The model is done! The eye was definitely the trickiest because of its odd shape. To achieve it, I had to make the eyeball itself a plane, then soft select, pulling vertices out so I can get a bit of roundedness.

In my previous entry I was not happy with how bug eyed my character looked, hence the change. But working on a flat plane isn’t really easy either, so I had to do a workaround. I filled the hole, then extracted the shape. Following that, I quad drew directly on top of the odd shape to get the topology … Read the rest

The Quad Draw/retopology is now done! At this point, I go in and manually edit vertices until I’m happy with the shape. I will add hands and feet, and clean  up the model a bit more.

I’m going to have a challenge with these eyes. Since I want to animate them (or at least, a blink) I’ll have to work out how to squish them, perhaps with a lattice?

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More of the same, just plugging away at the Quad Draw in between other illustration work. The hard part is done, joining the face to the body is always the trickiest thing to do for me. I still have some tidying up once finished, e.g. even distribution of polys across the surface. I test my mesh by mirroring it to the other side, seeing if the shape is what I’m looking for, and it is!

I continue to sculpt until I am happy with a basic silhouette. I don’t bother with details or anything, just enough that I can easily retopologise.

If I want to add more detail, such as in the nose, I will take my new retopologised model back into zbrush and subdivide from there. But anyway…

Once I’m done with the basic sculpt I export it as an obj to Maya. From there, I can make my model live and use Quad Draw to redraw my mesh. I need to keep in mind that my loops need to have even numbers so … Read the rest