Kristinka Hair 3.0 released

[izze]

I wanted to share some work I completed with Kristinka, and thank you again for the latest update. It makes light work of hair / fur.

Curls Advanced is working quite well for some Dreadlocks!



I also did some work for AMD this year. You might see Kristinka in your local electronics store.




I completed a few other characters this year. But cannot show them just yet.

Thanks so much for all your hard work. Kristinka gives our studio the most control over hair style compared to any other hair solution.

[mattmos]

Stunning work izze! Love it. Be great to see a bit of a making of sometime

[FXDude]

Lol! Incredible!

[Bullit]

Fantastic izze and Mathaeus obviously.

[talent103]

Yes great work and the dreadlocks came out great.

[Draise]

Wow, those dreads, and the redhead! Has me mesmorized! Amazing work, really really good.

[Mathaeus]

Thank You, Master izze ! As a matter of fact, I sow this pic somewhere, didn't know there's izze somewhere around . Izze, when we are already on subject, should I do something with this Curls - to - dreadlocks compound, really haven't dreadlocks in mind when made this thing.

[izze]

Thanks for all the feedback. I really just posted those images to point out how much I appreciate all the work Anto has put into these compounds. Sorry to de-rail the thread. I had a few people ask for a breakdown on the setup for AMD's Ruby image. I did put something together and will post a link as soon as the boss approves releasing the images.

Anto:
I am extremely novice in ICE and am probably doing a lot of things counter to you designs. I will just explain what I have done, and you will probably know of a better way to accomplish the same results.

As far as the dreadlocks go. The only thing I really "modified", was adding modifiers to only the strands effected by follow curves node. It got pretty difficult to see clearly the results of Curve Adv when it was applied to the whole pointcloud.

I had difficulty getting the curls to start close to the start of the curve. I had to put two points very close together to eliminate the InBlend. But if I knew ICE better, I could probably have modified that compound.

I am also duplicating the pointcloud to get the proper look for "loose" strands. Using Hair Tips node in combination with the very old Hair Length node. The one with Factor and Factor Minus. But this is still very much WIP and I will probably be able to eliminate the second pointcloud.

The last thing I am trying to accomplish is colored thread to wrap a few of the locks. Using Curl Adv again. It would be amazing if there was a way to push strands outside of strands. Maybe there already is

But again, these are really really amazing compounds you have created! I have no actual production stopping problems with them. Thank you so much !

Here is the pointcloud for the dreadlocks. Remember its still very WIP.

- Christopher

[izze]

CLICK HERE FOR THE RUBY IMAGE BREAKDOWN INFO

[FXDude]

That's amazing Izze! thanks for that great insight!

And Otto-Rig also looks really quite advanced (& easy)!
http://www.screencast.com/t/bxgbh8jvFWC

OttoRig.jpg

do you think it might potentially be released (or made available for purchase despite circumstances) at some point?


By the way, I passed by ElementX last year when I was over at Janimation (2 seconds away :] )

Seemed like really a neat place!

Nevertheless, Nice Work!

(yep, great stuff makes for lots of exclamation marks!! :] )

[Mathaeus]

As far as the dreadlocks go. The only thing I really "modified", was adding modifiers to only the strands effected by follow curves node. It got pretty difficult to see clearly the results of Curve Adv when it was applied to the whole pointcloud.

I had difficulty getting the curls to start close to the start of the curve. I had to put two points very close together to eliminate the InBlend. But if I knew ICE better, I could probably have modified that compound.

I am also duplicating the pointcloud to get the proper look for "loose" strands. Using Hair Tips node in combination with the very old Hair Length node. The one with Factor and Factor Minus. But this is still very much WIP and I will probably be able to eliminate the second pointcloud.

The last thing I am trying to accomplish is colored thread to wrap a few of the locks. Using Curl Adv again. It would be amazing if there was a way to push strands outside of strands. Maybe there already is

I hope I'll post some improvements, this weekend, here. Here's short plan:
1: a bit better visualizing. I know you already know, it's possible to get strand color per 'form' node, 'chunk' and so on, using 'kH randomize node;. Anyway wouldn't hurt to add a sort of 'diagnostic mode' to 'kh point color" node.
2: will add a few options to 'kH Curls Advanced' to enable it to start directly from hair root.
3: there is 'kh Follow CurveList' node in latest download, geometry input is curve with many sub-curves - this should save you from so many inputs, if you merge these curves, using some script or add on. However it seems it didn't worked in some mixes of situations and SI versions. Will try to make this node as much 'ordinary' under the hood - there is a chance it will work, in any situation.

[i.animator]

Thanks for showing my otto|rig work Izze i've been on the fence for a while now whether or not to share it.

@FXDude:

I'm really glad you liked what you saw of otto|rig I made those videos back in March of 2012 and otto|rig has evolved quite a bit since then (I really need to get new videos out there). I would have loved to see how the community would have run with this. Unfortunately, at this time, there are not any plans to make it public (the tool is jointly owned and so not entirely mine to open source or monetize.)

We have been using, refining and adding to the otto|rig system since its inital completion in 2011. Gears, piston/shocks, suspension, wings, 3 & 4 joint IK/FK systems, squash & stretch FX rigs, etc. were all originally planned to be added until we got the gut-wrenching news about Softimage's untimely retirement. For instance, this one (based on the work that I did making rigs for the feature film "Werner - Eiskalt! (2011)") was almost "otto|mated":
http://www.screencast.com/t/E1xt4W2z6

Cheers,
-=Eric

[Draise]

That Otto|rig looks amazing... man I'd love to have that, personally!

[Mathaeus]

I hope I'll post some improvements, this weekend, here. Here's short plan:
1: a bit better visualizing. I know you already know, it's possible to get strand color per 'form' node, 'chunk' and so on, using 'kH randomize node;. Anyway wouldn't hurt to add a sort of 'diagnostic mode' to 'kh point color" node.
2: will add a few options to 'kH Curls Advanced' to enable it to start directly from hair root.
3: there is 'kh Follow CurveList' node in latest download, geometry input is curve with many sub-curves - this should save you from so many inputs, if you merge these curves, using some script or add on. However it seems it didn't worked in some mixes of situations and SI versions. Will try to make this node as much 'ordinary' under the hood - there is a chance it will work, in any situation.

Here are these small improvements. There are three kh compounds in rar. As it is mentioned:
1:"kH Point Color 2" has an "diagnostic" option, to display strands in random colors, relative to kH chunk, guide, group or form node.
2:"kH Curls Adv" now has "enable in blend" switch - if this is off, curling start from hair root. Global blend, called "root to curls blend" is still present, but it's possible to set it to some very small value.
3:"kH3 Follow CurveList 2" uses curvelist as an input, so, no need for tons of references to curves, in ICE tree. Also, it distributes properly to closest sub curve - while with "kH Follow Curve" each curve input overrides the previous influence. Should work flawlessly with any version of SI. Just for info, from my experience, usual cause of problems belongs to filtering related to 'filtered' arrays. Select in array > if > distance is smaller than something > disable node, or like. My wild guess, in case of "if" ICE removes more data than it's expected, sometimes. This node is much much more 'ordinary' than one in download.

Get it here.

[izze]

Thank you !

[sheerkohf]

Great Work Sir !