Boss Monster: Rendering Process

This took me a long while to finish but I am very proud I have finally reached the last part of my work!
  The process of this is quite long and was carefully rendered.

Process 

sketch lines

 I push myself to work from a greyscale first on the Fabric part because of how multicolored the fabric could be, it can get overwhelming. 

Base colour multiply over monocolored shadow layer

Using texture from the stage to indicate the material of the cloak is the same as the Arena's wallpaper

I use Photobash to add in the fills of the neck to reduce workload.

The back of the boss was rather easy as all I did was flipping the front side and fill in the blue part of the cloak to cover the section that is hidden by the cloak.

I finally added the cross that tells the story that this Boss is a puppet

Finalizing and adding lighting.

Final Piece

And my boss character is finished! I am proud of what I made. Due to the art block and my fuel to continue the work reducing rapidly during the last stretch of the work, I can not help but feel like I can improve a lot more of the colouring and shading. Especially the rim lighting that I used to enjoy doing is rather not well executed in the final product. However, because this is a type of character I never have tried to create before, and has been a huge step out of my comfort zone. I am rather proud of the design.

The Moss Fox: Animation

The rigging and skinning of the fox was the hardest part I did throughout the entire project so far. The bip tool was used to create human anatomy's character. Because I am making a fox and the only way I know how to rig is by using a human's skeleton.

I turned the two-legged skeleton human into a fox-like body with extra spines and a tail. Forcing it to be on all four.

I can sense that the bip bones don't take a liking to it. Throughout working, the screen managed to blue screen me as well as file corrupting and lead the skeleton to be in weird positions.

In the end, I get it to work and with all limps stretched and moving in the direction it should be.

By watching the tutorial from year one on how the animation slides and key set work, I begin to slowly and slowly work on the animation of my fox.

Final Piece

The end result of the animation came out rather quick but it was intentional! I was making the animation to be short to save my self and storage space on animating more frames and reducing the file size. With UnrealEngine4, I can speed up and down the animation created on 3dsMax. My little guy is now alive and well, I feel like a proud mother.