Hi everyone, this couple weeks in GT we are doing Low Poly Art, also known as Geometric Portraits. I believe that facial expressions are universal. For example, everyone in the world cries with tears when something sad happens to them, such as the loss of a family member. Another example is that everyone in the world blushes when embarrassed by someone. Even though facial expressions do differ a little from your culture and features, they all have a noticeable link that represents a emotion. Such as someone crunching up their face when eating something sour, or someone opening their extremely wide when eating a spicy meal.
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| Poly - 3, Custom |
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| Poly - 2, Custom |
To create low poly art (geometric portraits) first you must get a picture of your subject. For example, everyone in my GT class is using a picture of themselves taken from a Mac Computer Camera. It would be preferable for it to be symmetric, so you could trace one side and simply copy it and rotate it. So it would complete the full subject. Then, you would use a editing app such as Photoshop to trace your subject. Once that last step is complete, you should add triangles ranging from big to small (depending on the facial features) on top of your subject. Now this is the tricky part, use the average blur option in your editor while selecting every triangle (Polygonal Lasso Tool) to give the subject a plastic look, with different shades that represents you. Then, optionally you can add a gradient overlay to the subject to increase the quality of your low poly portrait.
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| Poly - 1, Custom |
The difference between the easy Low Poly and the Poly's I did manually was the quality. For example, the Easy poly was taken with a low quality computer camera, while the others were either taken with better lighting or a advanced camera. Plus, the over all Poly aspect to it is more advanced when doing the custom route. By that I mean that the triangles fit more pleasingly, (It looks better). You can also make parts of your face stand out more than others in the custom way. Such as your eyes, lips, nose, etc. While the Low Poly Generator sorta blends it all together, which loses quality. For example, if you look at the Generator's Poly, the nose looks broken, and the lip is a bit stretched. Plus the eyes... aren't human.
