Greetings from Barbardos ! Postcard - Ghost crab

Hello everyone ! :smiley:
I made this artwork recently as part of a french 3D contest which theme was Here comes Summer.
I decided to depict a ghost crab because of its particular look, with its eyes coming out of his main body, and also because I think itā€™s a good way to symbolize both summer and exoticism. At the end, I wanted to achieve a postcard look by deteriorating the picture in post-process.

Iā€™m not very familiar with organic modeling / rigging, so this was a great exercice and to improve my skills. Even if I would have put more details into the crabā€™s face because it lacks volume and details in my opinion, but I chose a not ideal workflow and it was kinda hard to do any modification to the main mesh. So, I decided to move on to other projects. I tried using some motion blur especially because there are seagulls in the background but the depth of field is so intense that it just looked like a pile of blurry pixels ! :smile:

2400 x 1350 postcard render


2400 x 1350 render without the postcard look


1920 x 1080 clay render


2400 x 1350 wireframe render

Basemesh has been created in Blender 2.81, sculpted in ZBrush, textured in Substance Painter, and brought back into Blender for the main scene. Post-process in Photoshop.
The sand is created with icosphere and particle systems.

Rendered with Cycles in approximately 1h30, 1024 samples, denoised with compositor.

The font used for ā€œGreetings from Barbadosā€ is Vintage Party. https://www.dafont.com/vintage-party.font

You can have access to the Artstation project via this link : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/489zg1

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