Human 01 (Crits Please)

[Rick_D]

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.

Thanks.

[edit] thanks 'champ

[Rick_D]

Started detailing the head:

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.

[hessi]

cough. the head looks terrible. you should work with edgeloops that align with the human muscles.

http://thomashess.net/hessi_wire.jpg

not perfect at all but you can figure out what i mean

[Bic-B@ll]

[01] [Rick_D] http://www.mapcore.net/forums/viewtopic ... 570#127570

[01] [bic] your face lacks in loops

[01] [bic] say somethng like "i need a good example of edge looping" and hessi will give you a pic of his face

[01] [bic] im too lazy to find it

[Rick_D]

Ok thank you hessi.

[hessi]

hahaha bic

[Defrag]

Some other links regarding looping:

http://ambient-whisper.cgcommunity.com/ ... age-3.html

There used to be a great page here too, but it's down now

http://coldfusion.art.msstate.edu/camen ... setup.html

[Rick_D]

I started tidying up the loops, much work to go :S

[Rick_D]

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

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:

[cyberjunkie]

Looking Very Good! for a first human body model!

[Rick_D]

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

[von*ferret]

Try to keep quads. FOr human models I suggest you read the Joan of Arc tutorial. Its quite possibly the best human modeling tutorial on the internet.

http://67.15.36.49/ffa/tutorials/max/jo ... anmenu.asp

[CyanideCotdPnuts]

I disagree. That modeling tutorial is bogus because it teaches you to work with NURBS which is not a standard tool most modelers use, especially for low-poly stuff such as this. If you have access to the HLMV, reference their topology. That's how I learned how to do low-poly organics.

[Rick_D]

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).

[von*ferret]

I disagree with you! Fundamentals are fundamentals as Peri said. You can learn the fundamentals of edge looping which right now, is what is bringing down his models. Edge looping will help deformation when he animates/rigs as well as help define import anatomy.