Modeling Grae - Game Character Development with Maya - page 407

6. Finally, duplicate and mirror the teeth, giving you the right side. Combine the two
sides and weld the vertices down the center ( Figure 7.45d ).
7. To create the inner mouth, unhide the head geometry and extrude the edges around
the lips inward to form the inside of the cheeks and throat. Remember to weld the
back vertices so you can't see through the model.
Follow the procedure in the section “ The Tongue ” in Chapter 4 to build Grae a tongue. Al-
ternatively, you could import Kila's and scale it up.
To finish off the head we need to give him some eyes. We can use the same method for
creating them as we did with Kila in the section “ Modeling the Eye ” in Chapter 4 . (Or we
could just use the eye we've already made for her and import it into Grae.)
Grae's head is now complete ( Figure 7.46 ).
FIGURE 7.46 The completed face of Grae
Modeling the Wings
Grae has wings, and they're somewhat unconventional. His are constructed from separate
strands rather than being two solid entities.
To build the wings, we have two options available to us:
We can build the entire wing, modelling each strand separately.