My WIP

[LiveWire]

well i desided to make a human model the other day, and i just decided to post some WIP of it.
its not half finished yet, and ive kinna 'slowed' down working on it.
it was acculy alot easyer to make this than i thought it would be.

screens.
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/guy_screen_01.jpg
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/guy_screen_02.jpg
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/guy_screen_03.jpg
yep big jaw, thats mostly due to the crapy drawing i use to model him.

hes gonna have a lot more cloths/armor/detail and prob a sword or somthing.

Philip

[gizmo_thunder]

nice work dude...
one doubt.. did you actually make this in
AC3D??? if yes could you help me out
with the steps i should follow to make a
new model myself??
thanks a lot..

[LiveWire]

thanx...and yes this model was completly done in ac3d
yes i will make some steps up if you want.
ill post them here

[gizmo_thunder]

That would be great :)
and thanks in advance :)

[LiveWire]

k here we go with the steps....

first your gonna want to make a front and side simple drawing, like so...
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/View.jpg
NOTE: youll want to make drawing as identical in propotions as posible.

youll want to divide this image up into 2 seperate images, wich youll set as backgrounds in ac3d.
to set an image as a background in ac3d goto View>Background Image>Set>side/front/top/all
select your Side image for the side view, and your Front image for the front view

now you should have a background image for both side and front views
NOTE: you can adjust the background images placment by holding Alt and pressing the Arrow Keys.

once you have your BGs correctly aligned, its time to start modeling!

start with creating a simple box at the toe of you drawings, and adjust its vertexs to 'fit'
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/screen01.jpg

change to 'surface select mode' and use the 3ds window to select the 'back' surface of the box...
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/screen02.jpg

extrude the surface back along the foot, every time adjusting the vertex's...
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/screen03.jpg

select the surfaces where the ankel would be, and extrude...
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/screen04.jpg

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right now your probly thinking "thats a pretty blocky foot", and yes it is pretty blocky...this is where Subdivision come into play. :wink:

to preview your foot subdivided:
change to object selection mode
select your foot
goto Tool>Object Property Editor... (or hit F9)
adjust the 'Subdivision Preview' bar to 1, 2, or 3, and press the Set button


notice how your foot becomes smooth.
to set it back, put it to 0, and press the Set button
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making the rest of the leg...
select the top surfaces and extrude...
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/screen05.jpg

now select the surfaces where the crotch ataches, and extrude...
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/screen06.jpg

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k, im sure youve noticed that your only modeling one half of the guy
thats cause youll flip that half the complete him later

but you can 'preview' what he'll look like as a whole by turning realtime mirror on.
to turn it on, goto View>Realtime mirror>X
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on to making his torso...
select top surfaces, and extrude
as always adjusting the vertex's every time...
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/screen07.jpg

select the surfaces where his shoulder would meat his torso, and, as always, extrude and adjust...
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/screen08.jpg

now for adding some detail...
to add detail, we have to "Cut" the surfaces, heres how...

select two vertex's, and goto, Vertex>Insert Vertex
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/screen09.jpg

next select indavidual pairs of vertexs and goto Vertex>Slice Surface
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/screen10.jpg
NOTE: i edited the pictures, with the red dots, and lines, to show you what i meant.

do the same to add a more defined chest, back, and anything else you think needs more definition.


Well, that just about raps it up for now, ill try and do some face and hads stuff later, but for now its 2:00am and im going to bed.

ooo, you shouldnt flip(mirror) your model right now, but if you want to fool around with it, heres how....

change to object selection mode, select your guy, goto Object>Mirror>X+/X axis
http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v79/witte2008/screen11.jpg
NOTE: you can align vertexs to an axis, by Vertex>align to axis>x/y/z

if you have questions, or if i wasnt being clear, please ask, and i will try and explain.

Philip

[EDIT] by the way, if you havnt already, you should check out this thread:
http://www.ac3d.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=228

[gizmo_thunder]

Thanks dude :)
I did check out that thread but it
was in 3ds max so thought it would
be better to see one in ac3d :)
i hope ill' be able to make a model now :)
i still have to try, thank you once again

[gogi]

great tut, great modeling of the shoulders,congrat`s. :D

[LiveWire]

thanx guys.

gizmo, alot of modeling tuts can be used for any modeling program...
you just have to know how to convert certain things.

gogi, is there a limet to how many pics you can hold on photobucket?
cause im thinking of making a 'nice' tutorial with LOTs of Hi-res pictures

[gogi]

Hi man ,regarding the limits for posting the stuff on Photobucket there is probably limit which one I didn`t reach yet.Some people did so I found this on Concept forum.org.
be careful with photobucket
to every one using photobucket make sure your images are not to large and that you dont over flow your flolder, i am unfortunatly did just this ignoring the photobucket warnings.Now if you go and check any of my non rescent threads you will find that all my imagages have been taken away and marked ecceeded bandwith which is very embarrasing, so lauph if you must, but heed my warning.
I found that on Photobucket :
A. Due to some individuals that were abusing the system, I have had to add a few restrictions. Currently you are limited to 2500 Megabytes of transfer per month and 100 Megs disk space. I feel this is very generous and should be more than enough for the all types of users. If you link to a lot of pictures, try to keep the sizes smaller or at a higher compression and it will really help you out. If you are so kind to donate, your limitations and restrictions are lifted indefinately.

[LiveWire]

wow, 100 megs....thats not restriction
much better than others ive come across.

thanx for the info

[Kevin A.]

nice tut ,but could you make a tut bout modeling a head like that cus im kinda bad in head modeling :s, thanks

[luis436]

excuse but when i tried to do that model i was having problems with it ummmm with the pictures proportion how do we aline them perfectly i really need to know

[OPPIZ NAM]

nice work dude...
one doubt.. did you actually make this in
AC3D??? if yes could you help me out
with the steps i should follow to make a
new model myself??
thanks a lot..

.................................:D

[OPPIZ NAM]

.................................:D

ah sorry neverminde

[rengard]

well the thing you told us to do like for the picture thing were you can load it into the background.... well when i go to view there is no thing for background in the new ac3d...... so what should i do then?

[OPPIZ NAM]

well the thing you told us to do like for the picture thing were you can load it into the background.... well when i go to view there is no thing for background in the new ac3d...... so what should i do then?

?? if u r mor specific mabe i can help

[nightoftheroundtable]

from what I understand on that last post. I think maybe you should load your background or pic in orth veiw. it can't be done in the camera veiw that I know of yet.

[rengard]

lol ok sorry i did not click on the orth box on the screen... i was looking under view lol... ok thanks for the reply though.

[nightoftheroundtable]

hey its no problem. happens to everyone else. I am sure.

[jmoll]

wow i hope some day i can make that... i just got it.. im trying to make models for a game and Im looking for some good weapon tuts tho too:grin:

[Iamagin]

Any Chance of a tutorial on Modeling the head/Face in AC3D, It sure would Help alot of us. Your Body Tutorial helped out alot. Later..

[Iamagin]

Rengard, Have you ever tried Corel Draw Graphic Suite 12.Great Program.Probly get on sale now, It's a few years old. Textures, Animation Program,Corel Rave Included in the Software.Will Teach you alot.Start with Drawing/and or Animate things. It helps alot. I'm Fantastic with a Pencil.Fairly good Artist. Also great At Gif Animations.Do what I do,Just Play around with the Program AC3D.As any Program(Software)Read The Manual,Experiment,Have fun. I'm also new to this (ACD3)Learning also.That Quote from nightoftheroundtable,Throw out the Window.If I can be any Help let me know..