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Nick2k · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2001 4:51 pm

Modelled and rendered in lightwave,textures created in photoshop. No post work.

Here a couple of extra veiws and expressions.

ReSistanZ · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2001 4:55 pm

Nice!

Dakkan · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2001 4:58 pm

that's wicked

i liked the way u modelled it, it shows a lotta character/individualism.

Mime · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2001 5:49 pm

hey i really like it, its simple and yet dammn effective

good work

ambient-whisper · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2001 9:10 pm

ya need to work on edge loops to simulate the way muscles work.

lesssster · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2001 9:19 pm

ehehehe it looks like my friend chris :X

Nick2k · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2001 4:32 pm

What do you mean by edge loops?

daz199 · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2001 4:34 pm

lookin good
i think you could put more work into the texures..its kinda plain

Nick2k · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2001 4:36 pm

Yeah i have't had time to put enough work into the textures so i thought id would just leave it like this, i may oneday if i get the time put some more work into it.

Zor · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2001 5:00 pm

good work!!.. and this may sound strange.. but damm that ear!! one of the coolest ears in 3D I ever did see!! very cool!!!.

-zor

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Nick2k · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2001 2:33 pm

Can anyone tell me what ambient-whisper means by edge loops its kinda bugging me

MeatyCheesyBoy · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2001 2:48 pm

Edge loops are a way to organize your geometry so that it flows along the lines of the underlying muscle structure of whatever you are drawing. Since you used Lightwave, I assume that you started from a box, subdivided it then went from there extruding, beveling, and smooth shifting faces, right? Then you converted it to a metanurbs objects and bada bing. By doing it that way, you generally end up with a mesh that has a grid based structure. If you do it with edge loops in mind, you end up with geometry that sort of looks like a bunch of intersecting circles instead of a grid. I'm at work right now so I don't have access to Lightwave but when I get home, I'll post some examples if you still don't understand.

Nick2k · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2001 3:03 pm

Hey thanks for the explaination, yeah i built him using a subdivided box (mainly for speed) I usually build my models polygon by polygon so i do end up with the mesh following the muscle patterns. I would still like to see some of your work just to see if they can give me a better understanding of how to build my meshes in the correct manner.

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Revival · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2001 5:35 pm

Cool model, i'm new to the 3D Scene, how did you do the texturing in that ? ...

thanks =)
Rev.

Nick2k · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2001 5:51 pm

Basically i used the plugin unwrap to create a template of the wire mesh i wanted to texture. I then took the wire frame template and painted the texture over it in photoshop. I first created the colour map which then had been desaturated and by adding extra details i created the bump map, specularity and glossiness map. I then mapped the textures onto the model the same way i unwrapped it (I used a cylindrical mapping method) I then rendered the object using an area light, point light and a spotlight. Hope this helps you out

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Nick

garuda_x · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2001 7:02 pm

zor, you really liked the ear? i actually thin that the ear is the weakest part of the model. a bit too primary for my likes... not biological enough, but i gues the whole head has that spherical simplicity... i like to model my ears with more irregular cartilage liek shapes.. nice start though..,. keep it coming, nick