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[Verafx81]

Hey Red, thanks for the reference. I actually enjoyed that, I didn't think I would because I never played any of the Sly Cooper games.

I see they have a lot of detail for the characters, like Slys' nostrils.

 

It gives me some ideas for Sally. I'm having a hard time creating fur along the mouth for her. She obviously has fur everywhere but making any sort of mouth expression adds so much problems.

I don't want separate geometry for her two shades of fur so I think I'll work with a ptex color map and it should have good results.

[Sonic J]

Red said what you should've, lol. He made your case for you. Sonic's original design is great, it fits his world. But if you want to redesign for a realistic feel to fit the attitude of your creation, I respect that. Just do it to it and get it done so I can see the darn thing for myself. =P

[Verafx81]

I'm thinking of getting rid of Sonics hair. Its been incredibly time consuming on my own and its going to complicate it even further. I would like to have already been animating. What do you think about this decision? I have a comparison pic on my facebook account.

[RedAuthar]

He looks kinda...plastic.

If everything else matched this design, it would be fine...but if you're gonna put detail in the backgrounds he will look plastic

[Leptailurus]

Have you used a particle system or a displacement texture for the fur?

A bump texture could perhaps reduce the plastic appearance of the model without the fur.

[Verafx81]

Red Authar its actually the same mesh one just doesn't have fur applied but if I thicken the geometry up and break up the specularity it wouldn't look plastic like at all. I didn't want to do the work but I think I'm going to do it for comparisons sake.

 

Leptailurus, No I used Xgen for the fur but it has major problems in Maya 2015. The plastic appearance is mostly there because that surface was covered with fur and I didn't see the need to texture it. I will ad a color spec and bump to break up the material a bit. I think its a standard Lambert.

 

My whole problem with the fur is very complicated and it can be done but the question being raised is do I want to spend the rest of the year correcting fur descriptions for two characters?

[RedAuthar]

Well it sounds like you've answered the question yourself, you seem to not want to.  

[Verafx81]

Working on rigging at the moment!

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