Dragon Project - Game Resolution/UV's and First Bake (Module 3 Week 10)

 

Sprint #5 Delivery

This past week, our team lead Brian created a page for our group on the Unreal forums and we each commented on our first post with a short introduction! We will start sharing regular updates of our progress. Link to the post:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/fieavr-cyberstein/505137

In addition, I made progress on my sculpt of the evil head! The current state is still a bit rough, but I started using more IMM brushes (mainly my own with a little help of a few ZBrush default mechanical shapes to help with layout) and this will help cut down on time with most of these pieces overall. I also did some Substance Painter research to start figuring out what kind of smart materials I will create and use for these different pieces. I feel confident going into this next sprint now having a better idea of how to achieve some of the higher complexity details of the monster pieces I've been assigned. I probably won't spend too much more time on this so I can move on to the others and polishing Victor!

Concept by Jaz Brown:

Forum Screenshot:

Dragon Project - High Resolution Meshing Part 2 (Module 3 Week 0)

Here is the current progress of my dragon sculpt! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to finish all of it this week - I've never attempted a sculpt of this detail level before and it's been taking a lot more time than I anticipated! For the scales, I created a series of varying shapes and used the insert mesh brush to place each one and then manipulated them into place - I'm not sure that this was the best way to go about this, but I have at least saved each chunk of scales into separate tools so I can easily remove or modify them, down to individual scales. 

I went with a slightly more rounded look on the scales to better fit the succulent plant theme Piper Seng is working with for the environment she is creating for this project. Here is a render she took this week with my decimated sculpt in her scene:

Updates After Submission:

Dragon Project - Proxy Mesh and Start High Resolution Meshing Part 1 (Module 3 Week 08)

I am working with 3D environment artist Piper Seng on this project!