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Songbird Remix's Product Preview Thread
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I was really happy with how this (the stork) turned out... this is the African Wooly-necked stork. Almost all storks have either a relatively smooth feathered neck or a bare-skin neck, but this (and the Asian Wooly-necked stork), live up to their names. The trick for me was to make that difference look believable on a model that supports all 3 types (smooth, bare-skin and wooly). The model itself, has a smooth neck with a series of collar-shaped transparency planes. I thought about creating morphs using those transparency planes to create some sort of wooly-like surface but really didn't have enough geometry to do that. The solution turned out to be much easier than I thought-- just do a robust bump and displacement map and see what that looks like.
I've been working on my "January" release which will be a second volume of Beetles... the second volume will include many of the customer requests including fireflies/lighting bugs and a large variety of cockroaches. I also will include the take-out I just modeled and textured.
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I learned quite a bit about cockroaches in developing this project (actually more than I wanted to know).
Cockroaches can pick up disease-causing bacteria, such as Salmonella, on their legs, and later deposit them on foods and cause food poisoning or infection if they walk on the food.
American cockroach nymphs are capable of limb regeneration and have been used as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine. In China, an ethanol extract of the American cockroach, Kāngfùxīn Yè (康复新液), is prescribed for wound healing and tissue repair.
They are fast… in an experiment, an American cockroach registered a record speed of 5.4 km/h (3.4 mph), about 50 body lengths per second, which would be comparable to a human running at 330 km/h (210 mph). American cockroaches are omnivorous and opportunistic feeders that eat materials such as cheese, sweets, beer, tea, leather, bakery products, starch in book bindings, manuscripts, glue, hair, flakes of dried skin, dead animals, plant materials, soiled clothing, and glossy paper with starch sizing. They are particularly fond of fermenting foods. They have also been observed to feed upon dead or wounded cockroaches of their own or other species.
Cockroaches can pick up disease-causing bacteria, such as Salmonella, on their legs, and later deposit them on foods and cause food poisoning or infection if they walk on the food.
American cockroach nymphs are capable of limb regeneration and have been used as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine. In China, an ethanol extract of the American cockroach, Kāngfùxīn Yè (康复新液), is prescribed for wound healing and tissue repair.
They are fast… in an experiment, an American cockroach registered a record speed of 5.4 km/h (3.4 mph), about 50 body lengths per second, which would be comparable to a human running at 330 km/h (210 mph). American cockroaches are omnivorous and opportunistic feeders that eat materials such as cheese, sweets, beer, tea, leather, bakery products, starch in book bindings, manuscripts, glue, hair, flakes of dried skin, dead animals, plant materials, soiled clothing, and glossy paper with starch sizing. They are particularly fond of fermenting foods. They have also been observed to feed upon dead or wounded cockroaches of their own or other species.
Bugs are full of protein! Not protein I want to eat but yup. My mom visited Africa at one point when my sister and I were very young and brought home chocolate covered beetles and .... can't remember the other two. I was like "No mommy, not eating that"! LOL
I eaten a bug or two in my life but cockroaches have never been on the menu 
I added some morphs (closing lid, rotating handle, food height) to the props plus some food variations.
I added some morphs (closing lid, rotating handle, food height) to the props plus some food variations.
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Here's a preview of all of the beetles (with their relative size) included in Volume 2...
The Lightning Bug (aka Firefly) has an illuminated material to give the appearance of its glow (the below render was done in Poser 13 with the Firefly render engine)
The Lightning Bug (aka Firefly) has an illuminated material to give the appearance of its glow (the below render was done in Poser 13 with the Firefly render engine)
Here's my Lightning Bug in Iray
and my American roaches and take-out boxes in Iray... while I'm very happy with both images, I'll probably go with the Lightning bug one as my main promo since it's more arty
