Red Dragon

This is a dragon 3D model and concept

First I sculpted in Zbrush trying to define the proportions and the main shape that the dragon would have.

Then I sent it into Maya to do a manual retopology so that it would be of the highest quality

then I did the UV mapping, since this was a personal project and I wanted to achieve the best quality of detail as possible I decided to work with multiple UDIMs without taking to much care of possible performance.

Then I exported the OBJ back into Zbrush and started to sculpt all the details I wanted it to have. I used multiple alphas and VDMs the I had made to do the scales and the rough skin texture.

Then I baked a displacement map from the high poly detailed dragon and sent it back into Maya to see how the displacement map worked.

I decided to paint the dragon inside Zbrush using the polypaint feature and using its masks to highlight the scales and the detail. Then I exported the texture inside Maya to see how it was looking.

then I modified the pose in Zbrush, sculpted the eyes and added megascans from Quixel to enhance the scenery. I then added and HDRI and a couple of lights to finish the scene. Then I rendered it in Maya using Arnold.