Songbird Remix's Product Preview Thread

[Rhia474]

You could possibly see both... the latest (and largest) group of sightings for both has been in the area around Alanthus, Kansas.

Here's one more render, this time of the Lesser using my Sagebrush Habitat, Side-splotched lizard and honey bee. The sagebrush habitat is the primary ecosystem for the Lesser Prairie-chicken.

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Wow. Unfortunately that's the other end of Kansas ( in-laws are in Lawrence), but who knows, maybe a road trip this summer. It's about 8 hours from us in Texas.
That render looks amazing.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Using "All About Birds", Cornell Lab's great website, you can search for a bird found in the US and then select the Range map (and sightings tab) and see where all the most recent sightings have been. While I picked where the greatest concentration of both birds are, you may not have to go that far. It looks like there's opportunities to the Greater just a little west of Topeka off of I70

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Since I'm getting relatively close to finishing the base version (Firefly) on my next set, I thought I'd share a couple promos images. I'm guessing "Trogons" will be in store around the start of August.

 

[JOdel]

Colorful birdies. Kind of rude that they call it the "orange-breasted Trogon", when the females don't even have orange on their breasts.

 

[Chris]

Once again, beautifully executed Ken!

Sure love your work!

Beautiful birds.

Love your mastery and attention to detail.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

thanks everyone... here's a few more

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Some renders in DAZ Studio Iray...

 

[Ken Gilliland]

My Trogons set has been released!

I'm steady working on yet another colorful bird set, "Songbird ReMix Barbets". Here's a preview of some of that set...

 

[Ken Gilliland]

and a little more... in the "Barbets" set. There are 4 American species, 7 Asian species and 5 African species (29 birds in all, if you count m/f versions, subspecies and variants)

 

[Ken Gilliland]

While my Trogons finishing up their sale period at the Renderosity store and my Barbets are in beta testing, I've steadily been at work on a long promised bird species... Hornbills. They've been on my to-do list for about 15 years. The stalling point has been the extreme differences in casque (horn) sizes and shapes. Taking everything I've learned over the years, I think I've finally resolved the issues... Here's a peak at my morph progress on two difference species of Hornbill. This will probably be an early October release.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Here's another... the Helmeted Hornbill... this one showing the first of my throat sac morphs

....and here's all the bill (casque) shapes that I'll have in the set. It's quite a variety of hornbills

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Here's a WIP on my Abyssinian Ground-hornbill... it's my first pass on applying a texture-- there's still a ways to go (still needs bump/displacement and diffuse clean-up) but it's looking pretty good...

 

[Ken Gilliland]

About 1/2 way done with my Hornbill set now...

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Here's a couple Iray renders as my Hornbills move to beta testing....