ART WAR | 3D | Barraggaa, champion of the woodland realm | dandoombuggy

[dandoombuggy]

Just tidying up the sculpt tonight. I'm thinking of blockout out the assets next before I do any further detailing. Trying to keep it CHUNKEH.

[dandoombuggy]

Ok, I've started creating assets for Barraggaa. The wooden stump on his shoulder is a piece of sacred oak, imbued with healing properties. It was gifted to him by the forest after his triumph over the serpent assassin. If not for the gift Barraggaa would have succumbed to the deadly venom of the serpent, who caught his right arm with razer sharp fangs. The oak works to heal the wound, extracting venom and replacing dead flesh with iron hard bark.

This arm will not be covered in fur and will show signs of decay/corruption.

I'm moving away from the concept slightly but next i'll be continuing to creep roots up the shoulder piece and then experiment with sculpting fur.

Comments and crit always welcome.

[dandoombuggy]

Ok so this guy is looking way too happy to be half naked. As soon as I'm done with the hair first pass I'll look at giving him some trousers. Also he's got such a happy face I'm worried making him look fierce will be harder than I anticipated...

[aveon]

That is some SICK fur! Jesus dude

[dandoombuggy]

Thanks I'm semi pleased with the results, never really attempted stylised fur so I'm learning a lot. I am feeling it's starting to make the sculpt quite noisy so I think it's going to take a lot of experimentation to get the balance of forms right. I'll re evaluate it when I've covered the rest of his body. Very tedious stuff.

[aveon]

True, but I think (if you're rendering in marmoset) that you could offset the edgy-ness of it with normal smoothing and SSS, otherwise you'll just have to smooth the tips of the fur. Super tedious stuff haha

[dandoombuggy]

Excellent tip, I hadn't even considered using that shader in marmoset. A little less worried about it now

[lauratm]

Such a cool and original concept! Love how it ties in with the story But those beetle pincers are totally rad, I love 'em.

And I must say, insane work on the fur, I've no idea how you did it, but WOW!

Definitely tracking this one!

[dandoombuggy]

Thanks @lauratm! Just using a custom fur/tube brush, laying down patches following the anatomy and then going in and rotating/scaling each piece. A bit tedious but I'm happy with the results.

Been Ill this week so progress has been slower than usual, haven't had the chance to work on it for the past few nights .

I decided to ditch the crow skull on his shoulder, I felt it was hindering the overall silhouette. I just need to block in the beard and belt and I can start getting some details in.

[lauratm]

That sounds SUPER tedious, respect!! The results are great, I'd say your effort is more than worth it

I really liked the crow skull in terms of the backstory, but I see what you mean. It breaks the symmetry a little bit too (the other shoulder is already loaded), so it does look better
If there was still a way you could incorporate that crow skull into the design, that'd be neat, but yeah sometimes you gotta ditch some parts of the design.

[dandoombuggy]

A quick update, I'm still alive and working on retopology.

I had to take some time away from working on this as I hurt my hand (fingers bent right back >.< ) so holding a pen has been pretty painful. Unfortunately this means I'm way behind schedule and to finish on time I've had to cut a few elements from the design.

Mainly this includes his beard, which as I progressed was afraid might of hindered the design. Perhaps this is just a younger incarnation of the character

[dandoombuggy]

So I'd been working on this non stop during the weekend and while there were some features I had to exclude and shortcuts I had to take I still had a model to submit before the deadline.

This morning my home internet wouldn't wake up. RIP.

So I'm writing this from work and while I'll try and upload what I can via mobile hotspot tonight there's a good chance I'm now going to miss the deadline. Bah.

[aveon]

Damn dude, sorry to hear looks like Murphy is in your neck of the woods. Good luck on your upload!

[lauratm]

Nooo, aw man I really hope you manage to upload it, good luck!!!

[dandoombuggy]

Net resurrected and I've been chipping away all night! I just saw there's a short extension to the deadline and it means I can play about with some poses tomorrow lunch time, phew! So much done in so little time.. I'm gonna crash hard after this ^^

[aveon]

Haha nice dude, same here pulled an all-nighter to rap mine up, keep pushin man, you're almost there!

(Looks nice btw )

[dandoombuggy]

Final Image:

Concept Sheet:

Marmoset viewer:

Barraggaa_idol.mview (18.7 MB)

[dandoombuggy]

I also made another fun little viewer experiment. I was meant to upload this before the final images.etc but the forums were down for maintenance.

My aim was to try and show him casting a spell using his weapons staff configuration. Pretty wacky:

Barraggaa_spellcasting.mview (19.0 MB)

All in all this was a pretty fun project although I'm looking forward to a good nights sleep! Its a shame I had to cut so much out of the design but I don't believe I've ever done so much work in so little time. Pretty proud of the ol'badger. Congrats to everyone who participated, there is some truly outstanding work on show!

[aveon]

Nice man, came out nice, really like the fur too congratz on finishing!

[MissVantaBlack]

I love his fur, and the glowy eyes matching the staff when he casts! Lovely work!