The Beast - Looking for Belle

Row'

Hi!
 I finally decided to give a shot at this contest  

Story:
 On one fateful night, Belle decided to escape the Beast's castle. She fled into the dark and snowy forest. Beast, awoke by a terrible intuition, immediatly jumped from his bed and ran after her, knowing the forest is the last place you want be during the night...

Goals:
- Create a full character: keep it quite simple and efficient so I can manage to produce a polished piece on time.
- Work on narration: using the pose and pedestal to tell a small story.
- Improve my character creation workflow, especially during Zbrush phase.

Inspirations :
From the beginning, I wanted my beast to looks like a bull/musk ox. I'm aiming for a quite cartoony style.


I came up with some quick concepts. This one being the most relevant of the Beast's look and scene ambiance. The pose will be more dynamic though.


LATEST UPDATE :

.csm

Sweet idea, however, his overall expression makes him to appear too humble/innocent for me. But it's just me!

Row'

.CSM: He is quite of a nice guy, you know! But yeah, he looks really innocent on the previews pics. It's part of the concept as I want him to look worried and scared. I will  work on his expression and features to give him a bit older aspect though  

Today's update: added somes details and gave him clothes. Slightly modified the face.

Row'

I'm quite satisfied with the high poly. I'll start retopology soon (but I would like to work on hair mock up first). 




By the way, here are some links which greatly helped me so far  : 

Organic modelling in Zbrush 
Character creation overview  
Rope IMM tutorial  

- Wraith -

So cool, I love cartoon design

Row'

Thank you Wraith !

I'm done with the body retopology. Time to work on hair and clothes now !

Yadoob

Nice robe, you've got some messy topology on his rear end but he has good personnality

Row'

Yadoob: You sir have a keen eye for messy topologies. I shall fix that as soon as possible