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        Outside the Box</font></a><font size="-1">:</font></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+3" color="#0022A8"><br>
        A Peek Inside My Brain</font>
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        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Next comes the spiky front 
          part of the chest. I scale/weld some verts and turn some edges to come 
          out with… </font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="images/sleeg028.jpg"><img src="images/sleeg028_sml.jpg" width="244" height="219" border="0" alt="Click for fullsize image"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Prepping for the rest of 
          the front spikes I divide some edges to give me some real-estate.</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="images/sleeg029.jpg"><img src="images/sleeg029_sml.jpg" width="265" height="222" border="0" alt="Click for fullsize image"></a> 
          </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now after turning a couple 
          edges I see how I’m going to handle the chest/sternum area without adding 
          too much geometry…</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="images/sleeg030.jpg"><img src="images/sleeg030_sml.jpg" width="238" height="231" border="0" alt="Click for fullsize image"></a> 
          </font></p>

        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Of course why do both sides 
          at once so I delete the right side this time since the left looks more 
          appealing (don’t ask why…)</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="images/sleeg031.jpg"><img src="images/sleeg031_sml.jpg" width="262" height="266" border="0" alt="Click for fullsize image"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I need some more definition 
          here at the side of the chest so I do a divide edge and pull the vertex 
          out for more volume.</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="images/sleeg032.jpg"><img src="images/sleeg032_sml.jpg" width="237" height="265" border="0" alt="Click for fullsize image"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I turn this edge to give 
          the neck opening a harder feel to it. More shell like.</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="images/sleeg033.jpg"><img src="images/sleeg033_sml.jpg" width="311" height="280" border="0" alt="Click for fullsize image"></a> 
          </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Time to coppy and mirror 
          the other side to see how we’re doing with the overall shape. I frequently 
          do this to see how the pieces look togetehr rotating the view and looking 
          at the shape from all angles. This is just a good thing to do to make 
          sure you’re not favoring an up, down, left or right slant to your shape.</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="images/sleeg034.jpg"><img src="images/sleeg034_sml.jpg" width="259" height="321" border="0" alt="Click for fullsize image"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I like it. Think we’ll let 
          him live. This time. </font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="images/sleeg035.jpg"><img src="images/sleeg035_sml.jpg" width="418" height="299" border="0" alt="Click for fullsize image"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Let’s zoom in and slide 
          the copied half as close to the first half as we can and attach it to 
          that half.</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="images/sleeg036.jpg"><img src="images/sleeg036_sml.jpg" width="315" height="392" border="0" alt="Click for fullsize image"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Scale the verts along the 
          x and hit ‘selected and our torso is now joined.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, that’s it for this 
          installment. Another third, next week. Tune in. Same Bat time. Same 
          Bat channel.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">ps</font></p>
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