Greetings to everyone,
I want to show you my animal of choice, a dodo. I know normaly they have feathers, however I decided to make him more fluffy, like a chick.
I used Metaballs for the beginning and had problems while sculpting, because I didn’t mirror the object, so it was asymmetrical and the sculpt became a little annoying (solved with turning of mirroring in sculpt mode).
For the fur I retopology the body, I felt like, this would be more controlable to decide where the fur should be and where not.
After the fur and texture paint, I watched the videos untill I arrived to the part where the environment get explained. From that point I followed the course again.
My PureRef Board (I mainly referenced to the live action Dodo from Alice in Wonderland):
