These are some of my most recent tiger renders. Ive made and remade so many different tiger models over the years, but I haven't liked any as much as these! There are still things that I will probably continue to tweak at some point, but for the mean time I am pretty happy with these. Everything was made and rendered in Blender for the most part! I technically used Substance painter and Zbrush for the skin texture under the fur but you can't really see it so Blender is doing the heavy lifting here. I had to do a lot of fighting with Blender's hair particle system as I think I was pushing it pretty hard with these, many times I thought it would be better to have learned Maya and Xgen and then started over for something like this but I was also curious at a point to see how far I could push a free open source tool like Blender.
Rig Demo