🧵 time is a fuck
Anonymous at Sat, 3 Sep 2022 20:57:04 UTC No. 916542
What should I study to age a characters face up or down?
Not as drastic as young -> elderly, but say subtracting 10 years from a face that looks about 30, or going from post-pubescent teenager to 30's.
The changes seem to be pretty subtle, but noticeable. I just don't know what to focus on, so if there any resources for this I'd love to hear about them.
I'm guessing babyfat is a factor, maybe skin too?
t. anon who's faces always look a little too old, or a little too young
Anonymous at Mon, 5 Sep 2022 21:36:01 UTC No. 916775
>>916542
Digital tutor tutorials on aging (kinda old):
https://www.pluralsight.com/courses
https://www.pluralsight.com/courses
Skin goes down a you get older.
Skin folds are more affect by gravity, they go down and become more noticable.
Skin wrinkles also get more noticable.
Nose and ears grows.
just learn normal anatomy and start adding more emphasis to wrinkles, folds and start thinking of gravity affecting all.
If you are working with zbrush create a layer then start making the young face an old man, after you finish stop the recording and you will have a slider from that goes from old to young which you use as a blendshape for animation.
Also standard anatomy drawing books cover how to draw old people, apply the 2D theory to 3D.
Anonymous at Mon, 5 Sep 2022 21:38:33 UTC No. 916777
>>916542
also you can use morph target while modeling in zbrush so you can fine tune any detail done to the model.
Anonymous at Mon, 5 Sep 2022 22:15:40 UTC No. 916786
>>916542
try this book maybe https://archive.org/details/Drawing
Anonymous at Tue, 6 Sep 2022 01:06:38 UTC No. 916804
>>916542
From post pubescent to adult:
- no gravity effects, that should be used only for old people
- less fat
- more pronounced secondary sexual characteristics (vice-versa for women): cheeks sunken in (which makes the orbicularis oris stand out), cheekbones lower and non pronounced for men, facial hair, wrinkles (in areas like the eyes, forehead, and cheek/nose)
From adult to older adult:
- some gravity effects on skin if they're like 40+
- less hair on top, more hair on the bottom (eyebrows, face)
- more pronounced wrinkles
- bigger pores
- if they gained weight the fat should droop (skin is less elastic but still normally tight on the skull, so any fat will make it sag, picture a leather bag full of water as opposed to a balloon full of water)
From older adult to grandpa:
- full effect of gravity on skin
- features like the nose and ears become more exaggerated (more cartoony)
- lots of wrinkles
- thin sunken lips (which make the chin protrude)
- even less hair on top, more hair for the eyebrows, hair in places like ears and nose, facial hair a random mess
For wrinkles and such use references.