Maya 8.0 Character Modeling

Chapter 11Fine-Tuning the Model

That Perspective Thing

Refer to Chapter_11 on the companion CD.

So now we have reached the final stages of the modeling process. Up until now we have worked directly from reference images and a stand-in skeleton to get a complete character model. It would seem pretty logical that our character should have a resemblance to the reference images. This is true to a certain extent.

Somewhere back when we set up our reference I said that when using photos for reference we need to take perspective into account. Because we used orthographic view planes to create the geometry, certain features of our model may appear quite a bit larger than the reference images.

For instance, remember how we adjusted the image plane to build ...