My Millennium Horse Dynamic Hair Project Well today it’s been back to an old project for me as I needed to render a horse with realistic hair in Carrara. I worked on this a few years ago using the Millennium Horse <Mil Horse) model which was real a pain as all in built geometry based …
Whilst I love the idea of the new mapping on the DHorse2 with it’s large separate head map for super detailed textures, I have so many of my own custom made photoreal textures for the MIlHorse that I was gutted at the thought of not being able to use them with the new horse model.
Well this is annoying! I finally found the pen for my graphics tablet (hiding between bottles of nail polish on my desk side…) and settled down with my render and Photoshop to finish up the portrait of my cheeky, chunky welsh cob, Cruz and as I often do got carried away….
Now after producing several variations of my image I just can’t decide on which one I like the best. This image is intended to hang in my hallway so I want the best one, but full of cold and feeling the tug of a hot bubble bath and my warm bed I need some help. Which one of the above images do you like the best? Also do you have any constructive suggestions to improve it?
I just came across these old renders on my Picasa account and thought I’d upload them here.
They are from around the time Carrara 6 Pro was released and it was my aim to create realistic dynamic hair for the Millennium Horse model.
What I learned was that it took an awful lot of work to prepare the MilHorse model for use with dynamic hair in the first place as it has three seperate polygon meshes
YouTube – Some of my work with the various 3d horse models available
Well it seems I am being blown away by free software yet again this week! I have just stumbled upon a forum link to EscapeEmotions.com, owned by Peter Blaskovic. This website has the most awesome online free painting application that lets you paint with fractals. I have just spent the last hour happily doodling away …
I downloaded this free program a few weeks ago and have been blown away by how easy it is to get started and just create without having to learn a complicated interface and tools. The interface is minimalist (is that even a word!) and can even be hidden using the tab key (windows, don’t know …
Sculptris a free digital clay modelling program. Read More »
I didn’t realise just how good Carrara 7’s terrains can look until I started playing around with this render, and I hardly even scraped the surface as my now ageing computer was complaining too much when I upped the terrain resolution to what I was really wanting to work with. Overall I’m pretty pleased with …
Trying out Carrara 7’s Landscaping tools with a Jurassic twist! Read More »
