Polybook HUMAN - Blanchsb

Facial Features Nose (Chp1. Ep7)

As they say, "Only the nose knows!" I have an interesting nose and the extra work to get closer to mine I think has paid off. I have much more cartilage/fat at the base on both the inner and outer skin folds. Almost makes a tear drop when you look at me head on.

The ear is definitely farther back than it should be but that will get adjusted in the next video. I may need to bring the whole face back a little too.

Orthographic side view doesn't look at bad but when I rotate the view about 15 degrees it does seem to need more adjustments for sure.

Facial Features Eyes (Chp1. Ep8)

This is a multi-day effort but I am still going at it. Not finished but I figure I'll post some progress:

Small progress: Adjusted the eyes a little more. I am juggling the 2021Collab this month so progress will be slower than I hoped but I am okay with that.

Facial Features Ears (Chp1. Ep9)

Now that collab2021 work is done for me I am getting back into my HUMAN work. Modeled after my own ears (I got bigguns)

Did a little more with the ears before moving on to the next section:
Really dug deep on some of those areas that were shallow. Hopefully that pays off later when getting skin shaders.
Blender crashed on me mid session but I was probably about 2-3 hours total learning the sculpting on the ears.

Those shapes you've made look great Shawn! Definitely a hard area to get right.  

I did notice that your ear has a bit more of an angle to it though (green) and that the top part looks a little bit too wide compared to the reference. I bet you could just use the grab brush to move things around a bit without upsetting the shapes you have - if you wanted some more likeness that is! 

Thanks Keith. I keep committing to too many projects but I am not stopping on this course.
I did some rework on the ear. And this is the final result before moving on to the neck:

I'm up to 32 hours so far. More to go for sure!

Facial Features Neck (Chp1. Ep10)

Interested in thoughts on the back of the neck and head. That part felt tricky.  (Up to 34 hours total, 2.5 hours on finishing ears and neck; counting breaks and real life interruptions)

Posting a 360 on this one since swapping facial features is the next video and getting a good overall view is important for Feedback.

Facial Features Swap (Chp1. Ep11)

I haven't started the swap yet but went on a CC-0 detour to get reference for my facial feature swaps.


1. I grouped all the features and separated them based on gender.

2. Then sent the collage to Affinity Photo and did a levels adjustment to high contrast gray scale.

3. Then I had a lot of fun drawing important feature lines

4. I exported each of these for reference and also a copy with only the highlights

Still working on more refinement before continuing to the additional facial features after getting some feedback from Kent.
I have added a shape key and refined some areas:
1. Making Eye area smaller
2. Smoothing some sharper planes left over from the block-out stage mostly on the side/temple area.
3. Neck area features lessened and hopefully more in line.

I animated the shape key. The eyes didn't get animated and have already been made smaller but the rest is shown
(Tip: to loop a youtube video on a desktop browser just right click while video is playing and select "Loop")

First set of facial features swap: Eyes. I had my kids pick from the list above so I could trust on a more random selection.
Here's the pick:


And here's my first attempt at a feature swap for the eyes.

"It gives him almost a pose like he's "better than" whoever he's looking at"
 
Uh oh......he's looking at me!?! I wonder if this is how Dr. Frankenstein felt when his creation opened it's eyes and stared at him.

And now for the ears study:

I suppose you could say you're 'All ears' Shawn........   😒

Looks like you have loads of nice reference there, and it's great to see you working on this project again! 👍