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GA 3324 : Character Modeling This course covers advanced modeling techniques for building 3 dimensional characters. Students wil explore techniques of character modeling to include various approaches to figure construction.

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Week 11: Final Critique
Due at the begining of class are the following components:

• There will be two models submitted for the final. One will be your Anatomical Model from the midterm, but now finalized with clothing, hair, sculpting, and any other elements of personality needed to finish the project according to your Charactermaker Pro assignment.
  
  
• The second character model may be anything you choose, a creature, a cartoony model, another human, an animal, something else??!?!?!
  
  
• You will be turning in the MAYA (.ma) files for both characters
  
  
• Additionally, you will be posing Character 1 in a way that fits with "who they are" according to Charactermaker Pro or Creating a normal map based on the sculpt from Zbrush and rendering the normal map in Maya.
  
  
• For Character 2, you will be altering the head for EIGHT specific facial blendshapes. 4 must be Expressions, 4 must be Phonemes. A single image of all 8 heads rendered together must be submitted, or a video of the heads blending to the target in Maya.
  
  
  
• You will be submitting at least 3 wireframe renders and 3 well-lit and textured renders for each character, plus document exports from zbrush.

All told, you will be submitting 2-4 maya files and 12+ renders!

MISSING THIS CLASS, OR SUBMITING WORK AFTER THIS CLASS WILL RESULT IN AN "F" FOR THE COURSE, SO PLEASE BE HERE!!!!!!!!

Central African Butcher from Robin King		Egyptian God(dess), from Joanna Kietch
Norse Ironworker from Marlena Hammond	Fairy Cake-maker By Kevin Ng	Deer Nymph from Robin King
Transyvlanian Dragon Hunter by Razvan Luta		Various Poses from Michael Nguyen
Fairy Nerd by Harris Sarmiento	Chinese General by Zhuo Fan Huang	Japanese Wrestler By Jordan Gabriel	Future Warlord by Thinh Ngo
Desert Creature By Tosh Matsuda	Desert Sceintist 1 By Tosh Matsuda	Desert Sceintist 2 By Tosh Matsuda	Horus by Dan Greenstein
Texan Outlaw By Mario Salazar	African Warior by Thomas Kelly	Russian Archnemisis By Kai Cabrera	Roman Sheriff By Yi Ou
Swordsman from the Land that Time forgot By Michael Certeza	Elven Theif By Tara Byars	Image by Alex Zeng	Nomadic Shaman By Mike Jasoni
Egyptian Hippie by Bianca Hintermann	Swampqueen By Iris-Lynne Malang	1980s Big Game Hunter by Lonnie Thornton	18th Century French Swordfigher by Stephanie Barnes
Roman Gladiator By Stirling Dimitrius	Image by Regan Mucha	American Soldier by Brandon Jones	Image by Stephanie Barnes
Young Mad-Sceintist By Yi Ou	Miracle Max By Dylan Dunbar	Image by James Johnson	Image By Dante Gainer
Image By Melvin Laso	Image by Andew Wong	Image By Ryan Dunne	Image By Ryan Dunne
Image By Vance Wu	Image By Steven Nosse	Image by Scott Stevens	Image By Andrew Wong
Image by Alexander Whiffen	Image by Alan Lei	Image by Sam Spinosa	Image by Chris Latolais
Image By Kris Chiao	Image By John Lehman	Image by Oliver Barazza	Image By Farhan Noor
Image By Farhan Noor	Image By John Lehman	Image By Anders Howard	Image By Anders Howard
Image by Nat Lee	Image By Catherine Thomason	Image By Anthony Aguilar	Image By Priscillia Pun
Image by John Acogoli	Image by Ehren Tye	Image by Trevin York	Image By Alan Vincenzi
Image By Lee Farrell	Image By Lee Farrell	Image by Jen Vu	Image by Chris Stewart
Image by Oliver Barazza	Image by Oliver Barazza	Image By Chris Lee	Image by Ryan Dunne
Image By Mike Jasoni	Image By Jacqui Smith	Image by Scott Stevens	Image By Tyrone Schieszler
Image By Arnaud Arens	Image By Jessica Bradley	Image by Giap Waye Goh	Image By Ty Miyasato
Image By Jessica Bradley	Image By John Lehmann	Image By Zhuo Fan Huang	Image By Mike Jasoni
Image By Abraham Lopez	Image by Jeff Hong	Image By Alex Whiffen	Image By Yinpeng Ma
Moonbase Bountyhunter By Willie Cooley

Blend Shapes
Image by Dylan Dunbar	Image by Andrew Wong
Image by Yi Ou	Image by Meng Her
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson by Marcos Lopez	Image by Iris-Lynne Malang
Image by Jessica Bradley	Image by Kai Cabrera
Image by Mike Jasoni	Image by Willie Cooley
Image by Joe Perez	Image by Jordan Gabriel
Image by Dana Adams	Image by Ravi Giraputra
Image by Joanna Kietch
Image by Emilo Cordova

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