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# 1 27-12-2006 , 12:56 PM

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Ok - I think I am going to enter this one. I was thinking of making a robot, but then I decided to make a Hotei.

Here is a reference image that I will be using. Not sure if I will keep him fairly close to this ref, or make my own version of him. I am also not sure whether I will model him in his final pose or just make an animatable character that I put into the pose.

Good luck to everyone else! user added image

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# 2 27-12-2006 , 01:51 PM

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Perhaps try modeling only the character, posing him, and then modeling the robe so that the angles are as accurate as possible.

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# 3 27-12-2006 , 09:03 PM

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Very nice concept arran! I reccomend modeling him in a pose, that way you avoid having to rig him, but thats just a suggestion though.

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# 4 02-01-2007 , 11:30 AM

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Ok - finally made a start on him today - I think I am going to base his face on a ref from 3dsk and then pull it into the expression later on.

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# 5 02-01-2007 , 11:33 AM

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Very nice progress if I must say. user added image

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# 6 02-01-2007 , 05:30 PM

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nice start man, well this is going to be an interesting competition with so many good entries

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# 7 03-01-2007 , 04:50 PM

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Good going so far Arran, from your poly model you can definatly see its that guy you took references from!!

Looking forward to how this pans out!!

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# 8 05-01-2007 , 10:17 PM

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This'll be great once its done.
Good work so far user added image

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# 9 06-01-2007 , 11:34 PM

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hey - thanks everyone for all of the great comments! user added image

Here's a quick update - still blocking out the head and I made a start on the ears. He has lost some of his character so I am going to have spend a bit of time working on that...

One problem that I am having is that I turned on border highlights, but now I can't seem to turn it off. I went back into preferences and put the settings back to normal, but no luck. I even reset preferences to the default and also deleted user prefs, but it makes no difference...any ideas?

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# 10 06-01-2007 , 11:38 PM

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Also started blocking out his body - check out those man breasts!

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# 11 07-01-2007 , 01:07 AM

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maybe you should also have a nude references/imagry warning warning in your title with those man boobs. :p hehe

as 4 your problem :
i thought border edges were under

display>polygon compants (maya 7)
or
display > polygons (maya 8)

not under prefs

just selete the parts and hit the command and they should go away

looking very cool by the way, very nice head.