After posing and rendering out some images of my creature in Zbrush I moved on to the paint over.
Here I used my digital painting and photo bashing experience to add extra detail to my creature. At this step I could really flesh out how I envisioned the look of my creature to be – adding details to its scars, rusting to the equipment, etc.
These images are my final outcome, I believe I was able to achieve a good standard for a piece of 2D concept art assisted using 3D tools.
Now that the shape for my creature was locked in I could design the infected armour around it. For the designs of the leech-like insects I looked back at the bug specimens I observed during the museum trip at the Huntarian.
I also created a simple design for a possible weapon the creature could use.
For inspiration and reference gathering we took a trip to the Huntarian, a museum focusing on anatomical specimens. While there I looked at a number of specimens which could help inform the design of my own creature. I particularly looked at the anatomical forms as my own design is very much a mash up of existing creatures.
While at the museum I did some drawn studies as practice for when I come to sculpt the detailed anatomy of my own creature.
Some feedback I received from my lecturer was to do more variations of my favourite design. From my previous set of sketches I decided to focus in on the pig/ boar design. I returned to the basic silhouette, trying to push the forms and experiment with different shapes to see if I could come up with a more interesting outcome.
Now that I had a solid design I was happy with, I created my turnaround illustration. I’ll be able to take this into zbrush later to serve as a useful reference.
From my initial planning I created a batch of sketches and expanded upon them, considering silhouette especially. I touched upon shape and movement as well, finally developing further my most detailed sketches.
