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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Building a head!

Once the face mask was completed i

looked at constructing the head

firstly i spent alot of time making my face

surface smoother and a little more life like,
well more me looking :)

Now to make the skull.
for this you take a sphere shape

and squish it

into a skull shape.
by deleting the bottom half you have the top

of the cranium

then i used the clone (hold Shift) method

to pull sections down to make the

neck and throat.

the process is relatively simple. using the snap tool set to

vertex you can snap a lot of the extruded shapes to other

previously extruded shapes to get a nice overall shape. the

hard part is forming it to look like shoulders and a neck

a lot of trial and error is involved.

Next;

i will be making the shoulders and the neck and

going into more detail to make it look more realistic!

With the Speed of the gods!

I've managed to get quite far in
two short hours
that have felt like a lifetime.

Ive reloaded the planes
Added the lines using the snap tool
converted to editable poly

the next step is to use your reference planes

to extrude the vertex of the polygon

to line up with the contours of your face.



Now im not complaining but this is tidious
and requires attention as not to deselected/selected
the wrong vertex point



TIME CONSUMING!

after a lot of pulling a lining up you have something like this.



right now im done on to the next section
which i believe is using the mirror or symetrey
tool to duplicate what I have
so I dont have to do it all over again!

you apply a symmetry modify from the drop down box

set your anchor point and pull it across

to line up with the middle seem



it looks like a japaneese kensi mask!
not my face
GheY!



Now a pro wrestle mask!

Out of all the options for making a mirror image using
the symetery tool offers the best results,
as i can edit one side and watch the mirrored side take an effect,
all in all its coming along pretty well.
after adding a couple of modifiers

such as turbo smooth and setting

the nurbs to smoothing it looks pretty good.

I'M GONNA KILL SOMEONE!!

so I clicked open new file not save, so I lost everything
and had to start again! I opened the original file but the
topology was set to the old [PSD] i had, so I've started again!

@%$&!

look at this bit of rubbish!

Re do Of Topooo

I re-did my Topology and this is the result,
hopefull now i have a lack of triangles
and such i should be in for an easier time!

My big FAT WHOOOPSIE!

WHOOOPSIE!!!

it turns out my topology wasnt that great so I
ended up with lots of silly little faults that I
couldnt correct, so i was advised by Richard
to start again! all very well but i have to be
handing this in soon!

MY FACE

Here we have some lovely photos

PROFILE and FACE

now I can do some Topology

This will it easier to render

my face in 3dStudioMax

the idea is to allow me to see and work out

the depths of things such as nose and eyes.

doing this will help me use the

quads more accurately and hopefully

produce a better end result

so I cropped my photo edited the two layers with

Filter>Distort>Lens Correction

so I know they are leveled, and sized perfectly

or as perfect as possible :)

next we do the layers of topology

they look a little something like this

with these complete we import them onto planes in

the 3dStudioMax and begin our rendering.

which will be in the next blogger update!!!

Just made the face blog

this should be yet another interesting module