Tidy Pachyderm's Tidy Art

Another quick project I'm wrapping up - Final Wars Godzilla. Surprisingly not a lot of available models for that particular design.

Intended for use as a VRChat avatar again, so a bit restricted by the need to maintain real time polycounts; but otherwise aiming to be reasonably accurate to the real suit.

New model of a Hibbertopterus, a Devonian eurypterid. Can go on land, is a sedimentary sweep feeder, has some seemingly indeterminate number of legs that none of my sources can find consensus on, round guy; thats all we know.

Postosuchus kirkpatricki

Haven't done any grounded paleoart in a while; this was a nice exercise in aping what I imagine the workflow for something like Prehistoric Kingdom or The Isle to be.

Agnaktor - The Fire Leviathan

Well; here it is - far and away my longest project so far. Will eventually have a lava-coated variant (among others) but I wanted a clean version shown in a swimming pose - despite being a leviathan you almost never see this guy depicted swimming, so I thought that might be neat. Assume this is very transparent lava.

Something a bit outside my usual area - Warhammer 40'000 stuff! Or like, actually 30K stuff I think? These are Ruinstorm Daemon brutes; which are apparently a non-specific Horus Heresy-era only model kit with a trio of Daemons that have never actually appeared in any related media and have received no real attention or art or lore fluff anywhere.

But someone out there loves these guys and wanted me to make them as VRChat avatars so here they are; video game models for the first time. Have probably paid more attention to the Ruinstorm Daemonbrutes than Games Workshop ever has. I studied a lot of the decision making that Creative Assembly uses when translating a tiny little plastic dude into something a bit more tangibly proportioned and I'm pretty happy with how this came out actually; this was a good one.

Something I threw together quick for a client using some models I already had lying around. Wyvern Rex and Keptos, two extinct concept creatures from Monster Hunter artbooks now resurrected as fantasy paleoart with a confusing diegesis.

Both monster models are my own creation; the ground assets are some random photoscans I had lying around from somewhere.

Drogon, the dragon with a dumb name from that show we stopped talking about!

Another stylized model I made as a VR chat avatar for someone. Completely flat shaded; all textures are hand-painted on.

Some shots from today's stress testing of the current version of my and PB472's in-progress Great Maccaokret mod. Still a lot of bugs to iron out (like the eyeballs being entirely outside of their sockets, sorry for the visual) before its anywhere releasable; but this is a real thing that is happening and will continue to happen until it has happened.

Hey everyone! Newest monster hunter remake here – Great Maccao! Never actually fought the guy; but did my best on capturing his vibes in a more modern style. Done as commission for TheOneAndOnlyDarto.

This was a complete ground up rebuild of the model; with a new high poly sculpt (around 19 million tris in total) and a new painted set of 4k textures. Model is rigged and will be available as a 3D print at some point down the line.

And yes; before everyone asks me about the obvious thing they might imagine it being used for – a replacement mod for the Seikret is already in progress (thank you very much to PB472 for implementation there) and will be available eventually; though its still in barely in beta and will come out when its done. WIP shown here:

Another VRChat commission; a creature from the game Limbus Company (I think; I just do what I'm told here). Part of a series of pieces I've been asked to do from this game for use as custom game avatars.

Tried to get as close to the stylization of the original sprite as possible; which did necessitate some compromises but I do think I was close enough that I had to include a turnaround to prove it is actually 3D. Uses a hand painted main texture, a glow and transparency map for various effects, and features an inverse hull outline (isolated to specific regions on the model) for a bit of extra pop.

Another Godzilla commission I was asked to create as a VR Chat avatar. Game ready resolution; around 20k tris (the spines are poly hogs no matter what) with a pair of texture sheets to handle the glow effects.

Based on an old concept by FredtheDinosaurman on Deviantart. All flat shaded; the apparent bounce lighting on the body when he glows up is just painted on.

The ancient Keptos (or Keputosu, there's no official anglicization), a fish eating monster that appears in some Monster Hunter concept artbooks as a hypothetical prehistoric stem bird wyvern but which has never actually been in a game.

Until now, hopefully - I was commissioned to work on this by a mod team who's looking to insert it World at some point, although there's still a lot of work before that can happen. Still; the model is game ready and optimized for a real time environment so a lot of the foundation is laid.

This was a really complicated project for me; unlike a lot of my previous monster rebuilds I've done Keptos only exists as a pair of sketchy and contradictory thumbnail concepts from an artbook made during a very different era of the franchise; its functionally an original monster beyond the broadest outlines of the design.

A new piece I've just wrapped up - Titanosaurus from the Godzilla franchise; based on a design from Godzilla artist Matt Frank he did a billion years ago for his Godzilla Neo fan project.

Was asked to do this as a commission, but happy to make this guy anyway - he's only ever really been in one movie, where he's stuck playing second chair to a more famous and better villain monster the whole time, and his costume looks terrible, and his role in the story doesn't make a lot of sense (a shelf-brand Showa Scientist has been ostracized from the world stage for... believing in a giant sea monster, but like not one of the 5 that have destroyed the Tokyo Tower this financial quarter alone?) but having all that stacked against him gives him that scrappy underdog charm.

And here's the behind the scenes images. Textures are mostly hand painted; but I wish now I'd put a little more texture into the sculpt itself instead of trying to fake most of the micro-details with materials, which did broadly work out but still isn't quite as crisp as I'd like it.

Sculpt took about a month, on and off, and then I did the painting over the course of a long weekend. Environment is just a procedural displacement on top of a plane.

Odibatorasu - another Monster Hunter Frontier fella that I have never fought and probably never will, but have been asked to recreate as a modern asset. Probably my most involved work yet; this guy is colossal and needed a lot of bespoke details over his huge bulk that took me about a month of sculpting.