Summer project - Bear fur/hair - Tips ?

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Hi everyone

I am a french student in a video game school and for this summer I decided to do a project !

I'd love to redo Tibbers (like in Riot's cinematic) but in very high poly.



I wanted to do fur/hair on it but I have never learn it in my school. Some people told me to use pluggin but I wanted to use Zbrush or Maya for that (without plug) because I want to be prepared if a company doesn't have this pluggin.

I wanted to do "fire" too but I know how to use FX (fluids, particules...).

I mainly need tips and help for fur.

Here's the video where you can see what I want to do, you can find Tibbers at 3:33.

http://youtu.be/tEnsqpThaFg?t=3m33s

I know I'll certainly don't have a render like that, but I wanted to try ^_^

Thank you for your help !

Eric Chadwick

We have some techniques outlined here, though they're mostly for low-poly in-game hair.
http://wiki.polycount.com/HairTechnique

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Exactly but I wanted to use dynamics if possible, not planes ^_^

Eric Chadwick

There are a couple tutorials in there for high-res dynamic-based hair.

• Using Pre-Rendered Fur Tiles for Texturing, with Maya Fur & Photoshop from the Polycount forum
• Pandicarus from Dominance War III, fur technique explained by Mike 'Squirrely Jones' Voeller: tutorial PDF (2.6MB), Polycount forum thread
  

also check out
Rick Baker – FiberMesh (Zbrush)

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Thank you !

For the tutorial on Zbrush, some people told me that if I take fur from Zbrush to put it on Maya it will be so hard and so long.

Eric Chadwick

You'll want to render fur in the program it's made in. High-res fur is not meant to be exported. To render fur properly you need some tight integration between the fur generator and the fur renderer.

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Yes because I wanted to do animations on Maya with this model !