Polybook of NumberNine

[numbernine]

I’m waiting for next week’s critique stream to continue with my anatomy, however I figured I’d give the face a try. I hadn’t decided what ethnicity I’d want my character to be, but seeing as my body reference was an asian woman I decided to give that a go. I had a pretty hard time with the shape of the eyefolds, but it’s getting there. This is pretty much my first time messing around with using particle hair as hair instead of making a field of grass or something. The combing is pretty relaxing 🙂

[spikeyxxx]

@numbernine I agree, grooming hair is great fun and very relaxing! The short hair version looks quite convincing, I think.

Long hair is a lot more difficult. You get these hairs going through the skin and that is very hard to avoid;)

Anyway, beautiful faces, I’m jealous of your skills…

[numbernine]

@spikeyxxx I’m still on the fence whether I want to do long hair or short hair eventually. I think it’ll depend on what kind of character I’ll settle on. This is pretty much the first time that I’ve managed to make an imaginary face that I feel looks pretty decent, so you saying it’s a beautiful face means a lot to me, thanks! (I ofcourse welcome critique as well)

[numbernine]

Trying to come up with ideas for the character itself.

[numbernine]

Another idea. Clothing is going to be a real challenge on a technical level, but I haven’t managed to think up of a design that satisfies me.

[silentheart00]

@numbernine You have some interesting ideas going here, which I like.  What/who influences you?

[numbernine]

I mainly just save images on pinterest, I should keep a better list but some of the people I really like are these:

https://www.artstation.com/siwoo
https://www.artstation.com/zeen (one of my absolute favorites)
https://www.artstation.com/sparth
https://www.behance.net/dongkont

[silentheart00]

@numbernine Thanks for sharing!

[numbernine]

Got some feedback on the critique livestream. I’ll need to rewatch the video once it’s been archived because I got kind of excited and I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten half the feedback except for the feet / hands being too small. I do feel re-energized to continue on with the project. I’m getting closer to an actual design too. Making all the clothing / accesoires might take a long time since I’m going to have to experiment a lot with cloth sims / sculpting etc, but I’m feeling the fun again!

[numbernine]

Making progress on the clothing / props

[smurfmier1985]

@numbernine I like this outfit! Curious to see the end result. Keep it up!

[silentheart00]

@numbernine This is coming together nicely.

[spikeyxxx]

@numbernine Amazing! 

Just take care of those toes;)

[numbernine]

@spikeyxxx Yeah, it seems that one of the toes did not bool correctly (even though I checked) and I haven’t been able to fix it, so I’ve just left it in there for now.

A fun fact that I discovered when booling (in this case Union) is that the absolute dimensions, not scale, of your object matters. Originally my model was about 1,65 meters / blender units tall as that was the height of my reference. When I started booling objects it would rarely go well, until I scaled my model about by about a factor of 5. At those dimensions,nearly all the bools worked perfectly without a hitch. It’s probably due to the distances becoming too small in whatever algorithm booleans use behind the scene.

[Clint Johnson]

@numbernine Cool stuff – I also dig your Object #2, the mushroom on a skull 🙂  

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