Kiergo - Fur Development

So a friend had asked me a while back to help him on his animated web series that he plans to start up sometime this year, and a recently he asked me to also do the Fur and Hair for the show.
Below are some render tests for Kiergo's Mane and the concept he provided. The next part I will tackle will be the mane in the under the chin, followed by the fur on the face.


Clean Shots



Messy Shots




Concept, Model and Textures by Jacob Shrodes

When Maya says no

It just means that it has decided in all it's wisdom to be lazy, and it likes to do this all the time.
True Story Bro


Case Example, the next available flag in the connectAttr and disconnectAttr commands, it will work some of the time but the rest it just shoves a middle finger in your face. It will give you a little error saying that the flag is incompatible with an attribute that has multiple inputs ex. "plusMinusAverage.input3D[0]". A quick solution for this problem is to create your own system that checks for the next available open slot. Something like this:





I ran into this problem trying to connect shaders to different shading engines and the plusMinusAverage node through Python.