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Starnick · DeleD PRO user Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 611

Heh, well you asked! If you're going to work on this, I'll be in the deled chat IRC chat room if you want to stop by.

harper · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 4:52 pm Post subject:

Never. I take the challenge to do this within 10 days.

Starnick · DeleD PRO user Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 611

I usually am in the deled IRC chat room daily, alongside with Fletcher. It tends to get boring without a lot of people stopping by though Razz

paul_nicholls · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:35 pm Post subject: Re: Winner

harper · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 5:03 pm Post subject: Anubis

Starnick!
My heaviest jobs is creating characters, and noting else your Anubis-statue is.
At my "Hero_3" i worked over 3 months, and now i have to do nearly the same job
in 2 weeks - but i try:

Here is a first glimpse on an untextured dark green marble statue. It will get
some golden equipment and clothing, but i cannot say if it will be before the
easter-weekend. Please be patient.

chronozphere · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 5:41 pm Post subject:

That looks truly awesome. Shocked

Please make a tutorial sometime! Smile

ridwan sameer · DeleD PRO user Joined: 27 Jun 2008 Posts: 108

Harper That is amazing

Truly amazing

You should create a tutorial

THen everyone would <3 you

Jeroen · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:47 am Post subject:

The words amazing and awesome are the only ones that come to my mind too. Very Happy

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harper · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:31 pm Post subject: Tutorial?

Hi folks,
how can i make a tutorial of "Making Anubis"? What's the most interesting part of this creation?
I started with a cube, my favorite prim. Dividing it several times with (always in the early phases)
grid-snapping "on", because it produces very clean geometry.
Moving things, until i get a raw shape of the head, with approximately proportions. Also for reducing work,
i only model one half of the head, duplicating and mirroring for checking the overall look.
This is why i asked for a editing-mode called symmetry, that makes these steps continously while
working on the model.

Next step was
1.) smoothing the ears. Having concave areas that must be smoothed is a job for the Doo-Sabin-Wonder.
Doing this by hand (see my first ear-model) can only frustrate.

Second i split head and (what's the name for that head-wear?)
by applying 2 textures. So i can easily select those 2 groups of polys in the UV-window with Ctrl-A.

Next i generated some rough 8-sided cylinders to form the body, an arm and a leg.

Then i select some polys and smoothed them; never the whole object to prevent crucial edges.
Some tiny polys that will hard to uv-map and to keep their count as low as possible,
i select several neighboring polys, delete them and, after picking
the outlinig vertices, refill them. (I asked for this "refill"-
feature in the forum and have shown it's usfulness in my sword-tutorial...)

That's the state of my Anubis until now.
What follow is some finetuning, gathering some appropiate textures and the job to uv-map all those irregulars.
Have i told any useful hints? Or have i only proved that with some time to invest and some endurance in modelling you can
achieve nearly all, using DeleD ?

ridwan sameer · DeleD PRO user Joined: 27 Jun 2008 Posts: 108

Thanks Harper your a beast with DeleD

Some good tips for when i create human like shapes

Truly though... did you haev any experience before coming to DeleD? or is this your first 3D experience?

Starnick · DeleD PRO user Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 611

Now that looks pretty darn good, can't wait to light that sucker.

AWM Mars · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:01 pm Post subject:

Its a great figure for sure . I like how simple you make it look to do. Smile

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Jeroen · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:57 pm Post subject:

I think you will benefit a LOT from the new Vertex Insert functionality when creating characters like that. Smile

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harper · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 5:50 pm Post subject:

To Jeroen:
Even if i only seldom use vertex inset, i love your program. Nearly i would say it's a new dimension of my life as an artist.

And to Starnick: Do you are engaged in a a project, that has to do with ancient egypt?

harper · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:19 am Post subject:

As i said, the textured version of Anubis will take some time.
I just made a typical egytian eye model, to use it on the statue.

If someone find it useful, here is the DPS for download:

http://www.harpersoft.de/Meynis/makingof/dps/egypt_eye.dps
(user:deleduser/pw:deleduser)

Have fun - with DeleD!