Sketchbook: Gino Ardelean

GinoArdelean

Hey everyone. Wanted to become more active in the community! C&C more than welcomed.

Alien Interpretation from Aaron Griffin's Sketch.

(Link to original: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LkyeR.)

GinoArdelean

Lizardman

GinoArdelean

Lizardman v.2

Soo I got a few days ago an amazing critique and decided to really push it. Did a lot of cleaning in the mesh and in the high poly, also I think I defined a lot more the materials, Especially the jacket, Skin, and Eyes. Pretty much a redo D; I think I should have been able to improve it a lot more but I m still lacking so I'll be working hard so that in the future i can come back and improve it even more!









I think those are the best shots but I posted a few more shots in Artstation if someone wants to see some more.

Rendered in Marmoset.

GinoArdelean

GinoArdelean

Double posting here just to have it in the "Digital Sketchbook" to see a eazier progresion. If its against the rules i dont mind deleting it.

TudorMorris

Great work on those shaders, love the way you've brought it all together. My only suggestion would be to make the blue shadow conform slightly tighter to some of the forms - is it part of the textures? It looks great in the screenshots, but when rotating the static aspect of it seems a bit... off? Either way it's fantastic and I'd love to see more in this style.

GinoArdelean

@TudorMorris Thank you. Sadly almost everything is faked in the texture its pretty much a "handpainted" texture.

Here its just the albedo with no light information at all (albedo as emissive) and the cheap outline.

The definitive one is just 3 lights with a little bit of gloss.

TudorMorris

Still looks pretty awesome. Would you do it with a toon shader if you had to tackle something similar again?

GinoArdelean

@TudorMorris Yeah, I think soo. In the beginning, I was thinking to tackle it like that but I thought that I could save a lot of time by hand painting it or just faking the light. But yeah next time I tackle something like this I m gonna for sure do it with a toon shader.

GinoArdelean