Hi,

I want to feather my chicken, which was modeled inside Maya, in my Houdini Apprentice HD version. I've seen the awesome Jobs Vanguard Animation has done for their Valiant movie as well as Hazoc in the 3D World Mag contest in this forums.

Now I have no real idea where to start. Is there a possibility to see a Network how such feathering is done?

Thanks

one place to start is have a look at the Ray sop tutorial.

http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=879&Itemid=132 [sidefx.com]

but there are many ways, more than i know .

hope that helps.

Yes, I've seen this video. Its good for a later state, but what I'm the most interested in is: How to distribute the feathers over the body, how to model the feather especially the starting point.

You might be able to use the Fur setup to copy your feather geometry somehow?