FINAL | ARTWAR 2 | 3D | Pisciasa Of the deep darkness | PhungDinhDzung

YES ! I finished it !

More final images at the bottom !

• Dzung Phung Dinh
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Hi all !

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PDD here ! for some reason it doesnt update/refresh my forum profile pic :(.
This is my entry for ARTWAR2 !

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UPDATE * :

This is the desired concept for the final 3D piece, hopefully I will be able to nail this look . More detail pics in below replies.

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Original Debut Pos

this quickly showing my moodboard and quick sketches of for my entry 's idea. I will go into more detail into the back story and write more about her design in next update - final concept. For now I just got some quick doodle and a mood board :P. I hope I will finish her on time and no rushing this time.

I will update some small WIP regarding Pisciasa on my Twitter and FB page before putting them all as a proper update here. So in case you might be interested !

Okie, Here we go . just finished the linart for my concept art. 2 days of work so far. I gotta work a little bit on the color tone before moving on modeling her and the duo fishes.

Pisciasa is one of my many OC in my own concept series where mutant human with
superpower co-exist with bio mech monster.
I designed her based on my horoscope signs - pisces that 's why she got 2 fishes swarming around. These are modified bio mech dragon fish, kind of fish that are only found at the very bottom of the sea where light cannot reach. That 's pretty much my base idea for Pisciasa, well enough ranting for today update :P. I have more to come so gotta save them up for other updates as well lol.

haha , thanks.
I also did a concept for a Aries based character ( as my wife is Aries lol ) and in middle of modeling stage of the project then Artwar2 show up so I decide to temporary put it on hold .
The mechanical bits of the fish are mostly based on Horizon Zero Dawn so more or less I will try to replicate the look from them .
Yeah , Red and Gold is basically what I am having in mind too, primary color will be matte carbon black and shiny silky black !

just finished my color concept !
spent my Christmas night on this one XD XD , so pretty much done, will move on to 3D modeling now otherwise I will be late for the Feb deadline. Hopefully I could achieve this look in the final 3D piece

ah right , I got a little Step by Step Gif, Hope you enjoy it !

uhm, yeah I spent like 1 solid week into this concept , hopefully I could get the 3D right ,

Moving on to modeling! 😆 placing & modeling the eyelashes by hand...

Thanks everyone for the comments really keep me motivated working on this one.
some little update before bedtime,

I ve been struggling with modeling her twisting long hairs tonight, hopefully I can figure it out by the first day of new year, tomorrow :P.

Thanks everyone for the comments ! it really keep me working hard on this project !
I am working on modeling Pisciasa base mesh and hair model atm , so havent got any major update yet, but just realize that I havent upload the 2D model sheet I made for her so here she is. The reason I have to take extra step to make this sheet is that I tried to model without model / sculpt sorely base on Concept in some of my past projects but then I fail terribly capturing the proportion and feeling of the 2D concept . Sometime I feel it's way more easier to adjust shape & proportion in 2D medium rather than in 3D like modeling / sculpting.

Ah , right and the fishy . Quickly made this so I dont need to blind-guess sculpting too much in Zbrush later.

some bonus views :P. well.......that help with the model too....so ... yeah.

okie I improved my base mesh for Pisciasa a bit, so to sum it up :
This is deformation & articular joint test of my base mesh for Pisciasa. Did several quick test using default Voxel skinning at 128 res, no manual weight painting just yet. I move back & forth several time to find the best optimal combination of topology flow and articular joints position to maximize linear-blending skinning results.
The colored lines of the model are just aid my process of specify the topology of the model, red line indicate the most important loop, Orange is less important but a should-have if tris-count allowed, Black line is the middle lines to separated model in half or quarter that will help with the UV seam later.
Better result will be able to achieve by the further use of weight paint fixing and corrective blendshapes .

Thank you everyone for your kind comments !
Here 's what I have so far for Pisciasa model, I can quite say that the modeling for the girl is done, I will definitely need some more polishing here and there on the model while I am working on the texture later ( like adding more micro hair strands, facial features or clothes folds etc ) .
But yeah, time is running out so I gotta move on to the fishy next.

All the hairs are modelled raw and purely in Maya using traditional polygon modeling . I tried with Zbrush at first then I failed miserably , I can't really control the curvature and shape/ twisting sides of the hair clumps perfectly in Zbrush ( by perfect I mean to match with the concept ) these are the closest I can get, If I have more time I will come back and put more time in to detailing the hair model a bit more.