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Songbird Remix's Product Preview Thread
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DanaTA
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I thought so, but I wasn't entirely sure.
Starting to build some poses to test out whether the rigging is behaving. Also started playing with some half-built transparency maps to see if my feather laying ideas are working (verdict on that-- so-so... maybe I'll have to add some real textures to know)
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First "draft" texture test on the Rhode Island Red Rooster...
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DanaTA
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Most of the ones I see when I Google it have a deeper, brighter, red, which often covers the eye area more. And the feathers on the head look more like long, thick, hair. On a few that continues all the way to the tail...but not all of them...but just about all have that on the head, down to the chest and upper back. example
I debated uploading this image simply because the texture a "draft"... something for me to see if its starting to look like a chicken. I thought it was so I posted it. Yes, the neck feathering needs to be a lot more "stringy" and some of the coloring isn't quite right. The texture is going to need days of refinements and adjustments before it becomes a "final" map.... but overall, it's head in the right direction.
I like the coloration too, and it's not too far off from the actual breed. Being a cross-bred variant, the chicken comes in numerous shades. I do need to darken some areas for the male-- the females are generally lighter with smaller combs and wattles. I started to refine the texture a little, making the neck feathers a little more stringy on the map-- it's getting closer to want I want. When painting the textures for the first time, how they actually map on the model can be deceiving. I'll eventually probably add some aggressive bump and/or displacement to make the area even more stringy-looking. I also corrected the hairs on the comb part of the map-- I had them backwards on the first draft map (towards the front rather than the back of the comb).
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Again... this is work-in-progress... I haven't yet built the specular maps that the males have
DanaTA
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Didn't mean to be criticizing, just thought to be a little helpful, that's all.
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Not taken as a criticism at all.. just wanted to reinforce to everyone that what I was showing wasn't close to the final product-- just a wip capture
