Maya Modeling Morgane

ZBrush Making of Sculpture

modeling morgane

Concept, Sketch and References

My first step was to find a great design for the character as it was suppose to be the main character of a short movie. Therefore I worked on several models and different graphic styles in order to find the best visual aspect.

Later on, after eventually finding a satisfying aspect I pushed the rough in Corel Painter which was my final choice.

Modeling

An interesting aspect about this character is its simplicity just a sphere and a cone. I started the modeling part and put some “splines” in maya for the face’s contours to visualize all the details.

I often use nurbs and I distort it in order to find the right shapes because it is more flexible than the polygons.

I first try to find the right shape then I did the overlines and finally transform it in polygon and add some more details.

http://aaron-cds.cgsociety.org/gallery/

It is easy to draw the body, the hands and the legs.

As regards to the hair, it is fixing to the back of her head by a “helix” which means that this part is fussy to realize. I started to create a “very low poly” model and then I added the details to the base of the “helix” and also add a temples tomb like thing.

After putting all parts together it gives me image like...

Her teddy bear was expected to have several scars in order to show the bad treatment it suffered throughout the years. It spend all the time with the little girl therefore I thought of putting stitches on its joints and give him a stitched smile.

This smile gives a weird feeling when looking at the bear. The basic forms are really simple to model.

The difficult part was to model the sewing thread which links all the body parts together.

I just created holes on both forms and an “extrude” on a small cube to model the sewing thread following the “path” of a “spline”. This makes my modeling completes.

Texturing and Rendering- The texturing and rendering was not pushed really far for now. I made the rendering in mental-ray with a special pass render of occlusion.