So I kind of sort of missed updating the blog last Friday because I was working until 5 o' clock on finishing Kopf's (which is his name, I have now decided) clothing. I apologize for the delay, but character modeling takes A REALLY LONG TIME, especially if you only have a cursory knowledge over the matter.
In a nutshell, all I did was extrude and match vertices and faces into the reference images from an initial polygon plane, and then fine tuned from there (AND THIS TAKES FOREVER). I used the Insert Edge Loop and Multi-Cut tools to create topography to add more edges and vertices to modify in greater detail. I created a separate head and body and connected their vertices with the Merge Vertex tool to create a neck (same thing with the hands/wrist). To create clothing, I just duplicated the body, deleted faces I didn't need, and used the Sculpt Geometry tool to pull the faces outward to create the different articles of clothing. Here are a few renders of the initial pieces, and one of them compiled.
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| The body |
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| The head |
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| The hand, after connection to wrist |
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| Entire body, smoothed and connected |
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| Body with clothes (the shaders are pretty sketchy at this point) |
Again, sorry for the delay. But I overestimated my ability to actually be good at using Maya.
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