Hairy dude

[Wiz]

looking great.. the hair adds alot.
alot of character.. he looks like innocent but little satan :P

[baiyusong]

nice model, and sunshine face he's got.
like your style.....

maybe u can add some layer to make the hair look more solid, ... he he. just personal idea

anyway, good work!

[dominicqwek]

got your pm...lets see here. i would add more clumping to the hair..some areas look too uniform but overall it looks quite well done. Sorry i aint a maya user. :D

[lithik]

nice hair, the facial expression is also interesting :thumbsup:

[iNFERNiS]

for some reason it reminds me from that videoclip of soundgarden - black hole sun, ehehe

nice hair, i digg it

[Maximus Groff]

Thank u all guys! (Specially my friends!)

Infernis & Lithik: Thanks! If u have links or works like this
one plz post so we can compare!



Update ;) A more "natural" and cartoony hair!

http://sycraf.myftp.org/wip/kiddo_hair2.jpg

[William b. Hand]

Hey thar, Maximus! I can't help but chuckle each time I look at this character! Very very funny! (Hey - there's no "Laughing" Smily!) I'm afraid I have no experience with 3D hair, so I can't give any technical crits.:shrug: Although what everyone else here has said...
Needs to be fuller.
Seems oddly uniform in front.
There's no hint of a scalp-line
The shadowing looks odd.... Did you do that in PhotoShop? It seems to me rather blobby, and not the broken shadow that hair drops on the scalp.
...That said, I love the bouncyness of it... The energy of it! So, don't lose that, whatever you do! Also the variety of colour works well, and the mussed up look is on the mark.:thumbsup:
Elsewhere...
The eyebrows are lookin' pretty flat, and his ear-lobes are looking pretty pointy!
Awesome expression.
Maybe he's happy because he just opened a birthday present, and it's a model of "Bad Bad Monster"?
Is this "for" anything or izzit just for learnin'?
Cheers!:beer:

[Maximus Groff]

heheh..

This character will use a sci-fi suit (and lasers of course) and will
find the snake monster in some cave....

Lot of things to do!!!

"fuller" : this darn thing takes 2:34 mins to render... imagine in a
full scene... no budget for more detail

"odly uniform in the front" - wow.. what a crit... let me see..
i will try change the shape so gets more non-uniform...

"scalp line" WTF is that ???

"shadowing" .. this is calculated by maya... sorry but cant improve
that...


:cool:

[Threedeemer]

Yeah he really makes me smile, hes got personality. The start of the hair is looking good. I've yet to find a good workflow for paintfx hair.

[tomb]

The hair looks good although a little bit jaggy. You can get a more antialiased look by rendering the PFX at double the size, which shouldn't take too much longer, then scale it back down and comp it. BTW skin looks good (I made that shader ;) )

[PCollier]

Hey Max :D Got your PM

Not really an authority on hair as I haven't dabbled into it much yet. As far as I can gather from watching other people fiddle with it, is that for a good way to animate it you can create a soft body nurbs surface and then use the nurbs curves to create the hair, then use something like 'jiggle' or 'wind' to animate it with. Then I guess it just a matter of having lots of these patches all over to give a thick volume.

But its looking cool at the moment keep experimenting and when you have come up with a good solution be sure to tell me how or write a turorial or something :thumbsup:

[PCollier]

Hey mate of mine found the tutorial he used here ya go:

Click me!! (http://www.gmask.com/tutorials/hairtut/hairtut.shtml)

[goodlag]

lol makes me smile :beer:

looks good model :drool:

keep up the good work:bounce:

[Maximus Groff]

Thanks for replies guys!

goodlag: wait until you see some blendshapes coming along!

PCollier: Hey! How are u? Im waiting your progress on the
cyber dude.. Yeah, i searched and searched for everything hairy...
althought some tuts show excelent pics, they are hard to
reproduce...

Tutorial ? I dont think so.. im too lazy for that...pick up the zip
file on the 1st post so u can see how i changed the parameters...

Threedemer: This character has a sister and his friend...
their modeling is complete but their hair is coming...

Tomb: Oh my god! That shader net rocks! :beer: Congrats
cause i use ur shader in almost all of my works...

Where is some tuts and links on how to acchieve such a interesting network?


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[Threedeemer]

Hey Maximus I'm utilizing Tomb's shader as well. :D (wonderful shader Tomb)
You mentioned GI_Joe, maybe I should give that a try.

[tomb]

Thx. The skin shader's network looks complicated but it's basically trying to do two things, acheive a reddish falloff (basically this is what translucence in skin is) - Emmanuel Campin's rampcolor script helped me with this and peach fuzz, the little hairs on the skin, which means whiter towards the edges. I used facing ratio for that.

To get the highlights I created a layered shader the top layer for skin highlights only. The bottom layer has large blue highlights which counteracts the redness of the skin amd exaggerates the translucence effect (tip from Steven Stahlberg).

Anyway I'll be quiet now it isn't my thread. :)

[Maximus Groff]

GI_Joe rocks ... u should give it a try.. (look for pixho)

I think the hair is better.. what u think ?

http://sycraf.myftp.org/wip/kiddo_hair3.jpg

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