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).

[Pericolos0]

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.

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