| Everyone starts to play around with 3D because they want to “make” something inside the computer. For many, it tends to follow an interest that they already have. So people that are into cars, start to make 3D cars, those that are off the planet, make space-ships (or the endless amount of Tie Fighters & R2D2’s). Some have an inclining towards character animation and hence want to create 3D characters. This tends to lead some to embark on the journey of creating and animating a “realistic” human character. For some reason, these characters have a tendency to be female, gee I wonder why.
Its been said that the Internet is a wonderful resource, you can find information on just about anything and 3D is no exception. In fact when it comes to references, information and tutorials on how to model a human character the web is full of them. However, if like me, you will soon discover two of the major problems with learning how to do “high-end” 3D off the web. First, you need to find these sites and tutorials, second, it seams that all of the tutorials tend to stop at the point that your more difficult questions start. In other words, plenty show you how to model a basic head, but is that head made with animation in mind, what about teeth, the tongue, eyebrows or eyelashes?
Well that’s were this web site comes in. It is my plan to show you how to go about and make a “believable” human character that can be animated and rendered in my current application of choice, that being 3ds max. However, even if you don’t use 3ds max, please continue to read, since much of this tutorial (like all the modeling) can be done on any major 3D software.
It should be noted however, that this tutorial is not really intended for the beginner. If you don’t know how to find your way around the max UI, or don’t know what low-poly modeling is or what meshsmooth does and you have never made anything more then some 3D text spin around, then this total tutorial is not for you.
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