Chick With hair and ao

[dborruso]

Messing around with hair and ao today, this is what I have so far. I'll try to make it better.

[thetanman]

that is a very good start dborruso! i am not very good at hair, but i have only two crits: 1) i dont like the big hump on the head (what is that btw), and 2) i think the beak needs to be pointed more upwards instead of being pointed down so much. do you know what i mean? anyways good job!!!!!

[Dhar]

When you said chick I thought you meant a girl. I was expecting another string bikini clad super model or something! What a disappointment

 

Hey, your chick is cute

[dborruso]

Yeah tanman, my bird is a freak of nature. I like him like that though.

 

That was intentional misleading on my part dhar lol. I'm glad someone thought that.

[heyvern]

Chic with hair...

 

You are evil and mean teasing like that.

 

 

 

p.s. Strangest looking... chic... ever. But kind of cute. His hair seems too... "hard"... either not feathery enough or not fuzzy enough. Depends on what effect you are after. Good start.

 

-vern

[dborruso]

yeah i would like it to be a little more fuzzy. Any tips anyone?

[cuboos]

make the ground abit more darker, it makes it look abit more realistic IMO

[dborruso]

Update. I pointed up the beak a little like tanman said. I think it looks better. I darkened the ground. I think it might look better if I just make it grey though. I'll try out different colors. Now I'll try to get the hair fuzzy. Be back with updates later.

[oakchas]

I like him... He kinda looks like a walking sponge with a beak, and no pants (square or otherwise)

[totlover]

Are the lumps on his head that thetanman said.... are they Ears?

[dborruso]

fuzzy wuzzy!

 

I dont know what the lump on his head is, just his shape.

[totlover]

oh ok..

[thetanman]

that looks so much better!! keep up the good work. are you going to animate him when you get done?

[dborruso]

I might rig him up and do a little something with him. I won't be using ao for an animation render with hair though. I turned down the ambient value on this last render anyway so it didn't make as much difference as a 2 and a half hour render should take anyway. I'd like to do a little more refinement to the hair too. Someone suggested I give him arms. That might be funny. I'm thinking about it. I have a hard time rigging without tsm these days. I need to learn to use and modify the squetch rig.

[goodguy20k]

A few thoughts (warning, these will kill your render time... )

 

1) If you want to use dynamics, create a longer hair (you need at least 1cm of hair per control point). I use about 4cm, with 3 control points. Then move to your hair emitter properties and give it a length percentage of say, 25%. You now have 1cm long hair that is semi-dynamic. (Semi, because it only somewhat follows the control points. You'll have to play with this to see what I mean.

 

2) Transparency. Just as you adjust the hair width over length, make the tips transparent. It sells the "soft" look BIG time. (And hits your render time just as hard... ) I usually set it to 0% at 0, 0% at 90, and 100% at 100.

[dborruso]

I put a simple rig in him. Here is a quick little animation. Does anyone know how to get rid of the shimmering in the hair?

bird1.mov

[dborruso]

Here he is without the shimmer. Now I have to think of a funny animation for him. Yves gave me tips for getting rid of the shimmer. I made the hair thicker and used multipass.

bird2.mov