I have a character in maya that I will be animating. I am working on the skin texture and debating if I should go with normal maps or displacement maps for the pores of the skin.

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I am getting this strange dark silhouette behind the ear, which appears to be the lower subd version, any ideas whats causing the problem?

No fur, unless its possible to convert a fur description into a texture? I was going to use a tillable fur i made in photo shop and create a bump from that or from zbrush

the link below has the...

im trying to figure out how to get a nice fur texture (similar to the blue guy in Horton hears a who) for one of my characters. How can I achieve nice results with a bump? Any tips because as of now...

I am trying to reduce the poly count of an object, but i keep getting the error to cleanup the mesh because the geo has nonmanifold. What settings do I need to use for the cleanup to fix the problem?...

Zbrush is definitely worth learning, especially once GoZ comes out, it will make exporting and importing models from 3d packages like maya to zbrush even easier. It will be a little frustrating at...

duplicate with special, and make it an instance

ok so i experimented with fur i attached the photo below. any tweaks you know that will make the ball softer, i attached hair to a polygon sphere and im having these major divisions of fur among the...

i should also mention it will be animated fur is a little intense for me

anyone know some shaders or maya tools that i can use to render out a cottonball?