Three Headed Monster

Heather_Bea

Hi there! For my Final for class, we are making a three headed monster! I am a few days into the sculpt, and would love some critiques. We were told to change a few things in the concept, the first being to offset the heads. The second to make him a skinnier. Other then that I am doing my best to match! I have only been placing where spikes and such would go, and will soon start to shape them out more.

Heather_Bea

Once again, critiques are most welcome!

Brian "Panda" Choi

How are you planning to define the more chitinous looking portions of the Cerberus creatures vs the leathery skin.

Or are you planning for a different material entirely?

Deathstick

I think scars go inwards not outwards. It does look like concept artist drew it like a vein, but it looks like it's supposed to be a scar, so I'm finding that a bit strange myself (at least that's how I read it)

DireWolf

Looking really nice. I'd emphasis the triangular shapes of their heads a bit more and perhaps give them sharper angle to make it more pronounce. IMO that triangle is what makes the concept quite menacing. I'd also emphasis the width difference between the jaw and the upper head too.

Heather_Bea

Jaded Eye Panda- Not sure, sorry. I'll be hand painting it?

Deathstick-Fixed that, thanks for pointing that out, I was unsure which to go with.

Direwolf- Thanks, I've changed it on that head and he looks a lot better now, I'll be changing the rest soon enough!

Brian "Panda" Choi

If you can, nail down as much of the surface details in the sculpt so when you bake down AO, Cavity, etc. maps, you can have an easier time of detailing and painting in the diffuse texture.

Snader

Scars can go outwards because it's somewhat hyperactive tissue. However, usually there's much more flesh cut away than the scars overproduce. In this case, yeah, it would be concave.

Heather_Bea

I took all advice and this is just about my final sculpt. I've started retoppling and have a 15k limit.

DireWolf

Great progress! Now give the back legs some love

Heather_Bea

I messed with the sculpt a bit more, but had to get started on re-toppling and Baking. Here is my AO and cavity. I've started throwing down some color as well

skodone

with these colors he looks kinda cute

Heather_Bea

I think this is going to be my final paint for now. (The deadline is in the morning :P) But I plan to come back to this later and paint a lot more!


(This is out of Unreal)

DireWolf

Looks great. I'm not sure about his skin looking so soft tho, taking hints from concept he seems to be covered with hard scales. You could probably cover his body with scales or use hard skin animal as reference such as Rhino

MattyWS

I think it's lost some silhouette from the concept but otherwise looking cool!

Alphavader

came here to say: awesome!
I like the shapes, the idea and the look.
It could be a bit more crisp - looks a bit too smooth/soft for me.
For example the transistion on the back between the horn shaps on the leg to the skin.
Also the shape for the forehand/leg looks from the sideview a bit weird


Cheers

Dave Jr

Looking pretty awesome,

agree with others on the loss of silhouette, but that happens with tight deadlines.

I understand this is for school, but come back to it and push it some more!

Heather_Bea

Thank you all for the advice! I am definitely going to take everything said here as well as on my school critiques and try to make this better.

DireWolf

How was the school critique, if you don't mind?

skodone

yeah that would be interesting to hear!

Heather_Bea

The critique was mostly positive, he got more nit-picky then usual which is a good sign ^_^
He did not mention much about the coloring, but I will be sure to try to sharpen it up and get rid of the softness. And as for the shape loss, I completely agree. I was in Orthographic mode for most of the modeling, that killed a lot of the shape and I am kicking myself for it. I'll do my best to fix that up.

Here were the notes I took from the critique-

Necks are too long,
Lost shapes on right head
Metal needs love
Teeth have been changed poorly
Build out the stuff on the foot in geo, needs more color
Re-sculpt out the right guys’ jaw.
More variations on the middle guy’s jaw, (the sides) Its also empty on the side of head
Left guy is plain. More variation on jaw.
Maybe add some plates on the butt area to break up the empty form


And if anyone is interested, here is what it looks like in consistant colors in max - http://th06.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2014/259/a/9/thdasd_by_kazaie-d7zgkxw.png