Pandaren Crest - a materials study in progress

MBauer17

Hello everyone, I am working on developing my eye for material in this piece. I will be using the official Pandaren crest promoted by Blizzard's World of Warcraft (art by Samwise Didier). My tools are Zbrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Maya, Topogun, and Marmoset Toolbag.  Thank you for stopping by and exploring this exciting journey with me!

The reference:




High Poly in progress:



Rope Renders and Hair Test:




Jade Medallions and render tests:

MBauer17

Bamboo staves done, representing the classic monk tradition of utilizing walking sticks as weapons

Carabiner

Looking very nice!

MBauer17

Last update for the week, and by far took the longest to wrap my head around.  Fur cards for the brim of the hat.  Built in Maya, rendered in Arnold. 

IxenonI

That fur looks great!

MBauer17

Thanks @IxenonI it's been a real struggle! I need to figure out how the heck I'm gonna put it all together. I have no idea what I'm doing :[

vzdragon

Really digging the Jade material you made. 

MBauer17

vzdragon said:

Really digging the Jade material you made. 

Thanks! I relied on this tutorial on SSS made by marmoset for the render settings if you want to check it out .

Next part is the paper, I am 99.9% confident that these symbols will shift around before the final piece is done but here it is anyway. I found a wiki on the Pandaren language. Who knew!

jose.fuentes

I've been seeing your updates on artist awake, this is amazing, can't wait to see the finished product 

MBauer17

jose.fuentes said:

I've been seeing your updates on artist awake, this is amazing, can't wait to see the finished product 

ayy thanks jose! fellow GAI alum

Bostvic

That jade is awesome!

loa03

really good work!!!! i love it

serriffe

these are great!

Torch

The attention to detail is great, please show more

SimonT

really impressive!

oraeles77

could you show us exmaples of what bitmaps you use for the textures?

MBauer17

oraeles77 said:

could you show us exmaples of what bitmaps you use for the textures?

Bitmaps? I'm not sure what you mean or for what part exactly. But I can post the texture maps I made and used in marmoset for the Medallions

MBauer17

My final post. In closing, I could have spent forever tweaking, building and improving on it but I think now it is time to move on and move forward with what I've learned. Xgen is frustrating but worthy to know. There has to be better, more efficient methods of creating high-quality rope that I have yet to achieve. My lighting could use a lot more work.  But after three months, it is best I move forward. 

Thank you for going on this journey with me. \

elcucuy

Looking amazing!