Week 3

I started to create my Anubis character in 3D Studio Maxs; I decided that I would start by creating the head for my character. The reason why I decided to create the head first is that I feel that it may take me some time to get the correct shape for the head, and I have never created an animal head before in 3D Studio Maxs only a human head for another one of my modules.

For creating the head I first started by creating sphere and making it into an Editable Poly, once the sphere was turn into an Editable Poly I could start creating the shape of the head. First of all I went into the Editable Poly Menu and in Selections I selected Polygon. With Polygon selected I then I select from the menu Edit Polygons and select Bevel. With all these selected I go back to the Sphere and selected the Polygons I wish to edit, and then move these Polygons out to create a muzzle for my character.

Once I had got a reasonable shape for the muzzle I went back onto Polygon in the Edit Menu and selected some of the Polygons on the muzzle. Once I was happy with the selected Polygons I clicked delete to create a mouth for my character.

I then selected Polygons again from the Edit menu and selected Inset from the Edit Polygon menu, the select a couple of Polygons on top of the head. Once selected I made two smaller polygons on top of the head using Inset. Then I selected Vertex from the selection menu, and then I selected Cut form the Edit Geometry menu. I then selected one of the Vertex’s corners of the small Polygons and cut it in roughly in half diagonally selecting the other vertex in the corner opposite the one I just selected. Then I attached the new cut to the Polygons by selecting attach from the menu in Edit Geometry.

I selected Polygon again and using the Bevel technique I used to create to create the muzzle to make a shape for an ear. I then went onto Vertex and Edge selection and Scale make the ear expand more, the I selected the Polygons on one side of the ear and selected Extrude to make the inside of the ear.