Quidam Tutorial - Making of Vampire Girl
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Introduction
This tutorial describes the steps required to sculpture, pose, texture, and render this custom 3D character using N-Sided Quidam, 1.1
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Step One: Combination Studio |
Open Quidam, and select Woman ModelPack 1
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Inside the combination studio, Props section, select the Marcel Shirt
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Now select Skirt 1 from the Props section
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Select Hair 5, from the Hair props
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Step Two: Initial Textures |
Select Texture Studio 
Left Click on the models hair, and select Hair5-grey1 from the pop-up menu.
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Make sure the symmetry mode is selected - 
Right click on the Left hand, and select the red nail polish. With symmetry on, both hands will get the red polish.
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Step Three: Pose Studio |
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| Select Pose Studio |  |
| Right click, hold and move outside the character to rotate the view to the left side. You could also click the Left View button on the views gadget |  |
| Select Full Skeleton |  |
| click to select the jaw bone | |
| click the center selection button |  |
| Zoom in the view (mouse scroll wheel, or drag over the camera zoom icon) |  |
| left click, hold and drag the jaw bone, to open the mouth | |
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Select the Pose Preset shown above
By rotating around the model, select and move the appropriate arm, and leg bones to pose the character to the desired stance.
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Step Four: Sculpture Studio |
Select the Sculpture Studio - 
Rotate the camera to the Front View, and Zoom in to the mouth area
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Click the Hide/Show Body icon - 
This will give you a clear view of the teeth in preparation for adding the vampire fangs.
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Under the modeling tools, select the One-By-One selection - 
SelectPoint Selection, deselect edge, and face selection - 
To see the geometry, turn on C-Lines - 
As you move your cursor over the teeth, you will see a blue dot snapping to each of the vertices.
At the bottom center vertex on the incisor tooth, click the mouse. The dot selection will turn red.
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Ensure you are in MOVE mode - 
Drag down the selected area to drag out a pointy fang.
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Select and move the bottom incisors in the same manner.
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Unhide the body
Zoom out to see the entire face.
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| click and drag in the center box of selection mode panel, to create a large smooth selection |  |
| Move your mouse over the face. Adjust the size of the smooth selection to cover from the top lip, and nose.
Click and drag up to give your character a sneer, which will fully reveal the fangs.
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Perform the same basic modeling techniques on the finger-nails, to give them a long, sharp, and deadly appearance.
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Step Five: Modifying the Texture Maps |
In order to get the texture maps to be able to customize them, we first need to export the model.
Menu - File - Export
Save Type as: N-Sided Quidam Format
Ensure 'Export Textures' check box is selected.
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Seen here are all the textures which were exported, seen in PhotoShop's File browser.
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In Photoshop open the BODY COLOR file. It should look similiar to the above image.
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In Photoshop, I simply made the skin color a sky blue color, painted some eye-liner, and eye shadow on the face, and colored the lips.
To create an interesting effect, which ends up looking like a fungal growth, I pasted in some tree textures (clipped from a picture on the Beatle's Abbey Road album cover)
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Next I opened, and modified the Marcel Color picture, which maps to the shirt our vampire is wearing.
First I colored it white, applied the Canvas texturizer filter to give it a cloth like appearance.
Next I Googled some Blood images, and gored up the shirt to show our Vamp has been quite busy, and messily feeding.
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Colored, textured, and applied some subtle dried blood stains to the Skirt Color image.
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Colorized one of the eye maps to make them a glowing red.
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Step Six: Changing Texture Maps in Quidam |
To load the new texture maps back into Quidam, enter Texture Studio
Click and hold on the body, select the file folder icon, and then the Choose File.
On the File Load dialog box, select the new BodyColor file.
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Click on the Shirt, and load in the new MarcelColor texture file.
Click on the Skirt, and load in the new Skirt file.
Clcik on the Eyes, and load in the new Eye map.
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In the Material editor, adjust the Ambience, Specularity, and Shine to give the eyes a glowing appearance.
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Move around the lighting, adjust intensity, and color on all 4 lights to give the mood lighting you desire.
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Step Seven: Rendering |
Click on the Render Studio
Select High Anti-aliasing
Turn on soft shadows
Turn on Cast Shadows
Turn on Write to Disk
Select a file name and location by clicking on the file folder icon in the rendering dialog
Select Image Size.
Click the Render button - camera icon.
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Some Rendering inside Quidam of this project |
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