duanemoody opened this issue on Nov 08, 2001 ยท 9 posts
duanemoody posted Fri, 09 November 2001 at 10:49 AM
From the photos I've been using, I think either AH's weight or water retention varies wildly. Also, I think her face didn't reach its adult proportions until last year. WTB's blood, sweat and tears modeling Michelle Trachtenberg for Vicky were noble but likely to be out of date in another four months. The chief complication in modeling AH's Irish mug (gotta love a show where a milk-skinned redhead plays a Rosenberg and an olive-skinned brunette of Ashkenazic descent plays a Summers) is getting those low-slung cheeks and gently rounded jawline just right. To put it bluntly, she does not have prominent cheekbones when seen from a 3/4 or 7/8 view -- unless she's smiling or doing something else that pulls up her facial muscles, and that's bunched up soft tissue you're looking at, not underpinning structure. Most beauties (for want of a better term) have high cheekbones and a disappearing jaw; AH's cheeks are mostly at the sides of her mouth. The chin is actually more rounded on AH; I just didn't get around to widening it at the base. Other corrections needing doing: the nose needs to rotate upwards on the X axis to reveal more nostril and tilt the tip, the irises need downscaling (either through a morph or editing Nod's 'Anna' texmap), and the bridge should be narrowed at the top (most bridges don't widen as they rise). The crease that AprilYSH mentions in the first reply here is intentional, another Irish ethnic trait (like the long distance between nose and upper lip; I had a manager once who looked like the early 20thc 'gorilla' cartoon Irish stereotype). I think I'm going to mess with X-scaling the entire head next; it looks too narrow.