Modeling A Human Body in 3d Studio Max

Modeling a human body - Page 1

by Olli-Pekka Saastamoinen
Homepage: http://www.dlc.fi/~ops
Questions? ops@dlc.fi
In the next 20 minutes you'll learn an easy way to model a human body. We're going to use
box modeling technique (with meshsmooth).
Requirements for this tutorial are that you have 3D Studio Max 1.2 or later and knowledge of
the Max basics.
Note: Max 2.5 users might find useful the Cut and Slice options.
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There's no retouching made after Meshsmooth was applied.
Step 1. Making profiles
First we have to make (well not have to, but helps a lot) 2 reference pictures (front and side
view of what we are modeling).
If you have a scanner you can draw them on paper and scan to you computer. I don't have, so
here's how I did it.
I drew the profiles in Max with splines. See bellow:
Click here to see a high res version. You can use that if you want.
Step 2. Modeling leg
It's easier to start from a leg. Start by making a box. Oh and remember that you have to model
only the other half.
Now apply Edit Mesh and select a top face. You don't have to enter anything in the "amount",
just press up arrow and you'll see the extrusion.
Next picture shows you "have to do" segments.
Those thick red lines shows you where you have to stop the extrusion. When you hold down
the arrow and see the extrusion you have to stop in these lines (you get minimum detail).
In Max 1.2 and 2.0 you have to think in the future, because you can't add more segments
afterwards (in middle of the body). Max 2.5 users can make a whole body first and then add
more segments (Cut and Slice). You also should watch your side view.
Leg extrusion ready. See those segments on the knee area (you should add more segments in
knees, start of an arm, elbow etc.. to make it better for animation).
Now It's time for editing the leg. Move vertices so they match with the reference pictures you
made. You might see that I placed some segments wrong (on butt area). That doesn't matter
much when Meshsmooth is applied. Max 2.5 owners have no problems, use Slice.
Step 3. Torso
Use the same technique as with the leg.
Step 4. Arm
Start by selecting the face where to start arm extrusion.
Extrusion time!
waiting.......... waiting........ waiting
Ready?
Here's what I got.
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Copyright (c) Olli-Pekka Saastamoinen 1999.

Step 5. Hand
I made a side view of the finger with splines (top view also).
I made some boxes to help the extrusion process. Black boxes shows points where the finger
bends. Whites are for nail (yes we're going to do a finger nail also).
Pictures bellow shows how I extruded the finger.
Next step is to move vertices so they match with the profiles. Note that I added more segments
on tip of the finger to make it more smooth.
Now comes the "hardest" part extruding a finger nail.
Select the faces and press ONLY once the extrusion arrow.
Now select those extruded vertices and scale them inside the finger as bellow picture shows.
Red line shows what where scaled.
You need 3 segments to make this nail:
Seg 1. You did this minute ago.
Seg 2. These vertices you pull IN the finger, so you get a finger nail "socket".
Seg 3. This is the nail it self. You pull vertices OUT of that "socket".
FINISHED FINGER (MeshSmooth):
Well it's not perfect. When your character is ready (and meshsmooth applied) you can select
fingers vertices and apply FFD modifier to edit fingers. Finger nail is little too big, but that's very
easy to correct.
Now we have one finger. All we need is a thumb.
As you can see I made a copy and deleted half of a finger and scaled it bigger (looks almost a
thumb).
Step 6. Connecting fingers to a palm
Start by making 3 copies of your fingers.
Place them as you can see on above picture.
Next make a box (width 4, length 4, height 1).
Now move vertices so it look something like pictures bellow:
Here I've placed a thumb in it's place. I just rotated it and moved vertices so they can be
welded with palm vertices.
Now it's time to connect those fingers to a palm.
If you're getting following results when you apply Meshsmooth.
You have made one mistake (yes you welded those vertices together), but did you deleted the
faces?
Here all "connection faces" are deleted.
Now you just attach them together and weld those vertices (white dots).
Ending result:
Fingers are way too long. Meshsmooth also makes finger nail area look like a box (can't figure
out why).
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Step 7. Shoe
Making a shoe is so simple, that couple of pictures explains it all.
Some help: made with splines.


There's 2 segments first is pulled little bit over a leg and second one is pulled down.

Not bad.
Step 8. Connections
All we have left to do is connecting a hand to an arm and then 2 body halfs together.

Connecting all the parts together you do just like with the fingers. Delete connection faces and
then weld vertices together.
Step 9. Meshsmooth
Now just apply Meshsmooth. Check "quad output" and "smooth".

Now it's time for rotating your character and saying "Did I do this?!".

If you watch very carefuly you might see, that something important is missing. Yep, a head.
Don't worry here's a small link list for the best head tutorials:
Modelling a Face With Patches
Modelling a Head With Patches
Modeling a Head With NURBS
And THE head tutorial for Surface Tools owners:
Facial Modeling - Spline Modeling Heads
This tutorial showed you how to make a "naked" character. Click here for part 2 of the tutorial
(clothing).
All questions/comments are welcome to ops@dlc.fi.
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Modeling a human body - Page 1

Modeling a human body - Page 1

There's no retouching made after Meshsmooth was applied.

Step 1. Making profiles

Step 2. Modeling leg

Use the same technique as with the leg.

Start by selecting the face where to start arm extrusion.

Here's what I got.

Next page - Back to the users tutorials

Copyright (c) Olli-Pekka Saastamoinen 1999.

Modeling a human body - Page 2

Now comes the "hardest" part extruding a finger nail.

Red line shows what where scaled.

You need 3 segments to make this nail:

Seg 1. You did this minute ago.

FINISHED FINGER (MeshSmooth):

Now we have one finger. All we need is a thumb.

Step 6. Connecting fingers to a palm

Start by making 3 copies of your fingers.

Place them as you can see on above picture.

Next make a box (width 4, length 4, height 1).

Now move vertices so it look something like pictures bellow:

Now it's time to connect those fingers to a palm.

If you're getting following results when you apply Meshsmooth.

Here all "connection faces" are deleted.

Modeling a human body - Page 3

Making a shoe is so simple, that couple of pictures explains it all.

Some help: made with splines.

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Now just apply Meshsmooth. Check "quad output" and "smooth".

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Modelling a Face With Patches

Modelling a Head With Patches

Modeling a Head With NURBS

And THE head tutorial for Surface Tools owners:

Facial Modeling - Spline Modeling Heads

All questions/comments are welcome to ops@dlc.fi.

Back to the users tutorials

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