Here is the model sheet for the Female Scarecrow

Yves, I'll be starting either tomorrow or the next day. I seem to have some kind of stomach virus right now. It's making it difficult to do anything right now, haha. Hopfully it won't last too long. In fact I might start a little of it tonight. A few questions though.

1: How should I model that skirt (ie: dynamics or simcloth being used)?

2: Should I model lips or will they be "painted" on later?

3: Should I make a hinged mouth (like a ventriliquist doll), or just a regular mouth?

4: Should I make ball jounts for the fingers of the hands, or will the look like regular hands except made of wood?

I think that's it for now.

That is a very good question. She will be dancing with TWO Scarecrow. But I see the skirt as being relatively rigid. So I'd say model the skirt so we can add dynamics on it but not simcloth. I'd like to have feedback from anybody who have experience with a similar situation.

Very simple lips. Almost just the edges of the mouth opening. No pulpous lips.

Regular mouth.

Regular hands made of wood. We will not see her hands in close-ups. Painting the hinges with bump maps should do the job if we need those details.

Here's what I have so far. The Face Decal is just a place holder. There is a rendering artifact over the eye.

That's a very good start. Looking good.

Nice start Zaryin... can you show us a side and a shaded wire view ?

Here's an update. Yves, what did you want me to do for under the dress? Did you want nothing or maybe a little ruffly thing...?




Thanks. Ask, and ye shall receive.

Yeah! A litle ruffy thing would look good during the dance steps.

I will be away for the weekend so I won't be able to reply until sunday night. But you are going well. Good work so far.

Update.

Ok, here's an update, but I really need some opinions. I have all these petal like shapes (ie: The collar, cuffs, apron). I would like opinions on whether it might be better to model them as straight patches then use a cookie-cut map to get the petal effect? Should I leave it alone, making the patch count very high? Should I make them all cookie-cut? Or should I leave the collar and cuffs alone, and make the apron cookie-cut?

I'm leaning towards the last idea, but I would really like some opinions on what everyone thinks before I move on with implementing anything. Please let me know.

EDIT: I've decided that I'm going to go with cookie-cut for the apron. It just doesn't look good enough the way it is. To get it to look like the others would require alot more patches than should be used, so I'll go with that.

Another Update.

Ok, all the modeling is done except for the hair. I don't really have an idea as to how the hair should be done. With Hair or modeled? If modeled, um, how? If we'll be using hair then this is done for now and can go to the riggers. So I guess I'll just have to wait until Yves gets back to find out.

Ahh... she's cute! Great work Jeff!

I had to look a long time to find anything that bothered me...it's a shame that this will only be in the movie for a short time...but the end of the sleeves (the tubular part) look...uh...too tubular (not in a ninja turtles kind of way ). Were you planning on this area to be wrinkled with textures? Just a thought...

Looks great!

Lee

Thanks, Jimmy. With wrinkles and things I just followed the model sheet. If there not in there I didn't model them. If Yves, says he would like to see that, I'll add them though .

Thanks again.

Nice work Jeff. I imagine the hair will be similar to Tingirls.....only bigger and longer. Or maybe not.

Great model Jeff!

Nice work, Jeff. I agree with using cookie cuts for the apron. This is not a part that we will see close-up.
Yes. That is a good comparison and that is the idea I had in mind.

Thanks everyone.

I hate to jump ahead, but how will the individual hair planes be textured. I have a feeling I'll be the one doing it, haha.

Nice model Jeff. A wood grain texture for the hair I assume, bitmap plus may do the job.

Thanks Mark.

So here's what I assume is the finished model -- at least the modeling part . Let me know if you're satisfied Yves and I'll upload it to SVN.

That looks fantastic Jeff, nice job on the hair.

I love the style. Nice going, Jeff

As Scarecrow might say... "Hubba Hubba"
Whatever that means.

Very nice Jeff! You definitely model on model.
Its such a thrill to see the process go from idea... to sketch... to model.
And when animated... its magic.


Added: May I suggest: A few wood shavings for bangs to fill out the front of the hat/top of her face.
She has some hair there in Yves original drawing.

Yeah, I love the process myself . Thanks for the comments, guys. I wonder how that hair will be rigged? With dynamic bones...?

Fantastic model Jeff. The hair are exactly the way I imagined them. You need to add a few shorter wood shaving for her front tuft of hair.

Rigging the hair. They need to be fairly rigid but still react to movements. Some dynamic constraints would probably do the trick.

Texturing hair: I'd suggest using patch images. That would probably be the easiest to use because the texture would automatically orient to the patch directions.

Ok, I added ringlets to the front hair and added her to SVN as Female_Scarecrow.mdl (Folder of the same name).