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Heidi - we build a Lara Croft lookalike on the Amiga!

Our problem: As time goes by spring is coming and this results in some wonderful feelings which let us - caused by a seasonal hormone push - look more carefully than ever before after proportions of certain shapes... After judging their appeal critically we often discover that these shapes (i.e. women!) don't match our high demands and so look away again.

The solution: We do it ourselves (the object of desire, of course)!

The name

The most important thing of all - even if many of you regard this as irrelevant or unnecessary - is to give it a name...

..she will be called HEIDI.

First some basic lines...

The proportions

...which we've been judging critically and found out that they don't match our demands, we must think over completely. This is our next task. We should have in mind what we want to get in order to compare time after time, whether we made it or not. The first steps aren't to be done on the computer, just get pen & paper and - with a bit of artificial skills - draw some basic shapes and figures. Don't care about details like nose, eye, belly button - just try to get HEIDI's proportions right.

First approach from the behind.

Proportions of the back.

So you draw ellipses for legs, arms, face, hands, feet, body and take care of some basic rules, e.g: eyes are in the middle of the face (vertically), 90-60-90, ellbows are slightly over waist, etc. More of these rules you can look up in every book dealing with studies on the human (naked, preferably!) body.

Soon it will be a woman!

The magic triangle.

The functions

People who have never experienced working with a 3D rendering program should first try to learn some of the basics and form simple shapes in order to get used into creating objects with these programs. After this one should learn more about

MetaMesh

Bevel

Editieren von Punkten und Polygonen

Metaballs

HEIDI.

Spooky face.

Overview:

1. Heidi-basics

2. Heidi naked! (being constructed)

3. Heidi needs clothing! (textures)

4. Heidi wants to move her body

5. Heidi learns to run

Stefan Keilwert
Bernhard Lukas
Bernhard Lukas

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