MAYA FEMALE CHARACTER MODELING TUTORIAL

[@cirnofumo7352]

I did this tutorial around 2016 as a way to learn 3D modelling and Maya so I could one day work professionally as a 3D artist in the game industry. I would come home after work, and do this tutorial over and over again until I memorized every step and detail, sometimes until 1-2am. Then get up and head to the job-site for 8:00 PM, doing labor work. Now, It's 2023 and I've worked for small indie studios, Disney and now at a AAA game studio as a 3D technical & environment artist. I still use the techniques in this video to this day. Thank you.

[@MethodJTV]

This is amazing to hear. I remember those kinds of 1 am nights from my own struggle to succeed! I'm so happy my work helped you achieve your goal. I'm proud you made it! Way to go!

[@usparks]

OMG!! you just modelled a full female character in 18mins. And its perfect too. Well done bro. I'm practicing this tonight.

[@MethodJTV]

+Daniel Sparks thanks! But, the video is sped up quite a bit, even I am not that fast. :-)

[@usparks]

James Taylor You're welcome good sir. you make it look easy tho.

[@Sunbreaker7]

+Daniel Sparks He reused feets, hands, and didn't make the head in the video, so I would not call it "Full female character"

[@wondermo0247]

@@MethodJTV on average how long does it take you to model a character - if you ignore the sculpting, like just building the mesh in maya? thanks!

[@lucacollas]

your voice is very relaxing man i could watch this and sleep just perfect xD great tut man

[@Takomuhra]

Yeah it's like this ultra-smokey voice, I really enjoy it too :)

[@araisannanoda3688]

This is what we call asmr

[@IronMan-jj2fd]

Its so soothing voice

[@johnbarnyk4213]

It's 3d Bob ross

[@doublecrozz]

Wow one of the best modeling tutorials seen thanks

[@Wafudemet]

WOW! you have that very clear voice and on point step by step tutorial. I could watch your videos all day without getting bored. New subscriber here!

[@krisyoung3978]

Thank you. It's been years since I work with maya but now you got motivated to start up again. Thank you again...

[@TheBanditStarr]

This is so nice, this helps me out a lot as a student to understand why you do things as well as the shortcuts for a better work flow.

[@Allenadventure330]

I am a current student at Full Sail for this and the way you explain it helps with the projects i'm doing with class extremely well thank you for these videos.

[@LucidOrdinance]

Thank you for these. I'm opting for not using smooth mode due to college requirements, but most of this is still pretty followable, and has been an excellent supplement for my introduction into character modeling.

[@patrickmiller6236]

James - Thank you so much for you uploads. I have an architecture background and am trying to get into character modelling. Your videos are a godsend. Thank you again.

[@Shadowbreakre]

Awesome thanks for the vids, I'm generally a prop and environment artist but now I'm trying to break into characters and animation, your tutorials helped me out back in college even re watching them now I still learn something new

[@Kazekou]

You do an AMAZING job of explaining everything. Honestly the best modelling tutorial I have ever seen.

[@MethodJTV]

cool, thank you!

[@danparker93]

You're like Bob Ross for 3D, very casual and understandable with a great narrating voice! I'm going to be watching this a lot in the future ^^ Very helpful! You get +10 Good points!

[@MethodJTV]

+DJP 15 ha ha ha thanks

[@adammorrow5378]

I just bought the both female modelling videos :) looking forward to watching them!

[@MethodJTV]

Glad to h hear, thanks for the support!

[@jamesfrancisflores7712]

Wow!!! This is really great!!! Have tried to follow it and some how manage to pull it off by just doing stop, rewind, stop, rewind until to the breast part since the speed is increased a bit on that part. Would really appreciate more if you can create one series of this in real time.. Will definitely watch it even if it takes quite a while because how you explain things makes everything clear.. Thank you for a great tut bro!!!

[@MethodJTV]

+James Francis Flores you're in luck! the extended cut of this video is longer, slower, and more detailed: methodj.com/methodj-downloads/character-modeling-video-tutorial-downloads/

[@mohamedcherifchabbi6333]

great topology work ,now I'm ready for character modeling in maya thanks James.

[@Bdb83]

I can tell your a pro and not only from the finished product but the process is elegant, efficient and graceful. Or maybe it's just your voice lol.. Nice tutorial

[@MethodJTV]

thanks!

[@MarsD.Art03]

I Love this tutorial. Love your work James Taylor. Thanks for sharing.

