So I decided to learn Blender and I chose for my first project a human head. Here's what I got. If some of you more experience modelers could critique it, that'd be cool.

(also, don't mind the third edge on the top lip, that's gone already.)



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Might be good for someone who hasn't eaten in two months... or maybe a cadavre? Right now it looks more like a skull than a healthy human's head. The back of the head looks too boney and the eyes are dug in too deep.

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You've got all of the vertices in the right places, but what you're lacking is dimension and form. I'm almost certain that Blender can support images behind the model. Place a human head behind the model, and work from there. Glad to see we've got another one on the way.

JediKirby

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Live on, Adam.

I'm not exactly a blender guru, but for your next model, you should try to avoid using triangles, as it tends to do funny things to the model when you turn on the smoothing. Other than that, its a good first effort. Blender can be a pain to get the hang of.

These two threads over at the elysiun forums are very helpful

Modelling a head

General modelling strategies

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[This message has been edited by Run- (edited June 06, 2004).]

Avoid triangles? I was trying specifically to use triangles, haha. Good to know. Thank you guys.

Quick update:

[Edit: Wow, that first face tutorial is insanely helpful just from a glance at the picture...that's a much better way to do a face, especially with animation...wow.]

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[This message has been edited by BobTheMasher (edited June 06, 2004).]

That looks a lot better.

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I bet you think that's funny, don't you.

MUCH better.

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I suppose I should have mentioned this earlier, but it slipped my mind. You can convert triangles to quads using ALT+J, but it might throw your model out a bit and you'll need to fiddle with some of vertices.

That scond head looks much better.

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[This message has been edited by Run- (edited June 06, 2004).]

Avoid triangles? Im not claiming to know everything there is to know about modeling, but I thought 3 sided polys were standard for every program for the sake that it has a definate surface. I cant even export an object to 3DSMax with out all the polygons being tripled. AS far as smoothing goes, in lightwave, smooothing looks tons better when everything is tripled because of that definate shape. Im sure there are exceptions but for the most part, triangles are the way to go, just learn to use them right

Great work on the update by the way, keep at it man

-Salvation

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I think it depends on what you are doing. Tris is faster for games but for general purpose modelling quads are easier to use. Quads also tend to give better subdivison and subsurf results, and avoid some specularity weirdness, although this could just be a blender thing.

Probably depends more on whether or not you're using them right and what you want to model. Smooth stuff (like heads) and animations tend to come out better with quads.

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