Dragon Studies! WIP

tsmith3d · Oct 2016

Wanted to go back to studying dragon sculpture to help improve my anatomy/sculpting skills

W'll be doing more dragons in the near future!

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Maxilator · Oct 2016

Looks really good, but the normal seems pretty shallow, like the scales and features looks a bit painted on or flat for some reason, I think I can see a normal map there so I don't really know what might be causing this.

tsmith3d · Oct 2016

Might be the HDR environment? To much ambient is not causing the form shadows to show through, that and yeah I can work the normal intensity more:)

Here is a render with just the normal and AO maps

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tsmith3d · Oct 2016

Figured I'd turn my Girlfriend into a dragon rider ;P

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tsmith3d · Oct 2016

Nother face study

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tsmith3d · Oct 2016

Nother study!

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jose.fuentes · Oct 2016

are you concepting these your self or are you finding concept art? They look pretty solid either way!

tsmith3d · Oct 2016

Just concepting these myself

supersnakelx · Oct 2016

tsmith3d said:

Nother face study

This has too much of a horse face for me and too many horns parallel to each other.

tsmith3d said:

Nother study!

This one I like very much how bulky he looks. Other than my design preferences, they both look good.

Maxilator · Oct 2016

It was probably the environment, the ao and normal render looks fine. Those are some really awesome sculpts, you're really getting some cool shapes going on there, I especially like the first face study, looks like some kind in water dragon to me with it's blue color and the teeth that are a bit reminiscent of those of a hippo (In a good way)! How do you go about creating the scales? I can see that the face looks a bit more like they are sculpted and the neck looks more like they are individual IMM's or something, am I correct?

tsmith3d · Oct 2016

Yeah, I make a separate tool that is just a scale library then I make it a insert multi mesh brush and use the curve stroke to get a nice stroke of scales over the base mesh

tsmith3d · Oct 2016

Nother study, Heavily influenced by the Anthony Jones Griffin

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artofmars · Oct 2016

I really like the color pallets your using on each of these, Im curious what would happen if you push them further..

Dragon Studies! WIP

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