Songbird Remix's Product Preview Thread

[Ken Gilliland]

Adding to the Currasow family... the "Striped morph" female. The one you've already seen is known as the "Red morph". I have one more female to create... the "Dark morph". I should add that the droopy crest the male has is the "normal" state, it too can do the females fan shaped crest which is in "display" mode.

 

[JOdel]

Another set of game birds will be very welcome.

There was one pheasant in the original set, but the rest seemed to be mostly doves and quail.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

The original "Gamebirds" really should have been called "Gamebirds, Doves and Pigeons" and probably will be renamed when it is updated. I've debated moving the Doves and Pigeons away the set and adding in more Gamebirds but that would probably be unfair to those who bought it for the doves/pigeons. That set was mostly gamebirds with Gambels & Mtn Quail, Partridge, Bobwhites, Ring-neck Pheasant, Ptarmigan and Grouse included in it. It also had 4 Dove/Pigeon species.

This new set will be entirely Guineafowls and other "jungle chickens" and will probably be called "Gamebirds v2: Jungle Chickens"

 

[JOdel]

Pheasants are rather handsome. Wouldn't mind seeing more of those, eventually.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

I am planning some pheasants in Gamebirds 2, though they are less similar to the "ring-neck" type that most people commonly associate with pheasants.

My tentative list includes:

White-breasted Guineafowl
Black Guineafowl
Sickle-winged Guan
Great Currassow (male and all 3 types of females; striped, red and dark morphs)
Himalayan Monal/Pheasant (m/f)
Bornean Crestless Fireback (m/f)
Little Chachalaca
Rufuous-bellied Chachalaca
Band-tailed Guan
White-browed Guan
Hainan Peacock-Pheasant
Koklass Pheasant


I'm about 1/3 through the list now-- working the Monals

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Here's a first look at the Bornean Crestless Fireback. You can probably see why this species falls into the "Jungle Chickens" category as it resembles one. This species was a little bit of a challenge because the 'flappy' skin around the eye. Fortunately a little displacement handled this better than I expected. I put the preening pose into this render so you can clearly see it.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Here the Rufous-bellied Chachalaca... it is a spectacular bird in flight

 

[Rae134]

I think Peacocks are quite spectacular in flight too (you don't see it very often so a lot of people don't know they can)

 

[JOdel]

There are quite a few photos of flying peacocks posted online. I agree, they're impressive.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Here's another handsome (imo) jungle chicken... the endangered White-browed Guan from northern South America

 

[JOdel]

"Jungle chicken" really is an excellent term for all of these birdies. They do rather look like long-legged chickens. And such an interesting variety of plumage.

 

[Harimau]

The Real Jungle Chickens:

The domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is primarily descended from the Red Jungle Fowl (Gallus gallus) with a little infusion from the Grey Jungle Fowl (Gallus sonneratii). There are two other species of jungle fowls: The Sri Lankan (or Ceylon) Jungle Fowl (Gallus lafayettii) and the Green Jungle Fowl (Gallus varius).

The Red Jungle Fowl (Gallus gallus):
Rooster:

Hen:

The Grey Jungle Fowl (Gallus sonneratii):
Rooster:

Hen:

The Sri Lankan (or Ceylon) Jungle Fowl (Gallus lafayettii):
Rooster:

Hen:

The Green Jungle Fowl (Gallus varius):
Rooster:

Hen:

 

[Miss B]

WOW, the coloring on those birds are just gorgeous!

 

[DanaTA]

I agree!

Dana

 

[Ken Gilliland]

I looked at these species before and may eventually do chickens but for now, Gamebirds2 and then back to updating older sets

 

[Janet]

I would love some chickens!

 

[Ken Gilliland]

My previous publisher complained that I was "still" doing birds before I left them in 2013 to join Hivewire3D. Since then, I'm done somewhere around 250 more. When you consider that there are over 10,000 different species of birds in the world and my Songbird ReMix sets have only covered about 1/10th of them, I still have a lot of birds to create.

This current Gamebirds2 set fills one of the neglected areas in my bird library... but there are so many more. For the near future (2020), I think it's time to finally do the Hornbills set I've promised for years. Tinamous wouldn't be that hard now that I have the Guineafowl model (that Gamebirds2 uses), and if I'm doing little ratties, I guess I could also do some large ratties (by retrofitting the ostrich model), and that means Rheas, and yes, EMUs.

Updating older sets like Parrots and Woodpeckers will no doubt spawn new Volume 2s companions for those sets. I'm guessing, if things go well, by the end of 2020, I might have the majority of the older libraries updated. Of course, I've said that before... I thought I'd have it done by now, when I started the updates years ago. To be fair, I originally never thought I'd rework every set with new morphs/geometry (like I've been doing), the original idea was just to make them Iray friendly-- I obviously done quite a bit more than that and am happy I did. Hoping you're happy about that too

Here's another Guan... this time the Band-tailed Guan

 

[Janet]

My previous publisher complained that I was "still" doing birds before I left them in 2013 to join Hivewire3D. Since then, I'm done somewhere around 250 more. When you consider that there are over 10,000 different species of birds in the world and my Songbird ReMix sets have only covered about 1/10th of them, I still have a lot of birds to create.

That is so hard to believe! Birds are you thing! I love your birds and it's so great to have the variety we do in the 3D world!

 

[JOdel]

I guess you spoiled them with your neat architectural sets.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Here's the Hainan Peacock-pheasant...