I’m starting to practice a little character modeling in Rhino as a slightly more fun way to learn complex surface transitions. There’s a great illustrator named Leo Natsume with a fun, whimsical style that feels like a hybrid of basic geometry/primitives and organic modeling. I know he does everything using polygonal modeling. I’m attempting it with nurbs.
I imported a 2D reference image and have been just extrapolating the rest into a 3D model, just going with whatever feels right. I’m actually surprised at how well nurbs works for this style of 3D character model, at least for the main parts. It’s pretty fun.
That said, I’m now running into the tricky parts.
I attempted to model a basic torso (not even thinking about the coat yet), and the next step is to have it blend into the arms, but I utterly failed at creating a strategy for this 
I hope to conquer the upper body soon, but I’ll hold off on Qs for now
So, I’ve shifted gears over to the legs which seemed a bit easier… until the crotch/waistline.
It’s pretty obvious what I need to do here in terms of the end result, but I’m struggling with how best to do it.
For the bottom half, it was easy. Two blendSrfs. But I have no idea how to handle the top section, and unclear how to resolve what appears to be four inevitable 5-sided end surfaces. This seems like it has to be dead easy but I feel like I keep overcomplicating it and getting lost in a sea of increasingly smaller split surfaces. What’s the right process here?
character - rhino 5.3dm (4.6 MB)
