Week 7

For this week I decided to look at how to start making the face for the character. I first had to get a face image for reference for the character to model, which I could find on internet.

So, to actually help with making the face I had a look at this video which helped me with making the face look like the reference image. Although the platform they are using to make the face is in blender, I will be using 3ds max so for some of the techniques they use in this video I will have to figure out a work around. Anyway, the video shows you exactly on how to make the face and how it should somewhat look like by the end of the process. I won’t discuss everything that happened in the video as it is an hour-long video, but I watched the video to the very end and then followed the steps until the face was complete.

At the end of the video, I had learnt on how to make a face in 3DS Max and blender as well as what it should look like in the anime style, and I also learnt about topology which will help me a lot in the future if I was to make more organic like models. The reason I chose to make a VR Chat model in the first place was because I wanted to learn more about Topology which this video helped a lot about. (26)


I also looked at another Youtuber called 2 AM, on how he makes his Anime style heads. (30) And decided to follow his guide as I think he explains it better as well as use unique techniques to improve the model to which I will explain later. (I Also Changed From Using 3DS Max To Using Blender)

This is 2 AM's Video on how to make the Head:


This is 2 AM's Video on How to make the Eyes:

Reference

26 - How I model 3D anime heads in blender! (2022) YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a0cQn2hlnE (Accessed: 17 June 2023).

30 - How to make anime face in Blender explained! + custom shadows (2023) YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uptuXWNWpk0 (Accessed: 09 November 2023).

31 - Blender: How to make anime eyes | full method explained (2023) YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewtCVGdNf_Q (Accessed: 13 November 2023).



Comments

  1. steve3d5 October 2023 at 02:30

    Talk more on what you learnt from it especially technique wise

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