Hello BA, its been a while. Here is a character that I designed and modelled a while back, and it was nice to finally finish it.
Modelled in Blender+Zbrush.
Texturing in Substance Painter and all the rendering was done in Cycles.
My day job is making models for games so I used to this project as way to test out UDIM and displacement map workflow since I normally dont get to do that.
Wow love this! 
Love the eyes. I always feel like 3D eyes are the hardest to get right. 
Anmol Maithani Thanks!
BigBlend yeah the eyes can be tricky. It took me a bit of experimentation to get them right. My wife happens to be a concept artist so she helped me quite a bit and suggested making the eyes like that.
This looks phenomenal!! I’m curious to see the shading on this!!! Blown me away.
Very cute!
Fantastic work, although I was completely expecting some swimming animation when I pressed play on that last one 
Very expressive! That’s one happy little turtle 
Michael_Render thanks, its was mostly just a lot of manual painting +baking out good usable maps from the high poly sculpt. Shading wise it was just a principal shader with SSS + displacement, nothing too special.
But the eyes did have a bit of shading setup. You probably cant make it out from the screenshot, but it was just some procedural textures wrapped around the iris of the eye.
@AprilD.Shelton thanks
@blenderrocket haha, yeah that would have been nice. I’m not an animator so that is my excuse 
it would be nice if someone offered to animate it
@bartv that was what I was going for I have a lot of small nieces and nephews so I just wanted to make something they would like. The colours were actually chosen by my niece based on some colour concepts I painted
Great job! The texturing and shading are quite astounding!
(higg pitched voice) Ohhh how cccuuutttte … looookk it’s loookiing at meee while it moves…
Ahemm – (much lower voice now) well what cani say… WOW…
Thanks for the insight look in your workspace… adds a lot of +'s for you 
really cute, I too was hoping to see him flapping about in the video!
I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!
That’s the cutest turtle I have ever seen
Super fun, love it!
