Zalion Shadowmoon

Zalion Shadowmoon is an original character designed by myself. I will explain the whole Concept Art process as an independent project. 

The model is intended to be a videogame character so I kept  a low-poly count and retopologized it to be able to be rigged and animated in the future.

Here is the final concept I was working with when modeling the 3D model.

As the concept was done by me I was able to make changes during the modeling process. For example in the concept we can see Zalion is wearing shoes but  after I worked more in his lore I decided he was more likely to go bare foot. I even sculpted them as you can see in this early stages screenshots from Zbrush.

Feel free to inspect the model in this Marmoset viewer:

Modeling process: 

- Blocking with Maya (only the body).

- Sculpting  in Zbrush till all proportions are final.

- Retopology mainly with Blender and Maya for some objects.

- Fine detail with Zbrush.

- Texturing with Substance Painter.

- Render with Marmoset and Arnold in Maya

I also made some renders with Arnold in Maya:

Finally I want to show more renders and some color variations I made: