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I created my new professional website www.wix.com/infinitebizarre/sohanim8r

I will be updating my work over there from now on.

Dragon Animation Test

Rigged this badass in Softimage, and tried quick flying animation to test how it deforms..

Dragon_Done

Finally Done..

Changes:
- Attached Head to the body..(took me forever*)
- New low-topology for animation (Lower than b4; 6.6k Quads)
- Multiple maps for the horns and more

Back to work

Back to work .. Desided to retopo this instead of using Decimation master.. For future animation use :)

Retopoing this... takes forever :\.......... argh!!!

Dragon_Lo_Test

Low-poly mesh with all maps, test using Viewport 2.0

Dragon_Wing basemesh

Quick Basemesh for Wings.. and lighting joy :)

Dragon_Body_Textures

Textures + More polypaint update

Dragon_Details_WIP

Toned down the volume of muscles abit and added fat etc.
Rough polypaint and some ideas on skin texture.

Dragon_Wings2

Cleaning up and Linking muscles; He will need massive strength on the wings in order for him to fly up with that weight..

Dragon_Wings

Various thoughts on wings and switching to better one*

Dragon_Body

Added Teeth and Body with zSpheres, 3hour rough modeling on the body.. building basic structure of what I'm going for..

Work work~!

Dragon Head - Speed sculpt

Huge inspiration with dragon, and spent last 3 hours speed sculpting+polypaint+decimation combo and exported all maps to Maya :)

I started with dragon in mind, and now it looks like a tauren from Warcraft.. maybe because of those horns... also it's currently toothless...

Axe_Low poly in Maya

Yeap, I changed colours again.. and new glove! :) plus some details on shoulder pads..

This is low-poly model made with Decimation Master in Zbrush (Tri's look better than Quads XD)

with Normal/Colour/Spec Map I made with polypaint+Photoshop.

Coming nearly end of modeling process and might end up rigging this for animation.. even though I hate it and suck at it... I'll give it a try :)

OR... in case I fail,  I'll just animate free rigs.. go on to hard surface modeling..

Axe_Changes

I wasn't so happy with the pants and boots so I gave some change... lots of polypaints :S

Might as well change the colours again, but...

Since I've decided to make him as a game character, I had to deeply think about the quality difference of game vs cinematic(film).
I had to learn to limit of putting little pieces of details during the hi-res modeling process when modeling for games because all those extra time & efforts won't show as much at the end due to low polys and etc.

As I model all these, I always learn new techniques on the way and I always try to fix more and more endlessly... thinking; 'only thing I have is time!'...and it always leads to enormous amount of delays in my modeling progress.

  I've finally met a situation where I could start to see what is the most important process and know what parts of what I've been doing during the process were useless.

This will help me prevent lots of wasting work time... and I know how important this 'TIME' is for any industry out there.

Learning never ends!

Reduced Polycount

I was able to reduce the polycount to 1800 triangles :)

and it's holding its original shape! (new normal map updated)

Random Tree

A Tree model I did for my friend's demo... finished the modeling in less than an hour.. :)

Tried new techniques to export new multiple maps!

Axe_newBoots

New boots... thought about "Boots of travels' , an item from DotA for the wings of this boots..

and polypainted few places here and there roughly :D
Now I'm going to finish the gloves :)

Axe_Pants

Axe Pants W.I.P.

I need to match the concepts of these props together before I retopo+project them..
I can finally calculate the time to finish this character :)
 more to come!

Axe_DecimationTest

Tried out Decimation Master Plugin in Zbrush!

Initially the purpose of this was to reduce my teeth model.. but came this far reducing every prop (Made extra copy) and posed some face shape just for fun :) hehe

Time for Pants!

Axe_Boots

Boots Roughly done! Few clean up process to go along with the gloves too...
And still deciding how to deal with pants.. coming soon! :)

Axe_Teeth

Teeth and gums made with zspheres too. They are starting to get easier to use :)

Axe_Hair

Zsphere + Dynamesh for polygon hair! ...time for teeth~!

Axe_Face

Changing Face.. will add in teeth and hair tonight!

Armor_Base

Base Mesh for Armors, Shoulder Plates, Belt and Pants.... :)

Axe_Body_WIP

Axe_Glove WIP

Built base in maya and export to Zbrush.

Not going to bother do little details until I finish all other parts to this stage.

(DotA) Axe_Mogul Khan Props

Armor + Axe design

(DotA) Axe_Mogul Khan layout wip

Tiny_2

Added more details here and there, tried out some noise too

Tiny (DotA)

Inspired by a hero 'Tiny' from the game 'DotA' (warcraft)

Quick 2 hours modeling and some polypaint :)

Going to retopo it for a low-res model

Helmet

Warrior WIP insipred by few movies I saw recently..