# Straw Effigy **URL:** \ **Category:** Focused Critiques\ **Tags:** modeling, texturing\ **Created:** [May 23, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/straw-effigy/1161591 "2019-05-23T16:55:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hatemei0225](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/hatemei0225/32/690323_2.png) [@hatemei0225](https://blenderartists.org/u/hatemei0225)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/straw-effigy/1161591/1 "2019-05-23T16:55:05Z")
I tried to create a straw effigy used to curse in traditional japanese way. It is difficult to make realistic straw model and textures. I couldn’t make them better than I wanted to make. ![Straw_Effigy_01_14](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/d/1/4/d1402e6f9ce64db11705aa9a219e4094ab534ac2.jpeg) The best for now is this. I’ll try it again, and I put what I think I can improve below. Please tell me what you think about them. And please give me advice and critiques. Model - Making straw’s diameter smaller and put more them. - Making more various of shape of straws. I think t is surely a sober and perennial work. Is it possible to create without modeling each straws? For example, modeling is just simple doll shape and making most of material, texturing or modifiers. Material - Using photoscanned? single straw texture. I already got real straw, but I still don’t know how to use it to make textures. ![Starw_Effigy_01](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/7/a/7/7a77d622f42985b0df5fcdbb760de4e594677f82.jpeg) Reference Image ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Gatherer](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/soul_gatherer/32/570946_2.png) [@Soul\_Gatherer](https://blenderartists.org/u/Soul_Gatherer)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/straw-effigy/1161591/2 "2019-05-24T04:46:05Z")
It is a great start, it looks like it is being used for an evil ceremony 🙂 I believe two things that could help would be to model the straw to be a lot flatter instead of round, and to add small hairs to the rope to give it more of a realistic feel 🙂 you can use this to initially randomize the placement of the straw as well as the scale and rotation within specific bounds 🙂 [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/75754/randomize-location-of-multiple-objects&ved=2ahUKEwizgY\_9rrPiAhWdHzQIHVohANwQFjAAegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw1i2Wt50Pbj3Msw9\_t8L5Wn&cshid=1558673456139](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/75754/randomize-location-of-multiple-objects&ved=2ahUKEwizgY_9rrPiAhWdHzQIHVohANwQFjAAegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw1i2Wt50Pbj3Msw9_t8L5Wn&cshid=1558673456139) ---
**Author:** ![hatemei0225](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/hatemei0225/32/690323_2.png) [@hatemei0225](https://blenderartists.org/u/hatemei0225)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/straw-effigy/1161591/3 "2019-05-24T13:41:02Z")
Thank you for your advice. I have to make more straws if I make them a lot flatter . So, this randomizing function will help me a lot. ---
**Author:** ![hatemei0225](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/hatemei0225/32/690323_2.png) [@hatemei0225](https://blenderartists.org/u/hatemei0225)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/straw-effigy/1161591/4 "2019-05-27T14:46:23Z")
![Straw_Effigy_02_11](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/a/5/a/a5ae9f8901d410963f8d6481b4f282d3b66be52d.jpeg) This is work in progress. I used photo “scanned texture”, I do not know if this is the correct name, but I scanned the actual straws. In order to apply this texture to very flat cylinders, I actually unwrapped the straws. I think straws and ropes look too yellowish, so I’ll try to adjust colors to make them paler. And I’ll add some extra small straws.