Hand painted Creature
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Another character that I maide in my ''Free time'' 
concept art, 3D sculpt (just to play and establish the proportions, not for baking maps) , low poly and the hand painted texture. I really enjoy developing this kind of characters and textures 
I made this 3D sculpt in Zbrush just for establish the main shapes and proportions.
Try to get a nice silhouette in the low poly model. 
Always fun, the UVs ^^ 
And the final hand painted texture.
concept art, 3D sculpt (just to play and establish the proportions, not for baking maps) , low poly and the hand painted texture. I really enjoy developing this kind of characters and textures I made this 3D sculpt in Zbrush just for establish the main shapes and proportions.Try to get a nice silhouette in the low poly model. Always fun, the UVs ^^ And the final hand painted texture.
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I'd love to see it animated, he must have a silly walk his small legs.
I'll send this to a friend of mine, I'm sure he will be as excited as I am.
Thanks for sharing @chemotoledo !
1 -Get a nice concept (which in this case I made it) with an interesting silhouette, proportions and color palette.
2 -Block out the overall shapes and a little bit of details on a 3D sculpt (in my workflow in ZBrush) this step should be in some way fast, not expend to much time.
3 -Base on this 3D sculpt I start to re-topology (I use Maya) the low poly (in-game) model with approved shapes and proportions.
4 -I optimize the low poly in areas were it doesn't need polygons, neither to form shape or areas of deformation, and always thinking in the silhouette.
5 -UV step, you know, trying to make in the best way all the UV island into rectangles to improve the uv space, with a good texel resolution so all the pieces has the same texture resolution and beware of the bleeding.And I use Maya for this.
6 - And now the fun part, hand paint texture, I use 3D coat between a little bit of Photoshop, all made by hand, no photos. I like to start putting the main color palette on each area of the surface thinking in color variations depending on the skin tones, lighting and shadows and HUE shift, this with an soften brush and then start polishing this render into more detailed and define one, ones its got right info I can start thinking in the details, like scratches and artifacts on the surfaces, of course I help this entire process with different layers blending type like: Multiply, Overlay or color dodge, depending on what I need to achieve.
And then export that texture from 3D Coat which I like it because its fill the space between each uv island to prevent any bleeding (in the pas time I make this on photoshop with some actions) but now 3D Coat helps me on that
So this is like my main workflow, so I hope that it can be useful for you, anyways, if you have any specific question don't hesitate to ask me
Cheers buddy!
Cheers,
Thank's man
About your question on how much is it take me to do all of this, I made this character in my free time, but I can tell you that it can be around 2-3 weeks from 7-8 hours per day. But I know that at the begging maybe it could take longer, specially on people like me that I came more from a background of a 3D artist, not too much as a texture or concept artist, because this kind of texture require to have great skills in texture - painting. But ones you evolve this skills you do it in a way less time and with better quality. So that's why I do and I think its what the industry need, to make this kind of characters and texture in around 2 weeks.
And the main part of this is that I really enjoy making this kind of models and textures, cause it really demand to be a good artist
Hope I can help you, and don't hesitate to ask any other question, I'll be glad to help you.
Cheers,
I'm a 3dMax user myself, I normally retopo in zbrush, but am considering bringing my low poly into 3dMax to further optimize the mesh.
For a well and more complex retopo, I do it on Maya with quad draw, which I'm so comfortable with it, and when its like a simple object I do some times in Zbrush, just when its a simple objects. Another tool (which is a plug-in) I use Diamant Tool for Maya, which is sooo!! useful for me to model, tweak and optimize models.