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matic In reply to Serve [2006-10-18 14:48:12 +0000 UTC]

It's output from XSI Hair - instancing with a script which builds the necessary elements and grooms the 'hair' strand scale according to a user supplied weightmap. The problem is that getting a nice density of objects like this involves some pretty high numbers of instanced objects and a fairly thick starting mesh, alse hair instancing precludes the use of some shaders like subsurface scattering. In the end I think I would have been better off creating a script which simply placed the objects themselves or ideally created a merged or boolean object since the final look doesn't use any dynamics or deformation... as it is right now it was interesting and I learned a lot making it but I wouldn't use it in production, too unwieldy.

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Serve In reply to matic [2006-10-18 14:55:49 +0000 UTC]

that's awesome. i'm really interested in doing something similar someday. Like tree-growing or something, but goodness knows when I'll find the time.

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matic In reply to Nyro [2006-10-17 01:59:04 +0000 UTC]

I'm getting there. Being exposed to so many skilled artists on that film has given me a backlog of tricks and ideas. Thanks for the feedback!

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Nyro In reply to matic [2006-10-18 06:20:22 +0000 UTC]

speaking of which, I think it has launched here in germany! I'll try to watch it this weekend!

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matic In reply to Nyro [2006-10-18 14:49:54 +0000 UTC]

I hope you like it It's a very strange film, but it has done suprisingly well, earning 75 million and staying on the top ten much longer than I would ever have guessed for a odd movie about cows.

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Nyro In reply to matic [2006-10-19 06:23:14 +0000 UTC]

Maybe "Cars" (which caused a huge hype here in germany prior to release) rebuilt the peoples appetite for animation movies after the recent flood we've been experiencing.

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