The Undead Wanderer

It's been a rough start, with a lot of going back and forth on the alphas I've been making. I'm happy with the base shape of the skull, and plan to add more height detail for a bone-like texture within substance painter itself. There's a lot of work in progress parts of this as well that I'm not showing here- I've got some fur in the works for his legs and arms, and I've been poking around with his little cloak as well! All of his head except the skull is very much bare bones right now, but I think I'm moving in the right direction at least!

I've been leaning a lot more toward realism than my initial sketch, with his skull taking on those proportions. We'll see if that remains the case, though.

Hi there! Here are some of my initial concept sketches for my Meet Mat 3 entry.

I find skulls fascinating, and while brainstorming what I might want to do for this project I found myself trying to figure out what animal skulls might fit Mat's circular head. Cat skulls seemed like a great fit. From there, I went toward some kind of raggedy traveler with a cat's skull for a head, wearing a little cape and a shoulder bag for supplies, with shaggy fur on their exposed limbs and tiny little paws and claws.

I'm playing it pretty free and loose though, so we'll see where this takes me design-wise!