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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
GusC4D 10 / Apple G5. 1.8
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Sorry bout that. This should have been the subject heading.
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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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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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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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