New Stuff, New Year

Recently got Substance Designer and Substance Painter on sale off Steam. I've been having difficulty getting the Quixel Suite to work so I'm looking forward to finally be able to try out some node based texturing and working my way through the tutorial videos :)

I also got a Beginners Guide to Zbrush book for Christmas, planning to work through it and finally get to grips with it.

I'm also still not well, ended up getting a cold on top of having this post viral thing which hasn't been fun. I'm hoping once this colds gone I'll be back to normal. Hopefully the new year will be better :)

Griffins!

Trying to work out which eagle to base the griffin on. The above is a combination of African Sea Eagle and African Lion.

 Used the Bateleur Eagle for this one. The image itself isn't as good but I think the Bateleur's head fits the griffin better and is different enough without being unrecognisable or strange looking. The type of feathers used will likely be easier to replicate as they have a more solid edge to them.
I'll think about colours once I'm modelling, not going to be using the combination of colours in the bateleur image for certain though!

I've done some rough sketches of the environments just need to scan them in. I'm 90% certain on how the griffins environment will look so I'll start making that first.

Warlock Town Take Two!

Couple of major updates to the warlock town project.
1. Is now a joint project with Alex ( http://alexcollins-art.co.uk)
2. The town is now going to be based on the warlock town from Heroes of Might and Magic II instead of replicating it. We are also going to model the creatures


Each of us is going to make three units and their environments, mine will be the griffin, hydra and dragon (might swap around who knows)

Griffin Ideas:
As I don't want to go down to much of a typical griffin route I've been looking at different types of eagles to base the griffin on and narrowed it down to three species.

African Sea Eagle

Quite like the markings, face and colours of this one.

Bateleur Eagle

I like the shape of the feathers around the face on this eagle, has a slight mane like look. Very unlikely I'll use the colour scheme though.

European Sea Eagle

I'll probably use this eagle as a base.

I'll do some photobashing to see what works best. Going to be in Dorset for the next couple of days without a computer so I'm going to try and get some rough idea sketches done. For the griffins habitat I'm thinking a combination of the large rocks lions sleep on and nests.