RELEASED HiveWire Mule Deer

[Chris]

I don't know. A dinner Fritter sounds terribly good to me. Even better would be a maple bar or a humongous cinnamon roll. Or ... cinnabon!

It's only been 40 or 50 years since I had a maple bar. They probably aren't anywhere near as good as I remember them being. For that matter, the last time I had a cinnabon was about 30 years ago.

Dinner tonight was a bag of Birds Eye Steamfresh Sweet Corn and two slices of toast. I was just too tired and brain dead to fix anything that involved more than tossing something quick into the microwave and toaster.

Mmmmm maple bars. When I was a kid I had a daily paper route, and part of it was delivering to businesses. One of those places was Winchell's Donuts. I delivered a paper and in return received 2 maple bars that I would consume before I got to my next stop, the funeral home.

 

[Flint_Hawk]

What a story Chris! Your work on the deer continues to be incredible!

 

[Miss B]

My dinner tonight.... salmon salad

Ohhhhh that looks scrumptious! Salmon happens to be my all time favorite fish, and there's a place right across from my gym where I sometimes go to pick it up, and take it home for dinner.

They present it in a large salad bowl on a bed of lettuce, and the salad dressing they use . . . OMG, absolutely delicious!! Hmmmmm . . . ~looks over at clock~ Unfortunately it's too early here for dinner.

 

[Lyne]

@Chris ahhh, came a bit late to look at all the buck progress... understand the requirement reasoning now!

 

[AetherDream]

Beautiful work as always. Really looking forward to it!

 

[Desertsilver]

Since the deer will be able to wear the horse's skins, will overlays made for the horse work on the deer? Or will there be a lot of texture stretching? I'd like to create some overlays now for when it comes out.

 

[CWRW]

Since the deer will be able to wear the horse's skins, will overlays made for the horse work on the deer? Or will there be a lot of texture stretching? I'd like to create some overlays now for when it comes out.

Here is the older version of the deer using Whisper's silver skin- in general I don't think there will be too much stretching/difference, but there could be a little. This old post shows Whisper on the bull, the buck and on Harry.

I would think you could have the overlays well along and make any minor adjustments as needed.
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[Chris]

More JCM reshaping here. Trying to reshape and minimize the geometry stretching that would affect UVs. Six more to go now.

Showing pairs as before and after shots.

This was a tough one.

 

[Miss B]

Amazing work Chris, as usual.

 

[Chris]

Amazing work Chris, as usual.

Thanks Miss B.

 

[CWRW]

Some more WIPs on the Mule Deer Buck...

Superfly renders of the static obj:

Iray of rudimentary DS rig (no JCMs and so forth)

 

[Dakorillon (IMArts)]

Fantastic work! It looks so petable! And I know many a hunter that would be excited by that rack!

 

[Miss B]

Gorgeous Laurie!

 

[Satira Capriccio]

I'm so sorry. I don't like him.

I LOVE HIM! He looks so ... so ... so ... incredible.

 

[Chris]

A graceful animal made only more beautiful with your map work Laurie.

The face is great. Looks so real. The antlers look awesome too, and the added bump or displacement really adds to it. The spikey textured look of the fur body is very nice, with that kind of salt and pepper look to it. Like the white patch in the inner thigh, I imagine that runs up around the tail as well. The legs and hooves look great.

Gotta post a couple of these on our FB and link back to here.

 

[Chris]

I'm so sorry. I don't like him.

I LOVE HIM! He looks so ... so ... so ... incredible.

At first glance I was like "what... how can you not like him?" So you got me.

 

[Dreamer]

LOL you and me both @Chris
Looking very very good

 

[JinXter]

Stunning! I know what I'm asking Santa this year...

 

[Satira Capriccio]

Gotcha!

Laurie always does incredible work. The buck lives up to and exceeds all my expectations.

 

[Chris]

Gotcha!

Laurie always does incredible work. The buck lives up to and exceeds all my expectations.

And as Martha Stewart would say... "and that's a good thing."