Barendina reworked

Artwork Works in Progress
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Hi Blender peeps.

I’m now officially converted to Blender, here’s my first character rig and work in progress. Don’t worry I will change the hairstyle, this is bad… I know.

I’m getting grips with the workflow and Cycles renderer and loving it so far. Render-time with hair is a bit high but with no Cuda cores to speed things up and hope to change this soon. Anyone knows if GPU hair rendering supported yet?

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Here is the original non-Blender Barendina … https://www.behance.net/gallery/24044651/Barendina

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Nice touch to give her dress the typical Blender colors :wink: And yes, hair is supported on the GPU now. It was integrated in 2.68 ( http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.68 )

Are you going to redo the complete reference scene? Keep up the good work.

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Thanks minoribus. I’ m not sure yet, I might create a whole new scene.

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Here’s an updated version, more lights added as well as a backdrop. The underlying geo that contains the eyebrows hair particle system has an unwanted effect on the subsurface skin shader. Perhaps to fix this problem I need to move all the hair into a new layer and comp, this just mean extra render time, already on two hours :frowning:

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Those CUDA cores make a big difference in render times for cycles.

Barendina is very cute. Is she going to be animated?

Welcome to BlenderArtists :smiley:

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inspired by Disney :)… I see that your game-ing character’s look’s good.

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Thanks, well she’s rigged so perhaps yes, it’s been a while since I’ve last entered a little 11 second challenge. I will invest in a CUDA card soon and throw out the OpenCL.

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Thanks matey!

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Quick fix, I’ve applied a mask modifier to exclude the underlying brows geo containing the hair particle system so not to affect the subsurface skin shader, as seen above anymore. Dance of joy!