3d art

Half the work
Make sure to use the
Symmetry function as
much as possible to cut
your workload in half.
Always have a centre
polygon edge. If you find
that it is not working
properly, you can either
delete half and use
Duplicate/Mirror or use
the Geometry/Symmetry
tool to get it working again.
Adding costume details
The Frazetta style
10 Exaggerate the muscles
The Frazetta-like design influence I am attempting has
exaggerated shoulders, rounded muscles and narrow joints.
The deltoid muscle is larger than others, including the
pectorals, giving the body a nice taper. The back latissimus
and trapezius are large too. Adding crude costume detail
and brutal weapons helps to complete the look j.
j Using the sculpting tools
beyond Vertex, Edge and
Face Selection really helps to
create organic forms
k Once in place, edit the face
geometry to make sure the
eye spheres look natural
with their poles near the
centre of each opening
l The feathers are made at
the origin from a flat oval
shape, with 35 instances as
positions out the back
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11 Eyes and hair
The eyes are spheres, with their poles along the Z axis. A
ponytail is a short bevel from the back of the head, the
bevelled faces shaped into a circle, then bevelled straight
back a few feet. The length is then loop split so that the
polygons do not become long rectangles k.
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12 Create the headdress
The bird skull originates from a cube, with two segments on
the X axis, that’s subdivided once. Next two lower front
faces are bevelled out for the beak, then the side face
bevelled inward for the eye sockets. Finally the edges at the
bottom, beak base and eyeholes are slightly bevelled before
being subdivided again and finer details applied l.
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m The Slice tool is used to cut
the boot where straps would
be on the wrapped leather.
The edges are bevelled for
thickness and finally the
leather in between is
bevelled out to folds
n The shield is made from a
sphere end pole and a few
poly rows, which have been
flattened slightly. Detail is
added afterwards
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13 Fitted details
The quickest way to add details such as belts, straps, boots,
etc, is to either duplicate the base geometry and scale it out
and modify, or just build an edge that defines the details.
The final step is to remove any geometry not seen (eg feet)
and to merge all the elements m.
14 Weapons and
small details
Additional belts and a
necklace are added, first by
duplicating a polygon loop
from the area, editing and
finally using Thicken
Polygon to create some
volume. Necklace claws,
armband spikes and a round
belt buckle are added to the
model. I also included
several smaller buckles and
detail shapes to the belt.
This is a chance for you to
get creative n.