Monstrous Mounts 3: Termite Sloth
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Hello polycount! This is the third in a series of creature sculpts I've done in order to get better at zbrush and explore creature design. The termite mound and termite sloth were both sculpted in ZBrush 4R7 and the scene was created and rendered in Cinema 4D R16
Polypaint Diffuse Map 2048x2048
Termite Sloth Normal Map 2048x2048
Diffuse map for exhibit things, 1024x1024
Exhibit things normal map, 1024x1024
This was all created in about a month. The termite sloth itself could have been more optimized but it was not intended to be in a game but rather for rendering in Cinema 4D, the lowpoly mesh was simply the lowest subdivision level in zbrush cleaned up. The highpoly of the sloth is about 54 million polygons if I recall, the exported obj being 4+GB.
Thank you for viewing and let me know what you think! The next two posts will images of the first two entries to my Monstrous Mounts series, Marsh Menace and Blood Tapir.
Polypaint Diffuse Map 2048x2048
Termite Sloth Normal Map 2048x2048
Diffuse map for exhibit things, 1024x1024
Exhibit things normal map, 1024x1024
This was all created in about a month. The termite sloth itself could have been more optimized but it was not intended to be in a game but rather for rendering in Cinema 4D, the lowpoly mesh was simply the lowest subdivision level in zbrush cleaned up. The highpoly of the sloth is about 54 million polygons if I recall, the exported obj being 4+GB.
Thank you for viewing and let me know what you think! The next two posts will images of the first two entries to my Monstrous Mounts series, Marsh Menace and Blood Tapir.
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November 2014
This animal uses its false head perched on its secondary neck to appear alert and ready to strike as it eats with its lower, "true" mouth. In addition it can breathe through the upper nostrils while feeding on swampy foiliage.
"This is a tapir which gets its name from the ability to dilate the blood vessels in its red face at will, altering the appearance of the spots. Young tapir's skin reddens with age & the spots help them camouflage into the forest floor."
Sculpted in zbrush then retopologized in 3D-Coat, projected in xNormal and assembled in Cinema 4d. All teeth unique and hand sculpted.
Tapirs be awesome in a freaky kinda way :P.
Just tried my hand at as realistic creature sculpting as I could while learning zbrush. Some parts are a bit stylized but in each iteration I've tried to do more with the given polygons, adding more texture and color variation.
And yeah tapirs are awesome and freaky, especially when they don't have eyes ._.