Comments on: New Peach Character

By: amdbcg

amdbcg — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:22:43 +0000

woah… that's neat!
who cares if it "looks too much like pixar" ?!
anyways, it's should be taken as a complement that it looks pixarish :D
(eg: you painting looks too much like a Davinci! ) :p

great job!
btw, how did they do the eyes (especially the iris)?

it looks like it's deformed by a lattice (or could that be the new mesh deform everyone is talking about?)
anyways, when this project is completed…
I'm expecting an eye/character tutorial :p

By: pictorali

pictorali — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:05:28 +0000

Good lord – that's an awesome bird. I'm looking forward to the finished product!

By: Storm

Storm — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:15:45 +0000

Awesome character, great pixar feel to it. Cant wait to see the finished film.

By: tessa

tessa — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:06:50 +0000

I don't think it looks much like a bird from pixar's "for the birds". I actually think this bird looks better, just look at the beak – it looks much better!

By: Tadd

Tadd — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:02:34 +0000

hahaha – I've been there guys .. poop on head thing.

And the new character looks pretty slick. I'm really REALLY impressed with the quality you're all pulling out of Blender for this .. it really shows the strength in Blender. I can't wait to see this finished film.

By: DramaKing

DramaKing — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:10:20 +0000

That bird looks like it's doing to be a great character!

By: greatSuccess

greatSuccess — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:05:35 +0000

Wow great Andy, that's really neat.
Same question like ToastBusters: extension of the fur code?

By: andy

andy — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:04:30 +0000

the body feathers are basically a baked particle system with object duplicators that has been combed and tweaked by hand manually. the wing feathers are made with dupli face objects and masterfully rigged by Nathan… i could possibly make a more detailed blog post about this as soon as i can find the time…

the clouds are an animated 3D matte painting created in gimp and mapped into a sky dome scene in blender, nothing overly fancy.

the similarity with pixar's birds, probably pure coincidence.

.andy

By: Eelko Gielis

Eelko Gielis — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:23:52 +0000

Great looking bird and tree.

(How did you do the clouds anyway? New system with a SSS twist?)

By: Paul Lunneberg (pablosbrain)

Paul Lunneberg (pablosbrain) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:46:57 +0000

It does look very much like the characters from Pixars For the Birds short movie. But aside from that.. I'm very excited about all the new functionality being developed both for the Peach Blender release and for 2.50.