<subtitle>Lesson 2: </subtitle> Beveling Facial Features

The PolyBevel tool is also very useful when working with organic models. In this lesson, you will add several bevels to a face model that will help define the eye, mouth and nostril.

  1. Load Start File

    To complete this lesson, you will require the following lesson file:

    $HFS/demo/lesson_data/modeling/model/organic_bevel/head_start.hip

    This file includes the partially completed head model shown below.

  2. Triangulate the area around the eye

    Press to go into the head object. Press, click on the following three points then to accept.

    Press to repeat then click on the following three points then to accept.

    The goal is to bevel the centerpoint of these polygons. Triangulating the area around this point will help create a more detailed eye socket.

  3. Bevel a point

    Press. Press to change your selection type to and select the centerpoint of the triangulated polygons. to accept then adjust the value either using the value grid or the Parameter pane.

    If you want to repeat then press then press to change to and click on the primitive in the middle of the eye. to accept. After reshaping these points to form the eye socket you can come back and apply more bevels.

  4. Bevel an open edge

    Press to start another bevel. Press to change to edge selection then click on the first edge in the mouth area. If the red arrow is pointing in then press to reverse it. Press once to expand the edge selection.

    to accept then adjust the .

  5. Add another bevel to the mouth

    To add another bevel, press then click on one of the outer edges of the new mouth area. Press to start an edge loop which will stop at the corner of the mouth. on the next edge then pressto finish the loop. to accept then adjust the .

  6. Create the nostril

    Tumble the view to look up the model's nose. Press then press to chose selection and select the two faces under the nose. to accept then before dragging the handle, on the handle and turn off for the handle. This will let you manipulate the two faces as one. the faces in then press and to create a second extrusion. Push this up along the Y axis to form the nostril. You may also want to scale it down.

  7. Bevel a looped edge

    Press . Press to change to edge selection then click on one of the edges at the tip of the nostril. Press to create an edge loop. to accept then adjust the

  8. Conclusion

    The Poly Bevel tool can be used for modeling various types of edge loops found in organic models.