I went ahead with the mega challenge, and made a black wolf without looking through the future videos. Though to be fair, this model served another purpose as a token for one of my players, so I wanted to get it just right for her. I know the fur looks too straight in places, but to be honest I learned a lot about hair particles by doing this: how to paint weights, how to brush them, add particles. I just know that when I look back on this, I’ll recognize how I could have done even better.
And I also tried to rig it, to make an animated token, but for some reason the rig really wouldn’t take; even after it seemed I joined it, the pose didn’t make any of it move. Maybe it had to do with it starting from metaballs? But I swear I already made it into a rig. If anyone might know what’s wrong with what I’m doing, feel free to respond and help out!