jex24

hehe here's my Work in Progress.

Homer simpson, critique will be much appreciated

carney

This looks awesome so far Jex, i would give more critz if i was better at modeling but i am still getting better at it. Though homer being a cartoon it wouldn't be too difficult getting the shape and look correct.

Whats your plans? You going to toon shader the final product or make it more of a realistic homer? Either way nice work =D

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Mathias

Show homer without the mesh/turbo smooth modifier.

That way it's easier for me to explain what could be wrong...
It's looking good, but I think you'll get problems animating it. I'll explain once I get confirmation of the low poly view.

jex24

here u go mathias, need all the help i can get...

i used edge extrude method, it was hard to keep his head cylindrical.

will it be a better idea to start with a cylinder then put a sphere on top?

Mathias

Well jex what concearns me the most is the aready of the mouth corner (or how to you call it in english?), where the lips come together. If you would animate it with all those edges it will create bad results.

Also your edgeloops are not "flowing" in each other as fluidly as in most other organic models I've seen. But sadly I can not help you in giving examples since I'm pretty bad with stuff like this.

Coolprogram

hey, nice so far, Mathias is right, the edgeloops are a bit off, and the mouth for Homer is too large, shorten it, but keep the edges of the mouth where they are, this will make it look more like corners. Also, render some images of the front and side, then if you know how, put them side by side with the images where you can see the edges.
Hope this Helps
-CP

Frenzy

How did you model his head? I am doing 3d at uni and I have to model a 3d character based on a toy and the toy im modeling is homer simpsomn and I cant model his head. How did you model the head I tried creating a cylinder but I cant get it to work. The mouth doesnt turn out right. How did you model his head.

can you please help me I kneed to know ASAP. Oh and I am using maya but it doesnt matter if you used a different program. I just want to know how you did it


Cheers,
Frenzy

Frenzy

Sorry double post

carney

hey Frenzy, i haven't modeled many organics myself but i think you usually want to use a sphere or and while modeling you want to cut the head down the middle in half and sync it so as you update 1 site it updates on the other =D

Hopefully Mathias and Jex will fill you in more

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Frenzy

So I start with a sphere and shape it untill I get his head? At the moment I am usin a cylinder and I cant get his mouth right.