What the fuzz?

Ryujisama

So, I'm trying to make a cartoony-looking sheep in Blender for use in a game in Unity; however, I'm not sure how to go about making the main body without it looking like I just slapped a bunch of geospheres all over an oval shape primitive. Basically, I want to achieve the look of the sheep from the Wallace and Gromit claymations.


Any tips guys?

Swizzle

Fur shells would be a good place to start.

http://teamico.wikia.com/wiki/Graphics_and_post-processing_effects_used_in_Shadow_of_the_Colossus#Hair_Growing_On_The_Colossus_using_a_fur_shader

arrangemonk

billboards XD (and then sell the technology calling it speedsheep)

JamesWild

Abuse the living hell out of Blender's procedural stuff, then bake it to a sphere.

Ryujisama

All look like promising starts. I'll report back when I've got something. Thanks, guys.

okno

You can make really good fur shells by using Blender's Dynamic Paint. Set up the hair with hair particles, convert it to a mesh, then use Dynamic Paint to "paint" the hair to each shell. It avoids the artificial uniform look of just changing the colour ramp on some texture for each shell (how it's usually done) because you get all the unique swirls/clumps etc. Here's what it looks like: