"Alpha", God of Dogs - DW5 Entry

Polygoblin

I created "Alpha", which is the god of all dogs. My character is intended to be a spiritual leader of all canine. The one true pack leader, she is a kind, yet fearsome goddess.

11,520 Triangles - 2048 x 2048 Diffuse, Normal, Specular, AO
Modeled in Maya, Sculpted in Zbrush, Baked in xNormal, and Textured in Photoshop

Thanks for viewing my work

Bombshell

I love everything bar the specular and the ears,
the ears look like they smoothly grow out of the top of the head,
The specular ... is just too much, it looks like a plastic model of the god of dogs.
good work, just maybe redo the specular and redo the ears.

Polygoblin

Thanks mate, I agree. Spec needs some love, and the whole thing needs a dirt and damage pass (ran out of time). However, I think I pushed the spec too far in Marmoset. When I get the time, I'll come back to this and fix/add some things (lack of whiskers bothers me).

achillesian

I like the execution. The concept could use some work though. It doesn't seem very godlike to me, it just seems like a dog, with some clothes/jewelry on, and a weapon it couldn't use very well. I probably would've tried for an extremely mutated, over the top, dog like thing. To remedy this, its scene should show its scale. Maybe trampled/torn apart human corpses that are much smaller than it should be in its pedestal.

Polygoblin

Thanks. I was going for a "real dog's" spiritual leader, so I didn't want to push any mutations or deformities too hard. I suppose that idea left me with a bland character at the end. *sigh*, I'll see if I can remedy it somehow in the future.

AlecMoody

I think you could do something more interesting with the pose. Also drop the camera a few inches more so he looks larger.