Well, I thought this piece would not take that long, but this became quite the undertaking! It is done, so I’d like to share some renders! Since the intent here for me was to create a good workflow and setup to do illustration like renders, I’ll start of with that!
And an alternative render with a slightly different filter setup
I could literally post a dozen of these, since this little enterprise left me with about as much NPR presets I all like. But, I’ll be using those for other projects perhaps…
While working on this scene I briefly tried having two of these creatures with some interaction. I choose to stick to a single one, but I do like this screengrab
After ages tweaking NPR filters, I’ve spent as much time doing non-npr render setups in keyshot. Again I have about a dozen renders, but these are a few of my favorites:
And a few renders of the worm (caterpillar rather) in zbrush
And keyshot