Character Development!!!
Let’s Create a Cow using Maya!!!!
Cow: Moooo!!!
Me: The Cow agrees.
This Cow was created from a simple cube, here are some of the progress I made:
(unfortunately, I had forgotten to take images from the starting of the progress, so I would start from the middle ^_^”’)
Like said, the Cow was created from a cube, simply a from extruding and scaling until it became something like this:
Then, I was trying to make the back of the a bit pointy using vertexes, so it would not appear flat but a nice rounded shape when I smooth it:
Me: Who wants to have a flat head anyways
Cow: Moooo….
Then I was off making the lines straight, preparing to create the eyes.(please do ignore the sound adjustment thingy):
Next, was the removal of the faces where the eyes would be, and extruding the border edges to give the illusion of the eyes:
The ears, nose, as well as the mouth are done in similar ways:
And finally, since I had been doing only on the right side of the cow, all I had to do is to mirror the right side to create the left side using the mirror geometry, so I will need to take out the left side first:
After which I use smooth the whole cow using the sculpt geometry tool and converting the polygons to subdivisions, and so here is my final product!!! (actually I was suppose to sculpt it BEFORE I mirrored it, but due to the problem, which will be mentioned after this, I decided to sculpt it at the end):
I encounter some weird problems along the way, two to be exact, the first is this:
Notice the lips? It became like that the moment I mirror it, it was suppose to be straight and not like that (I do not know how to describe it). I later then figure it out this happened was because of the sculpt geometry tool, I smooth it too much…-__-”’. So I simply redo it hahaha, but I suppose I could also use the sculpt geometry tool to pull it out again.
Another problem is this:
Yes, the Cow’s eyes. Unfortunately, I hadn’t the foggiest idea why it became like that whenever I mirror it. (it seems to take the words “merge vertices” literally) I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I used the “Edge Ring tool” instead of the “Border Edge tool” to extrude the eyes….
Me: Don’t look at me like that, it produces the same effect after all!!
Cow: …Moo…-_-”’
So as you can see, the eyes in my final product is sealed instead of a hole that was supposed to be there. (Although I like this better)
me: And that is all for this post!! toodles!!!
Cow: Moo!
Character building!!! (First post for 3DVA)
Its always hard to come up with a character. Might as well get some practice!!!!
So….Lets come up with a name, tagline, catchphrase and background for this character:
Name: Leo Ding
Tagline: Cha-King (Showing all the teeth, also with money reference)
catchphrase: “DING DING DING DING!!!”
backstory: Leo is the Chairman of Colgate. He is very rich. He emphasize on the importance of healthy teeth to whomever he meets and ends up making funny stories along the way
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