Jobberknowl

Artwork Works in Progress
1

This is my second head. I started with a cube, and just started subdividing, pushing, pulling, and extruding. I didn’t use a reference or any mirroring, just worked on it until it looked like I wanted it to.

The eyes were made separately, of course, and the teeth were made by Cicca:
http://www.dedalo-3d.com/index.php?filename=SXCOL/makehuman/news/teeth_model_by_cicca.html

http://www.alevans.com/050514TestImg/Jobberknowl05.jpg

Comments and criticism are welcome.

–SomePlexon

2

This head is actually pretty decent. The hair is great. If this head is supposed to be realistic, it looks kinda plastic. There are some ridges that I don’t think are normally found on a human face. Just tweak some of the edges and smooth it out a little bit and you’ll have a good human head.

3

looks pretty good for the most part. there’s an edge on the side of his head and his nose though that could be smoothed out a bit.

4

Thanks for the comments. I don’t know whether it’s supposed to be realistic or not, I’m still exploring. I fiddled with the mesh for the nose and cheeks a little, and tried to make a flesh-like material.

http://www.alevans.com/050514TestImg/Jobberknowl06.jpg

I’ve got two questions:

  1. Turning on OSA seems to smooth out his skin too much; not turning it on gives jaggies. Is there any solution?

  2. For some reason, there seems to be light coming from inside his nose and his ears. I haven’t found any way to stop this. What’s happening here?

Thanks again!

–SomePlexon

5

Yeah, that looks a lot better. In response to your first question, could you elaborate a little more? I’m not exactly sure what you mean. As far as the second one goes, make sure your light casts shadows.

6

In response to your first question, could you elaborate a little more? I’m not exactly sure what you mean.

Certainly. Here’s a split closeup at full size:

http://www.alevans.com/050514TestImg/FleshTexProb.jpg

The right side was rendered with OSA off, and has a bit of texture to the flesh. The left side has OSA on, and the flesh looks more like a headshot AFTER Photoshop :-?

As far as the second one goes, make sure your light casts shadows.

Here’s a shot of the nose, with only a single spotlight on:

http://www.alevans.com/050514TestImg/LightInNose.jpg

As you can see, it looks like somebody’s shining a flashlight down his nostrils.

Thanks for the help!

–SomePlexon