RELEASED Hivewire Big Cat Has Begun!

[Lorraine]

What a beautiful animal, Harimau! And those teeth! Wow, they are long

 

[carmen indorato]

Hi Chris,

Had a good look at the attachments given above by Desertsilver. Your models of the cougar (Puma concolor) are really nice, but they are not the final ones yet, are they? I hope it is not out of place for me to comment on the current models.
1. The cougar and its close relative the cheetah are quite distinct from the other big cats. They are actually big "small cats". They have proportionately smaller heads relative to their body size when compared to the other big cats. Your model's head, I think could be a wee bit smaller.
2. It has a long heavy tail, about two thirds to almost the combined length of its head and body. I think you captured this very well indeed.
3. Among all the the big cats, the cougar has proportionately the biggest hind limbs of all, allowing it to make spectacular leaps. The hind limbs of your model could be made a bit bigger.
Here are 2 pictures I downloaded from the Web to illustrate the points that I am making.View attachment 15376 View attachment 15375

I can't resist this picture of a kitten with its mother. Hint: I hope you will include a kitten in your release.View attachment 15377
Incidentally, there IS another puma, the jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi). This is a rather unusual looking small small cat - see the following picturesView attachment 15378
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You may consider this a future project????

Love the jaguarundi. A really unusually beautiful cat. Unique streamlined face almost looks like a mink or ferret thpough no comparison but the shape of the snout/muzzle and size compared to body make for some interesting portraiture/looks. Would love this as a possible morph add-on later.
Where is it from? I have never seen images of it before...though I vaguely recall the name just not from where or when.

 

[Harimau]

Love the jaguarundi. A really unusually beautiful cat. Unique streamlined face almost looks like a mink or ferret thpough no comparison but the shape of the snout/muzzle and size compared to body make for some interesting portraiture/looks. Would love this as a possible morph add-on later.
Where is it from? I have never seen images of it before...though I vaguely recall the name just not from where or when.

It's from Central and South America. It inhabits a broad range of both open and closed habitats, including rainforest, swamp and savanna woodland, savanna, thickets, and semi-arid thorn scrub.

 

[Chris]

Showing some of the very early work I started on the male lion. This is without the mane so far of course. Just getting shaping and size relationships established. This male would be 3.9 ft tall at the shoulder (as in wikapedia). The lioness with be a bit shorter but not shown yet. My goal is to get the male done with mane (not a Barbary Lion mane either), then create the lioness from that.

Combo images include the Male Lion, Leopard, Cougar, Leopard Cub, and House Cat.

 

[Chris]

Couple more early shots of Lion morph.

 

[Miss B]

Looking great Chris. Can't wait to see how you do the Mane, or are you going to leave that up to Tiny?

 

[Zaarin]

But with no Barbary lion mane, how will we render Mufasa?

 

[Rae134]

I'm greedy - I wants all the Manes hehehe

 

[Miss B]

Good question Zaarin. I always liked Mufasa.

 

[Chris]

A full mane is one thing, but I don't want to have to run it all the way down the torso to the back leg. We'll see. There is always add-on product options right?

Here's a few more screen grabs of work this evening on the Lion face.

 

[Chris]

This is not the mane. I'm just throwing on the Midlength hair that I made for Dawn and Dusk. It's just a place holder to show some volume.

 

[Chris]

Looking great Chris. Can't wait to see how you do the Mane, or are you going to leave that up to Tiny?

I'll model in a sweet mane as a very solid base for the Lion. Tiny or whoever else will be most welcome to add on fiber or strand based hair.

 

[Stezza]

 

[Chris]

Oh barf!!!

In a good supportive barfy kind of way. Like hold the hair and turn away while you hug the big O.

 

[Pendraia]

Looks great Chris...

Tiny's hair manes wouldn't work in DS Miss B so we need either a mesh based one for both programs or LAMH and Poser Hair room ones.

 

[Miss B]

Ahhh, good point Pen, I hadn't thought of that.

 

[Miss B]

I'll model in a sweet mane as a very solid base for the Lion. Tiny or whoever else will be most welcome to add on fiber or strand based hair.

Excellent! Using the Mid Length Hair as a placeholder actually looks pretty good.

 

[carmen indorato]

View attachment 16223

OH MY G.O.D.!
was drinking coffee still in a post bed trance when I scrolled down to this image and almost choked. I LOVE THIS IMAGE. What a freaky looking creature. Are we going to get the option of getting one like it on one of the morph paks for the animals...I say animals because I have no real clue if it is feline or canine or if it resides in some dark place in between!

 

[carmen indorato]

I'll model in a sweet mane as a very solid base for the Lion. Tiny or whoever else will be most welcome to add on fiber or strand based hair.

nice looking place holder in my book. Wondering here what is the mane made of for the DAZ MilCat1 set? That pretty much looks nice enough to me for my purposes I am pretty sure it is a transmapped mesh though can't swear by it since I have not used it in a while.
I have several hair and beard props etc. offered around the community that look like strands but didn't need hair room access. Is that something else entirely Chris (s0orry just knowledgeable enough to be annoying some times)?

 

[Pendraia]

There are some hairs that have been created using microfibers in Zbrush. Neftis and Mec4D have created some of those. Generally they are considered very heavy for many computers to use. It's also what AM used on some of his earlier animals.