Monday, January 19, 2026

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.


 

No comments:

Post a Comment

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 origina...