1.0 Topology

The first part of the project was to produce the Topology. I needed to take two photos of myself from the front and also from the side view. Special care was taken to try and keep the distance of both photos the same from the camera. This would be important because resizing the photo after would cause a lot of problems. These photos would be used as references for my model.

The next step was to load the pictures into photoshop. Here I lined the pictures so the facial features were in line with each other. To do this I used the ruler lines as guides to help me line them up perfectly.

I now had to start to build up the edges on my face. I choose a blue coloured brush and started to define the face by drawing over lines, wrinkles or protrusions. Here I was isolating all the key areas. The last part was to draw in to inner Topology. This was done be using a smaller red coloured brush to join all the blue Topology lines up. This made lots of small quads that would build up the contours of the face. The use of quads was important because triangles would cause a pinching effect when the modeling begun. I found this quite difficult to totally eliminate every three sided shape but I tyred to minimise them and try not have any in key areas.