Savanna, The Rookies entry
A month ago I decided to create a project to submit to the Rookies Contest. My idea was to train my sculpting skills by creating an animal and an environment. I chose a giraffe because of its unique proportions and because I wanted to learn grooming.
The Giraffe was my first grooming project and I decided to create the groom in Houdini, so I could learn a bit more about the software's interface. I started by extracting different parts of the body for different hair systems like the head, eyelashes, ma
Finding close up high quality references of giraffes isn’t as easy as you might think. Hence why I searched for sport-horses, found similarities in their anatomy (especially the torso) and sculpted the muscle structures based on the horse references. Then
