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Reallusion now have several 3D character base meshes for free.  www.reallusion.com/character-creator/fre...-character-base.html

Included features

• Five character base models, provided in FBX(fully-rigged), OBJ and ZTL formats, with accompanying texture files.
• Optimized topology, featuring uniform quad surfaces and anatomically optimized edge loops tailored for animation, morph design, and sub-divisional sculpting.
• Textures are provided in a UDIM layout, covering the head, torso, arms, legs, eyes, and teeth.
• Includes 150+ facial morphs designed for expressive and accurate lip-sync animation. (FBX file)
• Compatible with ZBrush, Blender, and other major 3D tools, with dedicated plugin support for seamless integration.

 

Looks good.

Maybe it's been mentioned here before but I noticed recently that Blender has an asset pack of  base mesh models  available to download.
However you do need one of the more recent versions of Blender to open them.

I tried to download them and went through most of the hoops of signing in with google but I think I was probably at the last hurdle "create an account" when I decided to ... not.

I have a special junk email address just for this kind of account.

I usually think my old account will be used for the junk and any new accounts will be kept "clean" and then either I get them mixed up or some business gets hacked* and the email becomes a junk account anyway.

*edit: and emails get leaked  

*logs in to junk email account for first time in ages*


So much.... junk.

Ah, that's where my Black Desert login codes go.

...and those models are pretty good. Especially the FBX versions that have the blend shapes and the armature. I had to fiddle about with the materials for the eyes and eyelashes to get the transparency working there but I think I've worked it out even if I don't quite understand the separate textures for the cornea and "occlusion" of the eyes.

But by far the most amazing thing is how they all instantly become rubbish once I try to sculpt and modify them.

Yeah, I've had a look at one in Modo and had to adjust a load of the materials.

With Blender it's just the material transparency you have to fiddle with by activating the screen space refraction and the alpha hash.
Also the hierarchy of the armature isn't quite right. When you open the mouth by moving the jaw the eyeballs pop out.

Doesn't that always happen???