[@jblistener7491]

This is a great tutorial, even for Blender users. A couple tools are different, but easy enough to adapt. I really like this process, it makes a modular approach so much easier to use, with a great silhouette in very little time. :)

[@MethodJTV]

+jb listener thanks, I appreciate the feedback. And good to hear the tutorial can apply to Blender too!

[@rosaperez5987]

+James Taylor hey dude i know these question might be strange but do you just get the refrerens from the internet like just some random women or is it like a pic of someone you know?

[@node887]

what did you use in blender for the Smooth proxy mode?

[@Wheelygonzales]

Jack Hammersfield Probably the subdivision surface modifier

[@vamshivams5029]

@@Wheelygonzales shade smooth

[@rope435]

You've done it again james. This is helping me greatly during my college studies. Thank you so much

[@MethodJTV]

+Sir Soaponrope glad to hear it!

[@Caledonia1986]

Thanks so much for this tutorial!!! I'm relatively new to Maya and I never could get the body modeling to work, so thanks for showing me a great way to do this! Greetings from Germany!

[@MethodJTV]

+Caledonia1986 cool, glad it helped!

[@AdeptusSteve]

so many people have been asking me for something like this.. great stuff man! Ill link them all to this video in the future.

[@MethodJTV]

+Stefan Ehrenhaus thanks Stefan!

[@semirukiya5308]

Even it this one is a little old, it's still a splendid work! You're really good with creating tutorials. I wish there was such one for human anatomy too :D

[@MethodJTV]

that's something I planned to do as a sculpting video, maybe in the future!

[@bradm6287]

Easy to follow along using Blender as well with rudimentary knowledge. Use the Subdivision Surface modifier and make sure the little button with the upside down triangle is selected to do the Blender version of Smooth Proxy.

[@bloodySeM]

Thank you a lot of putting all these videos! It's really great learning material

[@MethodJTV]

+Sammy my pleasure, glad to hear it is helpful!

[@Klasharx3x]

Your videos are extremely helpful and useful, with this model done you literally have a character ready for any kind of animation, stunning work sir, thanks for your tutorials :)

[@MethodJTV]

+Eckart Krumbach good to hear, thank you!

[@Klasharx3x]

+James Taylor no problem, by the way i may be missing something but, do you have a tutorial where you show how to attach the head into the body? thanks again!

[@MethodJTV]

+Eckart Krumbach if it isn't part of the head video on KZbin, then it is probably in the extended cut video for the head, check my website methodj.com

[@kashiefpottinger6949]

you are the best tutorial model I ever seen it make me cry for real. never have I ever seen a person explain something so well and low poly. subscribe ;-; C:

[@MethodJTV]

+kashief Pottinger thank you!

[@JustGraphic87]

you are even faster than barry allen, great tutorial and for me it was the best way to model a character, I am following this now, will practise Thank You so much for this wonderful tutorial

[@Atomhaz]

This video is great! I've followed along in blender and a lot of it translates pretty well.

[@catita6731]

you just saved my life for my school project!!! Thank you awesome tutorial :)

[@godknowsnehaG]

Thank you for this tutorial. I am relatively new to Maya and I always get stuck in the middle of the upper part of the female torso. This tutorial helps me a lot.

[@kyle4548]

So I'm actually using Blender, while following along with this tutorial and my results were exactly the same. If you know enough about blender you can sort of just change what your saying. Bridging = Face connect, Duplicate = Mirror, etc. Great video.

[@MethodJTV]

+Kyle Shaffer thanks! IME all the 3d programs are like that - same features, just named differently and accessed in different places.

[@junkdogsan7068]

you do it so flippin simple holy cow TYTYTY

[@olymolly3637]

Thank you so much sir for this tutorial. You're very clear, precise & easy to listen to.

[@BearyK8]

Thank you so much! This helps me a lot with my issues with topology.

[@BearyK8]

Oh, I'd also appreciate if you could do a clothing tutorial for this model. That'd be super helpful c:

[@MethodJTV]

+Beary like full cloth simulation, or just creating a character that looks like it is wearing clothes? No plans for the first, but the second part is definitely where I am headed with this model.

[@BearyK8]

+James Taylor Yeah, I meant the second haha. I look forward to seeing it, thank you c:

[@LolFishFail]

Would you be able to share a method of creating or modelling clothing on a character? Awesome vids.

[@MethodJTV]

I am working on a clothing video as we speak!

[@OhBoyJD]

where do I get the hands from? As in which tutorial did you show it in?

