Stage 13 - -Final Model

Here is my final modelled head. I really enjoyed this exercise but found learning new skills hard at times, but when I saw the model coming together it all seemed worth the effort. If I had more time I would of liked to try the UVW mapping mode to finish the face and apply textures.

Stage 12 - Finished Modelled Head

Here is an animation of my final modelled head.

Stage 11 - Attached Ear

Here is the final image of the attached ear. Out of the whole project, this was the most complicated part for me with the aspect of attaching two seperate objects into one. After many hours work though, I had a finished product I was happy with.

Stage 10 - Ear Creation

Heres the initial creation of the ear which was to be attached to the head. I had a few problems with creating quadrants and instead settled for a few triangles in the structure.

Stage 9 - Ear and Neck Topology

In this stage the topology for the ear was added to the original reference plate as well as the topology for the neck. Both these aided in the creation of the back parts of the head in 3D Max.

Stage 8 - Head Creation

For the creation of the head I used a sphere to create the shape before pulling out edges to create the final head shape. First attempt saw the neck too slim which I later corrected by pulling out the verticies. I was pleased with the shape of the head at this stage (apart from the slim neck look)

Stage 7 - Cavity Creations

The final tweakings of the face were the nose, lips and eyelids which were made following the tutorials. Due to my quite long nostrils, it was hard to get the nostril cavity right but after some spent hours the face finally looked human.

Stage 6 - Added Symmetry

The problem I had now was creating the other half of the face. This was done using a symmetry modifier which meant everything done on the left of the face would be mirrored on the right much like a mirror. This proved very usefull and time saving in the long run.

Stage 5 - Face Modelling

After creating the quadrants, I used the side view reference plate as a guide of how far to pull out the verticies of each quadrant. I had a few problems here with the non-connected corners of some of the quadrants which I fixed with the target weld tool.
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A major problem I had was when I created the original topology, I created lines which ended in the middle of other lines instead of joining at verticies. This created a pinching effect which I corrected with the cut tool and polygon create tool.

Stage 4 - Quadrant Creation

Stage 4 was creating the splines for the face in order to make it 3D. To do this I used the tutorial provided and using the spline line tool, followed the face topology to create quadrants which had a nice flow, following all the muscle groups in the face.

Stage 3 - Reference Plates

The next stage was the integration of the images into 3D Max in order to create reference plates in which the head could be built from. This was quite a staight forward process when following the turorials provided.

Stage 2 - Topology Complete

This is the next step of the face topology, the red lines have been drawn on to indicate the final positions of the quadrants in the face. In the tutorial it didn't say to create the quadrants for the side view onto the photograph, but due to my limited knowledge on 3D Max, I decided to include the topology for added help in the future.

Stage 1 - Face Topology

The first stage was taking photographs of your face from the front and side angles, as you can see from the picture (left) my ears didn't line up horizontally, which gave me problems later in the creation.
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In Photoshop I drew the basic lines of Topology onto the image to start breaking the face up into quadrants in order to create the face in 3D.

Face Creation 2009

The brief given was to create your own face in 3D Studio Max and model it into a life like head complete with UVW Mapping to include skin texture too. With my limited knowledge of 3D MAx, I must admit I was a little worried at first but I like a challenge so I got started. I decided to use Version 8 of 3D Studio Max as it was the copy I had available at home and am more familiar with.