statement of intent! Relax while a vaguely attractive news anchor sits back and reads it to you". Not gonna happen.
You might want to repost the images with more of the character and less of the background. It's hard to tell much rom those images. but the thumb position looks very harsh - have a look at the position of your own thumb when your hand is relaxed - it's almost 90 degrees to the rest of the hand.
I haven't worked on this model for quite some time but I have finally made an update. Polished the head and body, as well I have started on the clothes. I still need to put the hands and fingers in a relaxed state also, and the wrists look like they could be a bit thicker.