Mind Flayer

[nelothi]

This was a joint project between my brother and I, he drew the refrance picture and i made it 3d. it took about four days and was a expencive project…went out and bought myself a nice tablet so i could do detail easyer.

all together there are about 4 million poly’s. also the whole thing was done in zbrush useing retop for the neck dress, zspheres for the base, and tenticles, and teeth.

this is the base mesh i used

the whole thing is still a wip, some tweeking i need to do, add some parts n such. im still thinking about doing a whole body for him…

well, constructive critisizm would be wonderful.

thank you all,
-Nicholas

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[Tina_Albert]

Nice Expression!!

[monster_machine]

nelothi, that’s one slimy alien. definitely creepy! the specular is a little strong, but that’s probably the effect you wanted. great job on the modeling. may need just a tad more color variation between the skin and tentacles, just to break up the overall purple color. i would take those tentacles and polypaint some disgusting dark subsurface veins coming from the point of origination, wrapping around and going lighter as they go down (or vice versa—whichever looks best to you.) maybe introduce some dark/light green and yellow. same for the face and head where the skin is thinner on the bone.

the first render is better than the last. you really get a good shot of all of the hard work you’ve done with the polypainting and modeling. it just needs a little fine tuning.

nice gooey guy!

[nelothi]

i will deffinatly try and put those details in.

iv ben trying to figure out how to make my own material so it isnt so glossy…but i just cant shake it…

right now im adding in the shoulder pad things that were in my brothers drawlings…mand i wish i had a skanner so i could show the picture…

more updates tommarow.

thanks!

[nelothi]

no real updates yet guys. ben working with the mat a bit, trying to make the bumps in the mesh show up more. also, how do i dim down the shinney look on the mat?

oh and i attempted to put more viens on it, the eyes look good, but on the tenticles they just dont look right…