Week 4

Minifigure Arm Modelling

I have been following the online tutorial to make the minifigure arm and I am very glad that there is a tutorial because I wouldn't have even known where to start such a complex part. I have not yet finished the arm but I have spent hours stopping and starting the instruction video trying to make my model resemble the one shown.

I started with a photo of the form like the video instructed, but my photo perhaps was not the best. I did not know that you could insert a photo to reference the geometry, that is a really neat trick.

I realised I had made a mistake when I was trying to do the forearm loft, I had drawn the arm end circle on the front plane instead of the right plane. Once I figured this out I went back into the sketch, deleted the wrong circle and re drew it on the correct plane.

This is where my model is currently. I have just done the forearm loft and created the plane to do the upper arm loft. At this stage I think that my model is correct- lets hope anyway!