from the Audubon Science file...
A Lifetime of Hammering Trees Might Affect Woodpecker Brains After All
A Lifetime of Hammering Trees Might Affect Woodpecker Brains After All
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Time to give Poser some Owl love so here's the first of the Superfly test renders... this time with the African Barred Owlet... notice the nice translucency/SSS picking up at the edges of the wing and tail feathers
lovely!
Oooh. Look at the leg feathers!
If anyone doesn't have Nerd3D's Swamp set-- it's on Swarm Sale today to the 25th. It's a perfect set for my birds (especially the Shorebird series). Here's a few renders I've done with it...
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Australian “Firehawk” Raptors Intentionally Spread Wildfires
Australian “Firehawk” Raptors Intentionally Spread Wildfires
One of the three fire bugs, the Black Kite is found in Birds of Prey v2: Hawks of the Old World
Australian “Firehawk” Raptors Intentionally Spread Wildfires
One of the three fire bugs, the Black Kite is found in Birds of Prey v2: Hawks of the Old World
Here's the Iray test for the African Crowned Hawk-eagle...
wow!!
looks as a king!
looks as a king!
a couple more Iray renders from the Birds of Prey series... the Bateleur (eagle) from Africa
and the very showy, Philippine Eagle
and the very showy, Philippine Eagle
I'm working on updating the Birds of Prey series for Superfly now... here's the African Cuckoo-hawk in flight (and SF).
Also, Audubon has a really cool article on how female and male birds sing duets.
Also, Audubon has a really cool article on how female and male birds sing duets.
your birds are really gorgeous!
Still hard at work with the first batch of the "Big Update"... I'm now working on the Waterfowl Series. I reworked the materials so they will be easier to use (converting the 50+ individual materials into 5 grouped transparency materials) and cleaned up a few some geometry issues. I forgot how complex the coding was to make the waterfowl models do the things they do, like tuck the folded feathers under hip fluff layers. In any case, here's a Firefly render using all the new update features of a flock of Buffleheads. Working with this render reminded me how unused the Waterfowl series is in my imagery. I have to fix that 
beautiful!
Here's another FF render of Waterfowl using the WIP update. This time it's the Western Grebe with American Wigeons and a Coot in the background-- Big Cypress Environment and Nerd3D's splash tool were also used. Tomorrow, I'll move to getting the Iray materials started.
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