NCloth: Weld Adjacent Borders Constraint

NCloth: Tearable Surface Constraint

NCloth Balloons

Depth of Field: Using Luminance Depth

Beauty Pass

Matt

Luminance Depth

Mental Ray: Round Corners Node

Using Maya Layered Shaders with Mental Ray Nodes

Lighting Profiles: IES Lighting Information Files

More Cloth Animations

Different Tear Shapes

Version 1 Cloth Corridor

Version 2 Cloth Corridor

Upwards Blowing Cloth

Hi Res Modelling: Lower Torso Blocking

More Silver Cloth Experiments

Ambient Occlusion Lighting & Light Decay

NCloth: Rope Bridge

Silver Cloth Experiment

It would be too difficult to go with my original idea with the fan effect so I am hoping to go with this kind of example for the silver fabric.

NCloth Part 3: Bouncy Castle

NCloth Part 2: Netting

NCloth Part 1: Flags

Story Board for Cloth Animation

I have made a simple story board to help me understand the cloth animation that I am going to create.

1. Cloth enters scene from the right

2. Cloth is in full view

3. Cloth opens up like a fan or bird's crest

4. Cloth has a waving movement

5. Zoom in on the cloth

6. Different view 

7. View of the cloth still at the zoomed view

8. Cloth exits on the left

Soft Bodies Part 5: Bubbles

Hi Res Modelling: Upper Torso Adding Geometry

Ideas for cloth shapes

I'm looking for something similar to a bird's wing or a cockatoo's head crest. The fabric will be silver and perhaps with some zebra patterns. My inspiration for the shapes of the fabric have come from this Australian Cockatoo in Fig 1.

  Fig 1. Major Mitchell Cockatoo

Hi Res Modelling: Upper Torso Blocking

Hi Res Modelling: Upper Torso Blocking

Hi Res Modelling Part 6: Refinements & Interiors

Hi Res Modelling Part 5: Ear Part B

Hi Res Modelling Part 4: Ear Part A

Hi Res Modelling Part 3: Eye

Sub Surface Scattering Part 2: Cartoon Shader