[@MethodJTV]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaHMZZ99rdOAkMk

[@OhBoyJD]

James Taylor thanks a lot! just discovered your channel and loving it!

[@naratibnotreally514]

YES! Thank you.

[@cbparker44]

you're very good at using Maya and doing tutorials. Thank you so much. Subscribed! :)

[@MethodJTV]

+TQ_boy thank you!

[@SneakersDK]

allways good tutorials you make! Thank you :)

[@MethodJTV]

+Jimmi Pedersen cool, glad to hear you like!

[@SneakersDK]

all ways :) Don't you have a showreel to show? :)

[@MethodJTV]

+Jimmi Pedersen sorry, nothing recent! My old stuff is at jamesmatthewtaylor.com

[@SneakersDK]

Cool I will tjek it out 😊

[@mousamrajput4037]

wow now i m exited about the face modeling tutorial of female face(elle !!!!! thankyou so much

[@MethodJTV]

+Mousam Rajput cool, good to hear, I hope to have it done by the end of November.

[@sakshiverma2530]

All your tutorials are amazing and so easy to follow, thanks a lot sir :) it helped me a lot

[@MethodJTV]

thanks!

[@ChiChi-ib3ik]

Could you help me ? My problem is when i do the breasts, i have these triangles , but in your final model , the breasts don't have the same problem , they have nice quads, how did you fix the triangles ??

[@CorneliusBogfrollupFitzgerald]

Hey, I'm an arts and technology major at UTDallas. Few colleges have had a successful ATEC program. However, recently I have noticed problems. The worst of it being not that long ago when I was in a group meeting for a project. A fellow student was talking about how he might have to take an extra semester. The reason for this is the simply because he was modeling a character for his capstone project and was almost done, the professor saw his work and informed him that he had made the entire model for animation, not gaming, he now had to start completely over. What shocked me was that in this group meeting of about 6 people, only about 2 knew that you had to model differently for games. None of the modeling classes teach this. Could you maybe make a video explaining the various differences in modeling for games vs animation? It would likely help more people than you think.

[@MethodJTV]

+Kevin Vance that is a good idea for a video, thank you!

[@shitchops]

Yes very true i wonder if jt made a vid as your comment is from 2 years ago

[@leighton_lam]

Thank you for sharing such great knowledge with good pace and informative tips!!

[@renansousa6758]

great tutorial, you can teach in a simple and easy way, thank you!

[@MethodJTV]

+Renan Rocha thanks!

[@ZachBlackforest]

Did this tutorial using Blender, I'm a freaking renegade! lol, many thanks James Taylor for this wonderful tutorial.

[@MethodJTV]

+Raster1990 yes, the principles of modeling apply to any software, you're not the first blender user that's used my tutorials. Glad it helped!

[@artsydai4818]

Could you put the keys you used next time in the corner because I had to wing the butt and a lot of the body parts because I had no idea how how you did certain things because you were clicking to fast

[@madsushi4266]

Wow, you are very good!! Though I have to ask, is there an easy way of snapping your main center line to the middle (shown in 0:15 )? I can't seem to do this perfectly, which disables me from using your duplicate trick later on. Thanks and stay awesome with your videos.

[@MethodJTV]

+Justuce146 if your character is sitting on the origin, using grid small can be an easy way to do it. Or just select all the center verts and scale them flat!

[@noorbinteamir5169]

Do the website links no longer work? I've tried opening them but they won't. I wanted to see the extended cut video.

[@adesinaabdulkabir5556]

Plz ,how can I achieve quads on the triangles on the breast region..how did achieve the topology on your model..thanks

[@Takomuhra]

I love your vids James, really nice work. Helps so much!

[@MethodJTV]

+Takomuhra thank you!

[@mekeon1]

Before I purchase your videos, I am trying to learn Maya 2016 all together, so do you go into great detail of the proportions and how to use the features and tools that you are using without having to go to the tools settings? Again, I am new to this so I am trying to learn as I go. I am a fashion designer and I think that this software would be awesome to create in. Thoughts?

[@seth8034]

How do you get the reference images on the side and make your polygons see through on just the reference image view ports? Right now I'm using the Side and Top View Ports by pressing Space to go in between them all while I have my reference images lined up behind them along the grid. Your way seems much more clean.

[@MethodJTV]

+Seth F x-ray mode makes things see through. And if you go to the Panels menu, you can choose a custom window layout, that is how I got the front/side views side by side.

[@robertoguava]

How do you have yours set up like that? I can't seem to set up mine the same way...

