Rock Giant - First Mudbox Character

FlyingAce

Hello! This is my first attempt at creating a character in mudbox (up until now I've done all of my models in Maya). I don't have any specific concept I'm working from, the reason I decided to try out mudbox was because I was having so much trouble coming up with an interesting rock giant concept by drawing.

So any general critiques on the model or the concept or any thing would be greatly appreciated!

Brian "Panda" Choi

Have you tried looking online for an interesting concept to work from?

Decent run for a first time in Mudbox model.

FlyingAce

I kinda started by looking at this guy. But I wanted the giant to have fewer small pieces of rock and more like she was once one big boulder that all cracked apart.



I also tried some sketches but concept art is definitely an area in which I need to improve (among other things XD). But I obviously deviated a lot from there.

Brian "Panda" Choi

What real rock references are you looking at for the medium to small details?

FlyingAce

I was using a lot of references of pieces of granite like this one.


But I realized that my end goal was to texture it in a more flat, graphic fashion and trying to mimic realistic cracks wasn't quite getting that. I tried redrawing it again (the side view doesn't match up right but I was mostly trying to show the "spine" rocks) to help out a bit then I blocked it out quickly in Maya.

(Ahhhh hopefully I'm doing this posting thing right, if I'm being a nuisance please let me know ).

FlyingAce

So I tried out sculpting the newer concept (it goes a lot faster the second time, wow!). Some parts still look a bit mushy. But hopefully it looks better than the first attempt.