Senegalese Man

Artwork Works in Progress
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It’s been a while since I tried modeling a human, and I needed one for a project I’m working on.

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2

An update. I hope to post daily updates if only spur me onto finishing as soon as possible.

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3

Added hands and defined legs down to the calves.

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Got the mesh unwrapped and starting to detail the textures. I haven’t got to the normal map or specularily maps yet. This is just the color map.

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5

nice one , looking very African so far looking forward to see final render.

6

Added a bump map - subsurface scattering (using the defaults for skin 1). I didn’t save anything I did with the specular map. The results didn’t look so good. I am tempted keep him bald so I don’t have to figure out how to make his hair look natural. Up to now whenever I worked with a hair particle system, I used straight hair - no kinks. A pretty high percentage of men in Senegal shave their heads anyway (At least from what I remember.) I will need to add eyebrows yet.

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I think the shaved head looks good but if you do go for hair it would normally be very short anyway.

8

I tweaked the mesh to have the teeth not have sub-surface scattering.

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I used the rigify plugin and spent the rest of the day trying to fix weight paint issues.

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For some reason, weight painting wasn’t working, so I settled for selecting vertex groups and assigning weights manually. Slow, but it did work. I do have some tweaking as the shirt and pants don’t share the same weighting as the guy’s body .