In modelling my own face I realized how asymetrical it is by minute amounts. One eye is lower than the other, one cheek is fatter than the other etc... Representing these natural imperfections lends to the overall realism IMHO.

The dynamic extrusion tool was instumental in blocking out the hair. It is really a great tool.

Take care.

Ben

What truly excellent modelling! You've highlighted a mistake that a lot of people make in modelling figures - leaving them completely symmetrical. Not only are people's features never quite symmetrical but their expressions aren't either. By the way, it's the other cheek that is fatter. ;-) Mark

Wow, beautiful work! I love the detail in the brow area especially. It really has the feeling of a classical bust. My only suggestion is to maybe render it again with shadows, just so that there's darkness inside the nostrils.

Wow. This is substantial work. Congrats!

Excellent job on this.

Outstanding! I'm speechless! Well, not quite: Its always fun to block one half of someones face and see how different they look. Incredible modeling.

Thanks for all of your comments. Ben

it is really impressive, a very classic work

outstanding modeling,great!!

Fantastic work! Are you going to model the rest of you as well? I agree that it stands alone as the classical busts of old.

Great effort! Mark

Now it's easy to apply your photo as texture on the UV mapper. Will be fun to you to have a "virtual Ben". I hope I'll be able to do the same some day. Claudio

That's extremely impressive. Great job.

How long did it take you? This is very impressive. Excellent work.

Hi Pinklet, Thank you. This portrait took me approximately 6 hours. However it is a modification of a previous generic mesh that took about 20 hurs to model. Once you have a basic head mesh it is fairly easy to adapt it to new similar characters. Ben

That makes sense. I am becoming a bit more proficient with the VM, I can see that it is at least 30 hour job. Very well done Ben. I would try and take it to the next level and shade it. You could have a lot of fun with a virtual you. Christmas cards, businesses cards, al sorts of self promotional material come to mind.

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You will do great with the VM. Once I got over the learning curve I found it to be pretty straight forward. I'm actually working on a texture for my portrait now. Texturing is a very interesting process in itself. Ben

Excellent work Ben, glad to see talented people making use of Carrara's vertex modeler.
I recently worked on a model of a helicopter in the VM and noticed that it would freeze up on me sometimes when I tried to move certain points. Did you ever run into that problem?

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Hi Robert, In fact I did. There were times, on another model when I moved certain vertex points Carrara froze on me and gave me a strange "unable to create sphere object" message or something like that. I lost several hours of work once. So now I save very often. Make sure you download the latest patches from Eovia. I'm sure its a bug but I am working around it. Best of luck. Ben