I was really happy with how this (the stork) turned out... this is the African Wooly-necked stork. Almost all storks have either a relatively smooth feathered neck or a bare-skin neck, but this (and the Asian Wooly-necked stork), live up to their names. The trick for me was to make that difference look believable on a model that supports all 3 types (smooth, bare-skin and wooly). The model itself, has a smooth neck with a series of collar-shaped transparency planes. I thought about creating morphs using those transparency planes to create some sort of wooly-like surface but really didn't have enough geometry to do that. The solution turned out to be much easier than I thought-- just do a robust bump and displacement map and see what that looks like. About the African Wooly-necked Stork... it is found in Sub-Saharan Africa from Senegambia east to Eritrea, and south to northern Botswana and eastern South Africa. It is usually in or by wetlands such as rivers, lakes, flood plains, marshes, flooded pastures, and waterholes. In eastern Africa, it is most common along the coast, feeding at low tide on estuary mudflats, in mangrove swamps, or on coral reefs. It feeds on fish, frogs, toads, snakes, lizards, large insects and their larvae: including termite alates and army worms, crabs, reptiles, mollusks, and marine invertebrates.