I was sick over Christmas and spent my time working on this little holiday greeting. My plan had been to have this printed to cards and send them out to friends and family. But, I didn’t finish until the 27th, so I guess I have my cards for next year.
I can’t remember exactly, but I think this took me around 4 days to do. Not 4 SOLID days, but working on it off and on for 4 days. The hardest part of it was getting the lighting right – and yes, I know there are no shadows from the bear on the snow.
I used several tutorials to put this together.
For the bear, I used Jonathan Williamson’s 2 part tutorial on making a burlap teddy bear at Blender Cookie.
http://cgcookie.com/blender/2009/05/12/creating-a-burlap-teddy-bear-part-1/
http://cgcookie.com/blender/2009/05/18/creating-a-burlap-teddy-bear-part-2/
He did the teddy bear in blender 2.49 and the plugin he used for the burlap is only available in 2.49. Instead, I found a texture of a course cloth and UV unwrapped it myself. I think his looks better, but mine is passable. I was kind of proud of myself for figuring out how to UV unwrap it and texture it myself instead of just blindly following someone’s instructions.
For the santa hat, I used Andrew Price’s tutorial:
http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/create-a-fluffy-santa-hat
In his tutorial, he drops the hat on the ground with the cloth simulation to get the folds in it. But since mine was supposed to be on top of the bear’s head, that’s what I tried. Over and over and over. The stupid thing kept sliding off. Finally I found some kind of friction setting to keep it from falling off.
Finally, I used Andrew Price’s snow tutorial to get the footprints and snow effect:
http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/let-it-snow
Hope you like the picture!
