The beast - beast
*final submission!!*
A behemoth guarding the gates to the realm beyond. Only those pure of heart are allowed to approach, only those pure of heart will be granted passage.
I submit the girl als prop/creatures/living corpse
Her only purpose is to support the narrative around the creature and establish scale. I considered using a fur solution, but choose not to, as I felt fur might not look good on a creature this big (fur tends to make creatures look small and fluffy), and I wanted to experiment with a more clay-sculpted amd painted look for the creature. Additionally, This model lends itself perfectly for 3d printing now 
I would have liked to use a bit of subsurface scattering on the beast, but it seems iray in Substance Designer doesn't has a default shader for it. Still sticking to iray for now though.
Beautyshots rendered in Substance Designer:
Wireframe (35256 tris) and 2 out of 4 4096 textures (1 set used).
Pedestal is 4857 tris (rock and girl together) and use a single 2048 texture set. To save on polygons, I've thrown away invisible faces from the backside, and used decimation to create a low poly for the girl. Needless to say, she's not fit to be animated
Hope you guys like it!
Cheers,
Stuffkikker
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Hi, it's a bit late, but I'm going to join in anyway! It so happens I made a sketch last year I simply named "Beast", and initially I felt like going with that. Then I thought, no, I want a character and play around with fabrics and decorations and get this dark demon like thing going on, so I made a whole bunch of sketches, did a bunch of blockouts in zbrush, and then... decided I just had to do something with my initial beast sketch anyway. It's this guy:
And I just think he is awesome Not much opportunity to play around with different surface types, garments and such, but I hope to be able to present him in a compelling way anyway. (And, of course, get him finished in time!)
Here is a first blockout sculpt:
A behemoth guarding the gates to the realm beyond. Only those pure of heart are allowed to approach, only those pure of heart will be granted passage.
I submit the girl als prop/creatures/living corpse
Her only purpose is to support the narrative around the creature and establish scale. I considered using a fur solution, but choose not to, as I felt fur might not look good on a creature this big (fur tends to make creatures look small and fluffy), and I wanted to experiment with a more clay-sculpted amd painted look for the creature. Additionally, This model lends itself perfectly for 3d printing now I would have liked to use a bit of subsurface scattering on the beast, but it seems iray in Substance Designer doesn't has a default shader for it. Still sticking to iray for now though.
Beautyshots rendered in Substance Designer:
Wireframe (35256 tris) and 2 out of 4 4096 textures (1 set used).
Pedestal is 4857 tris (rock and girl together) and use a single 2048 texture set. To save on polygons, I've thrown away invisible faces from the backside, and used decimation to create a low poly for the girl. Needless to say, she's not fit to be animated
Hope you guys like it!
Cheers,
Stuffkikker
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Hi, it's a bit late, but I'm going to join in anyway! It so happens I made a sketch last year I simply named "Beast", and initially I felt like going with that. Then I thought, no, I want a character and play around with fabrics and decorations and get this dark demon like thing going on, so I made a whole bunch of sketches, did a bunch of blockouts in zbrush, and then... decided I just had to do something with my initial beast sketch anyway. It's this guy:
And I just think he is awesome
Not much opportunity to play around with different surface types, garments and such, but I hope to be able to present him in a compelling way anyway. (And, of course, get him finished in time!)Here is a first blockout sculpt:
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Been busy, but I got some tie to work further on the sculpt. Pretty much there. Polypaint is just a quick temp to have an idea of where I want to take it. A little more tweaking and then up to low poly stuff. Looking forward to the texturing! Oh, and he will need a bit of a setting, I should probably work on that asap
Aiii, running out of time!! Beast is pretty much there, but it needs a bit of context still...