African Elephant

I'm happy yo introduce you a personal project.

You need to know that I love animals, it's a pure pleasure to be able to represent creatures in 3D.

I love studying anatomy, observing all these singular and splendid beings.

For some times, I wanted to work on the realisation of an elephant. They are fascinating animals, reflecting strength and sensitivity.

This project was very instructive technically and I'm glad I did it!

I hope you'll enjoy it!

Here is a turn of this elephant

Here you can see the assembled beauty, matte integration and compositing.

I made the base modeling with Maya, then I did many retakes and the details on ZBrush, the the lookdev with Substance/Maya/Renderman, groom with Xgen, FX (for the dust wake) with Houdini . Compositing was done with Nuke and some adjustments for the dust wake with Procreate.

Here is a quick breakdown of the dust wake I made in Houdini