So, after three days of pain, here is my entry:
“The Monkey King”
open, cycles, blender 2.81
a thumb:
full resolution image here:
This is Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, from the Chinese classical “The journey to the west”. Fun fact, this is the inspiration for the character Goku, from dragon ball z. So, if it is looking like anime, that’s not a coincidence.
I tried to do something that would make justice to the absurdity of the powers of this trickster immortal monkey, So, a full on battle scene.
I marked this entry as “open”, since I used this assets:
I had sculpted a monkey head already when I found this by accident, so i ended Up merging both monkey kings, and re-rigging the result.
I also textured the armor from the second asset, and rigged it as well:
Anyway, glad I finished. Turned out worse than I wanted, but better than I expected.