Summer Glau in 3d....

POSTED BY: Dinky
UPDATED: Monday, March 20, 2006 03:14
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DINKY

Friday, February 24, 2006 10:17 AM

Some people may have remember me posting a pencil sketch of that camera shot in Objects in Space, in that post I mentioned that I was thinking about making her (Summer) in 3d! Well I thought about it for a week or so.... And yesterday I started work in Maya 6.5 on Summer Glau in 3d.

I don't have much done! And I don't want to show anyone the early product (because early products of 3d models look like CRAP) but I am getting close to finishing her nose, so I figured I would take a shot of that :P. Sort of as a little teaser heh.

EDIT: IMPORTANT NOTE!!! This is only one side of her nose/face. It's important that you know that 3d Modelors just work on half of the face, then when they are complete with the model they Duplicate that side with a -1 scale to create a mirrored model, then merge them.

But I also have a huge request!! You can see in the background in that image is a picture of Summer from Serenity and that's the only good profile photo I could get of her. I also have one for a straight look at the front of her face.

BUT! I would be interested in better Front/side photos of her head/face!!! If you have or know of any, lemme have'em please!

Oh and the project could take something like a month or two, I'm a busy busy boy.

I hope this is the right part of the forum to be posting this :). Now I'm off to bed! It's 5:16 AM!

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

NUCLEARDAY

Friday, February 24, 2006 7:17 PM

Shiny, can't wait to see how that turns out. Let's just hope a 3d River doesn't cause your computer to go all... bendy ;p

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DINKY

Saturday, February 25, 2006 2:31 AM

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Originally posted by nuclearday:
Shiny, can't wait to see how that turns out. Let's just hope a 3d River doesn't cause your computer to go all... bendy ;p

I don't understand what ya mean!!

But anyway, I got to start work on it again about 5 minutes ago, and here's pretty much ultra-near finished nose. Well... I will probably tweak with it later but this is finished enough that I will begin work on other areas of her head. Probably work more on the mouth.... Make an ears...

I just can't wait to start on the hair!! I love Maya Hair simulations!

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

LIGHTMEDARK

Saturday, February 25, 2006 2:54 AM

hopefully they're better than they were in 4.5...the hair simulation was alright then but not quite right...or at least i never got it quite right. I'm more of a set-up/animation guy...haven't done it in quite a while, though.

/me looks at his useless college degree

good work, though ;)

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DINKY

Saturday, February 25, 2006 2:57 AM

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Originally posted by LightMeDark:
hopefully they're better than they were in 4.5...the hair simulation was alright then but not quite right...or at least i never got it quite right. I'm more of a set-up/animation guy...haven't done it in quite a while, though.

/me looks at his useless college degree

good work, though ;)

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Thanks!!!

As far as I knew everything before Maya 6.0 only had Maya Fur. Maya Hair was brand new at 6.0.

Wasn't it?

But yet, I hope to go to college and do 3d animation and 2d animation. I hope to get into Game Developing, if not then Cinema or something like that.

I'm only 16 though.

EDIT: Oh and I gots an image of my 6.5 toolbar. Do you remember a Hair Tab??

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

DINKY

Sunday, February 26, 2006 9:25 AM

I just wanna update and make sure and tell everyone that I am still working on it.

The face is really starting to look like Summer, but she still looks weird without ears or hair or a neck... Or a jaw (without the neck the jaw doesn't really show... Err atleast I don't bother making it until I make a neck).

But I'm working on her ear now!! I just started a while ago, check out the image of work in progress!!!

UPDATE: Ear + more Progress:

Update 2: And yet another Ear update:

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

LIGHTMEDARK

Sunday, February 26, 2006 9:55 PM

I know 4 and 4.5 had fur...don't think it had hair. I think I used PaintEffects to do the hair...it actually was pretty decent, but I'm sure the Hair simulation in 6.5 is much better.

Keep at it, if you go the way you are now you'll do just fine. Good luck with your future as an animation artist ;)

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DINKY

Sunday, February 26, 2006 11:02 PM

Yeah Maya Hair is actually pretty amazing.

Check out page 8 of this PDF.

http://downloads.alias.com/mkt/gmk_maya7_technicalfeatures.pdf

I remember when they first introduced Maya Hair there was a video around for it... I just can't find it.

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

DINKY

Thursday, March 2, 2006 8:36 AM

Haven't updated this post in a while, nor have I had time to work on the model the last two days. But I pretty much finished the ear today!!

Now I gots to connect it to her head.

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

DINKY

Monday, March 6, 2006 8:03 AM

I haven't really been updating. So here's an update!!

1. Ignore the eyes.

2. Ignore the baggy saggy lower ear part (the Lobule). Summer has an ear that the Lobule connects straight to her jaw skin. I will have it like this, I just haven't gotten around to it.

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

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