Maya Modeling - Box modeling a human head
Author: Steven Murdoch
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This series of tutorials will guide you step by step how to model a realistic human head, using the common 'box modeling' approach. These tutorials will cover preparing reference material using Adobe Photoshop, blocking out key areas of the head, adding details, and how to render and create a presentation image, showing the wireframe and default shaded version of final head and neck geometry. It is important to note, that there are many methods and techniques of modeling an organic figure like a human head. This is just one method that produces a good result. I highly recommend sourcing other tutorials and resources on head modeling to broaden your understanding of the organic modeling process.
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Part 01 - reference material Part 02 - creating image planes Part 03 - blocking out the head geometry Part 04 - defining the eye area Part 05 - defining the mouth area Part 06 - defining the nose shape Part 07 - refining the basic head shape Part 08 - adding detail to shape the eye area Part 09 - adding detail to shape the mouth Part 10 - adding detail to shape the nose Part 11 - adding detail around the top lip Part 12 - adding detail around the mouth Part 13 - modeling the neck Part 14 - adding detail to the neck and nose Part 15 - adding detail to the lips and mouth Part 16 - muscle structure around the mouth Part 17 - detailing the eye area Part 18 - adding a tear duct to the eye Part 19 - cleaning up the top of the head Part 20 - defining the ear area Part 21 - creating an ear template using curves Part 22 - extruding the initial ear geometry Part 23 - combining the main ear sections Part 24 - merging geometry to fill in the ear Part 25 - closing the gap from tip to tip Part 26 - modeling the inside of the ear Part 27 - merging unwanted points Part 28 - joining the ear to the head Part 29 - refining the ear shape and position Part 30 - adding geometry inside the mouth Part 31 - cleaning up the model and scene file Part 32 - rendering polygon and wireframe images Part 33 - creating a presentation image
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2009-04-18: ravikanth said:yes
2009-05-01: James said:
I'm loving these tutorials. When might we be able to see the rest of this one??
2009-05-01: steven said:
Hopefully over the next week or two. I just need to find a little spare time.
cheers
steven.
2009-05-07: dhaval kuntmal said:
please upload other parts of box modeling of head.....! please .....!
2009-05-08: dhaval kuntmal said:
part 3 is very nice, please send other parts as well as soon..., i'm very excite about the whole tutorials...
superb.....! work
2009-05-11: mahesh darunkar said:
yes, very nice creativity by the designer & i am also appear to animation course in Ahmednagar
2009-05-11: dhaval kuntmal said:
thanks.....! for the other tutorial...! i like it very much..! i'm very excite for the next parts...!
2009-05-13: apple1 said:
I want to learn about MAYA.Thanks!
2009-05-18: dhaval kuntmal said:
please upload all parts of face modeling....!
please sir..!
2009-06-07: PsychicFreak said:
Hi, just wondering how often this tutorial is going to be updated. P.S. loved the other tutorials, real big help. Cheers
2009-06-07: Mohzart said:
Great tutorial. Really easy to follow while modelling.
I hope you'll be able to upload Part 5 soon as I'm anxious to finish my character.
Thanks.
Mohzart
2009-06-09: princesuri said:
how o dowland this tutorial plese tell step by step
2009-08-11: Thomas said:
i hope the rest of the tutorial comes soon. I want to continue with my character. The tutorial are very good and easy to understand:)
2009-09-16: charitrajain said:
how can i download Box modeling a human head because
in itune store i see 37 video tutorials & that not include this tutorial . i am also not
able to download through freez.scr because it did not download more than 25% on browser
because i had wait for many times more than 3hours but it did not exced from 25% what can
i do plzz.. help me. these tutorials are amaging
2009-09-16: steven said:
Hello Charitrajain,
These tutorials are not yet available on Itunes, they are in the pipeline though, so please be patient.
I'm not sure what you mean about the 25%, is there a tutorial that will not load, please indicate which one.
cheers
Steven.
2009-09-21: Joe said:
You can make some very good head geometary, but can we please get a How-To-Create-Hair toutorial? that would help alot :).
Cheres
2009-10-07: vipul said:
i want to free download this tutorial plz
2009-10-19: john said:
pls upload the rest!
2009-11-18: Guz said:
Amazing, top quality video tutorials! I used to rely on Digital Tutors free tutorials, but now they've got greedy and you have to pay for almost everything.
Thanks for sharing such valuable info!
2009-11-30: Antonio Caldas said:
Please, upload the rest of the tutorial. It's very important for our knowledge improvement.
Thank you so much.
Greetings from Brasil.
2010-01-03: sailesh sritharan said:
Hi.. Ur face modelling tutorial is a great learning source for everyone. I kindly request you to upload the remaining parts for us so that we all can learn the remaining portion.
"Happy New Year 2010"
Thanks and regards,
Sailesh sritharan
2010-01-14: Guz said:
Are you going to release the other parts any time soon? I think everybody is very excited to see the rest of it!
2010-01-30: emily said:
costaria de saber como e que fasso modelagem corpo humano ja tentei faser mais nao conçeguir porfavor me ajude
2010-04-30: conny said:
This is just great, please load up the rest of the videos. It really helps me to understand headmodeling better.
Thank you :)
2010-07-05: 3d student said:
please, please, please could you set up the rest of the videos? this is quite possibly the best tutorials on maya I have ever seen, well thought out, simple, step by step and explained in a way that is easily understood and not rushed through.
I know this is a student resource produced by your institution, but just allowing the general public access shows what nice people you are.
2010-07-07: oren said:
you are awesome, you have the best tutorial on the web.
i just started to using Maya and i want to ask you for a video that explain from the beginning to the end of creating a avi file, not too complicated but with background lights cameras and all of this stuff.
2010-07-12: Steven said:
All parts of this tutorial are now available!
Thanks to everyone for hanging in there and waiting for such a long time.
2010-07-19: Terry said:
Thank you! Thank you very much, I successfully created my first human head. You made it possible, you cleverly used extrusion. It's way easier than other tutorial over the net.
2010-10-26: Michelle said:
Great tutorial!
The head has always been my weak point when modeling the human body. Needless to say I got nervous when my Professor said that I had to have a human modeled in a week on top of my other classes. Until now I'd been working on the method "Well if it looks good smoothed it's ok for now".
But this tutorial was easy to understand and I actually learned good edge flow for the head and I think I may even be able to take those first steps on modeling a human head on my own in my next attempt.
Cheers!
Michelle
2010-11-30: ratheesh said:
Great tutorial. Really easy to follow while modelling
2011-03-02: mahri726 said:
The best head modeling tutorial I have ever seen...Please if you could do furthure turorials of the rest of the human body.
2011-07-26: ted said:
I found the vids very slow to load, is this normal
2011-08-17: ratheesh kumar said:
verry good
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