The Prince of Misanthropy -->by KingKellogg

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-FINAL EDIT-

The Prince of Misanthropy 

Many winters ago, a man with a heart as cold as snow ruled a castle. One dark night, an old hag came knocking at his door, pleading for protection from the elements. Selfish, he cast her away without a second thought. It was then the hag turned into a young maiden, a witch, transforming the prince into a beast which would reflect his cruel nature. For his greed and cruelty the prince was gifted a rose and warned that he will forever be a beast if he did not find true love before the last petal dropped.

All scenes and pics are from SketchFab, so no fancy materials or lighting. Model is 100% realtime and rigged.  
Sketchfab 3D scene   -Here- 


All my textures- 

Wish I knew crap about rendering programs...But sadly I do not.

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For my version of Beast I wanted to do something more traditional, so from there I just looked up the definition of Beast( creative right?) and it is pretty much, furry creature. While everyone else is reinventing the wheel, I think I'll stay back here trying to get it right maybe explore more later down the road.

From there I simply found art works of lions and other mammals to study their anatomy and musculature and pretty soon I felt motivated and well, created the Beast below- And Zod the Immortal, cause he is awesome.


As for the backstory...I havent wrote it out yet.Though One thing I did want to achieve is focus on the hatred the Beast feels toward the world for what had happened to him. Due to what happened he became untrusting, resentful and eventually began to hate humanity and himself.


 -----Go to the end of pages to see how he has changed, doesnt look like a nerd who dropped fritos on his keyboard anymore----

http://i.imgur.com/Jto8sqw.png ----------------The begining--------------------

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Ok, basic update time.First a test=Now a mistake XD

Then a update on the previous version, not sure which one to use-

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Low poly time.
...forgot to crop, but I have to work soon so no time T_T

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Got a bit of time, so here is my update ( got a Zbrush trial..I want it T_T)

I wanted to go with a more traditional Beast, I always imaged him as being spiteful and angry toward the world for what had happened to him, so I though I would try and explore his rage rather than the sorrow.

Got this pretty good so far, gotta work on a few textures and then onto the real details.

Any criticism would be good.

Spoon

The head model was going quite good, I think.
A bit of a shame you jump into low poly so fast, I would have liked to see the rest of the model explored and developed a bit further, first.
Congrats on your new job, if thats the case
If it is any motivation boost, im sure most of us are also working fulltime, so you wont be put behind because of it

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Spoon said:

The head model was going quite good, I think.
A bit of a shame you jump into low poly so fast, I would have liked to see the rest of the model explored and developed a bit further, first.
Congrats on your new job, if thats the case
If it is any motivation boost, im sure most of us are also working fulltime, so you wont be put behind because of it

Thanks! And don't worry, there is agood amount more work in high poly, I have a lot of plans for that 100k >:)

Most the body is going to be covered up with some other parts, I have a ton of polys and UV space left.  

Thanks for the comment btw.

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Ok! Update time, I added more natural variation to the fur, based off of skunks and leopards for some of the variation. -

Now it is time for the fun to begin.

Yoji

Hey man, looks real angry, I like it, though I don't quite understand your workflow, personally I don't work with color until after the sculpt is done, I should think about it more I guess. I'll be looking at the updates though!
Good luck in the contest!

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Yoji said:

Hey man, looks real angry, I like it, though I don't quite understand your workflow, personally I don't work with color until after the sculpt is done, I should think about it more I guess. I'll be looking at the updates though!
Good luck in the contest!

Thanks man! And yeah, I work a bit differently. I like to see the way the colors contour with the body to see if it seems right to me so I can adjust accordingly. 

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I accidental applied the alpha test texture I was doing for some fur to the body as well..

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Got super sick so progress slowed a bit- did some hand drawn fur normals/alpha/diffuse textures. 

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Last update for the night- mirrored hair for showing it better, part is dark for some reason . Noticed back hairs oh stripes of lacking fur, might keep them but make them look less uniform and more natural.

