Having begun a few side projects before senior project I was developing a character model for a game. When I got to senior project I had three options; create the baby from scratch, use the character model I was already working on and make it into the baby or use a model I had completely finish that was just for fun. The option I went with was of course, the character model. The model I had completed for fun was a model many might be familiar with; sack boy!
This was a very fun model to work on and I've been dying to implement this model in a game. Unfortunately because I am not a 3D modeler but a programmer there are a few bad things about the sack boy model I created. Such as cleanliness and location of polygons. When it came to the sack boy model, it was not organize as far as polygons went. I basically went nuts as you can tell. On top of this, if you look at sack boy's legs... His legs are to far from the hips and they are already bent. With that creates a lot of issues with rigging and animating because since they are already bent, we may get a lot of illegal geometry when straightening the legs in animation. Thanks to those reasons I was able to come to conclusion to go with the other model because it was very clean.
As you can see above, this was the character model I was working on based off a tutorial I was watching. I went with this because it was way more cleaner in polygons here. A lot of the placements as well made a lot more sense. In all honesty, before I actually get started to show how I develop the baby, I just want to say I'm really excited to show how much of a transformation I made from this model above to what the results are now. So when I begun modeling the baby model using this one I develop as a template, I started off with the hands and feet first. The way I went about creating the hands and feet was through the tool called bevel. Bevel is just like extruding but with outline in it where you basically pushing or pulling a polygon out and either scaling the face more or less. When it came to the hands I selected the face that pointed forward and used Insert which created another face in the polygon and shrink it down. Having that new polygon created I bevel it out to create the thumbs. Thus ending the basis of the feet and hand.
The next step was proceeding on the stomach...Giving the baby a belly! This honestly was the most fun part because it was pretty hilarious to work on. I mean when I first was doing this I was like wait...This guy looks pregnant, he can't look pregnant!
Eventually though I was able to get it right. The way I went about doing the baby's belly was very simple. I selected one edge going vertical, hit Ring which selects a ring of edges that's horizontal to the one I originally selected and then hit Connect. Doing this creates a new ring of edges going horizontal that connects to the ring of edges going vertical. Having three new rings of edges, I basically started selecting vertices and bringing them out, creating that round shape belly. After doing that I selected all polygons on both legs and scaled them down on the Z axis and stretched the legs out a bit on both the X and Y axis to created that look as if the legs are fat. I also did this for the arms as well. So with this being said, I practically had most of the basis down! Just needed a head next!
If I were to give any detail on how I did the head, the most descriptive way I would say I accomplish this came from how I did the hands. Basically beveling things out, scaling polygons down. As you can see with the picture above, I bevel quite a bit to create the head. Before I went crazy though, I made sure to extrude first to create the neck. The next step was creating the eyes and and nose for the baby. Just like anything else, I messed around with either Insert or Outline and then extrude it. Well for the most part of the nose. One of the things I did do with the nose though was also translate some of the polygons as well as shrink them more as desired. On top of that as I got towards the nostrils, I beveled inwards to create that hole; making sure that the polygons that was going in was not overlapping any existing polygons.
When it came to the eyes I actually did not have to do anything with Outline, Insert or Bevel. If anything I would think of it as just planning it out. My goal for the eyes were to get it at least an oval shape which I achieved through moving vertices to desire locations. You may be wondering now, how come in the picture above the other eye looks weird. The reason why I left the other eye alone was because I knew I was going to end up deleting half of the model in the future so that I can mirror it and eventually weld the two together. It sounds confusing but when I go over it later on, you'll see what I mean. The last step for creating the basis of the baby was the mouth and man I must say this was the most difficult thing to work on. It wasn't fun at all only because it gave a weird look as if his cheeks were going in. Just like how I did with everything else, I used the friendly bevel tool. With the mouth I beveled inward and eventually begun extruding by small iterations inwards. After having what I needed to work with as far as polygons I begun shaping the mouth more by moving the vertices to desire locations. Just like with the eyes, I tried going an oval shape. The difference between doing this and the eyes were well... I needed lips and I needed a hole for the mouth. After having the final part extruded out I also beveled inwards to create that hole for the mouth but as well give me more opportunity to shape the lips more. Thus finishing the basis of the entire. Model. Now keep in mind, I said basis! All of this is just a foundation of what I'm really going to work on. Still very excited to show off the baby!
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