ART WAR 4 | 3D | War of the Elements | Giant Earth Bear | gameshot609

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This giant bear is the lone first wave of defence of its castle. The invading army is trying to use the bear to get over the castle walls.

References and inspiration

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this could become epic!

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After much study of bear anatomy through pencil and paper, I began blocking out his forms. I'll be making adjustments to the true anatomy to try to suit his character better.

Starting to visualise the rock formations on his body and build up the silhouette:

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I first focused on creating the points of highest contrast in detail. I want the focal points to be the face and arms. The chest and back should eventually be points of interest as well from different viewpoints.

I then kept developing the rest of the body. I want to keep adding more detail to the focal points, and tone down the details in areas of rest.

I did a quick paintover to figure out how the materials could highlight the rocks later on.

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I finished all base mesh sculpting before breaking symmetry.

I made the pose in ZBrush before moving to Blender. This was my first project using ZBrush, so I tried to do as much of the workflow as possible before switching programs.

I used a human test pose to block out the attacking group of people to show the scale of the bear

I made the materials in blender. The spine was arranged seperately to the mesh.

After this I just continued to iterate on the materials and particles until the scene was finished.

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I really enjoyed making this, creating the feeling of conflict for the theme was the most enjoyable part for me

Here is the final image and the detail sheet:

These are the extra images from the detail sheet:

Full name: Sheldon Delices
Email: sheldonkane609@gmail.com
https://www.artstation.com/frubin