Sparrow Knight Model
A slightly chibi/cartoony model of Michał Sałata’s ‘Sparrow Knight’
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/N5Bb35
Blockout in Blender > Sculpting in Zbrush > Textures in Substance Painter > Final Pose in Blender
Posed using shapeKeys/blendshapes and soft-selection with 3D cursor as the pivot point as if I was posing in Zbrush. Not sure if that saved time or just traded weight painting for constantly modifying the 3D cusror location…
I use a blockout mannequin to get started
Since the hair shape is seen at an angle in the reference art, I model it while the head is rotated 30 degrees, making sure all the hair is a child of the head so I can rotate it back later
I use curves to model the complex hair. This also helps make uniform UV maps later
I model all of the basic forms in blender where I have my reference planes before merging the forms and sculpting details
merged and sculpted details
Showing what parts are separate meshes to help when texturing
the birds I just box modeled, making 2 versions of the wings but it all fits on one UV map
checking UV maps before texturing...
textures on the model before final posing
