# Rocket (Guardians of the Galaxy) fanart **URL:** \ **Category:** Finished Projects\ **Tags:** featured, characters\ **Created:** [January 24, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/rocket-guardians-of-the-galaxy-fanart/1203362 "2020-01-24T21:05:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pasi](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/pasi/32/23165_2.png) [@pasi](https://blenderartists.org/u/pasi)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/rocket-guardians-of-the-galaxy-fanart/1203362/1 "2020-01-24T21:05:23Z")
I absolutely love the Guardians of the Galaxy films and Rocket has to be one of the best CGI characters ever. I wanted to produce a relatively faithful fan art piece and also try and learn a bit about hair and fur in Blender. I’ve only done some minor hair stuff before. I ended up modelling quite a bit of this in Blender. The original sculpt was done in ZB but I did a lot of work in the head in Blender afterwards. Weapon and armour pieces modelling in Blender. The fur has quite a few particle systems (10+ for the head). ![rocket-comp](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/0/d/3/0d33a9e8fd3a0c2ae61926c82fb2a996b131a3f3.jpeg) ![boring](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/5/a/1/5a153a21bde2ec2445e9592e3a41f4788ee189e5.jpeg) ![blender-viewport](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/a/f/2/af21e7a313a08418bf52a8bb32da06bd05aa592d.png) I had a blast working on this. The original character brought to life by the fantastic people at Framestore is a masterpiece. It was daunting but fun trying to reproduce a character built by a team of top-level professionals. The gun is (loosely) based on a concept by Maciej Kuciara. > **Thumbnail** > > ![rocket-comp-crop](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/b/7/7/b77988da9fa2e011b134d9d4d8c588a15fa8874e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Ace\_Dragon](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/ace_dragon/32/1067926_2.png) [@Ace\_Dragon](https://blenderartists.org/u/Ace_Dragon)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/rocket-guardians-of-the-galaxy-fanart/1203362/2 "2020-01-25T17:39:30Z")
While not all of the shaders could be seen as a perfect match, I do think you got pretty close on the fur as well as nailing the pose. The vest is also pretty good, a good piece overall. ---
**Author:** ![pasi](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/pasi/32/23165_2.png) [@pasi](https://blenderartists.org/u/pasi)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/rocket-guardians-of-the-galaxy-fanart/1203362/3 "2020-01-25T20:02:39Z")
Thanks. It is quite difficult when you’re trying to replicate a character that really had a team of people work on it. You feel that it never looks good enough. I’m pretty happy with how the fur turned out. It did take a million renders though, the first iterations were… scary. I would do a few things differently if I started from scratch now but I think that’s always the case. ---
**Author:** ![pasi](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/pasi/32/23165_2.png) [@pasi](https://blenderartists.org/u/pasi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/rocket-guardians-of-the-galaxy-fanart/1203362/4 "2020-01-26T18:53:51Z")
Here’s a better quality 360 turnaround: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhsbGD89-DU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhsbGD89-DU) ---
**Author:** ![pitibonom](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/pitibonom/32/1439404_2.png) [@pitibonom](https://blenderartists.org/u/pitibonom)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/rocket-guardians-of-the-galaxy-fanart/1203362/5 "2020-01-26T19:05:31Z")
yes, this is why this one should be featured 😉 Thanks for the eye pleasure ! as i think we all love this grumbling racoon x)) Happy blending ! ---
**Author:** ![bartv](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/bartv/32/1477233_2.png) [@bartv](https://blenderartists.org/u/bartv)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/rocket-guardians-of-the-galaxy-fanart/1203362/6 "2020-01-27T21:28:51Z")
You’re on the #featured row! 👍 ---
**Author:** ![pasi](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/pasi/32/23165_2.png) [@pasi](https://blenderartists.org/u/pasi)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/rocket-guardians-of-the-galaxy-fanart/1203362/7 "2020-01-28T06:40:32Z")
Thank you, I guess there’s a first for everything. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bartv](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/bartv/32/1477233_2.png) [@bartv](https://blenderartists.org/u/bartv)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/rocket-guardians-of-the-galaxy-fanart/1203362/8 "2020-01-31T12:46:40Z")
I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend 🙂 > **[Best of Blender Artists: 2020, week 5](https://www.blendernation.com/2020/01/31/best-of-blender-artists-2020-week-5/)** > > Every week, hundreds of artists share their work on the Blender Artists forum. I’m putting some of the best work in the spotlight in a weekly post here on BlenderNation.