ART WAR 4 | 3D | War of the Elements | Soldier of deep | oswea

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I decided to enter in Artwar 4, with a character waking up from a long and deep sleep.

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I decided to go with water element. After some research I decided to use the shapes of strange sea nails and corals.
I imagined an entity that use the corpse of WWII pilot to get to the surface and fight ennemies.
I would like to create a contrast between the beauty of the sea snail shapes and colors and the undead side of the character.
Obviously I'm inspired by the designs of Last of Us.
I hope I will finish this before the deadline...s

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I started with the posing of a basemesh inside Zbrush. Tried to stick to the concept.

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I created a simple shape for the snail kind of translucent leaves and convert it as IMM brush. Then I apply this several times on the face of the character and used Gizmo deformer Bend Arc to change the shape of each of these "leaves"...
I tried to avoid too much repetition in the proportions and general shapes.
this IMM will be use on other parts of the body later.

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I also started to work on the shape of the helmet. It's a combination of slice curve to establish the basic shape, then Zremesh and Zmodeler to refine the mesh.
I will add details later in the process. I'm gonna try to establish the overall composition first by extracting clothes and create the assets I need.

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Some pictures of the coat. I used extract to get the basic mesh and then Zremesh and Zmodeler.

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One side of the coat will be torn so I made only one sleeve.

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Some refinement of the hat...

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I made a bunch of Alphas and apply them on the coat.

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I started to work on the trousers. First I masked and extract the mesh from the body, then apply a Zremesher to tweak the shape easily with a low poly count. Then I dynameshed the whole to be able to create the holes. I first masked the shape of each holes, then polygroup by mask. I then deleted this area and then use the curve bridge brush to properly join the two sides of the mesh that remains.
I then dynamesh and tweaked the hole with move and transpose to add some extra fabric that bend down.
This is only the first part and the sculpt stays pretty basic at this point, as I define the big shapes first.

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Some progress

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Actually I stay focus on the clothes and equipment and then I will add the organic shapes all around the body.

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I started to add organic shapes and check the overall silouhette as I progress.

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