Pandaren Crest - a materials study in progress

MBauer17 · Aug 17 2019

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:

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High Poly in progress:

Rope Renders and Hair Test:

Jade Medallions and render tests:

MBauer17 · Aug 27 2019

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

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Carabiner · Aug 27 2019

Looking very nice!

MBauer17 · Aug 29 2019

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.

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IxenonI · Aug 29 2019

That fur looks great!

MBauer17 · Aug 31 2019

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 · Aug 31 2019

Really digging the Jade material you made.

MBauer17 · Sep 3 2019

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!