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Making proper cuts on the Mookie model

Making proper cuts on the Mookie model - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

From the course: Learning Bodypaint in Cinema 4D

Making proper cuts on the Mookie model

- Let's begin by detaching the head. I'll select Mookie, go to my Edge Selection. Let me go around here and find a nice loop around his neck. Move tool. Click on an edge and then double click another one and it will create an edge loop. I think that is good enough. Your choice of cuts should be the following: because wherever we cut we create a seam we need to make sure those seams are quite hidden. If we can get away with seams in parts of his body which are not visible, like his armpits, or sometimes his groin, the underparts of the arms, those are going to be the places of choice. So, here we don't have many options. These series of edges that are going to become seams are under his chin and I think that's the best choice for detaching his head. Let's go to the Select tools. Fill Selection, select his head. Front View. Press "s" to zoom in the selected. Then let's go to our UV Edit where we're going to continue our work here. Although I have the body selected, when I select UV…

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