Where's the (fairly basic) human body tutorial?

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I can’t seem to find it anymore.
Tried almost every tutorial link I could find on Blender3d.com, various links off Blender3d.com. I tried here, but I cannot seem to find it anymore!

Does anyone know some nice (and easy to understand) human modeling tuts?

Thanks!

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I’m sure they are out there, but to get you started, there are two basic schools here:
1-start with a single plane, and start building/extruding outward
2-start by making a very rough body, (making sure you don’t have any redundant faces inside),
2a-subsurf, manipulate your original vertices to distort the subsurf, then alt C to convert to mesh
2b-repeat 2a

Another way is to make your model out of ‘slices’ using surface curves, and then face them, using ctrl J and then F.

Also, if you can’t find the tuts, try changing your keywords, and definately use google.

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You could start with http://www.neenjatech.org/projects/character/body/page1.html
although it isn’t the simplier tutorial out there.

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Wow!? Hold on here! :o :smiley: What is subsurf??
The way I try to start is with a cilinder, modelled in roughly a body, then deleting the parts where the arms and legs should come and fill those again with an edited circle to make extrution possible…?

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Not Blender specific but required reading.

http://maxrovat.sns.hu/subdiv/

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http://www.3dlinks.com/tutorials/GENERAL/Chapter6_1.cfm

Fairly detailed info on modelling the human form… Perhaps more than you need, but I thought that I’d mention it :wink:

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There’s a more Blender-specific tutorial, from WizardNX on these forums:
http://www.alfonsi.org/wizardnx/headtut_e.htm

Don’t know how old it is, though.