final render

these are the final renders of my photo-real head. i a, pleased with it as my first attempt but there are things that i would change in the hair and eyelashes.

after modelling the hair using the paint hair tool onto a nurbs sphere i starting playing with the settings to get the right sort of look that i wanted from her hair. above are some renders taken at different stages of hair making.

eyelash and eye render

this is a render with mental ray of the eyelashes and eyes applied to the mesh from mudbox. its looking good so far.

eyelashes

to make the eyelashes i actually modelled each one individually and then applied about 3 hairs to each follicle, clumped it close together at the root and spread more at the tip of the hairs as to even them out.

eye render

im really pleased with my new eyes and they have all the attributes i wanted such as realism. you can see the part i made translucent and with the iris texture behind showing through. i also put a plain black lambert shaded object behind the pupil so that it always renders a pure black.

another aspect of realism i have applied to this model is a bump map on the iris just so that through mental ray shadowing it appears more vivid.

in this image you can see the vein texture i applied after painting it in photoshop picking colours from images of peoples eyes. i then projected that texture onto the nurbs sphere with the ramp transparency map.

eye

I realised that the eyes as seen on the last post didn't look that real so after researching the eye and watching some tutorials i found that making the eye in relation to its anatomy works better. by that i mean modelling and texture the iris behind a see through material.

on the top image you can see the workspace with the eye on show texture mode (6 on keyboard). you can see the ramp translucency map applied to make part of the eye see through.

maya!?! :@

Finally managed to get my model to open in maya and managed to figure out how to get all the maps attached. basically a century of trial and error. in this you can also see my first attempt at making and eye. i did this by attaching a ramp texture and playing with the settings to get the eye pattern.

mudbox finished

This is the finished mudbox model with texture and is now ready to be imported to maya.

in these images you can see in more detail the mouth and ear regions. at the top there is a screen shot of the head in its final stage of mudbox ready to have the texture applied.

mudbox close-ups

In this close up image of the eyes taken from mudbox you can see the detail in the skin and the pour effect i have made. it was a struggle to get the eye lids to look the way that they do and this was accomplished by building up around that area then using the knife tool to cut deep into the mesh and finally pinching in the line made by the knife.

the images are ordered bottom to top.

the first image shows the polygon mesh at its lowest level as it is when it is imported to mudbox. the next image is of the mesh with some sculpt work done around the eyes.

third and final images are of the mesh with some more detail around the mouth and eyes.

mudbox

the next step in my work is to put my model into mudbox so that i can do a paint displacement and build up the features such as cheek bone structure and brow height.

ear patch modelling

in this post you can see the way that i have patch modelled my ear separate from the head, just to make things easier, and i then later attached it to the head.

more from silo

these are the final silo images as the development of the head is now finished and is now needing to move onto the next step and consequently the next program, mudbox.

images of the ear are to follow as it was made separately.

Photo-realism

images from my current project on photo realism.

The above images are some of the first from my polygon mesh i have been modelling in Nevercenter Silo. Starting with the topology around the eye and then moving down to the mouth. These three images show the steps i have taken to get the basic shape of my reference photos.