Ive <ive### [at] lilysoftorg> wrote:
> Am 3/13/2018 um 8:53 schrieb Thomas de Groot:
> > Ive has first to deliver his secrets
> > about skin modelling, otherwise I veto the election. :-)
> >
>
> No secret at all.
>
> First step was a series of portrait photographs - front, both sides and
> sides at 45°). As my wife is a semi-professional photographer this was
> the quick part.
> Then a setup for Blender with 6 orthographic cameras where these
> photographs are properly projected on 6 planes and the transparency of
> the planes can be adjusted as desired.
>
> The basic mesh is the Genesis 8 model (available for free from Daz3D),
> it has surprisingly few polygons but is designed to work extremely well
> with subdivisions.
> This mesh was exported to Blender with the above setup and I started to
> move vertices around until the its shape did match the photographic
> outlines in all 6 views.
> Next step: subdivision of the mesh and modeling of the most dominant
> "valleys" and "hills" - here comes the transparency in handy as the
> photos give a nice guideline.
> Next step: subdivide again and model the less dominant "valleys" and
> "hills".
> Repeat until satisfied and/or the mesh becomes so GB heavy that it
> starts to be a nightmare to handle.
>
> This could be done with the whole body to create a digital double but I
> didn't do that.
>
> Then I did import this mesh into DAZ-Studio and copied the rigging from
> the original Genesis 8 to this new figure and had a fully posable
> digital copy of myself ;)
> But some expressions do look really scary as e.g. the rigging of the
> mouth does not match the way the muscles of the real me do behave.
>
> -Ive


Amazing  skin + fabric + hair  shaders , lighting and image composition, jazzy
spirit... please do more of these !

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