Bunny like animal

[2scale]

I like the design. Simple but not simplistic. But I dont see fur or hair for that matter on your render? It just looks like a clr map has been applied. Anyhow, I do like it. Keep it up.

J

[YerEvilTwin]

the hair blows. Use twice as many layers and use a finer/smaller dots. Move the eyes down too.

[SHEPEIRO]

i would say that the hair is pooh too, as yereviltwin said, boost the layers, up, but id say make the hair sizes larger and softer (slightly) as well as the distance away from head(length), try both and see what works.

[BananaSalat]

Hey cool thanks for the critics.
I will will try all your suggested thougts.

Thanks again

[BananaSalat]

Hey is that better ?

http://mitglied.lycos.de/dgfdk/hpbimg/hoppel2.jpg

[2scale]

Even though I like the design. I think that fur blows. Sorry. It looks like a dotted cut out line around the head. If your going to make fur. Make fur. Either real fur using whatever software or Piant effects, or some geometry with some ramp shader on it to actually give it some depth. But I think in this case because of the style your going for you should look at using a velvet shader or some simulated fur sub surface scattering shader. It will give the model the look of softness of a stuffed animal similar to your char design. The render times are mach faster than either Fur textured geometry or paint effects. If you dont know how to create one go to highend 3d. There are some descent shaders there. With some mods I think you could make it work better in your favour.

good luck,

J

[Brownboot]

I looked at the shadow of the collosus thread stuff and all that it looks like you're going for that kind of approach to the fur which I think is very interesting, but I still don't get how to make it look like they did :P. Can't wait to see how you resolve it.

[SHEPEIRO]

2scale- im not sure thats usefull, on the game art section, unless your talking render time of under a 30th of a second! but the sub surface scattering might be worth a try, there was a shader posted on here not so long ago which worked a treat in directx.

agree with the opinion on the hair though, needs alot more work, sorry,

i think the problem is that the hair is actually see-through, change the alpha so that the strands are opac, oh and they should be using the same colour map as the underlying geometry, only with tiled alpha, hope that helps.

[Neil]

seems high count so far for just a round head with ears.
atleast model the nose and eyes, right now they are lost when the head is angled.

[rob-beddall]

hey!!

i really don't think that the fur "shells" should have the same colour map as the underlying geometry as SHEPEIRO suggested. hair is usually darker at the root and making the lower shells darker will help to add depth to it.
here is a link to an interesting site where they have managed to make very realistic looking low poly fur. check it out.

http://research.microsoft.com/~hhoppe/#fur

hope that helps some.

cheers!!

[SHEPEIRO]

http://xbox.advancedmn.com/images/media/Bad_Fur_Day_4.jpg

i think that they are using the smae colour for each "shell" here, they may as you say darken each layer a little, you could fake this, making the underlying material black, and reducing, the colour maps effect for each layer!

[BananaSalat]

Hey awesome, so many replys ... cool thanks for the tips.

I will do my best.

[BoBo-the-seal]

you need a lot less space between your opaque areas. Here is a head study I did a couple years ago.

http://www.bobotheseal.com/temp/WIP/bunny_head.jpg

It uses 3 shells on top of the base geometry and uses the same texture as the base.


- BoBo

[djkaneda]

so this method uses shells with the same texture on it and a different alpha dot pattern that gets progressively smaller for each shell right?

[SHEPEIRO]

yepp that pretty much sums it up,

[GLandolina]

yes sort of, there are so many variations. i use a noise filter to create mine for example.

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