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# 1 25-06-2007 , 11:12 PM
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Modelling birds

Does anyone know of any resources for modelling birds? Specifically, ravens or crows?

I'm sure the basic form, while not easy, is doable with a little work - I was thinking more of how to do feathers in a semi-realistic manner.

Thanks for any info.


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# 2 26-06-2007 , 10:43 PM
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I'm also planning to do a raven soon and I think that the most of the work is in the textures.

# 3 28-06-2007 , 10:12 PM
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I don't know a tutorial, but I think you might want to work a lot with transparency/alpha maps for the texture work. For the feathers, just use planes and apply the feather texture and alpha map. That's what I used for wings awhile back for experiment, it wasn't perfect but it looked pretty nice. user added image

# 4 29-06-2007 , 07:53 AM
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Okay, I'll try that. Man, this isn't going to be easy, though.....user added image


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# 6 29-06-2007 , 08:34 AM
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Excellent - that'll do nicely. Thank you.


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