I've added a few cgMuscles around the neck and as you'll see from the avi, it makes a pretty big difference to the overall result.
ok,..muscles in the neck can get pretty well defined in people, so to add a little detail I've made some muscles to slide under and deform the skin when the head is rotated.
Fig 1. This is the basic head with no muscles in the neck.
Fig 2. Four muscles have been added.
They were created as cgMuscles and have been linked to a chest dummy and a head dummy.
A cgSkin Deformer modifier was applied to the head mesh, and the muscles were added as deformer nodes.
A mesh select modifier as a stack selection enables the Ray Node Deformation to work on a specific region of the neck.
Fig 3. The boxes are the bones for the Skin modifier.
You can see the effect the muscles are having on the neck.
Fig 4. Click on the image fig 4. to download a comparison avi. (1.1mb)
