From A Tutorial Of Making Head From Cube

[countis]

Tutorial of making a head from a cube

At the very beginning of the tutorial, you can see the following explanation.

" Start by creating a Poly Cube. Create a Loop Split in the middel of the cube and delete one side of the Faces. Duplicate it as an instance so you only have to work with 1 half."

I couldn't understand bold parts. At first, I ignored that. As following the tutorial, however, I felt that I should have done that. Can anybody explain what bold means more clearly?

[fortner_mike]

delete exact half of the face so that you are only left with a half. Edit-> duplicate(click the cube to enter settings) and select instance. Now you have two pieces of geometry, you need to position the new one so that it would visually replace the deleted half. The use of this is that when you change something on one side, you get the same changes on the other.

Hope you understand what i mean

[countis]

Thank you!! great help.

Now I'm curious about attatching both surfaces into complete one object.

Could you teach me that also?

[fortner_mike]

when youre done with modelig select both sides and do polygon combine. Then "connect vertex" or merge edge.

[joojaa]

I dont actually recommend staring off with a cube. Because especially in beginning you tend to shift to whats called box modeling syndrome. Usually when you finally DO ditch the cube your actually able to get rid of this fact, and eventually able to block it out of the cube anyway.

So my recommendation is following:

Block shapes of the body with simple nurbs objects don't mind if they aren't interconnected his is only a guide to get you going if you have a 2d drawing to block the volume on even better. domt be scared to overlap or shape them quite accurately the better the shape the more cloesly your points hit the eventual spaot without tweaking.

Now make these objects live and start drawing faces on them in a good edgeloop fashion, even if your uncertain what that is you tend to naturally flow along muscles and follows eventually anyway.

Thren sculpt a bit on top of this.

This is at first glance a much work way but it is a much more intuitive way to go about understanding why you lace points at where you place them.

[naughty]

Hahah.. that tutorial has an absolutely classic typo on the last line:

QUOTE
Planning the Head is 4 times more impotent then Modeling it.

:nathaN