Realistic(ish) Fur

[Nidoking]

This is a step by step tutorial about how to make some fur. This is my first tutorial. Its kind of a weird method and there is probably an eisier way but tyhis is my way.

First you start with a dark brownish oringish picture. I chose this one.

Then you mess around with it in curves. Put the lumanosity so it curves to the top and then the bottom and the top and bottom. It should eventually look something like this.

After that radial blur it.Then use curves again to get the color more orangish.

Once you have the color how you want it use shape 3D to turn it into a sphere.

Then shrink the sphere to a small size.

Then copie it multiple times.

Keep doing this until it covers the screen with small balls.

Then fosted glass them at ten.

Then motion blur them a little.

Finnaly zoom in and ta-da!

Anways post pictures, critisize, improve on or praise.

[bevio]

Not bad! the fur does look realistic! look at my posts if you dont mind! yours are great

[007 Nab]

I agree- good tut- while pasting the "fur" balls all over the place is a bit time consuming, it does come out with a neat effect in the end. Good job!

[Ash]

You can do this in 4 steps.

1. Clouds.

2. Add noise.

3. Motion Blur.

4. Add color.

[OmgWtfBbq]

You gotta admit, for an incredibly bizarre method, that works extremely well.

[cjmcguinness]

I posted an animal fur tut (ages ago) for something somewhat similar; albeit by a different method.

Perhaps some combinaton of the two methods might make this simpler (and faster).

[Ash]

Perhaps some combinaton of the two methods might make this simpler (and faster).

You can do this in 4 steps.

1. Clouds.

2. Add noise.

3. Motion Blur.

4. Add color.

Not fast enough?

[Nidoking]

Ash I tried your method. It does work well but I find that the stripes don't look as good and it's way harder to get the colors right. Yours is definitely faster and easier on the computer but I like my method better.

[Pupperooni]

Can't really get this thing to work.Could you have more detaild instructions?Like the squares to put curve dot things in as well as other stuff.

[Nidoking]

Pepperooni Im afraid I don't understand the question. Which step are you stuck on? I put screen shots up for every step.

[Rutiio573]

[Wolfman 1990]

Cool tut..looks good

[Shagabash]

You gotta admit, for an incredibly bizarre method, that works extremely well.

Words out of my mouth.

[n d]

Ok there's lots of unnecessary steps in this... For instance you take a random image, mess with curves, shape 3d, then shrink it only to get a small brown blob of maybe 20x20 pixels? I don't see the point... you could just use the elliptic selection tool, select brown & dark brown as colours and render clouds on the selection... to get that same small blob of brown with far less work.

Also for filling the screen with the blobs... just copy it a few times until you fill a square area, select & copy the square and use tile fill.

Although as Ash said this can be done a lot simpler with render clouds and a few blurs.

[n d]

Ok here's a method I devised in 5 minutes or so.

1. set colours to dark brown and light brown, both slightly desaturated. Render clouds at scale 50 and roughness 1,00

2. add noise with intensity 60, colour saturation 0, coverage 100

3. motion blur with dist 10 and slightly tilted angle

4. add a new layer and set colours to black&white, then render clouds on the new layer at scale 250 and roughness 0,50

5. set the new layer to multiply @ 120 (or overlay if you want lighter fur), merge it to the lower layer, and you have this:

Edited August 4, 2010 by n d

[jahina]

Ok here's a method I devised in 5 minutes or so.

1. set colours to dark brown and light brown, both slightly desaturated. Render clouds at scale 50 and roughness 1,00

2. add noise with intensity 60, colour saturation 0, coverage 100

3. motion blur with dist 10 and slightly tilted angle

4. add a new layer and set colours to black&white, then render clouds on the new layer at scale 250 and roughness 0,50

5. set the new layer to multiply @ 120 (or overlay if you want lighter fur), merge it to the lower layer, and you have this:

BUT the OP's version looks better...no offence!

[wondering101]

i need help! how do you make it 3d? i can not find any button that says "3d" or anything? please HELP!!!!

Edited August 24, 2010 by pyrochild
Please don't quote bunches of large pictures.

[Sarkut]

Shape 3D Edited August 24, 2010 by Sarkut

[PeaceFrog777]

 This is a nice effect! I rendered it into a cylinder shape and used a lot of smudging to create a furry cup.

Edited January 10, 2011 by PeaceFrog777