hello blender artists, saw Avatar about a week ago and because it was so awsome i decided to make a model of the na’vi, i have most of the head modeled for a base mesh wich i modeled using the poly by poly method, the body i will model using box modeling cuz its easier and gets the job done, comments/criticues are welcome
is this a male or a female?
well, im gona try to make it genderless so i can make different characters if i want to
Hmm. Well, I think that it would be better if you made it male or female at some point, at least. The cheekbones seem a bit sharp for my tastes but it’s kind of hard to critique without a “gender” application to it. Still, it’s great!
heres and update the head is finnished tomarow i will start on the body and i will add a gender at some point, for now im planny on making jake sully but i also plan on making neytiry. the images are in ortho so thats why the face looks wide
I have bookmarked this thread of course. I have great curiosity in see some difficult areas I found and see how you approaches it.
didnt have much time to model the body today but heres what i got do far.
I have bookmarked this thread of course. I have great curiosity in see some difficult areas I found and see how you approaches it.
Bao2 i saw you’re neytiry model and its pretty impressive! but what do you mean when you talk about difficult areas?
The corner of the mouth, the placing of the eyes, the laterals of the nose…
oh ok but im not gona cover that till i get onto sculpting and retopo witch will be a while
just a quick update
did u see the CG talk where the freakin plants had a million polys! wow. Mesh is looking good. I think the mouth should recede more under the nose.
did u see the CG talk where the freakin plants had a million polys!
yeah dude thats freakin insane! and yeah ill work on make the mouth go more under the nose but right now i’ve run into a problem, i have absalutly no idea of how to model the back, i have the ass modelled but its malformed and the topology for it is shoddy at best. anyone have any pointers on how to go about this?
In the youtube video Jake Sully Interview look at 1minute1second to see him almost completely from back.
Another two back view of him in 3m23seconds (you can use this one to get the proportions of the entire body) and in 3m33s to see it before and after he jumps showing us the back.
These two videos are from an user with much more videos even in 1920x1080 some of them
Download these videos to your disk using the Video Download Helper plugin for Firefox and use VLC to play them and you can go frame by frame (enable View/Advanced controls and now you have a Frame by Frame button).
Look at this one !!! in 1080 too Jake’s back is perfectly show when he starts to walk. This user has a lot of videos.
wow those are really great Bao2! this will make getting the forms right soo much easier thanks man!
ok fixed the form once im done with the body i’ll start altering the shape of the head to make it look more like jake sully’s
when modelling the body, where did you start? at the center of the stomach and extrude out repeatedly?
sorta like that but not quite, when i stared modelling the body i extruded a point from the bottom center of the rib cage until i got a basic outline of it and i did the same for the bottom part of the gut and i just filled in faces between those lines. after that i used CTRL R to make more edges in the gut and i used the knife tool to form the gut muscles,then i extruded out ward to form other parts of the torso. thats basically how i made the head and rest of the body
heres another updadte, sculpted the head to liik more like jake sully
