Reply To: Keiths Polybook

Well, I’m back here and blowing the dust off my long forgotten Polybook! Santa was kind enough to bring me a decent PC this year – so no more random crashes now! It’s heaven 🙂

I’ve only been away from modelling for a few months, but it feels quite overwhelming looking at the motorbike I was working on. I figured that a few easier projects should get me going again. And then come back to the bike.

I had an old clown project that I worked on last year that just needed finishing off so that seemed like a good place to start. Here are some work in progress shots that I kept, maybe it’s useful if anybody else is doing something similar. It’s based off a nice 2D reference from Fred Fields that I stumbled across one evening.

For the block out I just sculpted on a sphere to get the basic proportions, I found the standard inflate and clay strips brushes good for this. For the mouth cavity, I used Kent’s trick of masking an area and inflating it inwards to give me what I needed. The hat was a simple skin modifier extruded in to shape.

I then added some simple teeth to give him his winning smile, and just added more details where I could – gradually going up in detail.