[@TiffasWorld]

Amazing work, you definitely know what you're doing. Thank you for all these tutorials :)

[@EarleSara]

James Taylor, you legend.

[@MethodJTV]

+Sara Earle thanks!

[@CommanderKlag]

If most KZbin videos were 50% this quality, we would live on the moon by now.

[@MethodJTV]

Haha

[@rachaelmadd5661]

Oh my gosh you explain everything so well. Thank you!

[@rgbmouse6684]

can you help me sir... how did you do that i mean like on your right is your perspective in your video and i don't know much when it comes maya i just started maya 1-2 months ago

[@thanhliembui2312]

Dear sir, Can i ask you where did you find that picture?

[@MrNick-wj1tz]

Mr. James This video is really good! it help's me cuz i wanna be 3D animation Designer :-D please make more vid;s like this it's really interesting

[@ryusaki4200]

Nice tutorial, learned alot from it. Was wondering if this method allows me to bring it into sculpting software to create normal maps from it while still retaining the level of poly count on the unsmoothed version of the model

[@MethodJTV]

yes, the low-res cage is all quads so it should perform ideally in a sculpting package.

[@ryusaki4200]

James Taylor ah, I see. Thanks for the quick response, is it possible to give a rough workflow of how a model would be created sculpted and normal mapped? I am student in game design creating a game character and have ran into a problem where my normal map would not be shown on the model itself even when a high quality viewport renderer is checked, was wondering if the subdivision I did on the model before putting it into the sculpting software and then subdividing it again inside the software was causing the issue when I port it back into maya for normal map baking via object space mapping And yes, I did apply a material and set the bump to use object space and my UVs on the low poly mesh has been unwrapped

[@JKAnane]

In 3D studio Max whats the equivalent to moving the gizmo when u have a local group of polygons/verts selected like he does? Does anyone know?

[@xanecosmo5061]

I'm blender user.But your video really helped me out.

[@MethodJTV]

Good to hear it is still program agnostic!

[@fluff3054]

How did you add the two other tabs? Nice video by the way!

[@bjmgraphics617]

Looks easy but I need my training wheels. I have to treat your video like it has chapters and pause until I caught up. Thanks. My tip for everybody here is to save multiple iterations of the model as you progress so you can go back if things turn irreversibly messy.

[@a13579-z]

Thanks for nice tutorial, and I have a question. Don't her arms and legs are too close from body or each other? What happen if you rig it for animation? Don't their smooth skin area affect each other? (I am using Maya 2015)

[@MethodJTV]

Check out the rigging video, a lot of those questions are answered there: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5mQe55tmZhjodU Also the extended cut goes into more detail regarding the placement of arms and how it affects character setup: www.methodj.com/downloads/maya-2016-joints-rigging-extended-cut-tutorial/

[@jlm0rr1s]

Mr. Taylor I am currently a student learning 3D. Watching your videos has helped me greatly. Prior to this I was in the Army. I served for 8 years till I was injured in Iraq. I was going to be a "lifer" at the time. Now I have found a new motivation and your KZbin videos help thank you for taking the time to make them. I do have one question. You spoke of longer more in depth videos you teach. Where do I find them?

[@MethodJTV]

Wow, glad to hear my videos have helped motivate you towards a new career! Thanks for sharing that. :) My extended cut videos are here: methodj.com/methodj-downloads/character-modeling-video-tutorial-downloads/

[@jlm0rr1s]

Would you mind if I followed you on Facebook? What is the link if it is ok. I did a search and you would be surprised at how many James Taylors are out there lol

[@MethodJTV]

+Luke Morris sure thing, my FB page is here: facebook.com/methodjtv/

[@ashannahensley3288]

I'm getting a weird problem. When I'm in Perpective mode [on the Right hand area where we see the non-wireframe mesh]. It looks completely uneven, wonky, and well, all storts of horrible. Even though on the image planes my verts are edgea are aligned perfectly with the image? Why is that?

[@MethodJTV]

+Adam Hensley without seeing it, my guess would be that you are lining up the order edge verts OK, but the interstitial verts between the front and side view silhouettes aren't being placed correctly. Essentially, this is treating the front and side view images as just 2d images, and not looking at things three dimensionally.

[@nightruler666]

my cylinder is behind front and side view images how do i fix that?

[@ariush_music]

hi james , do you have a tutorial for rigging, ik handles and controllers ??? i really wanna see the way you do it .

[@MethodJTV]

+shian Persian my next video will be a basic rigging tutorial, just joints and weighting. I'll probably do a Human IK rig video after that!

