@Paulo Henrique Crincev This looks absolutely amazing! I don't really have any specific notes, except for very subjective details. The anatomy on the ears could be differently stylised. Right now they feel a bit too anatomical and draw a bit too much attention to themselves. Check out other movies and how they do their ears. There's a lot of variation out there to draw from.

I'd just urge you to leave the head for now and move on to the body. Once you have the entire character in a rough state it makes sense to make more detailed adjustments.    Well done!

@Julien Kaspar damn, got it! looking at some references from animated films, I realized that I never noticed much about the characters' ears, they really are more stylized, with simpler shapes.

I was off for a while, but I'll pick it up again in the next module, which I stopped at the end practically for lack of time.

Thankyou Julien!

@Stylianos Andreolas You might want to add a link to an image. Nothing is visible here.

@coolyan2016 So first: It's easier painting a sculpt with vertex colors since they are more flexible. If you want to paint a texture you first need to create a UV map. And unwrapping a high resolution sculpt is slow and time consuming and the results will likely have issues that are hard to predict or fix. Also once you unwrapped our sculpt you cannot use the remesher or dyntopo anymore. If you do you will destroy your entire painting progress. With vertex colors on the other hand the colors are stored in the geoemtry directly, so you can immidiately start painting and if you remesh a small area you can repaint it. Vertex colors also work best on higher mesh resolutions since that means you can paint more detail. Each vertex is one color so the more you have the more you can paint. For UV maps you want the mesh resolution to be as low as possible on the other hand.

I can also recommend to try out the Blender 3.0 alpha version. In here you can enable an experimental feature called "Sculpt Vertex Colors". It's adding fully functional painting features and brushes to Sculpt Mode which are much higher performing and your colors will not be destroyed when remeshing. This will eventually become the new default vertex color painting system.

@storey.thomas That looks amazing! You are clearly going for a bit more realism in style, which is good, but I'd say continue with the body and clothing before polishing the head further.  The only thing that struck me as a bit weird is that the ears are very small and high. I'm really looking forward to more progress from you!

@Julien Kaspar Thanks so much! Good note about the ears. I don't know how they ended up drifting so high up. Seems quite obvious now that you point it out. I have already started on the body and will have some progress to show there soon. :)

https://zupimages.net/viewer.php?id=21/15/spg7.png

@julien.renaudot This is looking really good! Well done :D    Don't worry too much about picking the right colors. Just do your own thing if you want to. But if you want to pick colors more easily you can also switch the viewport to flat shading (The shading options in the header tot he right).    For the sculpt I can recommend to work a bit more on the shoulders (but we'll get more into that in the next chapter), lower the ears a tiny bit and maybe add a bit more forehead but the head is pretty solid so far! You can always polish it further of course.

*@Bas Raven* Looks really good so far. I see a lot that's going right with this. Here's some feedback:

• The most noticeable element is the big round eyes. I think it would help a lot to scale them down as far as even half the size. In the perspective view this becomes really noticeable.
• The hair consists of a lot of thin clumps but the overall shape is very rounded and blobby. I can recommend to work with bigger shapes and nail the silhouette before going into detail. Look at how the tension in the hair and gravity would affect the shapes and flow of the ponytail.
• The mouth also seems to sink a bit into the face. Try pushing it outwards a bit more.
• I think the ear and jaw corner might also be a bit far in the back.
• Overall the surfaces are also rather lumpy. Try to keep the shapes clean and smooth. Especially on the neck and ear the surfaces seem random.

Keep looking through perspective view to see how much the ears get lost behind the face and how large the face looks.
The orthographic view can be deceiving on that.

*@Julien Kaspar* Thank you so much for taking the time to give me such valuable feedback. I am stil working on the body but when I come back to the face I will definitely use your feedback.

*@Cosimo* eye lids*

*@Cosimo* The progress is looking good. Eyelids are definitely very tricky to get right, so I can recommend to create them from a sphere object. It will make it easier to get the shapes right before then merging the objects and sculpting the transitions between eyelids and the rest of the face. Same with the ears. If you have difficulties getting the shapes right, try to separately sculpt them as different objects and then merge them once they look right.

To give some more feedback on the overal proportions: I would look at some more reference for the jaw. In your sculpt it is very pointy right now. In general, the face is getting lifted up the further it goes into the abck of the head. Try lowering the ears, cheeks and jaw corner too make the lower jaw edge a bit more straight. Here's an example.

You could also push back the chin a bit. The entire mouth region is peaking forward which looks also like a very unnatural under-bite.

*@Julien Kaspar* Thank you for your detailed answer. I will try to implement your tips.

*@Sundaram* It only affects the render if the color you are painting is plugged into the material. It won't automatically use any color information.

*@Julien Kaspar*thanks but how to do that?

*@Sundaram* Plug the vertex color node into the base color of your material node.
More info here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zrd37k2tJM&list=PLa1F2ddGya_-UvuAqHAksYnB0qL9yWDO6&index=18

*@Alan Belov* Hopefully very soon :)

*@Julien Kaspar* thx👌❤️

*@jhonatansilva31415* No, not in this course. But there is an Animation Fundamentals Course in progress. Maybe ask there: https://cloud.blender.org/blog/introducing-blender-animation-fundamentals-training

*@sandeep200680* For the first design sculpts it was not really necessary to include them but I'll talk about it too :) I'll cover the teeth and inner mouth in chapter 3 when I'll go over the expression tests.

*@Julien Kaspar* Thanks dear friend...looking forward to see how that works!