[WIP] Fury's Horse, Torment - Darksiders Fanart
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Howdy!
If all goes according to plan i'll be making Fury's mount from Darksiders, Torment. Neither are shown in game but they appear for a hot second in the comics.
Feedback welcome. I have no idea what i'm doing :'D Taking him to 3d now.
If all goes according to plan i'll be making Fury's mount from Darksiders, Torment. Neither are shown in game but they appear for a hot second in the comics.
Feedback welcome. I have no idea what i'm doing :'D Taking him to 3d now.
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Basemesh! (Made by me.)
Spreading the front legs a little may also help as they look like theyre going into each other a bit too much at the moment. Good luck! Keep it up!
Destroyed my basemesh and all the details and possibly any benefit of using it in the first place
Got a good roadkill vibe going
Today's progress. Cleaned up the basemesh and adjusted the proportions
Today's progress on the muscling! Still have to hit the back legs.
I do think you should move his head forward, as the current pose doesn't feel natural at all. If you look at the reference you've posted so far, the neck usually goes much further out.
I personally prefer the super sayian hair over the emo girl hair, but im not sure what you are aiming for exactly
Going to keep an eye on this!
C'mon. He just looks like a dick. But also majestic! I want the long segments of hair so it can do pretty flippy stuff in motion. I'm being a bit sexist but Fury doesn't look like a straight up melee girl so i interpreted her horse to be more lithe and elegant than Ruin and obviously less dead than Despair.
Blocked out my major hair shapes again. Saw his back legs were out way too far and tucked them in and they feel way better. Lengthened his hooves a bit to match Despair's better, but they still feel a little funky to me (I made 1 and duplicated all over to see how the shape worked, hence the obvious repeating nicks.) But at least his emo hair is worked out lol
Carved out some of the structures in the knee and back legs. I consider the front legs 85% done. I still see some areas that could be softened and some where i can dig in more. The tufts need to be refined. I freed the elbow off the body a bit for ease of animation.
Started his little feetsies
- Figured out his eyes! That was super hard. Horses don't have brow ridges or any real form of expression with their eyes so i referenced the sketch Joe Mad did of Ruin and ran with it.
- Fixed the forms on his hindquarters
- Added details to the hooves
-Rearranged the fur on his feet, still need to be polished and dynameshed on.
- He has a mouth and teeth now! I have to make them pretty.
I ended up changing the direction of his design. Now he's got a holy crusader theme. Still noodling to see what i like as far as the bridle and breast ornament. But i think im sold on his saddle and flaps.
Heres the 2d plan:
Refined the hair a bit more and added in the fabric panels Not too sure how to do fabric folds convincingly...i'm all ears if you've got a suggestion.
So his rider was given definitive concept art and appeared in the comics - but their horses weren't the definitive horses in the comics. Just bland generic horses. So her steed was never defined and there aren't any hints given anywhere.
I actually reached out to one of the concept artists on both games, Avery Coleman! He was super nice. I always feel really uncomfortable asking concept artists for design suggestions because it's almost asking for free work..so i just asked how they felt about what i had. He suggested that i didn't have a strong one-word theme to my horse, and i need to push a theme harder. SO! Perusing the wiki a bit...
For me, you have totally grabbed the spirit of this beast, great art
Perhaps add some veins at some places, not sure...
Finally got his 'seal' decided. Time to build the bridle cleanly ;____;
Redid his bridle and made little buckles and keepers for it.Now that i'm looking at it i think i can push the seal up higher on his forehead..feels a little off. And i need to redefine his mane pieces. SO MUCH WORK TO DO ;______;
Anywho, im going to sleep.
One thing I will mention for you to keep in mind - think about how you're going to actually tackle all those various strands of hair for the tail and the mane in your re-topology. Oddly enough, it's a topic that just came up on my Artstation challenge thing. I absolutely love, LOVE sculpted hair and fur, so if experience working with stylized do's has taught me anything it's that you need to plan ahead for your re-topo phase. Making all those little strands may be super fun and you can carve out some really neat dynamic movement to the hair, but as he stands right now, that's going to be a nightmare (heh....mare) to re-topo. You'll want to think about the overall shape of the hair - combine strands, make separated 'tubes' more pronounced, or clump pieces together to create larger shapes that are easier to deal with. Just takes a bit of forethought, but holy damn is it worth to make your life easier down the line.