Teddy update.

Ok, I think this is a wrap unless someone suggestions something or if something is off. I don't know what else to do on this piece with my current knowledge and I don't wanna spend a whole lot time on it. Just wanted to try out the fur as I wanted to do that for a long time, and now I have.

PS. I think I know what causes the 'non soft' look on the fur. It's not Mental Ray but it's the Physical sun. When I added a few normal lights and tweaked the sun settings I did get a softer look. But in the end it turned out I did like the more hardened look. ^_^
However, I did add two other lights to get a bit softer touch to it, not much, it's rather felt than seen.

Cheers!

Teddy bear update.

I've added a few things to the teddy bear, like eyes, a bow tie and a cord on top of his head. I think 95% of the tweaking and modeling is done (I will make it a bit non-symmetrical). I currently am mainly concerned to make it look cuddly and soft, currently it doesn't look like that.
I noticed that if I use Mental Ray it gets this 'hard' look while if I render with Maya Software it gets more of that soft look (look at the previews post). If I don't find a way with Mental Ray I will need to combine them as I want Mental Ray for the eyes (dielectric material), the cord and the bow tie.

But anyways I need to do more tweaking.

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PS. I finished the Halloween contest image a few days ago. Forgot to upload it here. Nothing special, I'm just glad it's over.

Teddy bear WIP.

That's right, the title says it all. Once upon a time I did a model wanting to create a teddy bear, well I never finished it. So I re-did the everything and added fur. This is the WIP stage so far. I wanna see how far I can get this to look decent. I learned way way back when I did the other model that UV layout played a vital part of how the fur would be laid out. This time unwrapped the thing almost according to the real life teddy bear I have here with me, I just changed it a little bit as ease of unwrapping, not much but enough to make me happy.