Thought I'd enter into the spirit of Myrlyn's contest. Now that it's just Bujape and I in the race, I fancy my chances of coming in at least second place.

Are people using cracks banned, too? Can you tell if they are using cracks? That'll knock out at least half my would-be competitors. Ha!

This is my first attempt at a human model (my second if you count the one I abandoned). I will not suck! I'm going to be using the Joan of Arc tutorial, pointed out to me by Nemisis. Cheers mate! I'll also be using Lightwave 3d Character Animation, and maybe even Animating Real-Time Game Characters, and possibly either Digital Texturing and Painting or one of two manga books whose titles are in Japanese that deal with texturing.

So, here she is. I drew and inked her this evening. My chinese spy:



I've also been working on front and side views of her face for reference pics. Can't finish them tonight, drank too much. I'll finish them, and work on the body references tomorrow.

I'm going to devote four hours a week to this project. If you don't see anything from me every week, please PM me and kick my proverbial arse (a bit of American English there, change to "bottom" if you are English).

hey that doesn't look bad at all
i like her
can i make a date?
hehe jk

isn't it hard to make it walk like a real lady?

-scary_man

I'll ask her for you.

I don't know how hard it is going to be to animate her in that dress. Well also have to see how much it adds the polycount to have the insode of the lower part of the dress double sided. The dress might need some adjustment, but I'll get the body and head done first, then see how dressing her goes.

I'll have to hunt down a British English dictionary. I think the difference between "arse" and "ass" is that the former is a more sexy version of the later. The later can also be a donkey.

Thanks for the nice comments about my illustration.

I've done the front and side views of her head. The side view doesn't mtch up quite perfectly. Is this going to be a problem? I'll also have to change the colours since all the vertices and polies in Lightwave are white, and when you have something on a different layer it is black. I haven't found a way to change this.

Not sure exactly how it gets done, but you can probably find out here:

http://members.shaw.ca/LightWavetutorials/Main_Menu.htm

As far as matching the images up, is you have software that supports layering - Bring both into the same file and make the top one about 50% transparent, then you can adjust the images from there.

A.Russel, here is another method thats awsome and returns quick results.
For Game models, reduce the number of sections once you have gotten used to the method.
Cylinder Modelling
I've used the method in both Max and Maya when tutoring my students on modeling techniques, we are able to construct a full model to go in one day.

That looks good and simple. However the tutorial doesn't cover clothes. Would that matter? Could I use one method for the body then another for putting the clothes on?

That is a good tutorial you have there. Should even be pretty easy to use MED with that method.

@ A. Russel - Most the time you will mix and match various methods throughout the models construction. You just have to take time to learn the different modeling methods and determine which will work best for your given situation.