Organic Modelling

For organic model I wanted to model my own illustration as I said in my earlier blog post of hard surface but unfortunately my hard surface model took a lot of time from the time I had allotted for organic model.

This is the illustration of which I wanted to make 3d Model.

But as it can be seen the model would've been too complicated for me as a first time Zbrush user and on top of that my hard surface model also had lot of things going on so I moved on to other references.

I went on pinterest to search for references for organic model and collected these for my reference board.

I did not have particular theme in my mind for References so I got kind of lost trying to decide on one. After lot of contemplating I finally I went for the cactus mafia character. But I still wanted to add something of my own in that so I made my own version taking the reference from the cactus mafia character

This is a very rough version of Cacti Man that I wanted to model as I was going for a untidy character theme.

I began sculpting the model in Zbrush with the help of defaultsphere3D

I sculpted almost whole character in Zbrush except for the cap which i wanted to do in maya

I imported the character in Maya and began retopologizing the body. I came across a lotof issues while doing the retopology of the model.

I tried to reroute and delete and make the topology many times over but somehow, I wasn't able to do it.

So, I scraped the whole idea of retopologizing and started modelling the character from scratch in maya as I was running out of time.

After modelling and making sure my topology was right, I moved ahead with UV Mapping

This time too I separated all the parts in different tiles so that it makes it easier for me in substance painter.

This time I didn't face any issues with UV unwrapping as I learned from my mistakes in hard surface and was able to import to substance painter.

After importing it to substance painter I baked the low poly model to get this mesh maps.

This is how I did texture to my model.

After that I imported the fbx file back in maya to link all the maps to different parts of the model.

This is the final video which I made out of rendered sequences

Self Critique -

I need a lot of practicing in retopology as I feel like I couldn't figure out the way to reroute the edgeflow.

I need better time management for scheduling my project timeline.

I could've done a lot better with sculpting and made more complex character but didn't push myself.