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for the hair, you'll want to convert the quads to tris before baking iirc

Finished up the high poly assets here. I'll render the leaves out to some hero leaf clumps and probably add some sort of ground to... ground things. 


Fabi_G That looks really cool, like something you'd see in some deep dark souls cavern. Maybe you can add a slumped skeleton tucked away behind one of the side pedestals to emphasize scale. 

Dabou Master said:

Damn that's serious improvement ! Especially on the eyes, incredible how more expressive it is now !

You're doing some sick work ! (And I'm always a bit late to mention it , it's crazy how time flies by)

What's sure about you is that you clearly understood how to learn, well at least a learning way that works incredibly well for you. I'm stunned by how quick and how well you improve. I definitely need to stop spreading my self-teaching all over the place to have some similar results I guess .

So you got trapped into WoW and yet managed to keep learning, that's some achievement

The mine cart is also very impressive, you have improved your style, and you don't seem to want to stop improving ^^. At least it brings good jealousy from my side, it's truly inspiring to improve myself.

You did mention something that resonated with me though. "Anxiety control", and I couldn't help myself but automatically read "artistic anxiety control", like it's really a thing happening to me right now where I had to figure a lot of things in my life and lost a lot of time not doing 3D. And now I'm scared to even start doing something in 3D, everything seems so hard to do ! So I guess we all fall into that pit once in a while, but considering you can control your anxiety by sculpting a human skull while I do by modeling a mug ... I suppose I fell into a pit a little bit deeper than yours 😁.

Anyway, it's always cool to see you post here

Thank you for the compliments! Means a lot.

I do question my progress and results quite often, what you mentioned, about being scared of starting a new project after a long hiatus is very real to me, that almost made gave up actually, but with small steps I managed to get over and go through it, so please please do not give up, it doesn't matter it its a mug or kratos itself, what really matters is the action you took of persisting through this fear, maybe what can help also is to follow a course of someone or a topic that you like, that helped me a lot to get the basics again.  

I stopped posting here again, i actually went almost 2 months without creating nothing, Im not sure if it's because of the change on my goals, which are to go more throught the character/creature art field. 

But here I am again, I want to share with guys some work.

This head I did after doing the face features, I wonder if you guys can say who I used as reference.

After this I start a whole body study, it was REALLY hard, the blocking stage was a nightmare, I can't stress enough how frustrating it was, but after the blocking it went smoother, I want to get back to this guy and actually finish him whole, but this is what I get so far:


Everything i blocked out I just hid because they're pretty much blobs.

Anyways, that's where stopped for a while doing anything, and to get back to it I decided to give a break on lessons and studies and actually create something using a concept, so I chose a concept from the amazing artist Yu Nguyen on artstation and started working, I gotta say I'm having a lot o fun creating this guy.

It's still in the blockout stage and I have some concerns on how I will solve some problems like getting him into a pose and deal with the clothes and its folds, have no idea how I will actually do that actually, because sculpting the folds in a A pose doesnt make much sense, those folds should change when the character sits on the frog saddle for example, so I would love some tips on how to approach that.


That's it for now, I will keep you guys updated on this character in the future, stay safe out there whoever is reading this.

Anyway, it's always cool to see you post here

Hey Zetheros, thank you for the kind words! There's indeed some purely aesthetic parts to her face mechanisms but I'm intending for the pupil piece to be able to rotate (maybe the other thin pieces as well). Hopefully that will balance the big gear not making total sense! In hindsight, I could have planned this better for sure. I wonder if there's anything to do about it at this point...

As for polycount I fully agree, I might have a try at adding more resolution, even though I have no clue how well it will go so far down the line. This gave me the push to try though!

Regarding the hair, I absolutely need more practice. Might be a good idea to do some studies, in order to see what looks best before my next project

Pxgeek, I had given some thought to giving her kintsugi detailing! I ultimately decided not to go with it as the textures already feel a little bit too detail oriented. I'm unsure if it's just me, but I feel like I have a lot of big and small, but not a lot of medium. Thank you for the idea though, it could have worked!

I absolutely agree about the unspecified blue material, I was not able to figure out a logical solution to what it could be. I settled for something that looked like it was painted on, but I wonder if that's the right idea.

If you have any idea on this material could become, I'd be all ears!

For now I'll try and play with the poly resolution, see if I can do anything about it. I'll also give some more thought to what to do with the blue material, but I already feel pretty stumped.

Catch you with the next update! :]

cool and creative concept. The colours are good and complementary. Some of the mechanical detail on her face doesn't seem to serve any functional purpose, especially the larger gear. This is fine imo, but personally I find that aesthetics = form + function. Some areas seem a bit sparse on polygons, shoulders, and the metallic caps on her arms and legs. Don't be afraid to use more polys to make sure silhouettes are nice and smooth. Hair could use work, but hair is really hard to do in the first place and you'll get better at it over time

Hope that helps, good luck