Finally Anatomy: back to skull!

Okay guys,

I've finally arranged some time to study the full human anatomy.

This will be almost designed to improve myself as a character rigger. Why? Because to proper deform a computer generated human / creature the more we know about anatomy the better.

So here we go, back to school again.

As a starting point I've decided to purchase this book, which covers almost every muscle using a 3d sculpting software called zBrush.

So stay tuned for updated (if you care of course!)

Step 01:

The boxed man. Following the first chapters of the book above I've created in Maya a simple boxed human mesh that will be exported and subdivided and then of course sculpted in zBrush:

Step 02:

The skeleton reference, this is useful when dealing with muscle insertions and boney landmarks. Is a nice little tip I've found at the beginning of the book. Also there are proportion planes took keep track of the general human proportion: height = 8 skulls.

Step 03:

Bring everything into zBrush, and we are ready to go. I guess next update will take a while :P (yes I know, this was the easy part)

Step 04:

This is the same mesh after 1 hour of sculpting. Nothing really great, I am still sketching the volumes.

There is also a 4 minute long timelapse.

Oh I love timelapses!