Freakish Muscle? - Page 2 - Simply Maya User Community

# 16 13-09-2006 , 06:25 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006

Location: NYC

Posts: 30

here it is shaded

Attached Thumbnails

Click image for larger version

Name: torso wire.jpg
Views: 140
Size: 22.5 KB
ID: 30749

Quote

# 17 13-09-2006 , 07:30 PM

Subscriber
Join Date: Feb 2005

Location: Newport, Wales

Posts: 72

That's not really workable, your best bet is to restart and use a muscular male for reference and shape the body before you detail. Once the shape has been done in a low poly mesh then start adding the details and to start emphasising the muscles.

Quote

# 18 13-09-2006 , 07:35 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006

Location: NYC

Posts: 30

sad day:shakehead
Thanks to all those who took the time to give me some direction. Ill post better stuff in the future, i will be back.

Quote

# 19 13-09-2006 , 08:21 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006

Posts: 255

Just a suggestion...keep it all quads.

I am not sure if you are trying to make the geometry all triangles, but you have some really bad nonmanifold geometry in there.

Here is a shot of a body I am working on at the moment. It still needs lots of work, but as you can see its all quads, then when you smooth you will get much better results.

Attached Thumbnails

Click image for larger version

Name: quadbody.jpg
Views: 139
Size: 55.7 KB
ID: 30756

Quote

# 20 13-09-2006 , 08:36 PM

Senior Software Developer
Join Date: Jan 2005

Location: Livingston, Scotland

Posts: 1,701

Originally posted by esion
I am not sure if you are trying to make the geometry all triangles, but you have some really bad non manifold geometry in there.

Originally Posted by

Agreed with that. There seems to be no flow at all, it all seems a jumbled mess in there, with tons of border edges everywhere. Always work with quads imho, and try forgetting the poly smooth and go straight to a Sub-D conversion, at least this lets you work with the old poly history and when rendered will show a nice smooth object.

Don't give up, take everyone's advice and start again. Don't look at this as being fruitless you will have learnt a great deal from this. Move onwards and upwards.

Chris (formerly R@nSiD)
Twitter
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will truely know peace - Jimmy Hendrix

Winner SM VFX Challenge 1

3rd Place SM SteamPunk Challenge (May 2007)

Quote

# 21 13-09-2006 , 08:48 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006

Location: NYC

Posts: 30

Hey thanks a lot guys... It means a lot to me that youre willing to give me help with all your experience. im going to spend a lot of time working with this. Ive tried to teach myself modeling and ive come to realize that i can be very sloppy. Soon ill post something better. user added image

Quote

# 22 13-09-2006 , 09:06 PM

Subscriber
Join Date: Mar 2006

Location: Washington, DC

Posts: 195

esion is that the hyper-realistic modeling with Jeff? I'll be looking into that when Im done with my head.

ajj241: good luck with your next try, and if you have some extra cash to throw around that is a very good lecture that esion is working on, I'll post a link later

Quote

# 23 14-09-2006 , 12:16 AM

Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006

Posts: 255

Originally posted by Eldwick
esion is that the hyper-realistic modeling with Jeff? I'll be looking into that when Im done with my head.

Originally Posted by

Yes it is, I will be posting my finished product when I get there. I would suggest the tutorial for an intermediate modeler.

I will also add that the hyper-realistic tutorial is not a lot of help when it comes to modelling. It will just say things like "now finish the rest of the model" with no real guidance. So you need to have some ability to model. And there is no real facial tutorial, just some images to reference and 1 paragraph that says "model the head using similar techniques."

If you want a good modelling walk through on bodies and quads, I would suggest the Modeling and Animation Handbook.

Quote