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So, the problem with copy fur is it screws up the shader, should be an easy fix. Liking the way the fur is working, still way inder poly count 75k left. So I have lots of room to do fun things with this!! >:D

Also, added more fur, subtle fur down neck too, need to fix some of the clipping.

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Just been fluffing that fur up. Somehow managed to screw the normals again .

Thought I knew what was up with that face sides hair....But no..I do not know.

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Last update of the day- The eyes, also any clues how to fix the hair on the other side? It isn't that the normals are reversed..Idk what to do.

Yoji

Umm, did the texture get inverted? How are you mirroring that part of the hair? Looking evil though

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Yoji said:

Umm, did the texture get inverted? How are you mirroring that part of the hair? Looking evil though

...That is probably what happened, I was using maya and did duplicate special with -1 on x-axis ( I think)

And thanks! I thought I'd try and go with the view that everyone besides Beauty sees in the Beast, so evil and scary is perfect.

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Backface culling should stay off T_T
Anyways, played with the settings some more and got this >:D . Hideous right?
And now for a normal update, look at that luscious fur!..Now I get to move onto the parts I haven't shown or talked about. Woot!

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Update time, he is rigged! Mwuahahaa. Now you can see some of the detailes like his broken finger deformed fingers and unfinished hoofs...
Not all fur is in place and there are many missing elements.Like his normal maps.

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Got a prop done for the scene- (one thing to tweak in it)

Yoji

Cool scene mockup man. Waiting for the details Don't forget about the pedestal

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Yoji said:

Cool scene mockup man. Waiting for the details Don't forget about the pedestal

Thanks man! Gonna try and get the thing more flushed out tomorrow! Got some plans for it.  

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Tiny update here - Just showing the basic rig- Updating thing he is holding as of now. Have tons of extra polygons so Why not.

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Ok, just another small update for today- added ankle furs.
http://i.imgur.com/nA53jbc.png

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Just fooling around-

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Ok, so I need to find an Actual rendering program. So far all of mine have been in realtime.

So any tips on an East but good one to use? Also I need to fix fur on that foot. Something went....wrong.

And that snow took up all my scene polys T_T

Yoji

Hey man, working out great, I really love your scene comp. I'm confused about what he's holding in his hand but I guess I'll find out later (looks like an egg now).  I encourage you to read the Q&A thread cause that will really help you out on what tools to choose for your final renders and comp. Nice job, keep it up!

KingKellogg

XD It really looks like an egg right now.I'll check it out! Need to step my rendergame up.

Update- made oil, look like..well oil including colors!

Yoji

Oh man, I really think you took up a real challenge choosing that snow seen. I find snow hard in the extreme parts of hard. Good luck! I don't know how oil reacts in contact with snow but I know liquids go through it in a "dissolving/ eat away" like fashion depending on the temperature and viscosity. Thinking the oil might be from that lamp thingy, I think it would be pretty warm too.

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Yoji said:

Oh man, I really think you took up a real challenge choosing that snow seen. I find snow hard in the extreme parts of hard. Good luck! I don't know how oil reacts in contact with snow but I know liquids go through it in a "dissolving/ eat away" like fashion depending on the temperature and viscosity. Thinking the oil might be from that lamp thingy, I think it would be pretty warm too.

Yeah, the snow is a real challenge XD...As for the oil, I need to look up the types and textures and qualities it holds, like thicknes/melting point/spread and stuff. This project is tough, I am trying to keep it super efficient ( 1 texture set) so thinking of how to make it better is really hard..

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Update first post with newest stuff.

Yoji

Hey cool update! Only thing I'm super confused about is if you went ahead and used sketchfab, why not just put the link for the 3d model?? @_@

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Yoji said:

Hey cool update! Only thing I'm super confused about is if you went ahead and used sketchfab, why not just put the link for the 3d model?? @_@

XD It is there "All scenes and pics are from SketchFab, so no fancy materials or lighting. Model is 100% realtime and rigged.  
Sketchfab 3D scene   -Here- "

Yoji

Oh hey sorry, didn't see the highlighted link. Thanks!

KingKellogg

No problem man.