Question regarding feathers/fur
polycounter lvl 6
For the past few years I've been making Dota 2 assets but a few months ago I've started taking some Animation/Game Design classes. Now we've started working on the final project which is a Short Animated Film and I'm a bit stuck on a certain character.
Since my experience is only limited to game assets, I have absolutely no idea how to approach fur/feathers at a movie level of detail. The character would be a bird, somewhat similar to the one from the Overwatch Bastion short film.
I've been digging through tuts and videos but there are so many approaches that I can't really tell which workflow would give me that specific result.
A comparison between Bastion's in-game birdy and short film version:
Since my experience is only limited to game assets, I have absolutely no idea how to approach fur/feathers at a movie level of detail. The character would be a bird, somewhat similar to the one from the Overwatch Bastion short film.
I've been digging through tuts and videos but there are so many approaches that I can't really tell which workflow would give me that specific result.
A comparison between Bastion's in-game birdy and short film version:
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here is a tutorial how it could work...
https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/pegasus-xgen-maya-1510
Thanks for that! Just watched some parts of it (guess that black friday pluralsight sub came in handy) but i still have a few questions regarding the pipeline.
I'm thinking about sculpting everything (including the feathers) and using xgen on the "low poly" to create that body fur. Would it be too much pain animating the whole thing afterwards? Or does it just work with transferred weights?
Also, how does texturing work for fur? I was planning to use substance painter for most of the props.
any texturing ap will be fine...
Anyway, thanks for pointing me in the right(?) direction.