cheers guys

thanks vladimirjp and good point with the neck. I've not really done much with it yet but will definately give it some attention after the (slow going) hair modelling.

Si

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Managed to progress a little with the hair. It's all fairly basic geometry at the minute and there is shed loads to do:

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Looks pretty cool man.

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Si

Good Start, it has the beginngs of the marble look.

Cheers
Jay

thanks guys

its all trial and error at the minute. I got a bit more detail done last night. It still needs more volume in the hair but I'll come back to that after the flow is in place.

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Looking very cool Si

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arran3D

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can i be really stupid and ask what Si stands for?

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Accept no substitutions.

cheers arran, I'm going to look forward to doing some nice texturing/rendering with this

NeoStrider: course you can, its short for my name - simon

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Looking good Tick, really just a thought but if you texture are you going to join the beard and hair into one mesh? just so that that way you can have the "grain" (dont know if thats the right term) of the marble running through, without any messy texture placements?

Like I say just a thought.

Cheers

Steve

cheers Steve
Good job you brought that up as I'd not really thought about it. I think for a realistic stone look the whole head, hair and beard might need to be attached as one unit so that, like you say, the textures will run smooth. It'll be an experiment once the time consuming hair and beard are complete

Si

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No probs man, you could always project a texture onto it if it got too messey then bake it on??

Bit of a easy route out of it

Sounds like a possibility steve. If it comes to that then it'll be tutorial hunting time unless its in the help section

Si

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Got a link to a tut, so PM or e-mail me if you need it.

Cheers

cheers for that steve

Here's another minor update as I've been real busy recently. The whole left side of the hair is effectively done now except for some tweaking and the edges. I'm going to duplicate this area for the right side and then go in and move some of those strands about to get the look right and blend in with the front right hair which sits differently. Then its mr beard time...
Next time a bumpmap or an excuse to get zbrush might save a lot of time!



Si

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Mar/Apr Challenge 2006 Entry and W.I.P
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Good work mate. The modelling in the face area is looking awesome! I think once you get the neck area sorted out as vladimirjp suggested this is going to look very cool.

well done!

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arran3D

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