The Anatomy of a Muscular man (nudity)

[angel666]

Poligonal subd modeling, tell me what you think..

[angel666]

[gmask]

Forearms look a little off?

[mboyce]

his arms are too short index to index they should equal the height of the guy. They definatly don't in this case. Looks almot like he's missing elbows or something.

Other than that the model is great as far as my knowlege of anatomy goes, good job

[stevesayer]

I agree with both above posts. The forarms on someone so muscular shouldn't taper to be quite so thin so quickly. And the upper arms should be lengthened juuuuust a little to help the overall proportion.

What immediately jumped out at me was the relationship between the upper and lower body. I know that you want him to look bulkier up top, but there's a problem. Some of the structure of the upper body is dictated by the ribcage... you can see how it shapes the regions just under the pecs and in front of the lats. BUT... no matter how many weights you lift, you cannot make your ribcage get a lot BIGGER than it starts out... you can build muscle on TOP of it, but the bones themselves will stay the same size.

So your dude looks like he's got a size XXL ribcage balancing atop a size S pelvis. Which never happens in real life.

If you're going for realism, shrink the ribcage area and scale up the pelvis area just a little to find that happy medium. Then I will love it.

A little more analysis of the collarbones would be nice, too.

Got any wireframes or rear views for us?

Wonderful work. Thanks for sharing.

-Steve

[jtk77]

man that does';t look right....
in fact, it looks creepy... the chest muscels look off.

[angel666]

Thanks for comments. Here's wire

[angel666]

back...

[xyn]

Technically, the modelling on this is fine, but you have got 'too close' to it and need to get back to looking at some kind of reference, even if it is real people without a similar physique. Nearly everything is over exagerated to the point that interelationships have skewed, even though it is in itself an exagerated subject, the basic stucture has been lost, which is probably why some of the proportions seem astray.

It has the potential to be stunning but at the moment it's like an elabration on a plot that has forgotten to remember to tell the actual plot.

[jtk77]

that back looks great..its the pectortial muscels that are just not right to me.

[angel666]

I've reworked the torso. Seems better to me.
Steve your critique was very helpful. Update:

[jtk77]

should the chest , perctoria line be that even up his chest with his arms outstrechted ?
it seems lik the muscel should even out rather than stay so even , overwise wouldn;t it bunch up when his arms cam back in ?
When his arms are down wouldn;t his chest have more mass in a tighter area than outstreched?
Otherwise , where would it go ?
acualy, if his final pose is not with his arms outstretched then its probably right.

[stevesayer]

Happy to have been of help.

It's looking good! --I really like the way the forearms have changed. It's subtle, but very very effective. I really get the sense of two bones twisted around one another and then wrapped with muscle.

The torso seems much more believable now, with the changed proportions.

I was going to say: 'The trapezius muscles look too pronounced,' but I don't think that's quite right. Rather, now that I look more carefully, I think that the traps seem very pronounced because the character's neck is pretty skinny (compared to the rest of his physique). Musclemen often have necks like tree-trunks, thick and solid... the neck on your character shows good anatomy, but in a shrunken rather than swollen way.

Legs could use a little more work if you're going for ultra-realistic... but in general it's looking absolutely fantastic! Keep up the good work!

-Steve