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scaly-dragon WIP

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#1

Hi all,
here´s my new WIP. Hope u guys like it!

I looked at many pictures of dragons, so the design isn´t realy mine…
Starting with Zspheres to get a basic shape and then rebuilded the whole thing, using the adaptive-Skin as guide (inside xsi cause i had some problems with retopology at the toes and wings).
After i had the basemesh done, back into zbrush, i started blocking in the muscles roughly (they won´t be visible at the end because of the covering scales).
I wanted the scales to overlap each other, so i decided to not use alphas, instead i´m sculpting each scale seperatly(using masks). Realy time consuming process…so my progress is very slow ^^

Crits and comments very welcome,
greetings ever.

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#2

prediction -> this is gonna look pretty cool :slight_smile:

#3

Thats looking real good, keep us up to date with this.:slight_smile:

#4

Great start. Those scales! Looking great, very ambitious. Looking forward to the end result.

#5

Cooooooool! Your model is coming out nicely!

:smiley:

#6

looks great…hope you don’t mind me saying this…but the wings look a bit…uuhhmm fat…most dragons have a membrane kind of skin …but it look great tho…so please don’t take this the wrong way

#7

very cool man. don’t kill me if I’m wrong. but I think zbrush has the ability to kinda paint geomertry… I think… or something simaler… modo can at least >.<

still awsome… gona be a Bleep to texture haha
wings are to fat. also scales to seem a tad big. also scales are normally smaller at joints

#8

How did you do the scales?

#9

awesome dragon!! :+1:

this is really going to be an amazing piece when you finish it…i can’t wait. keep up the great work.

#10

Thanks allot for the comments guys, glad u like it.
Havent had the time to work much on the dragon the last week (the leg-scales are finished now), i keep u updated if i have some more!

strict9: i Agree with u, havent done much at the wings, i keep it in mind when i come to them! Thanks. And yes ur right, zbrush Can paint geometry but it´s hard for me at some places (at the toes and inside of the mouth ^^)

Altermind: Ur right, the scales that i did first are a tad big, maybe i redo them later…but noone has seen a dragon in reality, so ther are no rules ;D

Alpha-leader: here is my workflow for the scales:
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#11

Ah ok that makes sense. Thanks :wink:

#12

You should also explore alphas/masks and the gravity brush’s, during early beta testing quite a bit of this was explored. I don’t think those links are all available as of yet, at least I remember an issue in the past. So here are 2 images that I did quickly (seems a really long time ago) that might be of help.

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#13

That’s cool! :+1: