Beautiful! :D

Starting to get a bit of that Neytiri quality with the 'atokirina :)

/me melts :love:

Wow, very good! I like the expression.

Thx! and i tried cloth, a dynamic system i already use as an easy way to change or add a different outfit.
It worked a little but i wasnt happy with it. Clothing behaves dynamically according to all kinds of settings.
When i placed Neytiri in a pose (the one rendered) the clothes didnt fell/fitted nicely.
So no easy way... yet :P But i ended up with a nice pose, quickly added the woodspite, and made the last render.

And the render below was requested, might aswell share it here, Ney hanging upside down :P
was fun todo!

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...ox-d43shic.jpg

:D She looks so happy and playful! :D

very nice pics :) i cant wait to see her animated with a background :D

awesome :) I'm curious how it is going with the dance animation you was making :P

Thx, @prowler the dance animation i was working on is done from beginning to end but only in the rough. Fine tuning it is alot of work still, especially since the clip is pretty long.
@Tm20, yeah a background is really going to add to it. Ill start experimenting with that when Jake is done.
Been busy working on a short story for the animation, it takes place shortly after the movie. Still need lots of work tho, only got it worked out globally atm. Im no expert like some of the writers here :P
Dont think ill do much animation work on Ney before that.

She looks like she's having fun :P

I can imagine her swinging down from a tree branch to surprise someone :P

Hey all,
after working on Jake's hair i learned some new tricks with Maya hair. Had to update Neytiri's hair a little.
Doesnt really show in a quick render but it has a little more volume and should behave a little better :)
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...ox-d475ov0.jpg

i don't notice any difference, but any pic is a good pic :D

Good to know if it improves it then ;)

haha yeah its not a big difference but its one of the small things that bothered me i guess :P

i dont see any changes :P But a picture is always welcome :awesome:

My new fav pic :)

bump...

This thread has been really quite the last month :( any updates? :awesome:

I seem to have missed the newest pictures. Anyone think Neytiri's eyes are a little big? :( Sorry I know, I'm always the one to complain :P

thx for keeping interested!

Yeah its been rather quiet from my side here. Thats mostly because ive been busy with the technical part of Jake's model, not really needed to show here.
His skeleton and animation controls are done and i'm experimenting adding muscles to his setup for a more realistic deformation of his skin, so that you'll see the more important muscles flex a little. Progress is slow on that but i'm learning new stuff!
I skipped that part on Neytiri's model because its less important/visible on her body. However if it works well it can add some subtle motion to her body and then ill add it here aswell.
On top of that ive also been without my work pc, things became unstable.
But i have a new pc now, 4gb ddr2 versus 16gb ddr3 OCéd makes a big difference! Only havent upgraded my cpu yet, want to see what amd's new 8 core cpu will do first.

I dont mind that at all! Some of the feedback here moved me to go a bit further on certain things and it improved the model quite a bit.
I dont think her eyes are to big sizewise but in her base pose they are already very open. More control over the movement of eyes might be needed. It is more work tho, both in adding it to her skeleton as during animation so im not sure yet.
Now i only have one lineair eyemovement as shown below. Not shown is the movement of the skin when she looks around. Eyes arent round so when one looks around the eyeball moves the skin around the eye a little (thats already in).

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...ox-d4aksmx.jpg

When Jake's model is at the same level where Neytiri's model is now i plan to add some new things and fixes. Most important will be more "depth" in her skin (color, bump, etc). Adding a breathing motion to her skin. More control over her eyes and maybe a scalable pupil size to name a few.
edit: better control over her tail, sometimes it has a sharp angle (not a round curl) FIXED :P

and thx again for keeping interested!

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Awesome :) Looking forward to updates :awesome:

I like the eyes :)

They don't look too big, I think it was their being fully open if it was something.

good to know you're still around, your last report was over a month ago...haven't got lost in the woods have you? :awesome: nice eye pics, want to see more! :)

no offence! i havent been on in a long time and never seen that 3d thingie but i have to say it
its freaking impressive lol

No i can do this ;)
Its alot, well almost only studing atm, two steps forward, one step back.

While working on Jake i learned some new tricks to get a better skin deformation. Some of that could also be applied on Neytiri.
That solved a few problems and also created some new ones..
But now everything seems to be working again, yay!
It was alot more work then i expected it to be but now that its done i'm glad i did it :D

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...ox-d4ffg0r.jpg

Since both models are almost done i have to think of the little specific things that are needed in the animation i plan to make. Worked out the story and i'm really happy how it turned out, cant wait to start storyboarding!

Neytiri 3D WIP
 

Looks great like always fierox :) can't wait to see how this goes :awesome: also like that picture :awesome:

looks very cool :D so when can we expect the animation to come out? i've ben naggin you about this for a while ^_^

Is there something up with the eyes, or was that just an odd photo?

Youre right, seems i uploaded the wrong file or rendered the wrong frame.
Here's a new render :shy:

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...ox-d4ffg0r.jpg

Oh and yeah the animation i got planned for this will take alot more time.
Think its about 3:00 minutes long and it will have pandora plants, background and better lighting.
So my guess is somewhere between six months and a year. Could be more or less ,i never done something this big and detailed on my own. But thats good tho, every part is a challenge and that keeps things fun!
Jake will soon be done and then i start to set up some scenes, storyboard, create the plants/background etc.
Plenty todo still but i think i have a nice little story to tell :)

Ney's forehead is very pronounced :P

Oooooh I really, really like that pose! My favourite yet! :D She looks so lithe and fierce at the same time. :D

Txantsan! :D

Txantsan :)

.. those legs... that tail :)

Haha thx guys, i kinda like that image aswell.
Today's pose is a little different, as requested a bit more sexy pose of Neytiri.
Took this chance to also tweak the render settings a little higher.
Hope you like it!

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...ox-d4fkni0.jpg

Well that's definitely different but really nice. :) I really like the lighting, also Neytiri looks pretty relaxed in that pose. ;)

Ahh, that kxetse, wrapped around foot...:love2:

oh nice pose :awesome::love2:

very nice :D and im glad you've officially announced the movie, now we can look forward to something in the meantime, because lets get ****en real, the book is never going to come out :|

haha well a movie is a bit much but ill do my best.
Btw, about books, there is a book about the plants etc on Pandora right?
Happen to know the name? If its well illustrated it might be a good help on the plants and backgrounds.

everything you need to know is here Flora - James Cameron's Avatar Wiki - Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana

if you still need images then i can scan some from the art book :)
*couldn't you download the game and import the 3D models?

hey thx!
Yeah i have the game, i will reinstall it and walk around to get some scenery ideas :) I'm not sure if its possible to import game stuff and i'm not going to do that. I build the stuff myself its far easier then Ney or Jake also its probably not allowed. Anyway, first to finish the last bits of Jake's model :D