CGTalk - Feathers in Maya?

erakesh

02-01-2003, 09:30 AM

Hi All

I was thinking about making some bird characters for some animated short. I just dint want to texture it, but add some realism in it's looks. How Do I add feathers on the bird. I tried using a single instance and then used geometryPaint. Then I tried the Geometry contraint for each feather. Both had some drawbacks like. The geometry Paint didnt work on Polygons (as I was modelling in polygons for faster interaction furing animation and other control) and the geometry contraint was displacing the feathers very weirdly, once the parent mesh was rotated or skinned. Is there any way I could get along with this and some good feathers and texture it well. I also tried extruding the edges and texturing them, which I found in one tutorial. But the overall look was nasty. All these tests were done or mere primitives to get the feel. U guys have any ideas???

Thanks
Rakesh

stelhar_1999

02-01-2003, 10:01 AM

I think that there is a tutorial over 3dTotal for making a bird using polygon modelling but it could be very mush the one you mentioned earlier

JupiterSunset

02-01-2003, 05:02 PM

There is a guy in the cgtalk "Artists Looking for Jobs " category who did impressive feathers using paint_effects if I remember right...

his page shows some cool stuff!!

http://www.fxanimator.com/

good luck and don´t forget to show us that bird!!!

erakesh

02-03-2003, 03:34 AM

Thanks to all u guys. Will follow what u said. :)

-Rakesh

wireFrame

02-03-2003, 05:34 AM

Here's a link to the Jackal's Forge site. I've refered to this site a long time ago whne I was doing a bird model in Maya. Just browse the site for the feather tutorial.

http://www.jackals-forge.com/catacombs/horizon/galHOR5.html

erakesh

02-03-2003, 06:15 AM

Hey thanks wireframe. That is some awesome resource.

erakesh

02-03-2003, 06:24 AM

I'm also trying to have feathers on a nurbs surface, using geometry paint. They are pretty well contrained to the surface and act and react pretty well. AS my model is a polygon based, I used a nurbs proxy for feathers and fur. On the way will come up with some renders.

Thanks

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