Major WIP (personal project and an insane rig)

Artwork Works in Progress
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Hello.

I’ve been playing with Blender for years but sadly I have never made anything that interesting. Motivation is always the problem as I keep giving up but this time I want to do something special. I am serious about this one.

And I already seem to have gone a bit overboard. Take a look at the .blend file.

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat2889/post5.blend

100 individually defined and controllable hairs. Each one with a taper curve and a bevel object. Each one with a lattice. Each one unique and each with a linked duplicate inside an even bigger lattice. With every vertex attached to a hook to a vertex parented empty to a cube with a wave deform.

I can control every aspect of every hair.

I may be a noob…but I think this is a good rig (if not a little complicated) ; )

This is a major major project. Next I would like a little help on defining the shaders/materials for the seed.

Thank you.

Koba

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Wow. I bet that took a while. Its cool, but what are you going to do with it?
You need like a thousand of those just to make one dandilion, and that would DESTROY your computer if you ever tried to make an animation with that.

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Thanks for your post.

Don’t worry, I’m animating on;y the one seed and I’m already experiencing a slowdown (not surprising really). As for a whole dandelion? I’ll try that in five years time when I have a 30 GHz computer or so. :wink:

Koba