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This was a legitimate pain in the ass. I hope you appreciate it!This is a VERY VERY LONG TUTORIAL. If you click the DOWNLOAD button, you'll download a 3mg pdf file that is over 100pages long.
You can also see a webpage version by going here:
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And if that link doesn't work, go here
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(I recommend just using the web version since I don't think I did the PDF quite right... lol)
This tutorial covers low-poly for real-time Modeling, Smoothing Groups, UV Unwrapping, Texture Creation of Face, Clothing, and Hands, and creation of Hair.
I take a character from start to finish and explain pretty much every single step.
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great tutorial...
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i found you on google and what a great find you are im going to be looking at your tutorials now good job on the character and glad to met you
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Thanks so much. I'm a noob and I'm still trying to find my way through this
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this looks awesome. ill definitely try it. thanks!
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Could I have a link to a tutorial for making the head, I can't find it anywhere
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Uh, well the only one I've got hanging around right now is this one - [link]
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wow thanks i was in need of a good tutorial on low polygon meshes
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I like your technique for the hair, the idea of just bringing in patches of hair and arranging them as you go is so simple and clever I never even thought of it.
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You've broken this down pretty well. I might have to use some of this, even if it is outdated. Thanks so much for sharing with the community!
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Is there any way to do the textures on metasequoia??
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Uh - until your comment, I'd never even heard of metasequoia, so I really know nothing about it. It doesn't appear to be a 'making textures' sort of program though. It appears to have a 3d paint feature, but I'd hardly call it advanced at all. What other 3d applications do you have access to?
If you go here: [link] and scroll down and expand the section for 3D Studio Max 2012, you can download the student version for free.
Go down a little further and expand the section on Autodesk Maya and you can download it for free.
Maya has a 3d paint tool that allows you to pain directly onto the mesh.... In fact... I think 3dsmax does as well, I've just never used it. In any case - I wouldn't ever recommend using either. All 3d paint tools that come in 3d software sucks balls unless you're using zbrush or deeppaint - but they have a set of tools specifically intended for making textures in 3d space.
I have no idea if mudbox has any advanced in-app texture painting tools, but I think it might. Mudbox is ALSO from autodesk, so you can download the student version of it for free on the same page. So... grab 3ds Max, Maya, and Mudbox and give them all a shot.
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3d Studio Max - I think I was using version 7 or 8 when I made this tutorial. It's pretty old.
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thank you so much your info is most appreciated
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Er - the link is in the description.
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Just go there.
Alternately, you can also find it here:
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oh cools!!!! so u painted the uv's!!!!!! WOW! i canNOT paint an unwrap. first of all, urs looks pretty high poly, and to select all of those polies to unwrap and stitch???? UGH! but shees it looks WAY TOO AWESUMNESS!
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HOW DO U MAKE SOMEThING LIKE THaT???????????? im in a material anf lighting class and wow!! did u colour tat on photoshop? wowowoww!! i need to learn how to organic model to make my own charcters hhaa. im stucking to linear shapes and UGH so boring. eeeyyy do u have a turotial??
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VERY VERY INSPIRING.!!!!
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Very useful tutorial, just followed bits of it to help with a model I'm working on.
One question, after you've finished texturing the model do you then convert it back to an editable poly to join all the parts back together?
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You can. I have in the past, but also I haven't on some things. It's entirely dependent on personal taste and what you're using the model for.
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Really good stuff. Thank you for sharing the knowledge.
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reading this has oficially made me interested in 3D art!!!
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This has helped me so much! I'm going to give 3d a try for the computer game i'm working on. Keep up the awesome tutorials
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Cool!! I'm just starting to learn 3D so this is a great help! Thanks 
By the way, the character made in this tutorial will be "stiff" like an action figure or "movable" like a puppet? Like, I can move around his arms and make him do different poses or not?
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This tutorial doesn't cover rigging the character (attaching it to bones so you can animate it - i.e. making it a puppet). So until you rig it, the character is just stiff like an action figure.
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Oh, ok. Do you know any tutorials for rigging?
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Oh, but that tutorial uses the Physique modifier. Just so you know, there's an alternative. Instead of using Physique, try using Skin. I've used both (Physique is an old standard, and waaaay back in the day when the studio I'm working at made ps2 games, our engine only supposed Physique, so I'm more than familiar with it) The thing is that Skin is probably a much better choice. -Especially- if you're rigging something a little more high poly. Super low poly is fine with Physique, but the more dense the mesh becomes, the more annoying it is to try and rig it with Physique. The envelopes in Skin help a lot, plus Skin has a mirror weights feature, but Physique doesn't.
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This was just posted today and I thought I'd point you to it since it's a rigging tutorial - [link]
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I don't specifically. I'm basically self-taught on rigging, and it's been ages since I needed to look up a tutorial for anything like that so I'm not really familiar with any. You could try looking on 3dtotal.com under the tutorials section. That sight has a rather large list of tutorials on it, so there's sure to be a few there.
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do you know if models made with these instructions can be used for Left4dead?
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I know absolutely nothing about making mods for Left4dead, so I can't really help out there.
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*0* (moved by tears)
that's whas truly informative!
too bad you ain't working on maya (i'm looking for a rigging tutorial about maya since a long time T-T)
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Wow i didn't know you did this tutorial. It really helped me when i was doing my first model. It's up in my gallery if you could check it out and give me some crits?
Thanks in advanced and thanks again for this amazing tutorial
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thanks for putting that together, a lot of effort.
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This tutorial deserve 50 pages of comments, i have all the day doing the tutorial and iΒ΄ve learned A LOT i thought i wasnΒ΄t lost in 3d modeling but wow... THANKS!
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I love your tutorials, thank you so much!!!!!!
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