Rhinoceros Beetle from Another World

I started out with the zbrush z-sphere rhino base becasue why not, ya know?

then I went through to make sure I blobbed out every part of the creature so I could then just focus on sculpting and not worry if I forgot anything.

starting to sculpt in details one area at a time since the parts are all separated subtools

here I captured a quick step-by-step for breaking up the body into all the separate plates of armor using groups, zremesher, and panel loops

more sculpting progress

the full sculpt is finished

I retopologize, UV, and break up into material groups in Maya

here I've taken the low poly into painter and baked all the hi-res meshes into maps to begin texturing

This creature has lots of color variation and patterning that required hand painting, so I created this color picking image over the reference art in photoshop to make color picking in substance painter faster and more reliable.

using the color palette I was able to quickly find the right colors I needed to paint in all the areas of the model

here I've painted everything but the limbs