Ears are easy for me, noses, on the other hand, seem to tie me up sometimes. Ears, you can do whatever with, don't have to worry about the flow around them, there's little to no deformation in the area around them. Noses are tied right into the loops around the eyes and the mouth, and you have to make use of what open geometry you have which can be tricky.
Hardest task I've run across so far has been modeling a baseball. I'm not talking a sphere with a nice image map, that'd be cake. I'm talking full on, modeled seams and stitches. That had me beating my head off the wall for a quite awhile. :headbang:
Took a couple stabs at it over the course of two years before I got anything I was satisfied with. The stitches making a "v" in the same direction the whole way around the ball, eliminated pretty much any chance of just being able to model 1/4 of it, and mirror it a couple times till I had a full ball.
I think the baseball's been he biggest challenge I've had so far.
|