Setting up reference images for 3D character modeling

[TherealHaaku]

great tut again ryan, very helpfull!! ty and keep it up

[BigGangstaSK]

nice tutorial. Can I know where to find in some quality source photos of head from front and side ?? like this one or another ? thnaks

[mishokorlov]

Very goo well explained !!!

[onesaleaday4u]

A friend got her career started by Texting HOTMODEL to 77948

[Thedaredevilk]

Your model is hot

[Lazulf]

hey, quirc. i'm a novice 3-D modeler and i don't have Photoshop. Do you know of some way i can get a discount on Photoshop CS5? I don't necessarily mean that the program has to be cracked or hacked or anything but i just need the best deal because i can't really afford these products. So please, if you have some form of info that you can lend me me i'd greatly appreciate it! Just send me some sort of private message or public i don't really care. Thanks again and hope to hear of you soon!

[Tokorai]

Thank you so much for the tutorial!

[hich963]

can zbrush replace maya in modeling a character? can we model a character in brush that have all correct edge flow? do professional artist start to create a model in maya or zbrush? I think you get what I want to ask :)

[keltar2007]

LOL! I could Print screen and use her as a character reference!!! :p

[zzozzo98]

1:45 HOLY SHIT!

[Glomsy]

My Prof. had us follow ur 3D tutorial for the human head 2 model ourselves... which means that is a gr8 tutorial ^_Ö/

Many, many thx, b/c ur tutorial is helping out all of my classmates & myself w/ our final projects \^_~/

[odstroy22]

Help me man, when i import a picture its very big ad i cant move it, when i change it to fixed it stays in the middle and follows my camera!! i tried everything evn reinstall help

[RAYXNUM1]

Your using Maya on a Mac, but i think it works faster on Pc with Boothcamp.

[dzboi992]

Does anyone else lose audio towards the end of the video? I'm curious to know what happens in this time. ):

[tomol6]

can i do the same thing with manga drawings? (to create a 3d anime'ish model)

I'd really like too learn 3d modelling.

[squirc]

@tomol6 Yes, you can start with drawings instead of photos.

[VuurlxD]

@tomol6 Learn to draw something else than manga..

[tomol6]

@VuurlxD

1. Why if I want the models to be anime'ish?

2.That comment's 8 months old

[Bagtas03]

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[blueelohim1]

about the orthographic shots, is zero perspective distortion possible? How far should the photographer be and what are the settings on the camera lens?

[squirc]

@blueelohim1 Zero perspective distortion is not possible with a standard camera, but you can get close enough for practical work. There's no exact setting or lens that I can tell you other than just get as far away from the subject as possible and zoom in as close as possible. This is for the ortho shots. For the 3/4 shots, you want to be closer, like 3-5 feet away. I hope this helps!

[blueelohim1]

@squirc Thank you. Thinking about this perspective distortion thing has made me crazy this past few days. Your video is really helpful.

[ALEXVERDE1000]

hola amigo soy nuevo en esto y quiero plantearte un problema que se me presento cuando intento centrar la imagen no logro mover el modelo si no que lo muevo todo osea el modelo y la malla como hago para solo mover el plano por favor ayudame gracias

[aytches]

are you chris hardwick?

[squirc]

@aytches no, but I he's a friend of mine. why do you ask?

[aytches]

@squirc are you really? because that would be a funny coincidence. I was just asking because you kind of sound like him.

[Adrealist]

Thank you for this video. Even after watching the Lynda videos and read multiple tutorials online I couldn't find a decent explanation of what the best way to set up photos for a reference. This really nailed the issue on the head, and if I'd found it two days earlier it would have saved me hours of hit and miss. I'm looking forward to your "Modeling a human head" which again, is a big step ahead of even the paid for tutorials. You should put all of these on a disk and sell them.

[squirc]

@Adrealist Thanks, Adrealist! It really makes me happy to hear how people have benefited from my videos. good luck with everything!

[jediknightben]

cool thanx!

[dominoxicarus]

Great tutorial! Her rack is top-notch delicious :)

[shakyajata]

Hi Tarun - an interesting video - but don't give away too much of your skill!

[squirc]

@shakyajata thanks, but I have no idea who Tarun is :)

[Rainhylda]

@shakyajata But it helps us noobs.

[vjb1994]

good video.

[jollymollyfilm]

as any other program I want to know how to use, I learn by myself... but

tutourials are needed, and u do good ones!

:)

[danielkirk1]

So when i breasts... What breast do i breast with the breast? Arggh!! She is too distracting!

[illinoth]

pig...

[TERRANCIO]

She is cute as hell, but show some respect guys!!!

[danielkirk1]

@TERRANCIO  We are only male :(

[ampcorp]

I'm having trouble. When I import my image, I put it on the front view screen. I then switch it so it's not a fixed image, because when I do, every time the image is moved in front of the camera ( which for some reason imports in with it ) you cannot see it on the front view window. So I tried making it attached to the camera. I then was able to see the picture because the camera wasn't screwed up. But then when I zoom in and out on my front window, it just makes the pic bigger and smaller!

[woodsy1234567890]

when you said shoot yourself i thought you meant with a gun lol

[marcel911]

Interesting video but I got distracted by your model's rack. Sorry :)

[rjlives]

am an amateur 3d modeler in australia. out of college jus then. how to get job as a starter... can any one reply and suggest me a view. am so stuck with the economy like this.

[jafarvazir]

the quality of my picture is very good but when i use the picture for reference image the quality is very low

please help me

thx.

[xxRuleZzZxx]

i had the exact same problem that you had. this is because the resolution of your photographs are really high and 3ds max can't show them at such a high resolution that it makes the images blurred like they've been zoomed out to a great extent.

suppose your image size is 2048x2048, resize your image to something much smaller like 512x512 in photoshop (uniformly) and then use it in 3ds max and everything will be A-OK

[upload]

hello.

[RayKoenig999]

Wonderful, I really needed one-Just got into maya from 3ds max.

[jafarvazir]

hello.

[RayKoenig999]

Hey?

[botucao]

thanks man, great tutorial

[SkinandSketch]

Great tutorial, I learnt something and I know others will too. Thanks

[tecy]

Thanks Ryan.always good to see more stuff from you. I use your head modeling method all the time now so thanks for all the videos.

Id love to see more on topology for the body and muscles, im shure manye would apreciate more videos, thanks.