BirdTest

[DMerchen]

Here you go. This was for the challenge a couple of weeks ago. Why am I so late you might ask? Well, I have been trying to figure out this adaptive skinning. Great stuff if you can figure it out. Now, two weeks later and several dead birds I have arrived at this character, of which I am fairly happy. If I could just figure out how to get rid of those extreme places where body parts join. Hmm... Anyway, take a look, and if you have any suggestions, please feel free to post them. It might just save my sanity.

P.S. I know this is not the sharpest render, I wasn't working on a very large canvas. Sorry, just a bit out of practice I guess.

[Rafael Hernandez]

The reason you have those extreme places is because you are puttin a smaller zsphere too close to a bigger one. In your knee joints I can see that you have two small zspheres connecting to a larger one. But they are embedding into the one in the middle. You need to pull them away from the larger one. Play with it and you'll get the result you want.

[Belleski]

It looks great so far! Are you going to texture him up?

[DMerchen]

Thanks for the advice and the kind comments. Yes I will be working on him and giving him a bit of color. I will also be putting him in his own environment. Thanks again!

[Mahlikus The Black]

Looks good dave!
Oh man, adaptive is hard..but hang in there..the low poly benefits are worth it (aside from auv tiles).

[DMerchen]

The other thing I am looking at is the lack of smoothness on the main render in the center. What I am talking about is the polygons you can see in his neck. Those shouldn't be showing should they? Any other suggestions for getting rid of that? Could just be my settings too.

[Jaycephus]

It depends on what your smooth settings are. It 'looks' like you have a low subdivision setting. Depending on what your actual settings are, you could either increase subdivision or smoothing.