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Over the past two weeks, I've gone from novice to expert with Maya fur. I'd really never used it before this project, but knew enough about it to want to try it out. And while its not without its flaws, the final product is really nice. The graphic style of this series is a kind of cartoon realism, and I just felt that polygon hair, and bump mapped fur weren't gona cut it. So I knew I needed something more sophisticated, and this seems to be doing the trick. An even more pleasant surprise was what a good job it did with the feathers on the birds.

For the hair on the two girls, I had already gone to the trouble of building dynamic curves for their poly hair, so I didn't really want to lose that work. Fortunately, I was able to use PaintFX hair strokes on the same curves. They do a pretty good job, retain the basic shape of the old hair, and blend in fine with the fur based hair on the other characters.

So here are 360º renders of all the characters with their new fur systems. The actual shaders on the characters are still basic blinns. So that's the next challenge to tackle.
By fruehdom on November 4, 2007 at 5:00pm EST Topic(s): fur hair paintfx maya

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