Anyone willing to share tips and tricks for when you're working to replicate a likeness, be it from a concept or real-life example? Wouldn't mind some tips towards this sort of stuff.
You could always cover your model's face with a grid of tiny dots - modeling from those image planes makes things a snap. This is what helped me most when I was learning to make likenesses. The trick is using something that wipes off your model's skin easily, otherwise they won't be likely to volunteer...
Thanks fellas. Another tip I recently learnt was to figure out the angles of the face, so the distance between the eyes and the nostrils and stuff like that. Perspective is definitely a pain, it drastically changes the look of the model! Jfitch, that's a pretty great tip. I'll try it out!
what i've learned works pretty good for likeness is choosing a single movie and capturing all your reference from that. usually the camera settings don't change in a movie and the actor doesn't change either cause movies are shot over short periouds of time. try to capture different perspektives and different light setups.…