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Creating eyebrows

Creating eyebrows - Maya Tutorial

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Creating eyebrows

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- Now if your character is going to have a lot of facial expressions, you'll probably want to put in eyebrows. Now how you do this is really very character specific, so it's a design choice. Do you want the eyebrows built into the surface of the face, or do you want the eyebrows to kind of float around the face, kind of cartoon-like? Well with this character, we do have room here to put eyebrows. If we wanted to, we could use this edge loop here as the basis for a brow, and we could actually use that, if we wanted to, but for this character we want to be more stylized. So I'm going to create separate eyebrows. So we can do that by just creating some simple boxes. So let's go into our front view and use our best friend, the polygonal cube. So I'm going to go ahead and just drag out a cube. How wide and big do we want his eyebrows? Well I'm just going to kind of guess on this one and then just not too deep. These are kind of more lines that are going to be kind of suggestive of…

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