Lil' Tate

Sometimes you just gotta make dumb stuff. 😂

Me and my friends have an inside joke about this potato I made them for their wedding. He  is rotting away in their flower pot, so what a better way to remember our Lil' Tate by then making him in 3D to last forever.

This was my first version of him. I did some sculpting and vertex painted him. HOWEVER, it turned out that I didn't add enough vertices to his mesh, so when it came time to draw his face it came out very pixelated. When I went to remesh my model, it completely deleted all the vertex painting I had done. Crap. I had to paint him all over again.

However, I'm very happy that this mess up happened. I went back and added more texture and divots to his model and thought about how I could better improve the paint job on him.

He's not perfect, but so much better compared to the first version I did. I thought this would be just a silly, quick sculpt - but it turned into another great learning experience for me.

Made in: Blender

Render Engine: Cycles

Completion Time: 6-7hrs