Swim away

[Giantsun]

Doing a character for later anim. A swimmer, he still misses his speedo but im getting to that, still have to do some work on the character. Crits/Tips welcome.

[DizzyBoy]

Hi Giantsun,

Cool modeling but to me the arms and legs are too short (especialy the legs)

It looks like a shortening view.

Keep going,

Dizzy Boy

[Giantsun]

I am going to recheck the proportions on this, thanks DizzyBoy.

[Giantsun]

Rechecking proportions...some work on muscles...testing 1 2 3...

[Moochie]

Looking good .. loads of detail. I think what's throwing me is the top of the chest .. it looks like solid ribcage all the way up to his armpits. If you dig in there a bit to define the muscles he'll look more in proportion. But I'm sure you know that already. What are your plans for the model?

[Frenchy Pilou]

...short
Pilou

[ilusiondigital]

The arms are too shorts too.

Keep working on it.

I want to see your advances

[Giantsun]

Moochie : A swimmer in a pool...I want to do the jump in the water, swim away thing...with "muscly" interaction... but gotta recheck them upper chest first.

Frenchy Pilou, ilusiondigital: Yep guys, back to the drawing board

[tez]

Coming on nice here are a few things I would amend.

1) forarms longer and bigger and hands bigger.
2) Legs need to be much longer.

I would like to see the back and side pics also.

It took me a fair while to get mine looking right and still has loads of work to be done.

[Giantsun]

Will have to post after the week end...mucho worko...drowzy...sleep now...
thanks for the pointers tez. Will post has soon has more corrections are made.
I must be anamorphicaly observent chanllenged cause I only see it after you good folkz point it out. Oh well.

[Giantsun]

Going for better proportions, shorter upper body, bigger hands, longer arms and legs...will continue to try to improve on details, pay no attention to the weird hair. Crits & tips welcomed.

[Moochie]

Still looks a bit misproportioned. What screen resolution are you using? Maybe your models are appearing elongated on your screen?

If you've never looked at body proportions before, you should pop down your local book store and see what they've got in the Art Theory section. All you want is a beginner's book on drawing the human body, because that will show the classic 'canons' .. proportions based on the distance between scalp and chin. I've put links to a couple of small versions below. Good luck!

http://underdog.dreamcomics.com/english/canon.htm
http://www.wetcanvas.com/ArtSchool/D...nForm/Lesson2/

[tez]

This gives youa idear as well. http://www.fineart.sk/show.php?w=1081

[Giantsun]

Thanks folks will have a go at that. And yes my screens are a bit elongated cause i mainly do post production and i got everything set up so that two standart pal screens get displayed on monitor.

[Giantsun]

Several hours of looking at it...and doing stuff to it...and some voodoo in the middle.
Think this is a keeper...dunno..u tell me...those links were killers. thanky.



Crits & Tips very welcomed.