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Step 4Modeling the head (II)
In front view, first draw a rectangle that has your full height, as you see in the third picture. This guarantees that the parts will later fit together.
The head should be the most detailed part of the body, especially the face should have UV-faces (see below for explanation) of the size of coins.
I recommend to do the head with line-modeling instead of box-modeling. That means that you draw a grid of lines along the "edges" of your face, fill them and move the points to the right place. The picture below shows the process, a whole head-model-tutorial can be found here: http://members.multimania.nl/jonim8or/head_tut.html
This head-model is a bit too undetailed. These are the tools you need for modeling a detailed head:
- The Arc-Rotate-tool (Ctrl R): Move the camera around the model.
- Hide (h): if an object is in the way, click on it and hide it. Shift H lets it reappear.
- The Add-Edge-tool (left side, middle): Draw the contours of your face first with this tool
- The Drag-Select-tool (d): Select a few points in the front view mode, switch to the side view and move (Move-Tool; m) the points where they belong. Using more than one perspective at a time (view - All) is very helpful.
- The Cut-Faces-tool (Shift C): This is for adding details. When you cut a face, points are added. When you cut a line, The line is devided into 2 lines. You often have to turn the camera in order to prevent wrong cuts, f.e. on the backside of the object.
- The Fill-Holes-tool (Shift J): Select your wire-frame in edge-select-mode (e) and fill the holes to add faces between the lines.
- The Extrude-Faces-tool (Shift Y): Select a face in face-select-mode (g) and extrude it, so that you can add an ear for example. You could also do that with adding edges, but this is much faster and more accurate.
- The Merge-Points-tool (Shift J): Merge 2 points that are close together.
Summing up, the process is: Draw a few lines, move the points where they belong, fill the holes. Add lines, move points, fill holes, etc.
Try to use a structure with many triangles, because then nothing can go wrong with bad folds in rectangles (Because you can fold a rectangle along 2 different diagonals).
Tip: Do only one half of the face. Then mirror it, select both sides and "join solids", select the points in the middle and merge them.
The head should be the most detailed part of the body, especially the face should have UV-faces (see below for explanation) of the size of coins.
I recommend to do the head with line-modeling instead of box-modeling. That means that you draw a grid of lines along the "edges" of your face, fill them and move the points to the right place. The picture below shows the process, a whole head-model-tutorial can be found here: http://members.multimania.nl/jonim8or/head_tut.html
This head-model is a bit too undetailed. These are the tools you need for modeling a detailed head:
- The Arc-Rotate-tool (Ctrl R): Move the camera around the model.
- Hide (h): if an object is in the way, click on it and hide it. Shift H lets it reappear.
- The Add-Edge-tool (left side, middle): Draw the contours of your face first with this tool
- The Drag-Select-tool (d): Select a few points in the front view mode, switch to the side view and move (Move-Tool; m) the points where they belong. Using more than one perspective at a time (view - All) is very helpful.
- The Cut-Faces-tool (Shift C): This is for adding details. When you cut a face, points are added. When you cut a line, The line is devided into 2 lines. You often have to turn the camera in order to prevent wrong cuts, f.e. on the backside of the object.
- The Fill-Holes-tool (Shift J): Select your wire-frame in edge-select-mode (e) and fill the holes to add faces between the lines.
- The Extrude-Faces-tool (Shift Y): Select a face in face-select-mode (g) and extrude it, so that you can add an ear for example. You could also do that with adding edges, but this is much faster and more accurate.
- The Merge-Points-tool (Shift J): Merge 2 points that are close together.
Summing up, the process is: Draw a few lines, move the points where they belong, fill the holes. Add lines, move points, fill holes, etc.
Try to use a structure with many triangles, because then nothing can go wrong with bad folds in rectangles (Because you can fold a rectangle along 2 different diagonals).
Tip: Do only one half of the face. Then mirror it, select both sides and "join solids", select the points in the middle and merge them.
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Jan 7, 2012. 10:54 PMCheeseyBuilder
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It appeared again after I closed it and opened it twice!
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Jan 7, 2012. 10:50 PMCheeseyBuilder
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Oops, work instead of word.
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Jan 7, 2012. 10:49 PMCheeseyBuilder
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Im really mad right now! I worked an hour on my head, and out of nowwhere, all my word disipeared! Oh, really good tutorial, though. I'v built alot of papercrafts since I started in July.
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Sep 27, 2010. 9:32 PMzombiefire
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can't find the add edge tool
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