3D Class Week 09 Create a Simple Organic Model

This week we were tasked with creating a simple organic figure out of a sample of concept work, I picked the crab. The crab proved difficult due to the awkward pose of the concept work as well as being the only piece of concept provided; after looking through multiple references I decided to attempt to create perspective views off the concept by breaking it into basic geometric shapes, this proved to be one of the most useful piece of the reference research I did.

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Low Poly Model

After creating the reference images modeling the low poly mesh became easy and enjoyable! Below are the results of the Maya sculpt:

High Poly Model

Once the Maya mesh was finalized the smooth mesh preview was brought into ZBrush and details were added to the mesh.

Textures

Once the ZBrush scultping was completed I decimated the mesh and brough the low poly model and the ZBrush model into Substance to paint

UE4

With the mesh completed and textured it was finally time to bring the game ready asset into UE4, below are some screenshots of the mesh in engine:

Sketchfab

Here is the asset if you'd like to spin it around, thanks for reading!

Kreb Zbrush by psalas on Sketchfab

Process:

Reference Research: 2 hours

Maya Modeling: 4 hours

UV: 1 hours

Zbrush Sculpting: 5.5 hours

Substance: 3 hours

UE4 integration: 1 hour

Screenshot compile: 3 hours

Total project time:  19.5 hours