Feather Tests (And Poll Results!) (Patreon)

You guys have spoken! It shall be a gryphon! 

Eventually. First I have to sort out the feathers, that is super important!

So this might seam like a weird one, but I'm making 3d feathers in blender.

Let me explain, I now know I can work the basic shape and texture of a feather using blenders hair emitter. So now I can dive into using blenders new hair bsdf node shader to make my feathers look really nice. 

I can then take a 4096x4096 picture in blender, getting a texture for all the feathers I need to use on my bird. I can use this to get my Diffuse textures, Ambient occlusion, Metallic, Roughness and Normals all in one go. 

(If you don't know what all that means, It just means the feathers will reflect the light properly, and will nice nicer for it.)

TL DR: I'm making 3D feathers, so I can make a really nice feathers texture, so I can make feathers for my gryphon.