Black Rain Frog

To create this project, I started with a base-mesh that was pretty different than my final sculpt. The base-mesh resembled a tree frog but my frog was much more compact. To make the right proportions, I had to dramatically change the proportions of the base-mesh. Using the gizmo tool in Nomad, I masked off the legs and arms and carefully shortened them a little at a time so to not damage the mesh. This was a tedious process and was one challenge I had to overcome while creating this frog. Like the legs, I had to also shorten his body and widen his face. It was difficult to manipulate the mesh so drastically without messing up the geometry. Once I had the basic shape down, I moved on to sculpting smaller details like the toes, eyes, and mouth. The final step in my process was to add texture using alphas to recreate the bumpy skin seen in the reference photos.