Subarctic Great Horned Owl

In this project, I tried to create a photorealistic and anatomically accurate model of Subarctic Great Horned Owl. All grooming and scattering works of feathers I used Yeti, the owl has real fiber feathers (total count feathers - 6327 and 2188922 fibers) and I didn't use any poly plane feathers. As always, for shading, I used melanin centric Arnold Hair shader with a complex network.
Example shading of the body and the wing:

Average render time: 8k ~32h, 4k (head images) ~14h. Also, I want to say many thanks to my friend Maxim Shamarin for helping in rendering on his workstation.
I chose 5 color correction style and below you can see these images

And some fun stuff- mesh without feathers:

The Baby Cheetah in studio

 few variation CC

HI-res:  

render.ru and posted in Render Magazine 01/2018

CG Society Award




Statistic:
Fur density - 3736698 fibers
Body fur consist of 7 layers and have only 3 fur system
Render time on Ringil workstation res 3032x4096px- 3h56m
Usage memory when rendering 4k res ~ 9Gb
Body mesh: 3udims, 39362poly
Groom textures: 2 additive RGB textures (2k and 8k), 3 luma texture (2*8k, 1*1k)
SSS textures: 5*8k
Fur textures: 4*8k
Soft: Maya 2017, mtoa 2.1.0.1, Yeti 2.2.4

Collection of procedural in Mari

Collection of screenshots from most of the procedural layers available in Mari

http://www.davidgurrea.com/index.php/documents/mari-procedurals

Mari 3.0 viewport problem (solving problem)

If you use Mari 2.6 and then installed the 3.0 and Mari have problems with the viewport like me, there is a method of treatment.

You need to find the folder .mari on the path C:\ Users\ __USER__\.mari  (Windows 7) and simply rename (if you use prevision version Mari 2.x) or delete it - full reset settings. Or rename/remove *.ini file on the path C:\Users\__USER__\.mari\TheFoundry\Mari.ini. And it's all =)

Bolg

Hi everyone! I present to you my latest work of the fan art on the film The Hobbit - a huge and brutal orc albino - Bolg son Azog. I was inspired by the awesome work of the Weta studio because of his charisma and character development. Weapon (mace) and armor taken from the last part of the trilogy The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. In the work I used: Maya, Zbrush, Topogun, UVLayout, Mari, Yeti, Arnold, Fusion. Special thanks to Viacheslav Sych for his cool SSS skin arnold shader. Soon there will be a short article breakdown article. Enjoy watching!

Hi-res
Attack_pose_ldif_5k.jpg
Attack_pose_lightV1_5k.jpg
Idle_pose_ldif_5k.jpg
Idle_pose_lightV1_5k.jpg
FACE_CONTR.jpg

Gray:
Attack_pose_ldif_5k_gray.jpg
Attack_pose_lightV1_5k_gray.jpg
Idle_pose_ldif_5k_gray.jpg
Idle_pose_lightV1_5k_gray.jpg
FACE_CONTR_gray.jpg

W.I.P. Bolg: The Mace

The Mace (morningstar) of Bolg from The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, codename - Chupa Chups, in a different light.
>>> FULL RESS <<<

W.I.P. Bolg: Test turntables

Test turntable of finished model- light set-up #4 (watch on vimeo in HD mode) 

Test turntable of finished model (light set-up #1)

W.I.P. Bolg: shading and texturing update

more texture more shaders more madness

W.I.P. Bolg: Metal shading

Skin and wip metal shaders in work