Hi there !
My name is Laura and I have decided to join the adventure of modifying one of the Splash screens!
I decided to start from the splash screen made by Orencloud “Secret Deer”
I love the dark/macabre and very luminous side, which teems with life in this creation.
My idea is to make a little fox with a skull’s head, with several emaciated parts, which will make it possible to see luminous filaments appear which will go towards the ground. Its filaments propel the liminous plants from the ground.
There will surely be other forest element that will be on the fox.
I intend to reuse a large part of the vegetation of the splash screen, for my scene… if the polycount is not abused
Here is my mood board:
Here is a sketch of my main direction, there are not all the elements. After watching the splashsreen scenes, I’m going to have to redo most of the vegetation to better optimize it.
Today I started to work more on the fox. I worked on the basic shape of his head, and his “decomposing” body.
I am doing tests to make the filaments of light. In the splashscreen are many curves, with many vertices. I wanted to try to make bands of polygons, where I just draw the lines on them. I think I’m on the right way.
For the deer antlers, for the base I reused those I had made for another project (https://www.instagram.com/p/B8MTmYmq9ei/)
Then to better resemble the one on the splashscreen, I collected spikes to scatter them on my deer antlers. I will use this base to resculpt them.
after a few tests, I will use this technique. I will have to pay attention to the intensity of my lights, because the bake does not retransmit exactly the same lighting. But I’m happy, because it works
Instead of spreading life and light like the deer, my fox will spread desolation. I will take several plants from the splashscreen (transform them into a stylized version) and add dead plants, brambles and poisonous plants.
Finally I decided to remove the puddle. It’s an element that I really like on the splashscreen, but it doesn’t fit with my artwork. My fox is supposed to wither things in its path, and water is the source of life. So it didn’t match.
I duplicated some branch of my trees to be able to create the small branches. And then I put the leaves on it. (I tried with a scattering, but it wasn’t pretty, so I placed everything by hand)
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I decided to make brambles that come out of the fox’s paws. I used the curve tool, in draw curve, then I modified the radius of the curve. I transformed them into mesh, and I scatterized with BagaPie the small peaks.
This is looking so good!!! Have you played with the 3.3 hair yet, in regards to the wispy tendrils? I messed around with it yesterday and now that it’s got Geometry Nodes support, a savvy noodler can make alpha hair card tendrils pretty quick. Make sure to get it on Sketchfab by Thursday, September 15, and tag it #bcon22challenge
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At the very least, upload your work to Sketchfab as soon as possible and add the #bcon22challenge tag.
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