Modeling the human ear made easy

The ear appears to be such a complicated modeling task that many just give up or settle for low quality. This tutorial shows you how to do it right. Fast, simple, step-by-step. for help on setting up the image planes, see my video on setting up reference images.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• 3d
• cg
• modeling
• maya
• max
• art
• polygons
• ear
• face
• head
• human
• anatomy
• tutorial

[Hyshinara]

I don't know if you still have the original recording or if that recording is of better quality, but if you do, could you please upload a 420p or even 720p version of these tutorials?

They are excellent tutorials, but a bit hard to follow sometimes, due to the small size / blurriness in larger size.

If this would be impossible/impractical for you, no sweat, I'm already glad you've got them online as is :D

[squirc]

@Hyshinara on my website erraticimagery you can find a higher res version under the erratic extras section.

[DaFan86]

Ok noob modeler here, can you please tell me how you took that image and put it on that plane (or whatever it is)?

[squirc]

@DaFan86 I have a video on that. check it out!

[jlewamos]

I've done ALOT of tutorials, and this is one of the better ones. Kudos!

[spenceisadork]

This is the most baller tutorial going mang. SO GOOD. made it really easy and broke it down instead of just jumping into the polygons. Aw yeah. Sogood.

I'm gonna model an ear right now and try this one out. Thanks and you have a nice voice too. I hate it when people type in text editor like some mute would. xD

[RHedlund1000]

Thanks for the tutorial. It's helped me more than my class instructor has!!

The only thing I would say is that it would be helpful if while you're modeling and extruding, give a really brief explanation to what part of the ear you're planning the new piece to be for. It's tricky to follow along just watching what you're doing and guessing what part of the ear the verts represent.

Seriously though, great tutorial!!

[pilgrimtraveler]

Could you tell me what you think of my method. I posted it as a video response. Thanks

[MrHootHootJr]

@514dandy Don't know if you are still having this problem but a quick fix is to convert to subdivs and convert back to polys but this increases poly count. Its good practice to get used to modelling in quads / fixing topology manually, sooner or later it becomes second nature and just by looking at something you can tell what edges need to be deleted and where you need to add edges.

[MrHootHootJr]

@DaFan86 Ahhh but can you transbobulate a subdiv? I don't think Maya likes me...Every time I try to right click it calls me a complete tool :(

[UNDERWALLY]

Wow Thank you so much this was really helpful!!! Thanks!

[DaFan86]

@mimikawaii7386 WTF? I think you misunderstood me, I said that I AM THE NOOB MODELER HERE and that I don't know how to do that. I'm not insulting Squirc, I'm just asking him a question. Next time read the comment carefully before accusing others of something they didn't do.

Besides, my comment was written 9 MONTHS AGO, I'm a lot better now and I know how to set an image plane,

[mimikawaii7386]

@DaFan86 What the fuck, first of all if you don't know how to set up a simple damn image plane you're the only noob here, instead of being an arse you should look it up since it's one of the most simple things to do and be thankful for the free lesson, others pay heavy money for any training.

[Killadey]

Wow, you're a clever sausage...