Dragon Study!

tsmith3d · Jun 2017

Wanted to polish up my dragon skills, environment rendered in UE4!

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almighty_gir · Jun 2017

where's the wings?

this is a drake, not a dragon. study failed.

tsmith3d · Jun 2017

Major fail haha

almighty_gir · Jun 2017

I'm not sure what exactly is causing it, but everything feels kinda... fleshy? spongy maybe? the scales don't really read as chitinous or hardened. I actually kinda like the horse-like proportions and posture though.

tsmith3d · Jun 2017

I can see it now, probably a mixture of too much sub surface bleeding into the scale parts and too much fuzz.

almighty_gir · Jun 2017

Oh i may have misread the first post but i thought the whole thing was rendered in UE4?

If so, may i see the material network? I might be able to help.

tsmith3d · Jun 2017

The first 5 renders are in marmoset, so I'll rework the materials in there.

tsmith3d · Jun 2017

When that is done, I can take a screen of the material layout in UE4

tsmith3d · Jun 2017

Did another ue4 pass on both the scene and the material rendering. The material setup I have now is very bare bones and simple, but hopefully gets rid of the sponge/soft material effect.

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Sebeuroc · Jun 2017

Nice work dude! The materials are looking a lot better in the last set of renders. I really like the horn variation on these guys, it adds a lot of character.

snake85027 · Jul 2017

beautiful

Dartist · Aug 2017

Looking awesome! Keep it up!

Felixenfeu · Aug 2017

Can you really "study" dragons though?

They don't really exist afaik haha

Cool work. Last renders are much better than the first ones. Like that scene with the lava and stuff.

Only little thing I would say is that since everything seems to be only two colors (blue and red), they don't look textured and they mix a bit with the background. It's not a huuuuuge complain, as they still read well with the light and smoke that you put in there. But I'm a nitpicker.

The one on the left is catches more orange light on the last picture, and so he's more easily read, and the one on the right still blend with the smoke, I think.

tsmith3d · Aug 2017

Griffin study this time!

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krishnacpatel · Sep 2017

dude, looks awesome !!

Dragon Study!

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