boozy floozie
11-10-03, 06:12 AM
Today I thought I'd work on improving my eye sockets - not mine personally but those I attempt to model. I checked the quicklinks and only found eyes i.e eyeballs. So I thought I'd experiment with adapting the curve on the edit brush to give me the basic start posted below. After a bit of tweaking I was pleased with my new found technique - and why not? - it's very passable.(nobody say a thing!)
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200311/user_image-1068472567axb.jpg
However after deciding to search further (for I couldn't believe there was no other posted tutorials etc) low and behold there was, by Mahlikus The Black and it is the finest technique demonstrated to date on this blue planet. For those wondering how 'tis done Go here (http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=011331). Apart from explaining how to create eye sockets very elegantly, Mahlikus also beautifully demonstrates modelling a head starting from the topology of the underlying skull's form + a very clean method of dividing your mesh to get great results. What could be finer?
Now there's also Dear Yoshii's technique -
Go here (http://www.zbjapan.com/doc/tutorials/tips_image/img20020930230826.jpg)
Again highly effective.
Also I've seen this technique used where a sphere's coverage in the initialize section is set to emulate the basic shape of the lids - these are then marked as a polymesh with an underlying facial structure from a sphere and then unified to begin modelling. This technique makes for an effective cartoon style.
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200311/user_image-1068472505ygg.jpg
If anyone has any other methods please do share and post here and could I be so bold as to ask to have this - or certainly Mahlikus The Black's example page posted on the quicklinks, as this is one of the most difficult areas to perfect on a head.
If it is already - then shame on me and aplogies for my oversight and bumblings.
If this post could pick up a good head of steam with other fine modellers posting (myself excluded for this is not my area of expertise) then it may serve as a good starting point for others and lift us all up another notch higher.
I love you all in many different ways.
Mine's a pink gin.
The Flooze
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200311/user_image-1068472567axb.jpg
However after deciding to search further (for I couldn't believe there was no other posted tutorials etc) low and behold there was, by Mahlikus The Black and it is the finest technique demonstrated to date on this blue planet. For those wondering how 'tis done Go here (http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=011331). Apart from explaining how to create eye sockets very elegantly, Mahlikus also beautifully demonstrates modelling a head starting from the topology of the underlying skull's form + a very clean method of dividing your mesh to get great results. What could be finer?
Now there's also Dear Yoshii's technique -
Go here (http://www.zbjapan.com/doc/tutorials/tips_image/img20020930230826.jpg)
Again highly effective.
Also I've seen this technique used where a sphere's coverage in the initialize section is set to emulate the basic shape of the lids - these are then marked as a polymesh with an underlying facial structure from a sphere and then unified to begin modelling. This technique makes for an effective cartoon style.
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200311/user_image-1068472505ygg.jpg
If anyone has any other methods please do share and post here and could I be so bold as to ask to have this - or certainly Mahlikus The Black's example page posted on the quicklinks, as this is one of the most difficult areas to perfect on a head.
If it is already - then shame on me and aplogies for my oversight and bumblings.
If this post could pick up a good head of steam with other fine modellers posting (myself excluded for this is not my area of expertise) then it may serve as a good starting point for others and lift us all up another notch higher.
I love you all in many different ways.
Mine's a pink gin.
The Flooze