Elder Dragon

This was my first term project of my second year of my Games Art BA at UCA Farnham. I was tasked to create a dragon character entirely from scratch from concept to final 3D rendered model. I based my concept stylistically off the Spyro Reignited trilogy of games art style, I love the character of all the dragons and it allowed me to give my dragon some whimsy. I drew up a concept of an Elder dragon, and got to work blocking out and sculpting the character in Zbrush. I did some render passes in Zbrush and painted over them in Photoshop to do a test look dev before committing to colour choices later on. Admittedly I did have some problems baking the separate elements of the dragon without weird artefacts, this is why I ended up with more texture maps than I would have liked. Part of this project was to rig the character and do a simple flying animation, you can find this and a turntable in the downloads of this project. I'm very happy with the texturing work, and having not done too much 3D animation prior I am pleased with the flying animation result.