--FINISHED-- DnD Death Tyrant

SgtBabbit

I really wanted to do something creepy, scary and finished in realistic PBR. It would be a nice breath of fresh air after my hand painted Tyrande project. I recently got listening to MrRhexx's DnD Lore playlist on youtube. An episode on Beholder-kin really sparked my imagination, I'd not heard of them before and the death tyrants are terrifying! Born from the dreams of a beholder fixated on death and domination. Its anti-magic gaze is replaced with an ANTI-LIFE GAZE! and  it can raise as MANY LOYAL UNDEAD AS IT COULD POSSIBLY WANT. I sincerely hope my party never encounters one   

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Death Tyrant by Kieran Yanner (I believe? correct me if I'm wrong!)  seen in the 5e Monster Manual 


Early Blockout stage. Trying to keep a base in human anatomy and functionality, but make it monstrous

Lucas Annunziata

Blockout is looking solid!

SgtBabbit

@Lucas Annunziata  Thank-you! 

Think I'm there with the high poly. I'm going to see if I can get away with the floating orbs just being duplicates of the main eye because that'll be more economical with my time. Tomorrow retopo, unwrap and start the texture

SgtBabbit

Jumped back into this today! Retopo, unwrap and first pass textures done. I'm wondering whether to do something to suggest the tentacles that make up the eye stalks. Something ghostly or smokey, though that might be a little distracting

DallanP

Looks awesome! Have you thought about sharing the high-poly file for 3D printing? There are a few 3d printing tabletop communities that would go nuts over this stuff!

SgtBabbit

@DallanP I did think about that! It's not something I've done before but I would like to. Do you have any experience with it? I'm not sure of best practices to prepare sculpts/scaling etc

DallanP

Yea! The basics for it is to dynamesh it to make sure there aren't any overlapping faces and to keep it a watertight mesh, and then decimate it down.  After that scale it to fit a 25mm disc (so it can fit on a 1" battlegrid). You could be fancy and add a peg for it to sit on, so it appears floating. You can see some more examples Here

SgtBabbit

@DallanP thank-you so much for the info! I'm definitely going to check that out.

SgtBabbit

--COMPLETE--
A nice quick and relaxed project for a busy February. It was still a really great exercise in creature sculpting, and more gruesome pbr than I've dabbled in in the past. Plus a little quick animation to dip my toes into that field!
More views, textures and Marmoset viewer on my Artstation