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1. Chinese Dragons - Character Design Tutorial

2. High polygon realistic character creation

This is an overview of creating high polygon realistic 3D characters ( with a particular leaning toward the creation of the above model ). My inspiration for writing it, was that as a long time videogame artist used to working with real-time constraints, I wanted to learn high resolution modeling techniques, and I couldn't really find all the info needed on the subject in one handy place. It's a pretty barebones overview, since there is an entire books worth of material if everything were to be covered in serious detail. So I'm really talking about high level principles. It's also geared toward capturing a likeness, since that makes up the vast majority of the work I do, but I wont talk about rigging or lighting or rendering, since they're really not my areas of expertise, and entire tutorials in themselves. I'm attempting to keep it as non software specific as possible, but forgive me If I lapse into occasional Maya terminologies.

3. Character Walk Through

Kreacher is a house elf character taken from the harry potter books

4. The progress of modelling a Character

This is where the screenshorts start.

5. Character Head Modeling

6. Go to Sadmike Character page

7. LowPoly Character Modeling

8. Creating a realtime character for Project IGI

This is a tutoral showing roughly the steps from idea to a finished realtime character. The tutorial is based on the work we do for the Project IGI game at Innerloop Studios.

9. Character animation tutorial in 3DS | 3D Valley

This is an introduction tutorial on animating Timmy Foo. I'll explain the various controls on Timmy, how to use them. And I will also explain a bit about the animation process. At the end of this tutorial you'll be ready to animate Timmy Foo (I hope).

10. CG Online Tutorials | Tutorials | Human Character Modeling - Ear

3ds Max 9 Bible Author: Kelly L. Murdock; Buy New: $31.49 Rendering with mental ray & 3ds Max Author: Joep van der Steen; Buy New: $34.62 Realistic Architectural Visualization with 3ds Max and... Author: Roger Cusson, Jamie Cardoso; Buy New: $45.10 Modeling a Character in 3DS Max, 2nd Edition Author: Paul Steed; Buy New: $29.67 3ds Max 9 Essentials Author: Autodesk; Buy New: $32.97 Introducing 3ds Max 9 Author: Dariush Derakhshani, Randi L. Munn, ...; Buy New: $23.09 Essential CG Lighting Techniques with 3ds Max Author: Darren Brooker; Buy New: $32.97

11. CG Online Tutorials | Tutorials | Human Character Modeling - Creating the Face

12. CG Online Tutorials | Tutorials | Human Character Modeling - Foot

13. CG Online Tutorials | Tutorials | Human Character Modeling - Modeling a Hand

14. 3DS MAX Animation Character Animation: Principles and Practice Tutorial

This tutorial has now been provided in ZIP format for smaller/faster download times. Please download the tutorial if you would like to read it.

15. Character Process

I am taking Modeling for Game Design this quarter and our final project is to model a character. I modeled a horse for the vehicle project, and the process page for it can be viewed here. I want to go even further in depth into my modeling process. I am doing this for two reasons. First and foremost is so that any potential employers looking through my work can get an idea behind my workflow. The second reason, is because so many people model WRONG! Not that my way is the only right way (but it is a right way), but that I found it to yield superior results to the process I have seen my classmates and online peers use. So to begin, I want to show how most people model.

16. Character Animation Theories And Principles | 3D Tutorials

Exaggerated action is what makes good animation great. Study the Short Bounce for a while and practice the principles behind it in your own animation. It's VERY important to MASTER this action and principles behind it in your own character animation before moving on to The Long Bounce. You must know the basic rules before you can break them.

17. Character Walk Through | 3D Tutorials

Hello there. Welcome to my character walk through I'm not sure if you can call this a tutorial as I will just be showing different stages in the building of a character called Kreacher

18. Creating and Modeling a Character | 3D Tutorials

But I will just go though how I will be creating a new character, starting from the concept stage then to the modeling.

19. High polygon realistic character creation (Subdivision Modelling) | 3D Tutorials

Final smoothed model with blendshape turned on at left and unsmoothed wireframe at right. Note from the wire that I'm less concerned about the occasional n-sided polygon in my tunic than I am the face. You generally don't want too many n-sided polygons near the facial features that might be animated.:

20. High polygon realistic character creation (UV mapping) | 3D Tutorials

Of course, this might tend to almost contradict what I was just saying about keeping the UV layout as close to the polygonal layout as possible, and technically speaking it does ( which is why I mentioned If using a relax function, to use it subtly ) , since the relax changes the UV's co-ordinates in relation to one another. But when it comes to complex geometry, there really is no alternative, and it ends up being a compromise between the two concepts. After some scaling, moving UV's by hand ( this is the bit where you're glad your control cage is reasonably light ), and stitching, I ended up with this:

21. High polygon realistic character creation | 3D Tutorials

22. Model a Seamless NURBS Human Character | 3D Tutorials