Chapter 12.1- Character Modeling in 3DS MAX (Surface Modeling) - Modeling a human female head / face - page 4
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Chapter 12.1- Modeling a human head in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ) (Character modeling & rigging Tutorial / Lesson in 3D MAX)
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Last Updated: Aug 02 2008
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This Lesson's / Tutorial's Contents at a glance
1> Start Modeling the head 2> Create Reference copy 3> Surface Modifier, Refine
4> Extruding the spline 5> Filling the spline's holes 6> Modeling the mouth
7> Modeling the nose 8> Refining the nose 9> MIrroring the model
10> Refining the neck 11> Refining the skull shape 12> Modeling a basic eye

You will notice that the reference figures’ surface is not at all properly filled. Don’t worry about it now. You will understand why it doesn’t fill properly in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ) later. Now we have to pull out the vertices in the center of the model / character's face so that the face gets a 3d form. But there is one thing we need to take care when we select vertices in these meshes. The vertices where the lines overlap may be multiple vertices which may be simply overlapping. Hence we need to turn on Area Selection in the Modify Panel under the ‘Selection’ rollout. Now when we click a vertex for selecting it, the adjacent vertices to it within the Area selection tolerance range will also be selected. (You can change the range by choosing the value in the text box, to the right of the Area Selection checkbox)

Extruding the spline in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ) - Tutorial / Lesson

Now holding down the Ctrl key, click on the vertices as shown in the figure. The selected vertices are highlighted in red color.

Character Modeling 3D Studio MAX 3ds lesson tutorial Spline modeling surface

Now turn the perspective view of 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ) a bit and using the Move tool, move the selected vertices out along the X axis as shown in the figure. You can see that the reference starts getting a 3D shape.

Character Modeling 3D Studio MAX 3ds lesson tutorial Spline modeling surface
 
 

All these vertices that we have pulled out are having sharp corners and that is the reason why the reference figure doesn’t have a smooth appearance when it has been given a 3rd dirmension. With the same vertices selected in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ) , right click the mouse on any one of the selected vertex and from the menu that appears, choose ‘Smooth’. This will cause the model / character's vertices to have smoothed tangents and hence the lines that connects them appears smoother and more curved. The effect can be seen in the reference object  also.

Character Modeling 3D Studio MAX 3ds lesson tutorial Spline modeling surface
  Please dont forget to Save the scene.
Move on to the next page to learn about filling the holes present in the spline mesh.
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