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Sweet stereoscopic imagery there!

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Thanks for answering my queries. I understand that, even with all of the different angles Dave has drawn of Tetsuko's face over the years, there's still a lot to interpolate. As long as Dave is happy, what the hell can I say? :-

If you're interested, I found a reasonable hair tutorial on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh1SzN6tlCE&feature=channel. However, as well as being easier, polygonal hair might be easier to print if you end up going that way.

Thanks for the vid, I'll have to watch it later.  If I do an animation, I'll try out the simulated hair, but if it gets 3d-printed, I'll definitely have to flesh it out with polygons.  We'll see when the time comes.

Bad news is that I had closed the file and it didn't save….so I was set back most of the model…  good news is that I was able to put things in place a lot faster and I think this finished better than last time.

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Good job!  I always like your morphs.

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I agree with Dave that her forehead could be a little more rounded. Also, I'm thinking that the chin and nose could be a bit pointier and her lips a bit more defined and fuller.

I'll see what I can do to fill it out a little.

Also the rim around the eyes looks a bit unnatural, but perhaps you haven't got around to modeling the eyelids yet.

It looks odd because I havn't added her eyes yet…  I'll adjust them if I need to to get them to look right

I found some good reference pictures from Dave's comics here, but perhaps he has a some sort of character sheet or something he could send you.
http://www.dcmstudiosonline.com/comics/tetsuko/issue02/tko02_pg06.html
http://www.dcmstudiosonline.com/comics/tetsuko/issue02/tko02_pg01.html

I'm already using one of those 😛  The side is from a panel with her mouth a little more open.  The pics don't line up exactly, so I've had to approximate some features.

As for the hair, I've heard that there is quite a learning curve with hair plugins, but the results can be spectacular. Check out this example
http://arttalk.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=701&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=150

That's some nice hair and they've probably messed with their system a lot more than I've even thought about using a system for it.

What modelling program are you using, by the way.

3dsMax

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I'd maybe fill out the temples just a little bit.

Do you mean indent them some or do I have them indented a little too much?

How good is your modeling program at hair?  That's going to be the problem, I think.

Well..it's good at doing hair, but when I tried using the system, it came out bad…  but that's just how good I am with the system…  I don't know if the hair is static or dynamic tho. If all else fails, I can poly-model the hair and I think it'd look good…same goes for clothing.

Feel free to note me if you have any questions.  I'd love to see this model be as good as can be.  And you're off to a great start.

Sure will and thanks!  Actually, I'm going to send you one sometime today, so expect one!  ;D

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I love DCM art I just saw is Harley Quinnon his Devient Art
sight I remenber some time ago a fan story to the Batman cartoon episode where he first encounter Bane, Harely Finds the mask and damage venmon injector repairs it and wears the mask and injector and becomes [glow=red,2,300]PAIN[/glow]

I kind of remember that!

Altho I'm a fan of Tet-chan, I'd like to see a continuation to Janet's competition story!

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First, an update.

It's coming along nicely, I think…  It's hard to judge how her head is shaped due to all the hair 😀 and I'll go back later and add her ears.

Now some replies.
Thanks for all of your comments!

DCM, I'll try to do you proud.  🙂

Reason, it'd be awesome to get Tetsuko 3d-printed, but it's up to DCM (which I could only hope he'd say yes).  And to answer your question, I'm not modeling specifically with NURBS…  I actually don't know much about NURBS, but I'm modeling one polygon at a time, pretty much, then I slap the turbosmooth modifier on it.  If the modifier turns it into NURBS, then I guess I am to an extent.

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No reaction at all?  Sorry, but I didn't even see it the first time.  It looks good to me!

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If anyone wants to know this is a large file 243 MB.

and no sound  🙁  thanks anyway tho

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I think it's Shareen Fons.  If you go to the AMG site, there's a pic that is used for the model image on this page: http://diymuscle.com/Models.html

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