I really need your help on this one :)

[system]

Hi.

For the last month i’ve made quite a few characters, having spent alot of time with ZBrush. Now one thing, i personally think that i’ve no knowledge in at all (which basically is killing my final render pics) is Posing.

Posing the character, how do i do that ?

I know the “mark part of the character,click rotate,set up the rotation axis,win”-method. Bot it doesn’t work for me i must be doing something wrong heh When i, for instance, mark an arm and start rotating it, it breaks my mesh. Litterally. It is tearing the mesh appart, leaving a stretched, ugly, gaping messed up shoulder, when i start turning the arm.
To give you an idea of what i mean, it’s like the contrast between posing in Maya with or without a smooth rig -> My model turns out as the non-smooth one, making it look like … yeah you know …

Please, give me some accurate advice, direct me to an Epic tutorial, link me a movie, call me and explain or w/e.!

I just really need your help hehe - thanks alot in advance . ^^

[grey32]

Hi ThomasDK

The basics of posing are here at

http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/Posing_a_Model

But it looks like you have that worked out. Theres probably a tut’ or two
around, but I don’t have links, certainly there are plenty of ‘posing’ movies.

From your description, it’s like you’re having masking issues. In general,
you mask the part you want to move, then invert the mask before posing.
But a non-opaque mask (not 100% masked) might cause problems. Or perhaps you are posing a very low-res mesh?

Maybe you can post some before and after pics?

G.

[system]

Really appreciate your reply mate !

I’ve done what you said and uploaded a few pics. The model is a WIP of Illidan Stormrage, a character from the Warcraft universe Still lots of work needs to be done. Anyways, here i’ve showed my steps at posing, and actually, i should tell you the final result is the best one i’ve had yet According to the torn appart mesh. Correct me if i’m using all the wrong tools, if i’m taking a wrong approach etc. Here goes:

This is the base model, as it is so far, untouched.
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[system]

Ok it seems i haven’t payed enough attention.

Just found the Mask Blurring tutorial under the link you posted me mate heh, it did the job !

Thanks alot

[Disco_Stu]

haha dont pose at 500000 polys man itll never work.

go down to first or maybe second sub d