I hate having to do this, but for some reason the original Siren project lost it's thumbnail info, which means it doesn't appear on the ZBrush Main Forum anymore, making the chances of people seeing and critiquing it all but impossible. Besides, I felt like it made more sense to have a more in-depth WIP thread for the creative process of The Siren character I'm creating for Reallusion's 3D Character Design Contest.
The idea for this character is to reimagine the classical Siren as modern day monster, something you'd expect to see in a video game or a movie. What I want to visualize is a character that can be both alluring and terrifying under the right circumstances. I began by using a premade model created in the Character Creator that's a part of the special iClone 6 trial made available for the contest.
Thanks to some advice I received on my original post, I already found a solution to separating the separate elements into subtools, so she has two eyes, a jaw with two full sets of teeth, a tongue, and individual eyelashes. Right now my goal is to try and create a subtle slit along the side of her cheeks, which would allow her to open her jaw abnormally wide, as I envisioned in these sketches:
My question right now is, how would I go about cutting through the mesh along her cheeks to achieve the effect in the drawings?