[WIP] Soldier

[SMASH]

Hey, this is a marine/soldier character/biped I've been working on but I've kinda hit a road block, I'm actually kinda afraid to model the hands or face cause I know those are my weak points and I'm going to f*** it up... tell me what you think...

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/8010/rendernb2.png

Would anyone have a tutorial, off-hand (no pun intended) of hand and face/head modeling?

[Tweek]

youre going to fuck up at least 5 times.
get modelling bitch. fuck up, and try again.

[Patrickssj6]

Unlike in real life, there are always backups and CTRL +Z

[kid908]

teh pants seems alot boxy...

[Matooba]

Thats coming out really good. Good base to the model so far. You can use symetry to make the hands off to the side then attach them to the model after, same for head. If you need help on making the head this video tutorial is great.
(Full Screen It) http://download.autodesk.com/media/MNE/ms/Edit_Poly_400k.wmv
(http://download.autodesk.com/media/MNE/ms/Edit_Poly_400k.wmv)

[SMASH]

Update: I went way out of my comfort zone and modeled the best hands I could... what do you think?

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/5026/renderwc4.png

and yea, those are gloves.

[kid908]

if it's first looks nice but a bit cartoonish. would look good on a cartoon character.

[MetKiller Joe]

My God, that's mite too boxy. Reminds me of Team Fortress 2 characters. I would definitely support this if you tried to make Team Fortress characters for CE.

[SMASH]

It's for CE so I wanted to keep the polies down... I don't think I'll post anymore updates untill I get it ingame, and it's not that far from it surprisingly.

[MetKiller Joe]

It's for CE so I wanted to keep the polies down.

I'm not saying that TF2 characters have to be high poly per-say, but, do it whatever way you want, it is your model.

[SMASH]

Alright, so it's modeled and skinned, but I need someone to rig it... any takers?

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/7189/rendervm6.png

[HDoan]

I wish I could =/ I'm not qualified to do something to that awesome model.

[n00b1n8R]

Unless your going for something cartoony (and even then..), I hope to god your not planning on keeping those arms/hands.

[t3h m00kz]

I'd say work on the hands... otherwise it seems okay

[n00b1n8R]

The arms look like tapered sausages.

[thehoodedsmack]

Good lord, why are his arms as thick as his legs? Scale that down a bit.

[SnaFuBAR]

Surprisingly the face looks like it's been done better than the rest of the body. Everything is too squared; legs, torsto, hands, arms.

[Heathen]

Helmets too tall...

[Bastinka]

The arm looks like he stuck his hand through something big, round and fat and it ended up extending from wrist to wrist.

[Apoc4lypse]

The arm looks like he stuck his hand through something big, round and fat and it ended up extending from wrist to wrist.

what he said... but yeah, the arms need more anatomy, there is like zero anatomy there, you can't see anything that resembles a muscle or the outline of an arm, looks like a big puffy thing. Make the arms skinnier, make the clothing or w/e hug where the arms would be more then that, its way to bulky looking right now.

[Matooba]

Arms (Thyroid desease), Ass (boxed off) calves (retaining water) Maybe some defining through chest to gut...Looking good so far though.

[Heathen]

I'm having a hard time distinguishing which fingers are which....that hand is an enigma.....

[Phopojijo]

You modeled based off a box, correct?

How about reference... did you have 2 reference panes? One straight on forward... one on the side?

The human body (minus the head) are cylindrical... some tutorials tell you to start with a box to keep everything in quads so it's easier to smooth; they don't know what they're doing.

http://www.poopinmymouth.com/ is great... specifically http://www.poopinmymouth.com/process/character_tutorial/character_process.htm

It's important to keep good reference so that you can match the silhouette of the model to the silhouette of the reference.

[kid908]

and head should be boxes with about 3x2x2 sherified