by Didik Wijaya

After you finished dog head model in Part 3 tutorial, now it's time to model body. You may wonder how hart could this be. I tell you, it's really really simple. I used the simplest and fastest techniques to create the body.

1.Create 5 segments plane like image below. Apply this plane with semi transparent material.

2. Convert plane into Editable Poly. Modify vertices position based on blueprint behind.

3. Change selection to Edge. Select one edge near the leg. Hold Shift while moving the edge down. As result you have new polygon created. Don't deselect anything yet. In Edit Geometry rollout, click Y button right next to Make Planar. Edge is now parallel to horizontal axis.

4. Repeat above process. Shift+drag edge to create more polygons. Modify vertices position when necessary. .

5. Image below show finished modified plane.

6. Make sure plane is still selected. Turn off all sub-object selection. Apply Shell modifer with Outer Amount =20. After that move object away from center. Look at image below

7. Make sure object still selected. Right click and choose Convert To>Convert To Editable Poly. In Perspective viewport, rotate view until you can see all inner side polygons. Select all those polygons (5 polygons constructing the body). Use Extrude, make sure you extrude long enough passing through the center.

8. Turn off all sub-object selection. Apply Symmetry modifier, use Mirror Axis=Z. In Modifier Stack, click plus sign left of Symmetry. Highlight Mirror. Activate Select And Move Tool, and enter X=0 in coordinate input box at the bottom of the screen. You will have basic body of the dog, symmetrical from center (X=0)

Download 3dsmax lesson file up to this point

Dog Modeling Tutorial Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

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