Chapter 9Fleshing Out the Body

Crafting the Figure

Refer to Chapter_9 on the companion CD.

Now that we have made it past the head, we need to focus on fleshing out the body (no pun intended!). So let’s take a look at where we left off with the character. To this point we have more or less been concerned only with the mass of our figure. The majority of edge loops are there simply to dictate the general shape. So the next thing we need to do is start adding edge loops that follow more along the lines of the muscle structure. This is the stage of the modeling process that really defines your character. We are also at the point where we will rely on the photo reference considerably more than the skeleton.

So to begin with, we will want to get our ...

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