Hey all>> thanks for the comments, I haven't had much time to work on this because of school recently. The other morning I decided that some of my fur/texture probs were uv related so I went back...

here is a reference pic: u can see they are kinda furry.. so I thought I'd try the light body fur layer.

Added a light layer of bodyfur on a duplicated hidden giraffe object with the texture mapped to fur color. I also pushed and pulled some verts and altared the shape some. prolly too much fur.. but I...

This last pic is a reference photo.. if anyone was confused about it sorry...I just posted it to show the ridge above the giraffes eyes and the shape of the head. ;)

Mental ray is much more realistic..you might have to tweak it more to get the look right but you get the advantage of using final gather etc... I dunno what to tell ya if upping the max samples on...

Ya man this is looking awesome.. the eyebrows look great.

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I really like it. I think it is ready for fur. Tweaking the length of the fur will end up defining the shape of the head in the end...and the model looks pretty damn accurate to me.




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I thought Id show another reference image...They really do have Funky-shaped heads.. He actually has a pretty big ridge above his eye even though it looks flattened in the other pic..
Anyway this is...

Thanks for all the comments and crits ppl.

Cali - ya I know some things are off proportionally.. I think the area about the eye is a bit too big.. but I have been working from more than one...

Nice work Jay. :)