CGAN Sept25 -Fossil Faeries - WIPs

Fossil Faeries

Brief: Interpret the title as you wish into some kind of creative visual brilliance.

Deadline: Midnight on Tuesday 30th of September. There will now be no voting and no eventual winner, this is just a creative exercise with a time limit.

This thread is where you post your WIPs (works in progress). Finals should be posted over here:  cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/current-c...aeries-final-entries


Challenge rules and guidelines:
cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challenge-rules

Rules in brief:
- All challenge entries must be your own work.
- You should post at least two WIP images that are clearly different from your final entry and each other.
- Your final entry should contain your image (inserted so it shows up full size) and at least two links to your WIP posts on the forum.
- No chatter in the finals thread – if you have questions, post them in the WIP thread or PM an admin.
- Feedback is allowed & encouraged together with the voting and in the WIP thread.
- Deadline is given in UK time (midnight UTC) with a grace period of 5 minutes for getting the post sorted.
- Each member may cast one vote.
- No cheating! Admins may decide to disqualify an entry that does not adhere to the above rules.

Not sure if this is gonna work but I'm having a little sculpty-doodle...

 

I suspect I'll need far too many polygons to make it look better and it may be more efficient to do it as a bump/displacement map.

Pretty much the exact same thing but a different technique and pose (originally my pose was more similar and facing the same way but I decided to make a few changes when I saw Val's wip )

 

Wip 2 and sketch 3, I guess. Sketch layer 3? Not entirely finished or accurate or anything yet but hopefully I'll be able to use much of it for the rest of the process. When I figure out exactly how to continue... 

 
 

That's coming along nicely and looking way better than mine....

 

It's weird "drawing" something in Blender in 3D. I keep trying to use ArtRage keyboard shortcuts.
And you can't really Cut/Paste/Move/Resize things without distorting the topology. Not that the topology is good anyway.

Don't like the hands (do I ever?) and one thigh is a bit short. But maybe proportions can get distorted during fossilization.
That's my excuse anyway.

They definitely can; bones get smashed, skewed, broken and scattered. It's my excuse too And for the thigh bone being short you can "hide" one end inside the rock and noone can tell how long it is. 

I have a background for wip 3
 

*tries to do texturing*

Hmm.

*looks at deadline*

Hmm.

Hmm.
Cavity Mask.

Been refining the skeleton, but I still need to decide where to put the ribs (I drew them where they should be in real life but that's not where I want them) and how to do the wings and some other stuff. And colour...