I made a Starcraft Creature !

sci_mind

hi everyone.

I've been working on this piece for the past couple months I think by now i've put give or take 100 hours. Mainly due to massive revisions and learning curves.

It was was sculpted and textured in Zbrush, retopoed and unwraped in 3d coat, and rendered in marmoset 2. I just finished rigging him in maya as well.

What do you guys think?

http://imgur.com/6550jSi



I plan on rendering this in vray later on

Julien Noel

Hey, It looks quite fine!
But how many tris does it counts? it seems to bhave a very high polycount?
The color texture could be more d

sci_mind

Thank you it's 41,102 polys. Im still working on the textures actually.

sci_mind

I know 40k seems a bit high but i really wanted to keep the silhouette of the character since i feel like my texturing is not as good as my modeling.

Thaiauxn

This is great! Reminds me of Abathrur. 100 hours was definitely well worth it.

My note: Highlights on the belly are mildly distracting. May wanna bump it down by a stop or two. Otherwise - love it.

Brian "Panda" Choi

Can you post the texture flats so we can study?

sci_mind

my maps

sci_mind

Thaiauxn wrote: »

This is great! Reminds me of Abathrur. 100 hours was definitely well worth it.

My note: Highlights on the belly are mildly distracting. May wanna bump it down by a stop or two. Otherwise - love it.

Thank you I did reference him from my piece. funny thing is that i never knew its name. Yeah i do plan to r light him soon.

Stirls

Very pretty piece, man. But that's a whole lot of islands. Was there absolutely no way to condense it?

Nuclear Angel

As someone said above, the bright stomach is sort of distracting. But your creature is adorable. Good job.

sci_mind

Yeah I'm hoping i'll have time to go back and redo the uvs.

Thank you guys:)

BradMyers82

nice work here! The orange balls/sacks look really cool. I think thats def. the strong point of this piece. However the, shell areas and skin are not reading that well yet. One thing that could help is making a bigger divide between skin and shell parts. Do not have them blend together, and make the transition of the shell and skin very clear. Also work on seperating the materials more via specular and gloss. I'd also consider adding more color and detail to the shell areas in general. Getting some greens and blues in there would be cool. Nice work tho so far man!

sci_mind

I had the same feeling, thank you for pointing that out. I was thinking of using substance painter. In there I would be able to paint my own spec/gloss map directly on my mesh. perhaps that will help separate the different features of the mesh.

sci_mind

bump hope you dont mind.