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1 - Preparation & Head Sculpting

Timelapse: Finishing Rain's Head Design

15th August 2019

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Julien Kaspar

For this final timelapse on Rains head I am taking one of the conceptual sculpts from the previous videos and polishing it into the final head design.

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Bas Raven

6th September 2020 - 10:30

Hey everyone, I am quite new to discord and sharing my art in general. Lately I've been working on my very first sculpting project which I also intend to animate once finished. I've been learning from the Blender Cloud Course: Stylized character workflow of the character Rain. My character will be called May. I've been working on the head for quite some time now and since I'll be starting on the body soon I'd really appreciate any feedback on the shapes/anatomy and general appeal of the character.

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Julien Kaspar

9th September 2020 - 18:01

*@Bas Raven* Looks really good so far. I see a lot that's going right with this. Here's some feedback:

  • The most noticeable element is the big round eyes. I think it would help a lot to scale them down as far as even half the size. In the perspective view this becomes really noticeable.
  • The hair consists of a lot of thin clumps but the overall shape is very rounded and blobby. I can recommend to work with bigger shapes and nail the silhouette before going into detail. Look at how the tension in the hair and gravity would affect the shapes and flow of the ponytail.
  • The mouth also seems to sink a bit into the face. Try pushing it outwards a bit more.
  • I think the ear and jaw corner might also be a bit far in the back.
  • Overall the surfaces are also rather lumpy. Try to keep the shapes clean and smooth. Especially on the neck and ear the surfaces seem random.

Keep looking through perspective view to see how much the ears get lost behind the face and how large the face looks.
The orthographic view can be deceiving on that.

Bas Raven

20th September 2020 - 10:05

*@Julien Kaspar* Thank you so much for taking the time to give me such valuable feedback. I am stil working on the body but when I come back to the face I will definitely use your feedback.

30th August 2019 - 09:36

Great tutorial on workflow! Thanks for sharing your expertise with beginners like me to understand the concept in such an easy manner! Can you also cover teeth modelling, fitting the same in the mouth and opening the mouth....

Julien Kaspar

30th August 2019 - 11:16

*@sandeep200680* For the first design sculpts it was not really necessary to include them but I'll talk about it too :) I'll cover the teeth and inner mouth in chapter 3 when I'll go over the expression tests.

30th August 2019 - 11:31

*@Julien Kaspar* Thanks dear friend...looking forward to see how that works!

jhonatansilva31415

2nd September 2019 - 00:20

Will be any content related to lip sync? Or making a dialogue in blender?

Julien Kaspar

2nd September 2019 - 00:44

*@jhonatansilva31415* No, not in this course. But there is an Animation Fundamentals Course in progress. Maybe ask there: https://cloud.blender.org/blog/introducing-blender-animation-fundamentals-training

Alan Belov

10th September 2019 - 16:44

When new episode?

Julien Kaspar

10th September 2019 - 16:47

*@Alan Belov* Hopefully very soon :)

Alan Belov

10th September 2019 - 18:18

*@Julien Kaspar* thx👌❤️

Sundaram

21st May 2020 - 13:54

hey there, what is the use of painting the sclupt in the solid view mode, does it effect the material and render preview?

Julien Kaspar

22nd May 2020 - 11:46

*@Sundaram* It only affects the render if the color you are painting is plugged into the material. It won't automatically use any color information.

Sundaram

22nd May 2020 - 13:58

*@Julien Kaspar*thanks but how to do that?

Julien Kaspar

22nd May 2020 - 14:30

*@Sundaram* Plug the vertex color node into the base color of your material node.
More info here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zrd37k2tJM&list=PLa1F2ddGya_-UvuAqHAksYnB0qL9yWDO6&index=18

Cosimo

15th July 2020 - 19:32

{attachment Invalid slug Bild1png - should be a static_asset id}{attachment Invalid slug Bild2png - should be a static_asset id}{attachment Invalid slug Bild3png - should be a static_asset id} Hi Julien, thanks for the great course so far. I learned a lot in those hours of practice! I still do have problems with sculpting eye kids and ears, do you have any suggestions on how to improve? thanks in advance!

Cosimo

15th July 2020 - 19:32

*@Cosimo* eye lids*

Julien Kaspar

16th July 2020 - 12:32

*@Cosimo* The progress is looking good. Eyelids are definitely very tricky to get right, so I can recommend to create them from a sphere object. It will make it easier to get the shapes right before then merging the objects and sculpting the transitions between eyelids and the rest of the face. Same with the ears. If you have difficulties getting the shapes right, try to separately sculpt them as different objects and then merge them once they look right.

To give some more feedback on the overal proportions: I would look at some more reference for the jaw. In your sculpt it is very pointy right now. In general, the face is getting lifted up the further it goes into the abck of the head. Try lowering the ears, cheeks and jaw corner too make the lower jaw edge a bit more straight. Here's an example.

You could also push back the chin a bit. The entire mouth region is peaking forward which looks also like a very unnatural under-bite.

Cosimo

16th July 2020 - 18:44

*@Julien Kaspar* Thank you for your detailed answer. I will try to implement your tips.