Beer glass scene creation
This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.
# 1 19-11-2008 , 02:47 AM
Subscriber
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Illinois
Posts: 364

character modeling question

Is it better to model a character as one piece then model clothing over top. Or model each piece separate and then combine. I was wondering be fore I start this new character I drew and want to animate. Is it harder to weight a character that's in separate pieces or easier. Also should you model hair seperate then parent it to the geometry or will modeling it and just combine it do the trick. Thanks in advance for the help.

# 2 19-11-2008 , 01:57 PM
Jay's Avatar
Lead Modeler - Framestore
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: UK
Posts: 6,287
For this project dont bog yourself down, just model what you are going to see.

You could build it all just as an exercise but the rigging will be more difficult because of the different surfaces, there are ways around it but if youve not done it to that scale before, stick with my first comment.

I did all the characters for ITVs headcase in that manner and each one was rigged in less that a day.

Jay

# 3 19-11-2008 , 02:24 PM
honestdom's Avatar
The Nurb Herd
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: London
Posts: 2,381
do you generally have to do the rigging yourself?

# 4 19-11-2008 , 03:35 PM
Jay's Avatar
Lead Modeler - Framestore
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: UK
Posts: 6,287
Some places like you to, but I didnt have to in this particular case. I had alot of models to build, a full character every 3 days so the animators and tds were rigging.

Jay

# 5 19-11-2008 , 04:32 PM
Subscriber
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Illinois
Posts: 364
thanks Jay for the advice.

# 6 19-11-2008 , 07:25 PM
Jay's Avatar
Lead Modeler - Framestore
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: UK
Posts: 6,287
did you get my email dude?

Jay

Posting Rules Forum Rules
You may not post new threads | You may not post replies | You may not post attachments | You may not edit your posts | BB code is On | Smilies are On | [IMG] code is On | HTML code is Off

Similar Threads