Akili the lion
Added 2018-10-18 00:53:54 +0000 UTCThis project was very very daunting and difficult. the final render of this project, I felt, was just awful and I had to tweak it alot in photoshop. his parts and rear had to be shaped by some paint as the overall render made things look flat and just not as defined as I was hoping for. the fur and muscle definition that I tried to achieve also did not look good and most of the fur on the legs had very bad patches and odd angler highlights. the amount of fur I had to render also made things very difficult as I crashed constantly. the face went through the most overpaint as I simply could not capture the subtle fur patterns around the eyes and mouth which ended up making this look fake and flat. I am hoping with the amount of paint over that I did things still look appealing! in the future if I have a go at this character again I am going to redo just about everything and render it with another render engine that does fur better.
https://tinyurl.com/y9a5p7md
Comments
Your hard work surely does show, I absolutely love the details and the character has a great sense of scale to him! He just feels big, powerful and huggable :3
The Mechanist
2018-10-18 16:10:15 +0000 UTCWhen I first saw the preview on my phone, at first glance it looked absolutely real. Not that the full version doesn't, but the more I looked at it I could see the differences with a real lion. Still looks amazing. :)
Kiran Otter
2018-10-18 15:32:13 +0000 UTCAlright! Only the full res version does him full justice. His mane is the highlight IMO: Awesome job on that! Definitely won't mind seeing you taking this lion for a spin again later on, y'know, after testing out and experimenting with more render stuff.
BlackTH
2018-10-18 04:01:15 +0000 UTCYour work in this is pretty impressive. While I prefer canines or bovines if I was asked in art this is great enough work that could change my tune. Awesome work!
Coyote
2018-10-18 02:41:56 +0000 UTC
