hmmm, came out a bit funny this one...

I think the fur colour is definately looking better (really low quiality shadows at the minute just for speed rendering)
Dont know why the shadows have come out like that though.
The fur below the nose has also come out a bit poor.
I'm going to run a few more renders off tomorrow and see what is happening.

EDIT: Just realised that this is my thousand'th post - that came up quickly!

https://www.flash-fx.net/3D/images/po...r/skull24c.jpg

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taking out the error-

thats fantastic. 5 star pimptacular image

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thanks matt the man

I've been playing with the settings lots and have had some difficulties with the lighting and strengths. I think I know what it is now although the render here is before I put those changes into effect

I'm gonna soften some of the fur at the back and try and tidy up the length at the back of the mouth. Other than that its a little playing with light and fur colour and render it out.

This is great fun but would be better with a faster machine!

https://www.flash-fx.net/3D/images/po...r/skull25a.jpg

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WOW i am just speechless ...love the above pic ...teach me wise one heheh

Yes, this has really come together. Well done! The way that you have handled the fur is really effective.

I can't put my finger on it, but you have definitely managed to give your model some polar bear authenticity if you know what I mean. I think it is in his mouth - you have really captured the 'smile' that you think you see in an animal when they open their mouths. sorry - i am not making much sense.

Great work - this is going to be a really tough one to judge.

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Tick

F****** Brilliant, if we had a star rating here Id give you 5

Fantastic, I hope you rendered this on the DUDE setting...


Jay

cheers guys, I really appreciate the encouragement

I'm still learning mmoore5553, LOADS more to learn yet

arran - the mouth's the bit I'm currently happiest with so thanks for confirming it

Jay - I think it was on the medium setting (and that took 1h 28m on my piddly laptop ) duude setting is tempting though...

I'm playing with fur colouring now to get rid of that cold, dead look:
Gonna leave a big render going tonight so in the meantime here's my polarbear trying to be a sheep

https://www.flash-fx.net/3D/images/po...r/skull25b.jpg

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quick post up of last nights render

https://www.flash-fx.net/3D/images/po...r/skull26a.jpg

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Its just great DUUUUUDE,

I'll get David to get you to do a tute, once youve mastered it enough.

Dont change anything now


Cheers
Jay

man the fur round the eyes and snout are looking brilliant especially the eye area very good work!!! Congrats
lol And the ears! how the hell do u do it.

One tip or crit is the nose im not sure ive seen a polar bears nose but most animals have a bumpy nose and arnt so shiny, but im sure u are aware of this

Thanks jay

I'd be happy to do a shave and haircut tutorial once I've figured it out more I'm saving up for Zbrush at the minute but if you twist my arm enough then I could swap it for a full version of shave and a haircut
Not gonna change much - just a bit of touchup to remove the grid and address the nose shininess. I also spotted that the skin on the edge of the ear is showing through and is looking a bit too grey.

Cheers magicsy, thanks for the point about the nose - I upped the specular on it but as you say it looks a little too shiny now.

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Excellent! :bow:

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really nice comin on loads, i dunno about the mouth area though, the mouth modeling n texture looks sweet but just the way they bleed into the fur looks kinda unnatural.
Well done

This is great Tick, Infact better than great it's a beautiful pice of work. Just out of interest though, will you be darkening the tongue to black?..as well as black skin im almost positive that Polar bears have a black tongue too,

pic and details for ref

https://www.geocities.com/mikepolarbear/parts.html

S**t the bed!!

Awesome work dude!! Love to see some super hi res images of the beast when you've finished!