A Work in Progress: Cat eye



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Cat eye
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I took a picture of my cat for this one. I wanted to use only one view of my cat, sometimes I love challenging myself LOL.

It would be easier if you have a side-, top- and front-view.

Creation of Cat eye: Step 1

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Create a plane, switch to Edit-mode, and delete 3 of the 4 points of the plane. choose a starting point in the picture, and extract the single point to get a shape. Then repeat extracting until you have retraced the object. (it don't have to be too detailed, you can put an subdivision surface modifier to smoothen your shape)

Creation of Cat eye: Step 2

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Add a sphere for the eye, and put a texture on it.
I also put an reflection map on the sphere. (see image at the end of this SBS)

Creation of Cat eye: Step 3

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Here's the eye texture I created in photoshop:

Creation of Cat eye: Step 4

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Activate "Hair" in physics. Define your hair (length and amount). Then switch to Particle-mode, and use "Comb" to style the hair so that it looks the way you want.

Creation of Cat eye: Step 5

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I put a texture on the hair, to get different color

Creation of Cat eye: Step 6

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Then, just put all together, and render.

Creation of Cat eye: Step 7

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So, this is the result:

Looks ok, but I want more detail...

Creation of Cat eye: Step 8

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So I open photoshop, and add a few more hairs just above the eye:

Creation of Cat eye: Step 9

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I also added some blur, to give more depth, and this is the final result:

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Here's my reflection map image for the eye (a shot taken while I was in Cuba):

Creation of Cat eye: Step 11

Final result

Creation of Cat eye: Final Result

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