I agree about the jacket, it looks too puffy and soft. .. I also started working on the hand textures too.
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I agree about the jacket, it looks too puffy and soft. .. I also started working on the hand textures too.
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I think if you just make the folds and creases larger on the jacket on the unsmoothed version it would look much better. smoothing the mesh really decreases the size of those.
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. One other thing that you may not be doing. I notice that you are making this model as one half, and then duplicating it over.. a tip for that would be to do these exact steps.Select everything you want to copy over
Group it
Duplicate it
mirror it over (-1 in Z axis i think)
Deselect
Select each part that merges in the middle and combine them
Go into vert mode and select all middle verts
Merge verts with .0001 settings
NOW go to "Edit polys>Normals>Soften/Harden>all soft"
finally smooth the mesh.
I used to just smooth one half, duplicate it over and do my renders.. what i realise with this technique though is that you get weird shading on each side, you tend to have that line down the middle more often, and the whole mesh just doesnt duplicate over properly.
If this is the same steps you are using.. then just fix it in your final render by moving those verts
... Ok, not sure if that helps, but maybe it would get rid of that line 
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LOL, dittoOriginally posted by drknow
Well, Im screwed. You make my model look like a peice of dookie.
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Remember to check on both shells normals though, as you can invert them by duplicating into negative scales.Originally posted by M
I used to just smooth one half, duplicate it over and do my renders.. what i realise with this technique though is that you get weird shading on each side, you tend to have that line down the middle more often, and the whole mesh just doesnt duplicate over properly.
(Or so I have understood after several tries)
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I wasnt doing the "Edit polys>Normals>Soften/Harden>all soft" step... as I wasnt aware it even existed!! but I will now!
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I am revisting the Jacket, adding more folds in the poly stage as cb8rwh suggested (no shots yet
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also I started to work on the hand texture as M suggested.. painting in PS.
here are some early pics , no bump map yet - just color map.
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the fingernails appear as if the they are going to peal off! i used the Crease function in the SubD menu... is there any way to tweak this? I included a close up of the mesh for reference.
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Only thing I'd maybe mess with is perhaps make the space between the fingers a little more uniform. The larger gap in the middle seems a little off to me.Very nice job!
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its amazing what you dont notice after looking at something for so long.
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Man Blame it on guitar playing. Yeah like its the 6 fret streches....yeah.looks like I have been doing the Vulcan live long and prosper sign way too much
:banana: Man your work just keeps getting better. I see that you split your model for texturing. Is this the only way to get the UV's separate for mapping?
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I think you can split up the uv mapping other ways, but I was getting overwelmed by the amount of them. so I took the easy way out
I saw that cb8rwh had made a nice set of dentures for his model,
so I gave it a go too
- however after I smoothed em' and put them in I noticed how much they looked like a bunch of after dinner mints instead of teeth 
also after a couple of quick renders I am noticing some texture problems need to be addressed. like my perfectly symetrical hairline for starters....
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