Kurbits MAT

Here are the final Renders of MAT!

A swedish Kurbits art style MAT, I rethought the color and decided on keeping it somewhat within shades of pink and green.

Shine and Subsurface are there to give a painted porcelain look. 

I worked hard and long with vector shapes and different methods to incorperate them into the model so that it felt like a porcelain figure.

I hope you like it!

Here he is! Kurbits MAT!!!  

It's starting to look like something!

Today I started on the body, mainly trying to get more of the floral feeling that became slightly lacking in the face (I may go back and have a look at what I can do there). 

Got some nice looking vines growing on the arms and a beautiful central floral motif on the body.

Mainly using SVG files from vector illustrations I made created in Illustrator for the decorations.

A view of the Vectors I've been using and a breakdown of the work will be added later, right now Illustrator is... let's say a bit messy*.. so after I cleaned it up a bit maybe I can show a bit of my work there.

*A bit messy is to say, there are 7 open artboards with hundreds of unnamed vector shapes on each, so I need to clean a bit :D

Another Update, I've polished the details on the face, and I've remade some of it completly.

I also added highlights, I am looking at different methods used when glazing stoneware such as using different metals to acheive a metallic look in the highlights of the glaze.

I have made a start on the rest of the skull, not sure yet if it is getting to noisy, I need negative space for it to look good, Will I have enough with the detail on the skull there I wonder.

Today I added height to the face and redid some of the colors so they don't conflict as much.

I also added smaller details and blacked out some of the negative space on MAT.

Started on the head today, mainly the face.

Started by building together the different parts with the stencils I made earlier. Then I hand painting the colors, highlights and shadows.

I've abandoned the Troll Idéa, it was to difficult for me to reach the desired result with only displacement maps.

I've spent some days figuring out what to do instead, and I thought of the traditional kurbits art of Sweden. I wanted to do something that represented my culture, so I decided to run with it. going for a hand painted style.

I've started making some stencils in Adobe Illustrator, and painting over them in Substance painter.

Today I Fiddled around in Gaea making heightmaps for the archipelago, I think this one will work out just fine

I'm going to make MAT into a Island Troll

My Idea is to use the fact that I live in the swedish archapelago as an inspiration, specifically the mythical folklore stories that some of the islands in the archapelago are sleeping trolls.

Here is my Reference board I created from various images I founs online, it will probably change as the project develops. I used Adobe color to extract useful colors from some of the photos.

I plan on travelling out into nature to get som nice images of my surroundings in the archapelago when I get some good weather.

I used photopshop to paint a rough sketch of my plan, I'm far from certain about many things here but it's a starting point.