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  Posted by Gnwanya on February 20, 2007 at 9:28 pm

  Hi Everyone,

  Im hoping you can help me here. I have been using Cinema4d for a few years now but only for rendering text into 3D. I decided to up my game a little and move into character modelling.
  I have come across numerous character modelling tutroials, ranging from difficult to extremely difficult.

  I have plenty of simple illustrated humanoid drawings, front and side profiles and I would like to bring them to life. I have difficulty getting the basic shape created from scratch in C4D using just my eyes to reference the image. I have tried extruding from
  a polygon cube to no luck either.

  Is there a way i can bring the front and side profile image of my character into C4D and use the images to trace points from which i can go on to create polygons from.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thanks
  Gus

  C4D 10 / Apple G5. 1.8

  Mylenium replied 19 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Gnwanya

  February 20, 2007 at 9:29 pm

  Sorry bout that. This should have been the subject heading.
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  Mylenium

  February 21, 2007 at 6:57 am

  Assign the images as background images to your viewports. Since you are in R10, you could also apply them to dedicated polygons using materials, then put them on a separate layer. Lock the layer. The references will show up correctly, but not be editable so you can’t accidently select them.

  Mylenium

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  Gnwanya

  February 21, 2007 at 9:58 am

  Thanks Mylenium

  I understand the polygon approach, but how can i determine if the polygon is to the exact scale as my image? e.g. Is a 72dpi image thats w150px X h500px equivilant to a polygon box thats X-150m by Y-500m?

  Thanks again

  Gnwanya
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  Mylenium

  February 21, 2007 at 6:36 pm

  No. Things don’t work that way. C4D has no concept of dpi. The common approach is simply to create a dummy cube that encompasses your model and resize all bg images/ textures so that they fit the dimensions of the individual faces. If you do everything correctly, you get correct results.

  Mylenium

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