Hello,
It has been a long time since I came back to these forums.
A friend of mine is writing his first book and soon to be book trilogy. He has asked me to draw and model his characters and weapons in the book. I figured this would be a good opportunity to take these character, creature and weapon descriptions as if I were working on a production in the movie or game industry.
I am going to put my work in progress screen shots here to share and get feedback.
-Each piece will have concept sketches based on the descriptions in the book.
-Then I will model the basic mesh and UV layout in Maya 8.5
-From there I will move over to Zbrush and Mudbox for sculpting and texturing.
-Then back to Maya for displacement mapping and rendering with Mental Ray.
Here goes… wish me luck!
This Forum Blog is Focused on the Delic Beast. This is an original concept sketch I came up with 15 years ago that I decided to revisit. My friend decided he liked it so much he wanted to include it in his book.
Delic beasts were something else entirely. They stood on four legs, typically as tall as a man’s chest but as broad as two horses and even heavier with dense, powerful muscle. The head was similar to a pit-bull but with long tusks protruding from its mouth and a curved horn between its nostrils. Its skin was leathery black and charcoal with deep maroon highlights. The result was the perfect camouflage for any area that didn’t get much light. Its paws were similar to a dog’s as well but with long talons on each toe. Its tail was the most unique part of all. It extended for about three feet then widened into a flat plate of nearly indestructible hide with the look of a tortoise shell. The plate was as wide and nearly as long as the beast itself. The end was lined with a row of spiked bones protruding from the skin. That tail could be hammered down with amazing speed and the power to shatter boulders. Few who faced a delic beast survived. They moved like panthers and hit like giants. Their talons and teeth could rend the strongest steel and their powerful jaws could snap a man in half.
