Getting going a bit late this year due to the birth of a son and the craziness that goes with it.
I had some time to sketch out an idea that was tossing around in my head, and messed with a bunch of 2d layouts. But in the end I decided that I wanted to do some sculpting and texturing work, so I am going to work this out in 3d. I can already clearly see the stand and the Dryad in my head.
Edit: Was going through my progress shots folder and found the shots from after the data loss instead of what was here initially and some random thumbnail sketches that were part of the process. Ill post up some more of the sketch book scratches here shortly too.
More Edit: Found another early shot, this one was lurking in procreate from very early on when I was thinking about the 2d vs 3d question. Looking at lots of pictures of giants and trying to figure out what made em look so big. MtG Cards presented the best images of giants on a quick google search, so that and then notes. Fun!
(I hope you could make it to the airport). I like your idea of a colossal monster the size of a mountain. It's going to be a great EARTH TEAM! (although I don't know if the fire element counts for the earth team or the fire team)
Although on the other hand I like the idea of the "Driade", of how afraid I imagine her in a dark forest, even though she is terribly hypersexualized.
Chugging along now. The image will keep on being expanded.
@JoseTijerin Thats a very fun way of thinking of the image, but I think that as it progresses it should be more obvious that the things coming into her forest should be afraid of her.
Just about done blocking this in. Swapped some mats to break up the colors a little and show whats going on.
Base texture done, time for the move to painting.
Wish I had been able to do a giant version, but I just don't have the time to pull that off.
Ugh, trying to get the low poly together was just met with so much BS today, constant issues. Haven't event baked maps and tested it out, just finally got the process down. And now I am just checking posting it.
Yay it worked! And the upload was easy as could be with the forums. Fun fun fun! Map baking and painting can finally come next. Well that and making sure that the low poly is close enough to the HP.
Texturing along finally. I really wanted to try out substance painter and had all sorts of weird issues that had to be cleared up. But it seems to finally be working and I have a clear workflow to marmoset. So I should be able to finish up soon.
Well this is done, unless I spot something else that I want to manipulate. Gotta let it sit and think about it some.
Final render. And probably final thoughts.
I added in the Artwar logo into that top right corner, so very important, and I am delighted at how well balanced the logo fits into the image, it honestly makes the whole image pop. I really love this final image even if I can see where it could be much better.
But all in all this was my first time working with substance painter and marmoset. I have to say, Marmoset toolbag is awesome, very fun to work with. And Substance painter was fun as well, if uppity. I also used blender and zbrush. All of the software updates from this year left me wrestling with tech more than actually creating, but in the end it was all very fun.
Just uploading a small Jpeg as a test image to see if it functions differently from what I posted for the final.
Edit: And this one allows for the preview window to pop up without clicking show image or anything, so I will submit this one to the main page. I can see the color differences between the two images, but its subtle enough that it doesn't matter.
