Mog's Models

[Mogweh]

I'm having fun with this 3D modelling monkey business. Here's my first serious attempt at a head and torso:

Re-work the body detail (her ears are way too big) and then clothes are next...

[Rigwyn]

Nice....

[Aramara Meibi]

applaud.

[Eonwind]

very very nice 
what about working to implement the missing lemur model in the future? 

[LigH]

Really selfmade?

[Catlemur]

Try joining the team.

[Mogweh]

I had an impromptu night off from studying  and worked on the torso, see above.

If you are interested, I work from several photos of a model (female in the above case) which I scale to the same proportions. I also use a generic topology map as a guide to the mesh structure. This is very important if you want the model to deform correctly when animated. I've made a couple of models:

Alien: The first thing I ever made for a tutorial. His body moved okay, but the eyelid had little function. If the geometry and topology had been designed a little better it would have been able to cover the eye.
Mellas: I took the basic frame from makehuman then rearranged and re-rigged her for animation. The joints were a mess as I made her just for this image. In a way she is the reason I started modelling, so thanks Mellas
Kran: I modeled kra from a box, his arms were modelled at his side so when he tries to raise them above the neck his shoulders do a lot of weird things. Again, with a decent topology and modeling kra with his arms out, it would have allowed for a full range of motion.

All of these move, but without the full range of motion. As you can see I have made a lot of mistakes. So, fingers crossed with this new one

[Chessire]

http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.php

You may know about it but if not you will certainly want to check this, I have heard its the most complete and popular  guide for character modeling

[Mogweh]

http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.php

You may know about it but if not you will certainly want to check this, I have heard its the most complete and popular  guide for character modeling

Swords!

Updated with arms and legs... hands next.. then swords

[Mogweh]

nb: click on images to make them larger and smaller

Quickly made clothes experiment. Not sure which I like the best.

okay, I am sure

NOW I can make a sword.

[Knightspark9]

You should apply for the team. I hear they're short on artists.

[Eonwind]

You should apply for the team. I hear they're short on artists.

+1

awesome models 

[Mogweh]

Couple of shiny swords. todo: Boots and hair then the dreaded texturing *gulp* and low poly modelling.

I'm also working on a scene based on the concept art of the talented Jilata. Central to this will be a statue of Dakkru. Here's a little preview of Jilata's sculpture being remodelled (as a test) to a lower poly count for the scene. Also, a drawing of the type of house we will be using.

[Earowo]

Talk of dakkru and houses..
Thinking about it that house looks like it would go well with the death realm
Perhaps you should [join the team] work on expanding the death realm, as it is supposedly endless (?) It definitely needs to be bigger than it is. And I personally like the idea of there being a town in the death realm, or a small settlement, where people who have come to the death realm, and settled there, decided not to search for a way out.
Those houses could be used.

[Jilata]

[...] And I personally like the idea of there being a town in the death realm, or a small settlement, where people who have come to the death realm, and settled there, decided not to search for a way out.
Those houses could be used.

That is exactly the idea Earowo. One of my chars is supposed to have lived in the DR for a while. Simple said, the area I thought of is made of those houses, either with a first floor or only a ground floor. It is kind of a village stretching over a few islands or some smaller village's close together. How you prefer to see it.

[...]I'm also working on a scene based on the concept art of the talented Jilata. [...]

*blushes*
You are good as well Mogweh. Being able to create models from my scribbles...