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title: Seriously good fur
description: Seriously good fur
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# [Seriously good fur](https://www.redsharknews.com/post-vfx/item/459-seriously-good-fur)

 Written by [RedShark News Staff](https://www.redsharknews.com/author/redshark-news-staff) | Feb 17, 2013 2:00:00 AM

CGI Squirrel

**Fur. It's hard to model in CGI. For a start, it's not one object but hundreds or thousands or millions of them. To make them convincing you have to model them; understanding how they move relative to each other, and to the animal or human that they're attached to**

And then there's the lighting. The triumphantly gorgeous CGI tiger in the Life of Pi had a complex lighting model that took into account the way that light scatters differently on the layers of hair that surround the big cats.

So this short film is more ambitious than it seems. Not only did the creators watch real squirrels obsessively, but they've modelled the fur almost to perfection: there were over six million hairs in this animated squirrel.

And notice how they've used motion blur. So much so that it was really difficult to get a sharp screen shot!

*Credits:*  
*Director boutiq: Mike Huber*  
*Production Company: boutiq*  
*Producer: Florian Liertz*  
*DoP: Tobias Dengler*  
*3D Artists: Semir Saleh, Bahar Öner, Chris Hempel*  
*3D Animation: Adrian Suter*  
*Compositing: Adrian Suter, Pascal Schelbli*  
*Composer: Bernd Klanke*  
*Sound Design: Bernd Klanke*  
*Agency: Inflagranti*  
*CD: Lorenz Killer*  
*Consultant: Lorenz Schmid*  
*Client: Hauert*

 

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