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Final Composite, went with a duo split color look, couldnt decide which one I liked more.
rough 30min sketch
did some particle sims trying to find a balance between viney stuff and not vine, ended up scrappin the design
slightly more detailed body, with multiple angle view
assembled head/body. Looking for a place to put some weird anatomy
the main area where the necro-organism took home, a bit like a hermit crab finding a shell.
more detailing
full assemblage closest thing to an 'A pose'
blender rig for mostly hand gesture/movement control to have an asymmetrical pose.
adjusted wings to appear more gossamer-like? compared to a rigid branchy up to attack look.
final body high poly detail
very early shader/render, mostly relying on dirt/curvature to drive some subsurf.
post substance painter, felt i had a good color palette at this point.
painter screencrab of almost final color layout.
final color layout
veiny kind of weird 'foilage' or vasculatory system
subsurface light test
even light blockout
final light blockout, lots of heavy lifting done by octane spotlights
animated hand sequence
the concept is some kind of parasitic lifeform, probably closest to fungi or tapeworm, find a long-gone alive body, inhabit the necrotic tissues of the vessel, and growing out from it, i plan to explore more with this style/character as it's enjoyable to research how different lifeforms grow and create, especially while using skeletal systems as the 'substrate' :)
lots of screengrabs with this one.