Creature - Tar Bukhi (LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK)

jhoythottle

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For my next project, I'll be modeling this little cutie:



Concept by Nicholas Cloister

Here is my documented progress so far:









Critiques welcome! This is my first attempt at a creature of this type. Any tips for brushes, alphas, or technique would be helpful.

I'm thinking about trying Substance Painter/Designer for the detailed parts of the body. Never used it before, so there might be a lot of trial and error with this one. Should be fun!

Tectonic

looks like you're on the right track

jhoythottle

Thanks tectonic!

Here's another small update.

Robert_H

It looks awesome so far, really love the design! The way I see it, the creature has a exoskeleton type body like a crab so maybe more hard surfaces on the tail area. You may plan to do this already haha but I just thought I would say something but I love it so far you've done an awesome job so far!

jhoythottle

Thanks Robert_H!

Here's another update. I think this is as much detail as I want to go into in Zbrush. I've never used Substance Designer/Painter before, but I think I'm going to spend the next few days familiarizing myself with it to create the finer details of the skin. If anyone has any tutorials or resources to help me get started, please post them. It would be a huge help.

Mimiws

Great progress so far! Are you aiming for a stylized version of it? or heavy detailed? So far it is great.

jhoythottle

Thanks Mimiws!

I'm leaning more towards realistic/heavily detailed. It's not going to be as painterly as the concept. Not sure how my skills will be in Substance P/D, though. I'm looking for any resources that will give me a crash course on the program.

jhoythottle

Bakes and Retop done!

I decided to not worry about polycount on this one. I aimed for around 35K tris. The version here is 35,408. Time to download a trial to substance designer/painter and get to work. I found some pretty good tutorials on youtube, but if anyone else knows of some great sources please post the links! I could use all the help I can get!

jhoythottle

I've gotta stop updating polycount threads late at night. Bumping for bumps. Bump.

jhoythottle

So I've been playing with Substance Painter.  I still have quite a few changes I'd like to make, but I thought I'd post my progress for feedback.  Critiques welcome!

Maxilator

It seem to have the same amount of gloss all over, try playing around with the value on different areas, for example you might make the shields matte or something.

jhoythottle

Thanks for the feedback, @Maxilator I'll try to add some more variance to my materials in the next update.

jhoythottle

Oh man, I'm having a lot of fun with Substance Painter.  I've still got a little work to do with some gloss maps and some general color correction, but I feel like I'm almost at the end.  I'm still hoping for some feedback in case I'm missing anything vital.

jhoythottle

I still want to add some scratches and some scuff to the plates on his torso and belly.  Overall, I think the skin needs to be a tad bit darker as well.  Also, I might add some strings of saliva dripping from his teeth.  I'd love to know what you guys think!

jhoythottle

Whelp.  I think I'm calling this guy done for now.  I darkened the skin a lot, since it was way too pale before.  I'd still love to hear any critiques you may have as long as they aren't too drastic.  Substance Painter is my new favorite program, I couldn't have done this creature without it.



  I've got another project lined up and I'm excited to start, so stay tuned.

jhoythottle

One last bump for the road...