ART WAR | 3D | Serge The Voracious | Rezilin

rezilin 2017-01-05 08:27:44 UTC #19

Decided to go back to the earlier base I posted, I supposed ill have a lot of dragon meshes by the end of this but i'm more of a explorer when it comes to a concept, I make it in 3D make some mistakes and make something new from those. So so far I used the second wing set I created to bulk out the original wings, and am now replicating the hard bone grown plates on the front wing edge, I plan on adding some ridges to the arms and legs to go with the general spiny theme, also I want the have the back-plates raised with the spines socketed into the sides at a back facing angle, but the design eludes me as of yet, I keep trying to sketch it but can't get the feel yet. I also seek to make the areas the spines are fitted feel organic, thats my I have the pink flesh on them, been clinging to that for a bit, might change it up and make more of a half arrowhead shape. Ive decided to elongate tail, and resize limbs on my rex style basemesh, the head im going to refine with scales and some details, and finally decide if I want a eye of some sort.

tigerheart 2017-01-05 12:57:04 UTC #20

Hi that's the first beast i encouter in this contest, good idea. It could use some more refinement on the muscle, to have a feel of bones and tendons...

rezilin 2017-01-09 23:16:35 UTC #21

Thank you, I'm trying to make a interesting beast, I've been trying to be careful with muscle as I'm going t o add scales, I'll map out what his skeleton would be like and add muscles based on that, thanks again for the critique.

itseffindan 2017-01-09 23:24:22 UTC #22

ya man, cool to see a creature in here! Work on that anatomy and refinement of the shapes. good luck!

rezilin 2017-01-11 05:37:12 UTC #23

Did some refinement on anatomy, fixed the hood on the neck and refined the wings a tiny bit. Finally happier with how the front arms look and got the back ones to fit better. Partly the reason I did a creature was due to the amount of human characters haha, but its been fun.

rezilin 2017-01-11 05:39:53 UTC #24

rezilin 2017-01-14 04:45:42 UTC #25

Added eyes, with eyelids and sockets, as well as the plates on the body and wings, need to do small scales next and touch-ups.

rezilin 2017-01-14 04:48:04 UTC #26

rezilin 2017-01-15 14:17:22 UTC #27

updated concept sheet, here's some sketches I had on paper than I had to take pic of, then I put in Photoshop to add some color to it, based on the colors i'm currently using. as well as the original concept.

rezilin 2017-01-18 02:08:35 UTC #28

Sculpted Scale detail until my hands hurt, had to switch my work schedule so I was in zombie mode trying to stay awake but I added a lot of detail, need to fix the joint compound in some areas due to it being a little too thick, was thinking of how to keep range of motion in the gaps with the body length chitin plates, though of some organic style joint that would be flexible, plan on blending it with the body and the spine areas while texturing to give a fused look to it. I plan on doing some emission on the heart area as well as the spines and joints to a slight degree. Currently working on cutting the eye detail into a sphere, going for the slit lizard or cat eye look, still testing it, Four eyes fits the unorthodox shape I believe and complements the face. Touch ups include adding a few more spines to neck and testing some near wings, some scale reconfiguration and addition, I created an alpha which I will add to concept sheet from a triangle scale I made from scratch, used variations of the scale alpha from those triangle scales overlay-ed in a scale-mail pattern. Debating on belly detail, but most of body have received the scales. Also want to make the geometry density not too high , but i'm at 100 mil polys already so.... Going to optimize where I can. Stay Tuned.

rezilin 2017-01-18 02:27:35 UTC #29

random wax render for fun, in case the colors were distracting.

rezilin 2017-01-22 16:57:57 UTC #30

Got the eyes and the eyelids in, with lens, working on a bit of retopo and some fine details now.

rezilin 2017-01-30 00:59:23 UTC #31

Got UV's to work imported into Substance Painter, also tried Quixel but that lags like crazy so I decided to just use Substance for the whole thing. Going to try and paint it in an interesting way then finally pose it. Also need to figure out the eye lens, got the texture for the eye but the opacity is to be desired for the lens, perks of just learning SP i guess,

rezilin 2017-02-09 00:57:16 UTC #32

I had to retopologize, from last image to fit in the 20mb scale, Finally adding the paint, I like the colors so far, plan on adding a bit of opacity to the wings, still getting used to substance painter as this is the first thing I've painted in it, but i'm an extremely fast learner. going to add more scale graident detail along with some complementary colors, I hope you guys like how its coming along.

rezilin 2017-02-09 03:41:22 UTC #33

Got a base for color that I layed out using complementary and a few colors that stuck as interesting, gonna play with the values a bit and add some detail highlights, I think as long as I give myself enough time I can finish this in the next few days and spend a decent bit on the Rigging/Pose.

rezilin 2017-02-10 02:54:03 UTC #34

Here is a taste of my marmoset test, I do plan to pose but want to keep updates flowing, having a bit of issues with glossiness, might be how its exporting. Still going to do a bit more painting but I wanted to test file sizes.

Mserge.mview (14.9 MB)

rezilin 2017-02-19 00:20:14 UTC #35

Two Rigs I created, first tried Maya with its rigging, but I wasn't sure If i could figure out correct parenting for the way I set the mesh up in time. So I switched to a zspheres rig, this was the first pose in maya. I then manipulated it in Maya for some of the spine plates and eyelids as they were a bit off. Got the rig again in Marmoset and am working on the composition. I might adjust textures slightly but plan on finishing it out by this next weekend.

First composition attempt, playing with angle and lighting, also had to adjust the arm and legs a bit versus the first pose, the Zsphere rig gave me a bit of trouble but was able to project. used transpose to move the body and further adjust.

rezilin 2017-02-20 22:24:24 UTC #36

My Final Submission I've learned much about texturing, rigging and general design though this contest. I hope there are more in the future, and wish luck to those at the final stages of their design.

Concept Sheet

Final Image

Embedded Marmoset Viewer
sergefinalmarmo.mview (12.4 MB)

Michael Jay Thurston | Rezilin
https://www.artstation.com/artist/rezilin

itseffindan 2017-02-21 22:27:03 UTC #37

good job on the finish man, good luck!

rezilin 2017-02-22 01:19:37 UTC #38

thanks, I feel I've gained much, onward to the next battle!