Production of animal hair with 3ds max Hairtrix plugin

Objective:

Many animals are covered with fur, they are the problem of CG creation, many years ago, CG hair once let how many animators discouraged. But no matter how difficult, cute animals are often the protagonist of animated films, so it is the children's favorite, even in the real life of furry toys, they are children's good partners. "Furry" is simply synonymous with "loveliness". So many three-dimensional animators, painstaking study of animal hair, and try to improve the effect of hair. Created a number of outstanding characters, such as the Ice Age in the pursuit of the fruit of the pine, the lively raccoon outside the fence, the lion in Madagascar, the cute little penguin in Happy Feet, and the panda in the recently aggressively Kung Fu Panda, as shown in Figure 68. For the creators of animated films, CG hair is an essential martial art. In this chapter, we will learn the unique knowledge of the strange world.

Well, then we start now, this chapter we want to do is a fat Han Han Big Bear, it is certainly not that kind of children's cute pet, but should be the bear in the "Boss", is the real majestic bear. In order to take into account the two styles of realism and cartoon, the hair of the production of walking is a cartoon biased realism of the route. I also put a thumbs up pose that looks like a "Hairtrix" advertisement, as shown in Figure 69. Hope that the software company can see and do the next version of the publicity, haha! A joke.

A lot of people think that CG hair is a very difficult thing to do, but in fact it is not much of the technical problems, the key is to have confidence, patience, seriously do, we can each do it. Apply a Andy Lau for the Olympic Games to create inspirational songs, "Every one is No.1"! This song has a great mv, touched a lot of people, yes ah, when you see the disabled athletes in the game, think of ourselves, we have any reason, we can evade what, as long as the efforts of what can not succeed Ah? As long as the efforts of each of us are boss, everyone is number one, everyone is very "cow x". Think of 2008 years of China, all the Chinese people for dignity, for self-confidence and efforts. I gave the big fat bear a name called "Ox x Bear".

(1) First of all, modeling, this does not belong to the scope of this tutorial. Martial Arts tips, generally do not teach how to tie horse stance. and the second chapter of this scroll, compared to the first chapter, omits some of the steps of the operation, if the process is not clear enough, please refer to the first chapter. The model is shown in Figure 70.

(2) Select the model to modify the panel, press the keyboard "4" key, into the "polygon" of the secondary object level, and then select a part of the surface, and then give these surfaces to specify "id", the bear body to pay attention to the part of the whole is a "id" number, where the designation is "1" number. Other parts that do not grow hairs are divided into other "IDs", such as palms, paws, nails, and noses. Then press the "M" key on the keyboard, open the Material Editor panel, select a blank material ball, replace the standard material with a multidimensional child object material, and finally the material "ID" according to the part of the body named, and each of the child material specified color, so that in the future can be convenient to distinguish. As shown in Figure 71.