Hairy beast

so i finished the face and added some hair, unfortunately due to the many
layers of complexity of my hair. i.e.. the many colours. i managed to crash
3D studio Max several times performing this modifiers.

however here are the finished images

and here are the files.

i had issues putting them onto a disk

before deadline, hopefully having them here

to download will suffice

PSD

eye texture

Max file

Max with hair

Uvw Mapping

Face

so this is my face apparently. there's a few more things to add like
bump mapping,
spectualrisation, and some other big fancy named things.
also my amazing hair cut, would be good to put that on there too.

Shopping The Photo

this is the unwrapped texture map.

its pretty silly looking but just you wait!

now I start adding bits of the reference photos

from step one!

literally just chunks, you add them in and blend

them together using the stamp tool and the

patch tool and some photoshop skills!

i look like a cyborg!

and done, it doesn't look pretty but i still have

lots of texturing to do, lighting and other stuff.

but that's on the next blog titled

rush to get this thing finished!

Ear Mapping

much the same as the face.

select the area.. bla bla blah!

but then... run a pelt map.. oOoooo

i dont know what it is but its got a funny name.

in the edit channel you hit relax!!

and you get this cool little moving skin thing

pretty sweet.

once its all stretched out. it will be added to the

UVW mapping texture and he presto into photo shop!!

UV Mapping

Firstly you have to put the view into left and change the

selection tool to spray, drop in an

Unwrap UVW modifier and select face.

you spray the areas you want to put the texture on apart

from the ear we cut that separately.

Then in Unwrap UVW modifier scroll down and select

cylindrical and position as i shown. simple you'd think but

i had umpteen green lines all over the shop.

not like in the tutorial video, this masalski is

starting to anger me!

however after finally getting the above sorted

I dropped on a material and it worked perfectly

there was very little editing required, personally

I think this is down to my rocking Topology

supposed to dumb luck!

Ok so now i scroll down in the the UVW mod

and hit edit and open up the UVW mapping mod window

now in here the idea is to move around the vertices

so you have a smooth flowing texture map.

also you have to remove over hanging or over lapping

vertices as they can cause problems.

as i said before

i had an amazing topology so this was quick and easy

very little to do.

ok maybe a couple of bits here and there.

the eyes was easy, due to topology being good.

and the lips and nose. All in all this was

something i was dreading but it was relatively

simple there was only trouble getting past

all the green lines i had and selecting the

right faces but other than that it was quite easy!

one produced I attached it to the head. this I did

by using the snap tool and pushing vertices

together and using the weld tool to fix it together

then I selected everything and converted it

all to one Editable poly.

pretty hard and time consuming but it all

adds to produce the final result.

to make the over hang of the ear lobes and

other parts you use a chamfer to create an extra

set of polygons. this will allow you to extrude

the ear correctly and have the extra polygons

to allow the over hang to be produced.

The next big step is to make the ear,

its essentially the same process as with the face

you use the line tool to trace the topology.

connect the points using the snap tool.

You then convert this to a editable Poly

and extrude the vertices.

As you see its just a case of pushing it into

the right place, maybe modifying the

eye lid to fit the ball correctly

Now to move the ball into place

Now as I said there are some mods to do to make the texture work

from the drop down box selected a UV Mapping modifier

this positions it nicely

the next step is to play with the gizmo within the modifier

to adjust the size; height and width.

I dropped the texture onto the sphere.

I edited a texture and added a

bitmap to the diffuse channel

now it doesn't work that easily you have to make some

small mods to get it to position correctly and look good.

the next little bit to work on is the eye balls

basically a made a sphere shaped it to fit the

eye socket roughly

and i opened up my texture panel by pressing 'M'

After a lengthy process of pushing around

vertices i have completed the neck and shoulders

they work very well after running a

turbo smooth modifier

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