how would you personally model a human pelvis?

# 1 12-07-2012 , 01:08 PM

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how would you personally model a human pelvis?

hello, im nicky, im a medical illustrator just starting to get into 3d medical illustration/animation, im about to start a 3d modelling course where the second half is a personal project - im thinking something to do with child birth and im trying to do as much preperation as possible before i start. so im just thinking how would you go about modelling a pelvis?

so i thought, well why not ask away at simply maya, how would people approach it, it would be interesting to see if people would do it differently and hopefully i can learn something

any thoughts whatsoever appreciated!

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# 2 12-07-2012 , 01:29 PM

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I would model the sacrum and one os coxa separately, then mirror the os coxa over. I would use box modelling for each of them, and cutting the holes through them after the rough shapes are worked out.

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# 3 12-07-2012 , 03:00 PM

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I agree with stwert on the way to break up the modeling tasks. I did some fast google searches and there are lots of good references out there like this one https://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser..._Features.html.

The sacrum is a fairly regular shape and would be easy to model to match some references images but the os coxa is going to require a bit more of a artistic eye.

Both of these might best be sculpted using one of the 3D sculpting apps like mudbox or zbrush.

There are lots of free skeletal models out there, not to suggest you cheat, but you could bring one in and use it as a template to model over just to develop a work flow.

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# 4 12-07-2012 , 07:14 PM

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thanks very much both, i've just completed my first box modelling tutorial recently, so im picking up what youre putting down..somewhat!

still to try out zbrush, plan to start at the end of this course.

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