Human 01 (Crits Please)

Ignore the yellow mesh, the light blue is meant to be the tails of a military-style coat, thin material. The shoes are adidas sneakers, not military boots.

How is the poly distribution, the cuts and the potential distortion? This is my first player model, so I appreciate any and all crits that will help me avoid mistakes and get the best out of the model.

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Thanks.

[edit] thanks 'champ

Started detailing the head:

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It looks a *little* bit like the tutorial I'm using for this, but I want to go back over and clean up and add/remove details once I've got the rough shape fleshed out.

Ok thank you hessi.

I started tidying up the loops, much work to go

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For my first model I decided to go with a balaclava because it's easier

Such a cop out The next one will be a proper head, done the proper way.

But for now I just slapped on some temp materials:

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The head is still a major concern to me, but I have plenty of time to go over it and tweak it a little.

Thanks to everyone who gave me crits here and in IRC (especially Acumen).

What I did was import the urban_reference.smd and tried to match the quads as best as I could in my own model, I don't know why I didn't think of it before tbh.

I am still trying to get some good reference photo's for the face, so I can model something a little bit more advanced for my next model (this isn't finished but I've finished fleshing him out properly and I can go about cleaning up all the wasted polies).

Quote from Pericolos0

if you ignore the nurbs stuff it is still a great tutorial on modelling a human face with proper edge loops

I read through it and I thought the same thing, bookmarked it too ;P

Haha thanks Cy, that is perfect - can't believe I didn't think of that hehe

[edit] I've been adding in some equipment (all still temp slapped on skins)

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I spoke with my dad (who does drawings and stuff for various things) and he suggested a few things and gave me a book to look at, I tweaked the head and neck as much as I could bear, I don't know if it's looking particularly human, it's also hard to tell with that flat black material

I was worried about that as well, they are scaled to the valve models so they should be alright.