RELEASED HiveWire Dog Is Underway

[Chris]

I am wondering (sorry for my effusion earlier) if there will be sufficient morphability that we can create our own mongrels... although I suppose if we have enough breed packs, we can do that in a more traditional way.... Terriers are definitely an exciting idea, but curly fur sounds like a texture/modeling nightmare.

We'll have some shaping morphs in the HiveWire Big Dog base product, but not additional breeds right off. Breeds will be treated as separate products that will require the HiveWire Big Dog base, much like how we treat our HiveWire Horse and additive breeds.

Your thoughts about the curly fur will have to be treated with a strand based fur system for a final result. I can only create so much of a full fur look with this base geometry.

 

[Chris]

I am wondering (sorry for my effusion earlier) if there will be sufficient morphability that we can create our own mongrels... although I suppose if we have enough breed packs, we can do that in a more traditional way.... Terriers are definitely an exciting idea, but curly fur sounds like a texture/modeling nightmare.

A few shaping morphs like this will be helpful for other looks.

Ears Up.

Fuller Tail.

Thin Tail.


We also have some muzzle shaping morphs, eye width, nose, neck and body shaping, etc. These things will help for a mongrel creation.

 

[Stezza]

How cool...

I wonder if Ken is now thinking of creating some ticks and fleas to compliment the dog..

 

[VortigensBane]

Ewwww. Then I'd be able to make a mangy, mongrel-y, cur covered in ticks and fleas. Hmmm. How would I pass that off as art, I wonder? Maybe if I used that woebegone, sorrowful expression to go with it? Or perhaps the snarly, growly expressions, and pass it off as one of the hounds of war, complete with skeletal soldiers and fields of corpses?

Love the different expression morphs, and little things like being able to make the tail thin; that will help for realism when we try to add fur...

 

[Chris]

A flee-bitten varmint could be passed off as a convincing Chupacabra even.

 

[Mythocentric]

Urrrgh! Now that be grue that be!

 

[Stezza]

Yep... it could..

while waiting in anticipation of the HiveWire Dog ( with morphs & addons ) release here is my Carrara organically grown and rendered flea that I did today...

bring on that chupacabra...... baby....

 

[Chris]

Awesome Stezza!

Ha

 

[Chris]

Okay, this one is incorporating Sparky's very cool Snarl morph that she gave to us.

 

[VortigensBane]

Now I'm REALLY going to have nightmares!

 

[Satira Capriccio]

Almost a Cujo!

 

[pommerlis]

Can't wait for it t be finished! Will start shooting some photo's of our Noodles to be used for my poses.
That is, if she wants to strike up a pose for me

 

[eclark1894]

Almost a Cujo!

Nah. Ol' Yeller.

 

[Sparky]

Glad my snarl worked for you, Chris! ;-)

Still working on the black lab texture, hopefully I'll have it ready to go along with the other two.

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I went shopping for a dog yesterday. Well ... not shopping with the intention to adopt a dog! But researching to see which of the many dog breeds that appeal to me would be feasible for my lifestyle.!

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Have you looked into xoloitzcuintli (show-low-eetz-queent-lee), xolo for short? They are awesome apartment dogs and they come in a number of different sizes (standard/miniature/toy) as well as hairless/coated variants. They are also very easy to train, because they are extremely intelligent and friendly. They are also among the most ancient dog breeds still in existence, and were considered to be sacred by the Aztecs.

 

[Alisa]

Looking great, Chris -

Can't wait to see your textures, Sparky!

 

[Miss B]

 

[Flint_Hawk]

Chris the dog is looking great, but do you still plan to fix the front teeth?

 

[Lyne]

@Chris Ooooo, this is true....gotta have the most perfect doggy!

POINTY FRONT TEETH!

 

[eclark1894]

Glad my snarl worked for you, Chris! ;-)

Still working on the black lab texture, hopefully I'll have it ready to go along with the other two.



Have you looked into xoloitzcuintli (show-low-eetz-queent-lee), xolo for short? They are awesome apartment dogs and they come in a number of different sizes (standard/miniature/toy) as well as hairless/coated variants. They are also very easy to train, because they are extremely intelligent and friendly. They are also among the most ancient dog breeds still in existence, and were considered to be sacred by the Aztecs.

One on the end there reminds me of the crazy Hyena from the Lion King.

 

[Miss B]

I think those are a representation of the Lion King Hyenas. I think the crazy one in the movie was the one on the left. Are you talking about the one on the right?