The time has come for a proper post.

Right. I have been promising a post with loads of helpful information so I thought it was about time to do it and give something to you all.

Over Christmas my students will be modelling a character that will then be textured and implemented into the Unreal 3 engine.

With them having almost three weeks with no supervision over the Christmas break I thought it might be a good Idea to give them a good selection of links that will be helpful in their modelling.

there are tonnes of helpful websites that are useful so here are jsut a few.

Here is a cool female character tutorial. Its low poly but worth a good look.

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/tutorials/character/c/real-time-character-modeling-tutorial

This one is by Ben Mathis who's website is poopinmymouth.com a website that is more than worth visiting as his site also has loads of other tutorials.

http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/benmathis/benmathis_1.php

Here are his tutorials

http://www.poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm

This one is very low poly but is a good example of how to get started following this one for a clothed character is spot on. It also has how to do hair so is perfect for Adam.

http://www.bakaneko.com/howto/computer/3d/character/page01.html

Another cool set of tutorials downloadable a RAR files

http://www.3d2dizayn.com/3d2dizayn_tutorials.html

This guys work is AWESOME. some great low polyish characters. Great to study how he has modelled the topology.

http://www.superostrich.net/index_3dArt.htm

This guy has made an amazing Grand Moff Tarkin head. Well worth a look.

http://www.daz-art.com/hi_poly_tut.htm

I could go on and on really but In the end its up to you guys to get into it get stuck in, learn from your mistakes and really just enjoy it.

Anyway. Keep at it over the Xmas break and hopefully we should have some cool characters when we all come back in the new year.

Dean :D