[@ariush_music]

fantastic

[@cstyles419]

I used Duplicate Special like you did but saw that i needed to reverse normals. When I did that, the original arm and leg turned black, indicating that they needed reverse normals. This would go back and forth with me reversing normals over and over.

[@MethodJTV]

yes, that is the correct behavior. Instead of trying to reverse normals, turn on double sided shading in the viewport menu.

[@lazaropaulo3449]

Hey James nice work there, you have alot of techniques...but my request to you is,,teach us on to make facial controls(GUI)

[@cazperzero]

You have an amazingly relaxing voice

[@MethodJTV]

+cazperzero thanks!

[@Showmemercy123]

Thank you for your time and effort, this really helped me A LOT !

[@TammyJerkChicken]

Hi there James, I have found you videos very helpful to my development in the past and I realised you haven’t posted in a while. Hope all is well and thank you for all the great reference! I like your approach to creating a quick model. Have you used the new quad draw? It may not work as well without a live model underneath but that what it reminded me of

[@hannerathckeelbk3476]

Thanks! I'm trying to do the duplicate special, but the dublicate does not change, when I change the original. I have made sure it says "intance". Any help?

[@MethodJTV]

reset the tool settings, then set it to instance and try again.

[@hannerathckeelbk3476]

Thanks :) Resetting did not help, but when I had the window open I noticed the Axis Orientation. Setting it to parent instead of world made the difference.

[@luissoto3420]

good videos. very helpfulls. can do you do one cheering up ?

[@auroraparkinson5274]

Only issue I have is switching back to 1 (not smoothed) my mesh is all messed up, it only looks right under smoothed mode, is this a problem?

[@MethodJTV]

no, that is totally normal, it should look that way!

[@G-O-A-M]

Super cool video : ) But a little to fast can´t see what you do exactly at 10:21-10:40

[@funnydarius6187]

I was wondering after you rotated the torso how do you also rotate the move tools, so they match your torso???

[@MethodJTV]

+Funny Darius double click the move tool icon. There are some settings at the top you can switch between, like world, object, normal, etc. Switch to object to do it the way I did!

[@buttunicorn9613]

The arm and leg created from duplicate special has it's surface flippped. When trying to use reverse the original arm and leg is also affected, is there anyway to choose just the duplicated arm and leg to reverse them?

[@MethodJTV]

no, they are instances, so if you flip one set of normals, you flip the other as well. Turn on two sided lighting in your viewport and you will be fine!

[@buttunicorn9613]

oh okay thank you for the quick answer! awsome tutorial btw

[@99koto]

every time i select the portion to make the neck it would also select other parts of the body.

[@projectvalkyrie2324]

Awesome tutorial can I use the same methods with the 2017 versions of Maya as well or do i have to you 2016?

[@MethodJTV]

+NeoValkyria this works with newer and older versions

[@FurlowT]

That's gota be the fastest modeling tutorial i've come across o.O

[@MethodJTV]

Thanks! I don't like slow tutorials, I'm too impatient. :-D

[@charmingyoutuber2408]

Furlow Torent ikr, it's So hard just to keep up with what he's doing. it's ridiculous .

[@lordhieros]

Considering buying your full tutorial. Do you mention keystrokes and where to find certain tools in the full version? I'm completely new to MAYA so that would help. Also what other tutorials do you recommend for modeling Characters in MAYA? Yours or other ones you know of are fine.

[@MethodJTV]

I don't often mention keystrokes, almost everything is either SHIFT + RMB. I do list hotkeys in this article here: methodj.com/maya-tips-for-beginners/The keys I most often use are g and y, as well as the qwer keys for transforms.

[@tamilislp1606]

If I click duplicate special and do the same thing as you then the leg is in the right position but the arm is on the same place as the original but the right direction. The changes wont reflect either. What did I wrong? I use Maya 2016

[@MethodJTV]

+Tamilis LP do duplicate special without using negative scale. After duplicating then manually scale the object across the axis

[@icegirl206]

I have a question, i've been following your tutorial but when it comes to removing half the body, freezing transformation and doing special duplication, the vertexs aren't merged together to create one whole object, what am i doing wrong? if i try to click merge, it doesn't work either.

[@MethodJTV]

the vertices won't merge. Those are still two separate objects. You have to select both objects, do Mesh > Combine, then Merge Verts.

