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Now that i finally have proper acces to a PC after my old one died with a literal "bang" i gues its time to start posting work that ive been doing

Starting with Fuzzball:



This guy will be my avatar..

He's almost finished.. and unfortunately i didnt think to keep a record of his development but i can answer any questions that may be asked lol

Good enough for me..

Made the hair particles more uniform, i didnt want to do this but i had a lot of trouble controlling the hair on the eyelids.

In order to tidy this issue up, i had to use only "parent" particles for the two short hair types rather than use children to populate the surface. Unfortunately the PC i am using isnt particularly great and decided it couldn't handle the render so i was forced to lower the overall count (its now.. 226300 total hair particles, down from 426300)



And finally added a displacement modifier to the base model, giving it a bit more detail around the eyelids and a bit more overall character:



Ok so its not the most complex model in the world, but then it was only intended as a new avatar for me

Used Blender 2.53b for the entire creation (including making the Iris texture!) and also for rendering.

I don't see any images.

clintonman wrote:I don't see any images.

Sorry i should have stated that im using photobucket to host these.. Your network may be blocking you from viewing them..

Here are the direct links in order of appearance:

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg56 ... zzball.png
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg56 ... all_v2.png
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg56 ... all_v3.png

I dont't know if this helps - but they ARE there, trust me lol

Speaking of which, can anyone recommend a decent (and preferably free) image hosting service?
It would be great if it was capeable of hosting other files also such as .blend so i could get my models up for closer inspection

I'll investigate this myself later..

Thanks, I can see them now. Before it was just plain text that said "image".

Nice Avatar!
I like how you did the eyes. The hairs on top of his head
would look better with two tones instead of one color through
out. Maybe a darker base with lighter tips or reversed.
Great to have you submitting some nice stuff.

Hi Jason, good work man, i have wanted to do somthing like
this for a long time ,never had the right app. Ihave blender 2.5 but its very hard to learn
i also have carrera 7 pro with this i can get a fur ball but nothing as good
as your work. Is there a tut for hair with blender somwhere ?
Awsome keep it up
Ralph

did you use some fur shader of vray or dribble? or is it plain lightworks?
btw: nice job, what did you use for the particles? any plugins used?

Looks like cactus needles.

Nice guy

I suppose it has not really resemblance to you.

Steinie wrote:Nice Avatar!
I like how you did the eyes. The hairs on top of his head
would look better with two tones instead of one color through
out. Maybe a darker base with lighter tips or reversed.
Great to have you submitting some nice stuff.

Thanks! I will probably play around with him again once i build my new PC (which wont be for some time)

pugman 1 wrote: Is there a tut for hair with blender somwhere ?

Theres hundreds of tutorials out there, but a seriously recommend you hop on over to:
http://www.blendercookie.com/

Loads of great video tutorials there (including hair/fur ones) and a lot of them are done using Blender 2.5x so you get to learn your way around the interface as you go

bitkar wrote:did you use some fur shader of vray or dribble? or is it plain lightworks?
btw: nice job, what did you use for the particles? any plugins used?

It was entirely created in Blender 2.5b making use of blenders built in particle generators, and rendered using blenders internal rendering engine

Finis wrote:Looks like cactus needles.

Yes! that was the idea hehe

Wigand wrote:Nice guy

I suppose it has not really resemblance to you.

Only in the mornings...