Wallace Head Study

[jdsax]

I'm still new to box modelling and I decided to try to replicate a known character in order to gain insight into making my original characters. Anyway, I've done a Wallace head. I'm open to suggestions for any flaw corrections or details I'm overlooking at this point.

[Skinner3D]

:thumbsup: Definately looks like Wallace. Without seeing reference pictures I can't see any technical details that you have wrong. Could you post some wires for this character?

[jdsax]

OK, here's two views of a high-res wire and a reference picture. I have lower-res wires, I always save incrementally, but these are what I rendered from in the first post. Some of Wallace's details differ from photo to photo. This isn't the photo I used when doing his ears.

[jdsax]

This was my reference picture.

[Skinner3D]

:thumbsup: I wish I knew how to box model like that! The only thing that I saw is that in the pictures Wallace's eye sockets are bigger than what you have modeled.

[jdsax]

Why, thank you kindly. The eye sockets need work at the top in order to look more like the clay model. I think they may be shaped that way for easy access to the eyes but that's just a guess since I don't do polystyrene. His ears need a bit of tweaking as well but I probably won't bother as I don't really have a use for a Wallace model outside of this exercise.

1. He's a copyrighted character so I can't do anything with him.
2. Aardman Studios isn't going to see this and offer me a job, if anything they'd probably send a "Cease and Desist" notice.:D
3. I bow to Nick Park and his colleagues.:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

[jdsax]

Whoa! I just tried Catmull-Clark! This is a very cool tool. My CC render with fewer polygons is as good as the subpatch high res render.

Oh, and this was my lower res save that I converted to CC! I also tweaked the eye-sockets and ears a bit. Had to see how things worked in CC mode, you know.

[jdsax]

Here are all the files, for what it's worth.