Walking Dude with a TV Head and Diseased Skin

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From the Basic Blender 4 Lecture Course

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Modeled according to what I thought would be funny when animated.
----Made him have a big ol’ butt, weak ankles, strong shoulders, and some toes.
----Knowledge of anatomy helps achieve realism here, but I have none, so it didn’t quite work out. Looks like a grown-up baby.
----Minimizing mesh pinches and stretches via weight painting was frustrating - Grant hinted that the solution was more geometry (Vertices and Edges and Faces) would help?

Animated according to Grant’s instructions.
----Added Toe Articulation, Hip Rotation, and Shoulder Rotation.
----Really cool to see how subtle changes here had a big effect on the realism of a walk cycle.
----In the future, I will remember to bend them elbows.

Textured according to what I thought would be funny when animated.
----Ended up looking like skin disease or burns or a newborn.
----Happy to get the texture to follow the mesh, instead of sliding around over/under the mesh. Took some figuring out with UV Mapping the body and shading nodes/texture nodes, but I got there.

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Tinier head, per @FedPete and some refinement in the lower body and overall proportions. Just adding vertices and moving them around in Edit Mode; no sculpting tools/space yet, but happy with the results so far.

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Thanks for looking and reading!

-S. McS.

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Mostly because of the big head.

Well done project!

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Thanks for taking a look!

Let’s see what it looks like with a tinier head.

I’ll post updates via edits here.

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Second post, looking much better.
But because of the design (a tv head), making it a more grown-up human is difficult.
Glad you gave it a second try, it helps learning Blender!

… adding hip rotations
… some head movement

But just go on to the next section, there’s much more tot learn. :wink:

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TONS more to learn. But the incremental changes from 1st to 2nd here are heartening. I’ll probably keep working on it in the background, just to continue practicing basic skills/goof around a bit.

Thanks for taking another look, @FedPete!

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