Ornatrix Maya: Creating a Procedural Feather

Learn how to create a custom procedural feather in Maya using Ornatrix operators. Whole process from scratch to finish is covered in this tutorial. This is a first tutorial in our series on cg character feathering. Using a number of operators like propagation, curling, frizz, and clumping we construct an elaborate feather. We texture and render the feather using Arnold, however, same technique can be used with any renderer. Ornatrix is a complete hair, fur, and feathers solution for Autodesk Maya. Try it