Obesity In Mice Illustration

[tomclancy_jack]

This is a illustration I made for a scientific journal article. It's for an article about genetic obesity traits. *disclaimer* I did not model the mice.

I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. The mice still look a little floaty, and I'm not sure why.

This was my first all 9.6 scene. I used saslite for the fur. I spent 6 hours trying to get Fiber FX to work to no avail - scale WOULD NOT CHANGE! Scale at 40% was just as long as .05%. I think it just didn't like the geometry of my mice model, and it's some kind of bug.

Let me know what you guys think :) C&C are welcome.

[Nicolas Jordan]

I spent 6 hours trying to get Fiber FX to work to no avail - scale WOULD NOT CHANGE! Scale at 40% was just as long as .05%. I think it just didn't like the geometry of my mice model, and it's some kind of bug.


If you used the scale tool on edit guides that may have thrown things off a bit. I have had weird things happen using a combination of scale controls from the main fiber fx panel and edit guides.

Did you end up using SasLight or did you just texture them?

[tomclancy_jack]

I did end up using saslite, which actually seemed to work pretty well for this kind of short fur. Sometimes the oldies are goodies :)

Being able to use uvmaps for color and length would have been nice, but I ended up just blending a couple renders of longer hair and shorter hair in PS to get the effect I wanted. I also had to render the mouse fur separately because of the memory limits of saslite.

In retrospect - I could have probably have gotten away with just surfacing them normally as you said. I think at full print resolution which this is rendered at - the fuzzyness of the fur is more apparent.

[dnch]

that fat mouse could have little rounder belly and i dont like the composition, tend to fall left/down
othervise excelent work, big up!