Feather study (cycles)

[Kemmler]

@rickyblender, haven’t tried to bake anything from this,

@ramaswamy1984, took about 84 minutes to render… I am using CPU for this, my GPU is old and pathetic…

@dreylliw, I first tried this technique a few months ago, I probably spent about 10 hours trying different approaches.

One thing about the technique I didn’t mention before, the ‘downy’ bits of the feather near the base are a different set of particles, which I did separately, and used a smaller diameter bevel object for.

[Yodra]

Fantastic work! The only thing I would say is that if you really want it to be as realistic as possible, it helps if the length of the strands are a little uneven - I keep birds and you see that all the time. But really, just beautiful!