Nice touch with the twist tie thingys!

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I must agree with GecT on the twist tie idea.
Good character expressions can come from that.

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Didn't you guys ever do arts and crafts with pipe cleaners? Not twist ties
Anyway, gonna do some tuts on SSS and I'll be back with some materials and shaders.

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Ah yes pipe cleaners. Every time I've seen those, there were bags and vials of glitter and glue surrounding them.

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Well with those and the popsicle sticks, my kitchen seems to have turned out to be more of a kid's craft centre. Definitely done crafts with mini-marshmallows.

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pipe cleaners!! ingenious! Can I copy that idea? They are more obvious than twisty ties

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Sure thing, but I won't send you my fur description

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On a side note, when I googled how to model pipe cleaners this thread one in the top 10 results.

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Interestingly, when I googled "maya model pipe cleaners", your post was the second result. Haha.

Google should have figured out that I don't actually give any info.

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Haha! I like the pipecleaner arms!

Thanks, here's my mostly procedural matches and marshalade.

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Couple more texturing things, and then I'm going to go for the lighting (yikes...). Obviously I'll have to do texture tweaking once I get going with the lighting, to make sure things are responding properly.

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The matches and marshmallow are looking good Stew. Though the candle looks like porridge a little bit.

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Haha... yeah, I tweaked the SSS with a very high intensity point light above it (the flame), so I think it looks okay with the proper light turned on.

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That's awesome!

I would think the candle wouldn't have bumps, they're usually really smooth even when melted

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