2nd attempt!!!!!

looks damn good for 2 attempts!!

awesome dude

Awesome model so far.... I feel that some of the HDRI's lighting is too intense... Have you taken your light intensity down to 0-5% ? I find it works wonders.... http://forum.simplylightwave.com/sho...5&pagenumber=2 the last image on the page has a light intesity of 0 and I think it's on the right track....

thanks for your help everyone!

http://www.syrogen.com/misc/head25u12.jpg

but i still need help with those eyeballs! i just cant get em right :(

Check out the head modelling tutorial in the Inside Lightwave book. There's an excellent guide to creating realistic looking eyes in there...

doh, i really need to get that book. i have the basic structure of the eye (cronea, iris) and yes i did make the iris flat, but i guess ill just have to fiddle with it

The tutorial in the Inside LW book suggests the following steps:

• Make the eye a perfect sphere. (Make sure that the sphere is rotated so that the 3 point polys face out along the Z axis)
• Clone the sphere and smooth scale it up slightly to make the cornea
• Select the first two bands of polygons in the cornea and smooth shift them with an offset of zero.
• Now move them out slightly on the Z axis and size them down to about 80% of the original.
• Delselect the polys and Knife through the third row back to add definition to the bump in the cornea.
• To make the iris, merge the first two bands of polygons on the inner sphere.
• Perform a series of 5/6 bevels to get a nice smooth inset curve on the iris.
• Delete the final polygon (pupil)
• Make a perfectly black disc inside the eyeball behind the pupil and size it up so that you can't see behind it when looking at acute angles to the pupil - this helps to add some depth to centre of the eye.

Hope this helps

thanks mark! i updated the eyes and the light setup

http://www.syrogen.com/misc/head25u13.jpg

Really starting to come together now...

I'd suggest maybe a little less reflectance on the cornea and maybe a very slight bump (try crumple or dented) on there too to make the eyes look a little less glassy...

One more comment about the eyes. The whites of the eyes look a bit too white, unnaturally white and too uniform in color. I'm not sure how to tell you how to fix it, since you are further along than I could ever hope to be. Just a suggestion. But overall, it looks very good. Love the improvment in the pupil and iris.

I agree, if you look closely at your own eyes in a mirror, you'll see that at the corners of our eyes blend from white to redish/pink from the blood vessels in our eyes.
You can easily mimic that with a simple texture map.
Here's an example.
I'm sure someone probably has a better way of explaining it.


By the way your eyes put mine to shame. Great job!

thanks people! ive updated the eyes once again :P

http://www.syrogen.com/misc/head25u14.jpg

Excellent - looking much better.

This just keeps getting better!..The eyes seem a bit luminous.. the eye in shadow seems as bright as the one in light....But the eyes are much better!!!!keep it up.

thanks! the eyes seem luminous becuase i have a light only affecting the eyes. ill fix it :P

http://www.syrogen.com/misc/head25u16.jpg
http://www.syrogen.com/misc/head25u17.jpg