WIP ron cobb Lovecraft creature sketch based sculpture will see where it goes ...
Sculpt of humanoid creature based on a lovely old Ron Cobb sketch which was his homage to lovecraft. Love the proportions of these creatures chunky hands and feet scales remeniscent of tortoise and crocodile. Ron cobb such a legend and key inspiration of most of the industry whether they know it or not and certainly one of mine. I hadn't seen any ones interpretation of this so thought would take a 1st shot as an exercise and see where i am with my sculpting after so long and on ipad proving out software and pipline a bit more. Sculpted entirely on iPad in nomad so far - done a quick bake down test to game mesh in cozyblanket as well. Done in 30 min bites here and there in free time whilst son doing karate or football - a mobile untethered advantage of the ipad and the apps now available. Sketch used for reference created by the legendary Ron Cobb.
quick colour pass
baked texture base assembled
low poly pretty much done
low poly done
low poly cont’d
Low Poly start
quick high to low projection test in cozyblanket much as you would with marmoset or similar baking really quick easy to use prefer to quadraw tbh.
Sculpt returned to on new ipad (old (1st gen 4g ram was struggling and had enough remeshing to keep working on it )and done
handy - iterated hands going for a gecko like feel with gripping plated feel in palm and gnarled worn knuckles and nails trying to keep that squishy padded feel from the concept.
handy 2 - palm gripping plated feel to scales
Getting there with the hands - though not in concept chunky paw like hands feet made me think of a gecko with scale forms across the pads used for gripping.
Quick Turntable recent progress playing with postfx in nomad learning as i go whilst working on beastie.
earlier timelapse WIP had been going a bit backwards not happy with initial head detailing forms proportions working through rest will come back to it - back scales ok symetrical at this stage.
8 need to get most recent up as well covid has finally gotten me been kicking my ass this past week or so unfortunately.
7 Belly chest is ok want the ridges more subtle like a crocodiles belly scales as with the concept will keep fiddling.
6 Folds of skin like tortoise around their exposed limbs and neck.
5 Scales and detail in clay so much fun to do - done symmetrical for time being will amend in due course were necessary fairly happy with tail trying to keep the chunky almost puppyish proportions of these creatures in the concept.
2 roughing out with primitives then voxel merging with rough forms in place just working it out (the creature and the app) as i go.
4 Critter is getting there finding forms - need sort sausage hands and fingers and feet properly.
3 Smoothing over the clay sculpting so quick smooth and with direct interaction it feels to me the closest approximation digitally to sculpting with clay that i have found.
1 head blockout from spheres.