Timelapse Video: Modeling a Creature's Head

Published by Kernon on February 21st, 2008 in 3D News, Art

Here's another timelapse video created by Jonathan Williamson. The original modeling time was about one hour and the timelapse video cones in at just under ten minutes.

Here's the timelapse video's blog post.
Also, be sure to check out Jonathan's website for more modeling videos.

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20 Responses to “Timelapse Video: Modeling a Creature's Head”

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1 CrazyJack Feb 21st, 2008 at 8:09 am

yay - Im first, wow man, you make it look so easy
2 blendercross Feb 21st, 2008 at 8:29 am

That i call a workflow ! Great!!!
3 Thondal Feb 21st, 2008 at 10:57 am

man…. it's videos like these that really makes me see how much i suck :P
4 LoMac Feb 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pm

Quite Nice!
5 Serge Gielkens Feb 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pm

I wish I had 10 percent of his modeling capacity. This would take me days and days and days. And even then would the result be disappointing.
6 BackiZ Feb 21st, 2008 at 12:48 pm

Good video! It's more or less the way I should do it. Although I would extrude more often and join the double vertices instead of filling holes up with the f key.
Thank you for sharing!

BackiZ
7 SeanJM Feb 21st, 2008 at 2:22 pm

If you want to be a good modeler you need to know your anatomy!!!
8 ysvry Feb 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pm

If you want to be a good modeler you need to practice !!!!
9 gauravanim Feb 21st, 2008 at 4:34 pm

Powerful workflow……..Blender Always ROCKS!!!
10 Sam Brubaker Feb 21st, 2008 at 8:55 pm

I've seen mr_bomb model before and I'm pretty sure this is not a time lapse– in fact, he may have had to slow the video down so people could see it properly.
11 epat Feb 21st, 2008 at 10:08 pm

Correct me if I'm wrong … but on my computer the vid comes in at just OVER ten minutes -by several seconds, rather than UNDER! I know my clock runs fast, but not THAT fast! :) :)

Cool vid though. The head bit I'm familiar with but it was interesting to see how he did the gums and teeth! My only crits would be:

1) Clever idea to copy the top teeth for the bottom also, but in reality, if the 'being' (whatever it's supposed to be) were to close its mouth, the long teeth would meet together long before the mouth was shut!! It's kinda noticable too once it's pointed out! Maybe if the bottom teeth were scaled outwards/inwards a bit and maybe tweaked slightly too…

2) The ears seem slightly obscure, but this may be an oversight on the part of original design rather than the actual modelling, which I thought turned out quite good!

Nice vid, and thanks for sharing with the community! Keep up the great modelling! :D
~epat. :)
12 dexta Feb 21st, 2008 at 11:29 pm

If you have a plan than only the time will be a problem.
Nice work, very nice ….
13 matt Feb 22nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm

Haha, yeah, I agree with Thondal… I just feel like crap when I see these videos.
That's a compliment, by the way. Very impressive.
14 Jonathan Williamson Feb 22nd, 2008 at 4:58 pm

Thank you everyone for the great feedback, it's comments like these that keep me producing these kind of videos :)
15 Trawler Feb 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 pm

Like epat, I found the bottom teeth a little off. In primates with large canines there is a diastema, or space for the canines to slide into when the mouth closes. In addition, there is usually a sectorial P3 tooth immediately behind the diastema which is uniquely shaped and acts to sharpen the canines when the mouth closes. You can see this clearly if you go to eskeltons.com and select the baboon taxon and then choose mandible.
16 Redraven Feb 22nd, 2008 at 10:30 pm

I love timelapse videos. It usual gives me hints about how to do things during modelling without going through a long (and tedious) tutorial.
17 Floo Feb 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 am

Jonathan Williamson Thanks Very Much! Great tutorial!
18 Aussiedude Feb 24th, 2008 at 10:52 pm

I've soooo got to get off my lazy butt and start doing some modelling again. Thanks for the video though, it's inspired me to get and do some more head modelling tutorials and to give this all another go.

PS: Your Model looks great! Very sexy.
19 NYCKnowledge Feb 25th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

Yes, please gentlemen. Keep the tutorials coming. It's all we newbies have to look forward in life.
20 Dangimill Jun 7th, 2008 at 5:01 am

Sometimes I have this feeling that there might be something better to do in life than sit around and watch blender videos, but I just watch enough and the feeling passes.