#precursor

Breakdown:

Prep (model turn around and base): ~2 hours

Base Sculpt: ~4 hours

Retopologizing: ~13 hours

Painting and texturing: ~27 hours

Rigging: ~ 2 hours

Scene setup: ~1 hour

Animating: ~2 hours

Rendering: 4.5 hours

Vo-Tan was unreasonably difficult to texture. Apparently centaurs do NOT appreciate UV unmapping. In the end I used smart UV unwrapping because after over 20 hours of baking, rebaking, repainting, and rebaking i finally took it as a sign from the blender god. For that reason this model isn't really professional grade and has a lot of artifacts even after hand touching up the normals In the future I'll look in to splitting in to multiple UVs.

Final sculpt: ~1 million verts Riggable base: ~5,000 verts