Building Bond

Eye ball material

silhouette (http://www.cis.uab.edu/courses/cs101/spring2008/lab/sections/R6/MaleSilhouette.jpg)

Refernce pictures

http://www.artyfactory.com/portraits/images/proportions_of_a_head_2.gif

Started Bond by building single foot. basic shapes - cube - editable poly - lots of geometry - shaped accordingly

Took top of foot geometry - beveled outwards to create trouser / leg width - extruded vertically

Used Symmetry tool to create second leg

Created box with lots of goemetry again to shape into torso

showing torso manipulation

Further manipulation

 once appropriate shape was modelled, adjusted scale to fit with legs

Geometry was created on torso surface to allow for appropriate arm thickness. This was then extruded outwards (both arms at same time to create same length)

Hands are created by multiple bevel/extrudes

Geometry then manipulated into basic hand shape. NO ADVANCED DETAIL REQUIRED SINCE WILL NOT BE VISIBLE IN VIDEO

imported silhouette for head guide lines (placed on plane then frozen) draw basic outline using spline tools

seal spline - editable poly - extrude

Make see through - crete second plane with front face picture

quick-slice extrusion whenever necessary to create geometry to manipulate - select verticies begin manipulation BEGIN BUILDING ONE HALF OF FACE

Lots and lots of manipulation

in 3 dimensions

Use symmetry to create entire head

re - manipulate accordingly

Round off back/ top / sides of head

Turbosmooth (2 interations) - again adjust geometry accordingly for best results

Highlight all hair geometry and detach (HAIR COVERS EARS BECAUSE DETAIL SEEN AS NOT REQUIRED)

Same for lips . By detaching the different elements different materials can be applied

Add eye balls (spheres with material) and add other materials- re-attach all components to make head

Extend neck to fit into body

Detach body into different components for material assigning

Trousers used wood texture as bump with blue to create jeans texture (as worn in this scene in film)

To create jacket appearance without creating jacket detach strip on geometry down centre of torso (down front side) - assign different material for under clothing - attach body back together keeping all assigned materials as just set (bottom option)

Merge head file and adjust scale to fit body

Check neck fully connects (possibly extend further)

make bond see through. - systems tab - biped - drag out skeleton - put inside skeleton - select biped mode (top left option of drop down box on right, looks like person) to go into mode where skeleton size and individual components can be manipulated

Manipulate skeleton to fit bond (shell/skin)

(skin must be selected) Modify panel find - skin - select

Go to attach node INSIDE PELVIS IS BIPED NODE 01 THIS ALLOWS ATTACHMENT TO WHOLE SKELETON IN ONE GO. AGAIN HIDDEN INSIDE PELVIS

Now go into envelop mode. Increase enveloping radii to attach appropriate "skin" to appropriate "bones"

Test render to see if works found bond to be very fat

Now skin is attached to skeleton shrink bones to give bond lypo suction

test again - problem solved

Merge with steps file (steps into bond file) since steps were scaled with plane step are act correct scale

Merge single file

Turns out bond is 20 stories tall - Bond needs to be scaled down to fit steps

Hide skin since skeleton is diretly linked changing skeletons size will change skin - but will use less memory re-sizing in the process (computer will run faster)

select all and scale

When scaling down DISCOVERED centre node hidden in pelvis. This node cannot be shrunk, however, saving / closing / and reopening the file solves the problem

Bond in ready to be animated