WIP - Bleach fanart statuette - Hyorinmaru

Freemouse

Hi everyone,

For this personal project I chose to sculpt a 3d fanart "collectible" of Hyorinmaru, a character in the Bleach anime, to improve my skills in modeling/sculpting and have a better understanding on anime/stylized anatomy and sculpt. C&C are always welcome and if you have any questions I'd be glad to answer as well !

First I always start by gathering general references (anatomy, sculpts etc.) and also refs for the character (I usually end up doing some mood boards). Here's a link to my pinterest boards if you want to take a look.

Those pics are the boards I made just to havea global idea of the character while working.

 

Freemouse

Here you can see the progress made on the sculpt (wich I took from my older saves so there's some big gaps sorry). I have actually no idea how the pedestal will be, the ice is just a test, and the zspheres will be a dragon (this I might keep).

Freemouse

More progress, still WIP ! Hair is made in blender with curves (except for the first layer wich gives the shape of the hairline, those are temporary placeholder Makkon curves in zbrush DL from here  ) 

Freemouse

More progress on the clothes, now I need to finish the hair and start the base !

Freemouse

Ok so I want to start working on the support so I roughly sketched some ideas and ended up with those but I don't know wich one would be better, thing is the second one would probably need some transparent thingy to help support the dragon in addition to the smoke, I've seen that done on some collectibles but I feel like it's better to avoid it if possible, wich brings to the first option, with ice shards and smoke to help for the support. If you have some suggestions or a preference feel free to comment ^^

carvuliero

If you going to 3d print it you have to consider that first in your design , depends on size material and printer some of parts may be too thin to print or will break at some point 
For over all composition why don't you try something more golden sectiony , I did possible mockup below but you should experiment and found out what work best for you 

Freemouse

@carvuliero Wow thanks a lot for the paintover it's nice of you for taking the time to do it ! Yes I think I should try different approaches in 3d this time so I can see how it goes in different views, I also had someone suggest that I put the dragon's head near the hand to make the composition more dynamic and help it plays its support role rather than a key one

Archsider

whoa nice , did you change anything with the lighting ? I don't get the lighting setup inside zbrush.

Freemouse

@Archsider Hi ! No in fact I didn't bother with renders at this stage so it's just an export (document > export). It's kinda like a printscreen i guess but just of your window sculpt and in the size of your document (in .psd).

Archsider

I see , gj there keep at it

Freemouse

Starting the sculpt for the dragon's head and taking some liberties with the concept compared to the anime, I'm heading to a sharp head and angles since the dragon is made in ice

Freemouse

Going for that kind of pose/support I think (smoke totally wip).

Freemouse

Bar0n

that's so cool, can't wait to see it finished!

I don't remember his human form from the manga, but maybe it was anime only. 

Keep up the good work!

Freemouse

Thanks ! Yeah it's totally possible that it's an ark only present in the anime

Darkzan

Wow, great job here. The character is really cool. Love his pose. 

Freemouse

Thanks  a lot Darkzan !

Progressing on the body before doing the smoke and ice shards, Still a long way to go but it's chill to do ^^

Freemouse

Freemouse

Cleaning and refining hair !

Peter_tran

Love the hair!

LSheridan

Hair, pose, and dragon head all great

Freemouse

@Peter_tran @LSheridan
Thank you both !

Freemouse

Starting to see the end of it, I'm glad I'm learning a lot of new stuff with this project !

Freemouse

Yeah well, I'm calling it done ! More Renders here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/wWdR6