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Your sora model is astounding! I barely see people modeling characters with anim8or. Can I ask how many polygons is it?

I saw the video and I immediately thought of Dr. Octavius or Doctor Octopus from spiderman. Pretty cool how you show the process. I can't figure out how to use special effects, its harder than it looks.

Thats because you have to skin the weights onto the bones individually. Otherwise, the enire object is only influenced by the root bone of the entire skeleton. After you appy the weights, you can switch to show bones so that you see the bones each have a different color. Right click on the bone such as the leg, then use the left mouse button to start painting the area of influence that the bone will move. Its sounds a little confusing but basically, you select a bone, right click it, then left click to paint the vertices of the model. Maybe I can do a tutorial on my youtube channel because I have been asked this question a lot about issues with weight painting and its not hard to use at all. And it would be easier to show you what I mean.

My first attempt at modeling in this style.



I'm still not that good at texturing because I focus most of my time on the model.

Hey saijee!
You were my inspiration to start modeling in anim8or ever since I saw your videos. I looked at the mikecrilley video and it kind of helped. However, I cant draw to save my life and I dont use reference images when I model. Yeah I took another look at my model and it was to skinny from the side views.

The face problem just means I have a long way to go in face modeling. What would you suggest that would help me get the curve of the cheeks? Its kinda hard because I dont use references.

Well it works now but you have to open the program like four times to get it to start. I haven't found a way to fix it but at least it runs.

If I get windows XP should it work ok?

I've always wanted to make and animate in 3d since I was twelve years old. It was my passion for video games that got my interest in it. I've been using Anim8or for almost two years now and it has become my favorite hobby. Hopefully in the future, it will become my job to do what I love.

So when I started using Anim8or for the first time last year I wanted to make human like
characters. However, everytime I would look for tutorials on youtube I was constantly disappointed by everyone always using a reference image, set it in the viewports, and use that as a guideline. Personally I never liked the idea of having the person done for you already. I understand that professionally, reference images are used for getting the details very accurate. I can't draw at all so drawing my own reference image was out of the question. To me, using reference images setup in the viewport is like having half of the work done for you. I have never used that method for creating a human character. Instead I just practiced modeling over and over again until I devised my own methods of character modeling. Im still not perfect but I just want to know if anyone else models without having reference images in the viewports. In my video all I do is import an image of a character that someone drew for me and asked if I could model and animate it. All I do is look at the picture and start modeling. You'll see what i mean. And I mean no disrespect for anyone who models with reference images in viewports. It just seems like nobody out there creates characters from scratch (no disrespect). Search for Kamagoi4521 on youtube and check out the High poly character modeling video on my channel. Im not finished with it yet as I am editing the other parts of the video.