Michi´s improvmentthread

Ketchup13

Hi, 

my first post in this Forum, yay!

So this is my Dragon. I´m planning to pose, texture and render it in the upcoming days/weeks. Maybe if it turns out well I´ll 3dprint it too.

I´d love to hear your feedback/comments on this!

Ketchup13

Here is the moodboard

Ashervisalis

Hey Ketchup, sick looking dragon! The wings look a bit low poly/un-smoothed at the moment, so I'm assuming they're unfinished? I've highlighted a few bits that stick out on the wings. I'd also revisit how the wings integrate with the main body, as right now it looks like the mesh of the wing is just intersecting with the body mesh.

polygons

adding onto what ash said i think some of the muscles could do with a bit of subtle smoothing on a lower subdivision level so they look a but more natural. its coming along nicely though

Ketchup13

Awesome feedback!

Ashervisalis good point with the winginsertion to the body and the overallook of the wings.

polygons the muscledef is too much, I´ll work on that too thank you guys!

Ketchup13

Hi, started this one from scratch some time ago, inspired by Pierre Benjamin´s great Z-Brush class. The goal was to improve my sculpting and anatomyskills, texture it with xyz-skin textures and render it in marmoset. I´ve allready a lowpoly basemesh and pushed the hipoly sculpt to a level where I can´t find anymore errors, so I hope you guys can help me find any weakspots.

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WIP based on a concept by my buddy erkan karagoez (https://www.artstation.com/erkann) I want to rig and turn him into a realtime character and texture and render him in Substance...

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update also some practice from an awesome concept by chao-teng-zhao

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Did some remodelling, because I wasn´t to happy with the rigged pose...

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Done

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Better Res ^^

Aydhe

I think you could definitely push your texture work and presentation further. There is some serious visual inconsistenc between the texture of wood and texture of handpainted skin, clothes, etc.
Also leather that's going around his shoulders could use some nice details, leather'y pattern, roughness variation. as it stands it doesnt really read as leather, it's more of some kind of rubber material.

In terms of lighting, it's too dark. For quirky character like that i would suggest using some rather bright, cheerful light and strong shadows and contrast. it would make the image a lot more powerful.

Ketchup13

Thanks for the awesome feedback, Piotr. That´s a lot of good infos to go on.

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New project

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Finished it... more or less awesome concept art by christian pearce