Organic Sculpt- Alien Dog Week 2

This week for completing my secondary and tertiary detail I focused on the front facing view of the alien dog as that is the one the original reference was from. The GIO brush came in handy a lot for carving out wrinkles, as well as damstandard and inflate.

It was pretty easy for me to figure out what I needed to do for the secondary detail as the alien dog is essentially a giant ball of wrinkled flesh. I sculpted in the deepest wrinkles and some of the medium ones to pave the way for tertiary detail. 

While in my secondary detail phase I did a lot of sculpting into the model, to better emphasize the existing detail and create more I sculpted on top. I did the inverse operation of the GIO brush quite a bit to define wrinkles more, to build up edges and emphasize slighter details. I deepened a lot of the biggest wrinkles and used the inflate brush when I felt the flesh needed to sag and overlap over each other more. I applied clay polish to the teeth and claws as well as used damstandard for a bit more edge.

Organic Sculpt- Alien Dog Week 1

After watching the video about different methods to set up references images in ZBrush, I found the grid method to be the most intuitive and went into Photoshop to correctly scale my reference images. The images are cropped a bit oddly but the alien dog itself is all scaled to the exact same size from the front, sides, and back. I set imported the images as textures and set them up on on a cube grid.

I then made a rough blockout using polyspheres and then dynameshed the main body together for easier tweaks. I left the ears and eyes solo for now.

I made finer edits to the blockout, adding teeth and claws and made adjustments to the primary forms mostly with claybuildup, damstandard, and highpolish to refine shapes. Then I started sculpting in all the wrinkles around the limbs, joints, and eyes. I stopped (if I had to guess) most of the way through my secondary detail. Below is my working reference board.