Software:
Blender 2.92
To split part of a curve to a separate curve:
Software:
3ds max 2019
To model a terrain form an DWG (Autocad) file containing a topographical plan:
To retopologize the terrain mesh to more usable quad polygon mesh:
The example demonstrated here is a DWG file by Jose Vega, free to download from Bibliocad.com
Software:
Blender 2.8
This character project is the first one in which I’m using physical cloth simulation in Blender to model the character’s clothes at proxy quality (they will be detailed further manually). learning this approach to clothes modeling demanded a lot experiments, trials and errors to get it right, in this short article, I’ll try to provide some insights, tips, and settings that can speed up the process.
Watch the full modeling process here
General notes and tips:
Early experiments:
In this experiment I used a simple tubular pants-like mesh that I quickly modeled around the character’s legs and pelvis (not a realistic cloth cutting pattern), with the top (weist) vertices defined as a vertex group with shrinking cloth property.
The result looks like training suit pants. it wasn’t at all what I wanted for this character, but I actually like it and probably will use such pants on other characters or on this one as a secondary look.
In this experiment I started trying to model an actual man’s trousers cutting pattern, and as you see, it still needs tweaking.
This experiment is beginning to produce reasonable results, the undershirt initial shape is still cut too low at the back.
* Note that there is an animated belt collision object to bring the undershirt to it’s shape at the weist
Final Settings:
The final undershirt initial model:
The final pants initial model:
* Note that the belt mesh is a vertex group defined a fixed in the cloth simulation, and that it’s split to parts corresponding to the edges of the pants shape that need to be sawed to it. (see the process here)
The full final cloth setup for the character. the setup includes a low poly collision object of the whole character and shoes, undershirt mesh, pans mesh and animated (contracting) belt collision for the undershirt:
The final cloth simulation:
Cloth Settings:
Cloth simulation settings for the undershirt:
Cloth simulation settings for the pants:
Related posts:
Blender 2.8 Character Project
Software:
Blender 2.8
I Recently started a personal character modeling project using Blender 2.8.
The project has the following goals:
I will be video capturing the whole project’s progress and sharing it on my vimeo channel.
You’re welcome to read about the project creation steps and watch the actual work process captured here:
Software:
Blender 2.8
This is the third part of a personal project I began working on,
Development of a realistic character in Blender 2.8 for games and animation.
<– Go to the project home
<– Go to the first part of the project
<– Go to the second part of the project
The third part of the project was a ~7 hour modeling session in which the focus was mainly on proxy-quality (rough) modeling of clothing and props.
In this stage of the project, I decided that the creative theme for character will be a tough detective. a sort of an Asian ‘Dirty harry’ character, and this concept was the drive behind the styling of the characters clothes and and props.
Result after part 3:
> Total accumulated work time: ~17.5 hours
Some tips and settings for modeling the clothes
Software:
Blender 2.8
This is the second part of a personal project I began working on,
Development of a realistic character in Blender 2.8 for games and animation.
I will be video capturing the whole project’s progress and sharing it on my vimeo channel.
<– Go to the project home
<– Go to the first part of the project
The second part of the project was a ~5 hour sculpting session focused mainly on refining the model, improving its proportions and anatomical detail, and adding internal parts like eyeballs and teeth.
In this part the character design was developed into a more masculine man and less skinny, the general idea still being an elder Asian action figure.
Result after part 2:
> Total accumulated work time: ~10.5 hours
Go to part 3 of the project –>
Software:
Blender 2.8
This is the first part of a personal project I began working on,
Development of a realistic character in Blender 2.8 for games and animation.
<– Go to the project home
The first step of the project is a completely free-style / free-form ~5.5 hour sculpting session in which I’m not really trying to do anything accurate but just get used to 3D sculpting in Blender 2.8.
I’m imagining an elder Asian action character, at this point not sure what he’ll end up being. possible themes are:
ninja, samurai, cyber themed ninja or tough detective.
Result after part 1:
> Total accumulated work time: ~5.5 hours
Go to part 2 of the project –>
Software:
Blender 2.79
Re-topology workflow in Blender is pretty straight forward and convenient,
Even without using a dedicated addon like ‘Bsurfaces’.
The simplest way to create new geometry over an existing surface is to activate snapping in face mode, and activate the ‘Project individual elements on the surface of other objects’ option.
This let’s you extend geometry, create new elements and transform existing elements while they’re constantly sticking to the surface behind them.
This can also be used with ‘Proportional Editing’ to allow organic tweaking of the new mesh over the surface.
Activating the ‘X Ray’ option in the display properties of the new low poly object helps by displaying the new mesh above the original surface.
Another helpful tool in the process is the ‘Shrink Wrap’ modifier,
It can be used “press” mesh parts on to the original surface and than applied to create surface-tight mesh that can serve as the basic mesh for Re-topology or be joined to an existing mesh that was created earlier in the Re-topology process.
Software:
Blender 2.78
I noticed that the Subdivision Surface modifier in Blender significantly slows down the animation playback even if the mesh isn’t animated,
So my advice is, either apply the modifier when possible or set it to be disabled in viewport and enabled only in rendering.
Software:
Photoshop CC 2017
When you need to create a 3D title that looks carved in stone by using a height map or normal map of the text design,
And you need to have the titles remain as live text in Photoshop so that you can easily make changes to the text if needed,
A simple way to make turn the text into a height map that would look carved or beveled inwards is to apply an inner glow effect and choose the “Precise”option in the “Technique” parameter of the effect.
