FMP: Week 5 Tuesday

On Tuesday I moved onto the next criticism I received, which was that the chest fur felt more like back fur in the way it came out from the shoulders. To solve this, I auto selected polygroups in the mesh and deleted individual tufts that branched out too widely across the chest. I then followed advice to add another layer of fur tufts to add visual interest and silhouette. Do this, I considered the options of either using using the curve brush to create the tufts and then deform them to stick upwards, or to model a curved plane coming out of the chest and painting the curve brush strokes directly on top of that to follow an easy upwards curve, without any potential errors in deformation. In the end, I combined the two ideas and used the plane to begin with, then the topological move tool to adjust them as well as the curve tool in the mesh menu. I adjusted the tufts a lot so that they would be proportional to eachother in both size and placement on both sides of the model while still having variety in form.

I also added some tufts onto the tail using the move tool, pinch and hpolish to follow closer to the concept.