[@icegirl206]

Thank you! :)

[@Vendayan]

I had a quick question right off the bat, but it's probably a lack of simpler understanding of Maya. When I attempt to rotate a cylinder, scaling on the X axis later occurs relative to the primitive object's own space rather than world space. How did you correct this?

[@MethodJTV]

that was desired behavior. You can adjust that in the tool settings themselves, double click on the scale tool.

[@ashannahensley3288]

Where can I find your reference images? For this and the male character?

[@MethodJTV]

+Adam Hensley right here: methodj.com/methodj-downloads/character-photo-reference-and-image-planes-downloads/

[@ashannahensley3288]

Awesome! And I have just enough money to buy them this month. Thanks ^_^.

[@SalocinFox]

hey! nice tutorial, thank you. how are you viewing the whole model like this? transparent and edges can be seen the whole time. thx!

[@MethodJTV]

+Nicolas Themmer x-ray mode and draw edges on faces, both are viewport options and can be going as buttons above the viewport

[@SalocinFox]

thank you!

[@santa2k5]

Please how did you get rid of those triangles in the tip of breasts? And thank you btw...amazing tutorial

[@MethodJTV]

+Martin Beneš try selecting the faces, extrude them, then shrink them. You might have to delete some diagonal edges, then do one connection across the middle. Basically, three triangles become one quad.

[@miriampalsson3552]

I cant get the duplicate special to work somehow.. All I get is two edges from each object (arm and leg), but I do have the entire objects selected.. What am I doing wrong??

[@miriampalsson3552]

+Miriam Pålsson I got it, only had my numbers wrong. Such a silly mistake. Great video! Thank you.

[@kungfuremix]

Terrific video! Quick question, where can you find photo references for image planes like in you video?

[@MethodJTV]

here: www.methodj.com/methodj-downloads/character-photo-reference-and-image-planes-downloads/

[@sursup008]

@6:50 why do you turn smooth proxy mode on ? thanks.

[@MethodJTV]

+surfsup008 smooth proxy isn't just good for seeing what the smoothed final product looks like. It is also a good way to check the Mesh for holes, unmerged verts, and other mesh errors.

[@kaneroscoe8101]

hi, im having issues with getting the symmetry to work in the same way you have. and when I get it to work, I have two halves that I cannot merge together. Do you perhaps know what wrong

[@MethodJTV]

+Yuu Kaname grab all the verts on the character's center line and use scale to squish then flat. Then move them to the center

[@kaneroscoe8101]

James Taylor thank you. I have already restarted a few times till I got it right, but this does help fir future reference. thank you

[@colorinthelines1575]

Am i doing something wrong? It seems like every time I do duplicate special my model has a gap between the original slice and the new copy. I've frozen transformations beforehand but this problem keeps coming up. My teacher said that I would need to reset transformations but when I do that my model warps. I'm just tired of having to connect vertexes every time I do a duplicate special :( Any input would be great, thanks for the video!

[@MethodJTV]

sounds like your pivot point is in the wrong place, or your center line verts are not in a straight line. Before duping, grab all the center verts and use the scale tool to squash them flat. Then snap the pivot point to one of those verts. Do a Freeze Transform, then duplicate it and see if that fixes it.

[@colorinthelines1575]

Hey thanks James! I'm well passed this point now. I ended up duplicating the torso and then connected the verts individually. I'm pretty sure that my process has not been great and I expect to see issues appear later on because of that. But if I need to cut and duplicate again I now know how to go about it properly. Thanks again for the reply and the video!

[@michaelwilliams5719]

This is great and helpful. Where did you get images and can you do children?

[@MethodJTV]

+Michael Williams get the images here: methodj.com/methodj-downloads/character-photo-reference-and-image-planes-downloads/ No plans for doing children models yet, but most of the differences are just proportional - bigger head and eyes, smaller mouth and nose, shorter limbs, etc.

[@michaelwilliams5719]

Okay, thanks, all I needed. Thanks, man.

[@MegaHellx]

8:50 the smooth surface got unsmooth right.. how did u do that plzz help me...

[@MethodJTV]

Use the 1 and 3 keys

[@artisanmage5378]

I have problem with connecting the limbs with the torso, It always messes up the geometry, any help?

[@MethodJTV]

try the steps on this page: www.methodj.com/how-to-fix-maya/

[@jasonlieschke4050]

Hi Where do I get the reference images? Or can I do this with any reference images? Thanks

[@MethodJTV]

+Jason Lieschke right here: methodj.com/methodj-downloads/character-photo-reference-and-image-planes-downloads/