Bumble Ryhippogriff (WIP)

Chris Kuhner

Hello ladies and gents! I thought it would be fun to take one of my old illustrations and make it into the 3D. I've only had a couple days to work on it so far, but I'd really appreciate any feedback you might have.

I'd like to maintain the overall look of my concept, however, I'm totally open to suggestions and changes in the creature's design to make it more believable or interesting. Thank you in advance!

Here's the concept:



This is the block in so far:

Chris Kuhner

Most everything is blocked in. Starting the detail now:

PogoP

Haha that's really nice. Keep up the great work, this has a lot of character to it

KristaW

I love this! I think it would be really cool to get the texture to have a similar look as your painting.

Chris Kuhner

Thanks you guys! Here's some texture progress. Spent some time experimenting with things and ideas. Still have a ways to go, critiques and suggestions welcome!

BARDLER

I don't think the color scheme works at the moment. It feels kind of random because the body has cool colors on bottom and warm on top, but the head is the opposite, and then the arm doesn't really blend at all either. I don't think the colors you picked are the problem, but more with the structure of the colors and where they are applied.

I know in the hangout you were saying that you thought most of the colors in your painting were from the lighting and not his actual skin. Even if that is true I think his color structure is a lot more believable, and natural looking. I like the warm tones in his face and how they gradient into the cool in his body, but then you just have little hints of those warm tones around his elbow.

Just my thoughts. Either way I think he looks kick ass.

PaulP

Looking cool Chris, should make an interesting piece! The only thing that really stands out for me is the contrast between the yellow arm and the blue-grey body. It makes it feel like his arm is disconnected. Maybe blending some of the colours, so the blue-grey covers a bit of his top arm, would fix this problem.

Looking forward to the next update!

Snafubar7

Awesome color choices, I really like the concept. I agree with PaulP about contrast between the arm and body.

lotet

haha, I love it

jfeez

oh man, this is awesome =D i agree with paulP as well. Cant wait to see more!

MrHobo

Yeah Pauls right i think. The arm color is sort of breaking things. Also Bardler has a point about the colors on the head. Put more of the grays and cooler colors on the chin and warm stuff on top so it flows with the body.

I'll be looking forward to seeing this set up with flowers and what not as well.

silver_hoodlum

Love the idea in general, small nice bit

Chris Kuhner

Thanks for all of the great feedback! I twiddled around with some color schemes/layouts based on your suggestions. Which do you prefer? Or maybe there's a solution I haven't fleshed out here. Thanks in advance everyone.

AlbinLundahl

Prefer number 1

StrongRum

This is really cool, I like both 1 and 2. Are you going to create the background because that could influence the decision depending on what sort of pallette you use? Also I reckon you should rotate the wings to be facing more upwards, I think it would give a nicer silhouette. Awesome work, I really like the original illustration.

RMeeks

I like 1

Brian "Panda" Choi

I like saturate oranges, so 3 for me.

KristaW

3! or 2

3Dyan

Really nice work!
Personally, I think a middle ground between 1 and 2 would work best.

OnionCake

Definitely #1, it has the best belly/back contrast that's most common in nature. :]

Snafubar7

3! closer to the colors of the concept

Chris Kuhner

Hey guys, thanks for all of the great input! I started making some of the environment and thought it would be good to do a quick B&W block-in to get an idea of what things would look like before stuff occurred.

I'll have an update with Rumble Bee's final texture/color scheme soon! Thanks again and as always, crits and comments welcome!

MrHobo

This is looking quite smashing, much swag unto you.
I think you could push this harder in terms of your composition though. I think there needs to be more depth to the shot. I hope you do not think it to forward of me but I did a quick paintover to give an idea of what I mean.



Right now you have fore and mid ground but nothing in back really which is really flattening everything out. I pushed Mr. Bee down into the flowers more and tilted him (I think you could also rotate him to face the camera a bit more so he's less full on profile.) a bit and added some more flowers in the back to give some depth and frame him. Just my 2 cents though. Loving the way this is coming along so far. You've been a s busy as a... Bee?

Chris Kuhner

Hey man, thanks for all of the input! I've been tinkering around with what you said and its definitely coming along. Not ready to post the final image, but thought I'd at least share some of my progress on the environment props. Textures are still in progress.

Dimfist

I wish I had one.

Sanro

awesome work! can't wait to see it finished

rockstar6

Wow, cool looking stuff dude! I prefer option 1 with the color scheme, works best for the char.

Keep up the good work, will keep an close eye to this thread

Chris Kuhner

Thanks everyone! Here's another update. Arranged the environment, rigged and posed. Still have some textures to finish (wings and buds in particular) and will be applying a motion blur so the wings look like they're flapping about.

This wasn't the shot I was originally going for, but I kind of like it, so I think I'll find a way to make this and the other shot work. Comments and crits welcome as always, thanks!

Karmageddon

Sent you a paintover

oxblood

3Ftw

Iciban

wow great colour choice. Love the lightening too. what do you use for render?

Chris Kuhner

Finished! (probably... I think, haha) Here's a pretty finalized shot at least. Still have yet to do wireframe/turn around renders etc.

Chai

Haha been following this since you started, so bloody awesome !!

Just my 2 cents regarding rendering, feels like there's too much contrast in the saturation.
Did some paintovers for giving the render more tone - just used hue colorizer with 20% opacity, and bit of vignette to pop things out.

ILLMATICC

beautiful work man

Chris Kuhner

Thanks guys!

@ Chai: I agree 100%, it's funny because I did exactly that; but I definitely need to push it a bit more so things feel more cohesive. I'm also debating turning those flowers to more of a pink instead of such a bright red. Thanks man, good eye!

PaulP

Great work Chris, this piece turned out really cool! I agree with toning down that red a little, a pink or purple hue might work nicely. Also a little less saturation and a little more blue into the hazy background might help push the foreground a bit more.

Kazperstan

nawwww can i take him home and raise him to be big and strong?

he might benefit from a bit of a stronger rim light for the horn area, especially with the leaf behind, I cant help but look at where the two are touching as its edge on edge

Chris Kuhner

EDIT: Kind of thought the background was almost too blue. So I made a subtle variation and posted it below. would really appreciate your input

Ello, ello! Made some revisions per the feedback you all gave. Here's a breakdown of the things I added/took away:

- More vignette
- Hue shifting
- Rim light for the horn
- Removed leaf that was creating tangent near the horn



Revision of the revision below...

fatihG_

Nice stuff man, though I am kinda missing some reds on the creature.

Some fake SSS, or just painting a bit of reds in the crevices would probably make it look a bit more organic.

Chris Kuhner

Something like this?

fatihG_

Hey man, I cant really see what you changed..

But check the attachment to see what I meant.