Hey @baderkadunk thanks, glad you like the hornz, I did maaaaaaaany test thinking how to continue after the basic blockout, and at the end I decide for this one

Same for each piece and the shield, I did a lot of research and saw thousands of images, taking heavy inspiration from each darksiders book and concept art, and combining everything I loved !!
Unfortunately ( or fortunately for who wants a tons of refs ) there are skulls of all kinds in every shape and pose, even if I put the horns on the head it would be very close to another, if I cut them off it would be similar to another one... it's a skull shield with horns

I will definitely try to make it more different, removing the symmetry or removing / adding elements, thanks for the feedback man !

oooooooooh c'mon guys, I didn't expect all this love

@cedricgo Thanks, hope will be " worse " at every step !
@coolnexart yeah man, you hit the right strings, the two things that inspired me most are those
@Marie_Smrcka hahahaha, who doesn't love a bad & big demon ??

I want to post a " little " update, little but important, following the feedback received I change the design of the shield, I needed to do a step back... but now I'm super happy with the result, and I'm moving to detail.
Just want to show you the new design :

in the meantime I started retopology, wanting to make a realtime character for games I will have very strict limits, will be looooong and hard but I really think that a good tolopogy makes the difference... my face while I repeat this to myself

Thanks guys, your support helps me keep going !!

heeeeeeeeeeeeey guys, I'm not dead, I'm just blocked in the retopo/detail stuff, but I'm finished and now I have just to tweak some stuff on the props and then I'll be ready for bake/textures !!

So... I'm happy to show the final sculpt

DemonWip12.jpg3802x1768 1.72 MB

I also thought about the fire symbol, made it an alpha and used it as a scar ( which will be on fire in textures ) on the shoulder !

following my plans tomorrow I'll finish the low / UV, and then the rest of the time textures !

@Erigo Hey man thanks !! I'm from old school, I don't think a GOOD topology for game should be done with the zremesher, mainly if it's for portfolio and you want to show it

Soon moar updates !!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand lowpoly + bake, DONE !!

keep the polycount quite low, less than 30k for the char ( I don't rly need more ) and two 2k textures for the bake

I tried to upload also a little little video but nothings, there is a restriction for video ? it's a .mp4 around 5mb !

Anyway, finally it's time for the textures

Thanks @juan, I give a lot of importance to topology and I'm glad you noticed it !! I think a nice model must have a nice topology, even if it means wasting a lot of time

hey guys,
I'm glad to show the " close to final " result of the textures process, he's still wip but close to the result I want.

The idea was to focus on the glow map, that had to add a lot of depth and interest to the textures and give the idea of the element, so I spent a lot of time creating a setup on substance painter to "handpaint" the glow and precisely see how it came, and I found a very effective way that given the result I was looking for !!

This is a screen with just two side light, just to show the glow map

And this is the mood I want to give with all the lighting

Now I want to create two different poses, fix some textures things after the pose, then create a plane as a base and make a decent render ( all you see is realtime in marmoset ).

I'll try to add a lot of epicity and darksiders feel to the scene

Any question and feedback is super welcome,
we are finally close...