Hair on the Brain

First pass at hair, well in this case fur. It looks pixelated and I"m sure there's probably some sort of oversampling setting that can be used. The lack of eyebrows is disturbing now.. And I feel like hair is just another one of those things can can be tweaked and tweaked... heh. Color, length, thickness, opacity.. all of those need to be painted before it probably looks better. Eh.. anyway. Oh, and new eyes, but the bump map is a little screwy. I didn't make the eyes, but my modification kinda screwed them up a bit. Overall I think my eye sockets are too large. I'd like to start on another head sometime soon so i don't forget what I did during the modeling stage of this one...

starting to texture

Well i'm starting to texture and i'm messing w/ the bump at the same time. I think the lipstick edges are too severe, i don't like the lip or eye bumps, and now the eyelids are really bugging the hell out of me. Well, all good lessons for next time.

hair test.. enjoy

this is a hair test I did.. I repeat this is just a test, if it were the real thing then...

toned down

Ok i toned down the SSS.

starting the bump

Just started messing around w/ bump settings and bump map.... have a really basic texture map on there right now w/ eyebrows and lipstick and nothing else. Needs lots more work... not sure if i'm going to texture the eyebrows or model it as a separate plane... i'd sorta like to have independant bump control over it so i might just make it another plane....

SSS update

Apparently i had the SSS messed up before. So here's the head w/ actual SSS... i think i need to fix the eyes a bit.

texture update

Okay, rebuilt all textures from the ground up w/ a new UV layout that helps the resolution a lot. I think it's still a little soft in areas, but overall it's looking not so bad.

Updated Model

Ok.. I've updated the topology a bit. I still have tri's, but I think it's a bit more organized. For the features I did the following: 1) pulled the ears out a bit so they weren't pinned, 2) thinned out the jaw so that it wasn't so wide, 3) smoothed the brow line just a bit, 4) brought out the cheek bone a little, 5) removed a lot of un-needed lines, 6) tried to make the geometry more uniform.

I think I could still make the chin smaller and maybe workout the forehead some more. Also I'm not completely happy with the intersection of the tris near the jaw line. Not sure how to handle that just yet.. anyways, here it is. I might just move on to texturing now since I'm so far behind now.

Face Mapping Tutorial

http://www.madartgraphics.com/tutorials/face1.htm

The face they make looks a little lame, but the tutorial is awsome.

http://www.virtualmediastudios.com/tuts/mapping/part10.htm

This one has the same problem.. but it's good.

http://www.3dtotal.com/team/tutorials/astil_afro/astil_afro_01.asp

This model is great! but not that in-depth of a tutorial.

New Bump and Spec

New bump and spec maps - no color yet, I'm redoing that as well. There's a few mesh tweaks - I thickened the eye lids and tweaked a few things here and there.

JF Update

Here's an incremental update - bump maps are tough to paint.. I'm fine w/ a bit of push back, lots of refinement to do

time

Mind if we push this back a bit? I have a lot of work i need to do at.... well work.

just can't stop

I just can't seem to stop making simple adjustments that aren't even noticeable to the mesh. Hard to tell but i added the dimpling of the side of the lips and some more dramatic lighting w/ mr. fernslers help. She's got the Maya fast SSS shader on there. The ear attachment is still bugging the hell out of me so i might have to hide that w/ hair or something.... dunno.

JF Texture Update

This is the first pass at the texture - some misplaced wrinkle lines and a bunch of updates to do, but it's a start. And like Dan, I'm off for a few days.. I'll work on this later.

Looking at it again the color is in an okay direction - but there needs to be more variation. I think the chin is probably the closest. I'm having a little difficulty wrangling the skin shader to do my bidding tho. I need FAR more bump in this all over the place. Then I can assess the specularity.. eh, it's clearly a first go...

Minor texture updates..

my last post before I leave for the rest of the week.. few minor texture updates. Nothing spectacular, just smoothed things out a bit, added some more skin variation, added a couple of bumps. Small stuff, anyways, here it is..

anatomy of the neck

http://www.csupomona.edu/~jlbath/Lab%20Pics/neck.jpg

ears

I'm a fucking liar. I changed the shape of the ears and moved the closer. On to texturing!

SSS head

Well added the base SSS and the muscles in the neck. Probably the last mesh tweak before starting the texture.

texturing...

had to start early because I won't be here thurs. - monday.

Mr Brownstone..

Just some mapping, a couple of hairs bound to a vert on the right side of his face and thats it.. Kinda fun..