(Critique/Advice) Dragon Sculpt based of Concept

EnriqueGn

Hi everyone, this is my first time posting here, I want to hear your opinion on this model I made, it was done in Zbrush and rendered in Keyshot, I'm really looking to improve and hope I can get some pointers from you.


This is the concept done by Terry Wei.

lotet

solid start!
I would try to match the lighting from the concept a bit more, right now your render is looking a bit stiff and boring.

j_swan

Like lotet said, I think the lighting could use some help. Notice in the concept they have a warm light on the left, and a cool light on the right. Pop a warm orange light in there, and it will instantly pop!

Brian "Panda" Choi

Chest needs to be pushed forward more.

EnriqueGn

Thanks a lot for the advice, I really need to do better renderings, its one of the things that I really have a hard time with, did a couple of fast renders that I want to show you, tried to add a bit of the background to the scene, I hope it's not creating noise, it would be awesome if you could tell me if I'm heading in the right direction.
Will push the chest outwards a bit more tomorrow and post an update.
Thanks a ton again.

lotet

well, the rocks themselves dont match the style of the character, but the overall idea of the background is pretty good.

as for the lighting, I still think you can push it way more. a good thing to try is make everything in the scene a basic gray material, and then try to light everything from there.

EnriqueGn

lotet said:

well, the rocks themselves dont match the style of the character, but the overall idea of the background is pretty good.

as for the lighting, I still think you can push it way more. a good thing to try is make everything in the scene a basic gray material, and then try to light everything from there.

Thanks a lot for the pointers, ill work on it more and post an update as soon as possible.
And yes, the rocks need a ton of work and a change in style, thanks again !

EnriqueGn

Did a couple more of quick renders, trying to push the key light far more, I feel is looking better and far less flat than my first renders, thanks a lot for the advice, also tried to do the gray material tip lotet gave me.
Im experimenting with lighting to see what works better and will do a couple test renders with the poly paint and materials on tomorrow, now I see I know nothing about proper lighting or scene set up, any other advice you have is really appreciated, I will be studying more about lightning and rendering techniques.