Continuing on with building the lower body - this time legs and feet. This is where I diverge from Johnathon Williamson's video tutorial - I will explain below.

The first step is to extrude two rings of vertices from the hip edge created in Step 2 - these are relatively close together as they will function as a joint in the animations to come. they are perhaps the trickiest parts of the legs - extrude, scale, rotate, move - and repeat till they look nice and fit the front and side images (First Image - red portion).

From here it is just a matter of extruding rings of vertices down the leg. This is the first divergence. I have not placed any rings of vertices at the knee joint. Williamson actually creates triangles at the back of the knee to help with animation creation. As I'm not sure how this will work in Seamless3D and export to an Hanim animation, I passed right over the knee joint for now. It is easy to go back and add rings of vertices and the triangles. This is future experimentation - right now I want to see if I can get a body shape that works well.

The second divergence is with the foot. Johnathon creates it separately and then attaches it to the leg, I just continued creating the foot by extruding rings of vertices and scaling and moving them to fit at the side (Y-axis, the green arrow in the magnified insert). I'm not sure which is the best method but the way I did it seemed simpler. However, it was for a relatively flat foot - maybe separate creation is better if fancy high heel shoes or boots  are needed. Time will tell.

More to come,

griff :)

PS: That is Rick Kimball not Rock in the previous post - but he might prefer Rock or is it too 1950s?