Overview

The Giraffe is a 3D model made in Blender 2.79 that forms part of a series of African Savannah inhabitants. This product has a wide variety of applications as it includes realtime and high resolution models. The model is both rigged and animated using Deer Rigger, which is a modified version of Rigify for Quadrupeds. Rigify is the only plugin required and it ships with Blender.

The product consists of,

4k Color, Mask and Normal Textures Non-overlapping UV's Realtime Model made-up of 1264 Faces High Resolution Sculpt model Rig Active Modifier stack Animated run cycle Cycles Material Node Network

Contents

The Giraffe product consists of several files,

giraffe03.blend : The main file consisting of the realtime model, rigged and animated. An active modifier stack with hair and cycles node network make this file ready to render.giraffeSculpt.blend : High resolution sculpted giraffe consisting of many polys. This file should be in the same folder as giraffe03.blend.giraffe.obj : Realtime file for interchanging between applications.giraffeColor.png : Color channel texture map in 4K.giraffeSSS.png : Sub-Surface Scattering channel Mask in 4K.giraffeNormal.png : Normal map baked from sculpt in 4K.giraffeAO.png : Ambient Occlusion map baked from sculpt in 4K.

The following setup can be accessed through the realtime model's modifier stack,

The realtime model is setup to subdivide (through the Subdivision surface Modifier) at rendertime. Increasing subdivisions here will allow the realtime model to more closely match the look of the sculpted model.Vertices generated through subdivision will match surface points of the high resolution, sculpted model through the Shrinkwrap Modifier. Deformation is then performed on the model through the Armature modifier. Dynamic, secondary animation can be baked into the model with the Soft Body modifier. The soft body modifier is by default placed at the top of the modifier stack and disabled. To activate the modifier either Apply or delete the Subdivision Surface modifier, then move the Soft Body modifier to one position above the Particle modifier.The Particle modifier should be the last node in the stack and is used to control the giraffe's hair. By default Hair Dynamics is turned on for secondary animation of the hair.