[ENDED] BC2-1803 – March 2018 Class Homepage – Creating Stylized Characters with Blender
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Homework submission Week 3
Hello, I am Kate, and I like doing retopology.
But I don’t want to see it for a month (at least).
I was busy working on another project, so I had to do all of the retopology in two days. The only thing that saved me was the Multires modifier – I had decent base meshes for the shirt, pants, socks and shoes, so I didn’t have to rework them. And the cape seemed good enough from the simulation. But the head, coat and hands (especially the hands!) were quite enough to entertain me over the weekend.
I also modelled his eyelids, even though they are not in the original sculpture. I’m not entirely sure how to go about this, so I ripped the edge where his eyelashes are supposed to be, and I hope I’ll be able to rig it for animation this way.
I’d still like to polish a few things and upload the model to Sketchfab, but I really need to get some sleep, so I’ll do it tomorrow.
And here is my Robo-orb submission.
Well….. taking much longer than I thought to get a modeled character. This is my first serious foray into sculpting, so working with the large learning curve. I’m trying to figure out how to get the skirt portion of her outfit sculpted, but it just seems like too much work to sculpt it than to box model a base mesh then sculpt details into it. It’s a learning process, no?
Artwork for reference:
Homework Assignment Week 3
Maybe on the Earth there is some time zone where there is still Sunday, my time management totally failed this week.. The biggest mistake was not completing the orb exercise in advance, it took much more time than thought and still being only at the half.
But there is no excuse has to do like in a real school – posting which having 🙂
The little giraffe is neutralized but did not have chance to retopology:
Homework Submission – Week 3
Man, this was hard stuff. Not the actual retopology work itself, but everything ephemeral to it – I kept making mistakes and having to start over. Once halfway through retopo I realized that I had joined all the parts of my model together but didn’t boolean them together, and it was causing weird issues with the shrinkwrap modifier in combination with the subsurf; it seemed like in some spots it wanted to shrinkwrap to the internal geometry for some reason. I was able to copy my retopo object to the clipboard and paste it into a much earlier save from right before I joined everything together, and start again from there. It took a lot of patience, especially with the Boolean modifier in making sure it didn’t leave any internal geometry – I had to try a few different “orders” of combining parts before I finally got a solid model. But, things were learned.
Going with Kent’s advice I “took in” the pants a little so they weren’t so baggy. I took a tiny bit of mass from the jacket too but very little – I wanted that to look a little puffy, it is a jacket after all. I also did some polish on the face and especially the shoes before I started the retopo (the shoes were awful in my Week 2 sculpt).
So here he is:
The jacket and the hat are separate pieces from the rest of the character. When looking from a distance, the wireframe from the character’s arms visually “bleeds through” the jacket wireframe in some places – I’ve tried a few things but I can’t seem to prevent that if I want to stay zoomed out far enough to get the entire character in the viewport (the effect goes away when you zoom closer). Just take my word for it that it’s a visual artifact I suppose.
And of course my RoboOrb, from back when I first submitted it as an exercise for the Retopology course:
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