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Description
The latest thing I slapped together in Blender. Contains diffuse, normals and specmaps, rigged (both deform and controls) and shape keys for the face, limb membranes and tail fan. Photo textures (random scales, parrot beak and emu feathers) were used.

Things learned this time:
Catmull-Clark smoothing sucks dick when texturing. I was probably spending more time on fixing the cutoffs on the corners than I would have spent manually smoothing the non-smoothed multiresolution.
Multires hates mirroring.
Want to rig a wing membrane? Try the "stretch to" modifier.
Apparently Blender can't do any jiggle bones that don't act totally retarded on faster movements.
If you have to texture an high-res sculpt and are lazy, use a displacement map.
Vertex groups are a crapshoot. Try first, everything works fine, try later, suddenly totally crazy deformations (and the main reason why I didn't use them while posing - Blender decided to add some fuckup of the tail feathers to any and every vertex group...)

Policy on model use are business as usual, but because they are kind of personal creatures, I will give it out upon asking only.

Description
The latest thing I slapped together in Blender. Contains diffuse, normals and specmaps, rigged (both deform and controls) and shape keys for the face, limb membranes and tail fan. Photo textures (random scales, parrot beak and emu feathers) were used.

Things learned this time:
Catmull-Clark smoothing sucks dick when texturing. I was probably spending more time on fixing the cutoffs on the corners than I would have spent manually smoothing the non-smoothed multiresolution.
Multires hates mirroring.
Want to rig a wing membrane? Try the "stretch to" modifier.
Apparently Blender can't do any jiggle bones that don't act totally retarded on faster movements.
If you have to texture an high-res sculpt and are lazy, use a displacement map.
Vertex groups are a crapshoot. Try first, everything works fine, try later, suddenly totally crazy deformations (and the main reason why I didn't use them while posing - Blender decided to add some fuckup of the tail feathers to any and every vertex group...)

Policy on model use are business as usual, but because they are kind of personal creatures, I will give it out upon asking only.