modeling help

[Da_elf]

can anyone help me out by pointing me to a tutorial on the modeling of a character like this



i need it to have the little snout but i need to make it good enough to be able to animate it for speach

[^Lele^]

There's a very good dvd called "character modelling for production".
It's 3ds max based, and it's about a human male figure.
I guess from there you could evince whatever is your need.

[Da_elf]

thats the thing. i know how to do humans. its articulated snouts i need to learn. they are really easy in 2d animation since there is no limit to your mesh in 2d since there is no mesh

[DaForce]

I guess what you want is a cat or a dog modelling tutorial.

Then its a matter of squishing the snout a little to suit.

[AJ Jefferies]

not really a tutorial, but if I were modeling him I'd go for a layout of geometry something like this:



It's not a great example, but I just quickly run around & adapted a character I worked on a while ago.

I hope it helps!

[^Lele^]

The edgeloops are correct imo.
They run around the snout as they do around a human's mouth.
That should allow for speech and deformation easily.

[Da_elf]

ooo. that model is perfect. ill study that image

[Da_elf]

well this is what i was coming up with



then i remembered that mongooses have horizontal rectangle pupils



but it just looked waaaay too weird.

[percydaman]

ya well so does the mongoose

[YoyoBoy]

Is the plural "mongooses" or "mongeese"?

[DaForce]

haha pretty cool elf.

He looks rather shift with those rectangle eyes.

[Da_elf]

the plural is mongooses

[add101]

i think the cheeks of the reference image look a lot bigger and more pronounced than your 3d model.
are you actually creating that charachter, or somethign similar?
looking good so far

[Da_elf]

ive made changes