Refining Design Further

Refining Design Further



After picking a better armour design and improving the face of my creature sculpt, I started to refine the character as a whole.

I started thinking about how the armour would fit together and could be incorporated into the alien creature's body. I also wanted to have some sort of mechanical piece included so that it gave a nice contrast to all of the organic armour pieces, and also I could add some emissive lights later on in the texturing stages.









I added some feather like strands out of the back of the creatures skull. I feel that this adds to the silhouette and makes the creature seem more organic. However, this was just an experimental piece of geometry and may change later on.

I went through a few design iterations on the shoulder guard shell piece. I feel that it looks organic and as if it could be a hard shelled creature/skeleton that the alien has used as a defence piece, maybe as if maybe the alien creature had lost it's other shoulder guard and replaced it with something on the go.

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