{"id":629,"date":"2023-11-07T23:59:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T23:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/realtime3D\/?page_id=629"},"modified":"2024-11-06T19:03:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T19:03:10","slug":"project-non-normative-base-mesh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/realtime3D\/project-non-normative-base-mesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Project: non normative base mesh"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Base meshes<\/a> tend to represent “ideal” body types: stereotypically masculine or feminine, athletic or muscular, young, often distinctly Caucasian.<\/span><\/p>\n

Video games and popular media (ie superhero movies) also tend to center unattainable standards of beauty even at the expense of realism (ie female warriors looking like pin-ups).<\/p>\n

Create a base mesh for a non-normative\/conforming\/stereotypical body type.
\n-It should be somewhat realistic, not too fantastic or too cartoony.
\n-Keep it minimalistic: no distinct facial feature, no clothing and anatomical details, just the anatomical volumes.
\n-You can (should) start from an existing base mesh
\n-It has to be riggable and animatable: use mostly quads, pay attention to the edge flow and joints, keep it under 3K tris.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beauty<\/strong>
\nStandards of beauty change over time, they have very little basis in biology and evolutionary psychology: they are culturally determined.<\/p>\n

The Changing Body Shapes of Women Throughout History<\/a><\/p>\n

The Changing Body Shapes of Men Throughout History<\/a><\/p>\n

Age<\/strong><\/p>\n

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You can find a lot of studies and references for aging bodies, 2d, 3d, photos, sketches.
\nJust search for x + anatomy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Body shape<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Body Talk<\/a>: Fun scientific tool connecting language descriptors with visual parameters.<\/p>\n

Athleticism<\/strong>
\nThe most athletic bodies actually have a wide variation, rarely represented in pop culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Body variations across athletic disciplines. Open in a new tab.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gender<\/strong><\/p>\n

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MakeHuman pursuit of the universal<\/a> mesh topology, genderless, ageless, raceless, the HoMunculus.
\nThe reification of all these features into sliders is weird but probably better than all the alternatives.<\/p>\n

Gender, caricature and stylization<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThe famous case of sexual dimorphism in Disney characters. Can you make a fun cartoon caricature without hypemasculizing or hyperfeminizing the bodies? A thread with interesting images here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Race<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The open source afro hair library<\/a> by A.M. Darke. Updates here<\/a><\/p>\n

“Any conversation about black hair is, at its root, about more than the follicles growing on a given body”
\n–The Natural: The Trouble Portraying Blackness in Video Games<\/a> by Evan Narcisse.<\/p>\n

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Watch this intro<\/h2>\n

some (personal) notes on base meshes and character modeling<\/p>\n