head model Huge Update

Artwork Works in Progress
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i had a head model in wip a while ago, but i completely redid everything but the face.

again, using TorQ’s “a better face tutorial”.

im actually using this head to write a tutorial on how to complete the head after doing TorQ’s face tutorial. hopefully i won’t be lazy and i’ll actually finish that.

here it is:

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i definitly would like c+c seeing as im trying make a tutorial for a good head…

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wow, looks great! can i see the wire and the ref images u used?

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hey, sorry i forgot the wires on my first posting; they’re up now.

here’s the references (i paid my brother 10 cents to pose for these :)):


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I suspect you left subsurf on when you took pics of your wires. On a more substantive note: your head is tilted down, I wonder why. Your reference is holding his head straight and positioning the head as you do causes trouble with placement and proportions, especially the ear. Speaking of which, the ear looks a bit small, and the placement might be off. They’re also pinned to the skull, a common problem when you work on ears in side view. Move the back of the ears away from the head.

You might want to find a side view (photo or drawing) of a bald guy to check the ear placement, back of the skull, back of the neck shapes. I guess for a dime your brother wasn’t willing to pin his hair up :smiley: .

A good “add the rest of the head to the TorQ animatable face” tutorial would be a welcome addition to the documentation on Blender. It would be nice if it took in the neck down to the shoulders, too. But make sure you tilt the chin back up and fix the ear, first :wink: .

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ah yes, as for the head tilt, the original reference pic had the head tilted. i just adjusted that for the tutorial. so everything should be working out for this one.

yes i had subsurf on. its actually quite a simple wireframe. i just was showing the loops and topology.

ok, i will fix the ears. i’ve never made ears before…i might not include that in the tutorial…this might be the ongoing tutorial. i don’t even know if i know enough about this to do a tutorial. whatever. :stuck_out_tongue:

btw, i see you’ve been doing some head modeling yourself.