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By Yingyue Feng?：< https://yingyueue.myblog.arts.ac.uk/author/20028722/?

9th November 2022 ：< https://yingyueue.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2022/11/09/fur maya-x-gen/>

Unfortunately, at the beginning of September, my hair reached the neck and the most complicated head was done, because the Ragdoll is a longhair cat, and its cheeks will be longer and the inside of the ears will also be It has long hair, so it needs to be made in 3 to 4 times. That is to say, it takes 3~4 strings of nodes to complete the hair production of the head. The back part of the body and tail is very simple. I had expected to finish making the hair by the end of September. But the school’s computers were overhauled in September and were not open for use until the end of September. And by the time I started using the school computer at the end of September, the Houdini software was not found in the library of the school computer. Although Houdini can be seen in Curry later. However, other students who use Houdini said that the school’s Houdini is not stable enough. Some computers can be successfully installed, some computers cannot be installed, and some libraries are not even available. So I had to change the software that made the fur and recreate the cat’s fur. After considering different software, I ended up going to use Maya’s X Gen for the hair. Since my animations were made in Maya, it would be easier to continue making the fur in Maya without having to worry about any compatibility issues. And luckily the hair making in Maya is much simpler than Houdini and can be done on time.

Due to time constraints, I didn’t draw the textures on the cat completely according to my cat Moqi. I directly used the whole cat as a white cat to complete my work. However, I modified the color of the cat’s eyes, nose， mouth and paws. I made the cat’s eyes blue because the eyes of the puppet cat are blue, and the bluer the cat, the better the appearance, and then Moqi’s eye sockets and a circle around the mouth, and 4 paws changed the paw pads to pink. Because I had some problems with Houdini, the software I used to make modules, I temporarily switched to Maya’s X Gen for hair in less than two months. This didn’t take me long enough to finish the texture, so I simply changed it to a white cat instead of continuing to texture my cat Moqi.