Knowing nothing about Pokémon, I spend a few days doing some, very pleasent, 'research'.
It is very hard to choose one, but I eventually decided to go with this monkey. (Apparently it's not an ape when it has a tail...)
Started with a blockout to try and get the proportions more or less right. Already found that this is going to be a lot harder than I thought:
I decided to model him/her in 'Ape-pose', to take advantage of the Mirror Modifier. Of course the is no reference for a neutral pose, but having an Armature will make posing easier and maybe there is time left for a little animation.
The plan is to use Hair on the body and a Fire sim for the, you guessed it, fire.
Wow, love the reference!!! Awesome selection, spikeyxxx Good luck on the modeling and sculpting. I know it's gonna be exceptional.
This is an interesting choice for sure, can't wait to see the progress Spikey! 👍
TIL it is not an ape. How could the Pokemon naming guy do that? Anyway, I will be looking forward to see your progress!
The beginning progresses really slow (something I have often, it takes time for me to get into the model, get a feeling for the shape(s) and so).
Not following the standard workflow (I am not a professional, so I don't have to follow the 'rules'...), but just experimenting with hair:
And a bit further, still a lot of exciting stuff to be done and what is there is definitely not final, shapes will change and the hair also needs a lot of love (just experimenting with the general look), but it's slowly comming to life:
As requested; with fire:
Now it's time to stop playing around and get to work:
Sculpting
Retopology
Baking
Maybe Unwrapping and a little Texture Painting
Building an Armature (probably just use Rigify)
Weight Painting
Posing
Lighting
See what I will do about a background.
and of course Rendering.
Sounds like a lot and it is, but with more than 10 days left, this should be do-able.
Lol. Gives me flashbacks to Andrew's Donut Tutorial. He says: "If you finish this first video then I promise you that at the end we will set a monkey head on fire." And we did. XD
After a few days of failed attempts, finally found a direction, I am happy with:
A bit of an older Infernape, but don't worry, he's still got fire!
When the Sculpting is done, things should speed up quite a bit, I hope...I can already smell the deadline :)
Luckily it's mostly face, fingers and toes that need sculpting attention, as the rest of the body will be covered anyway.
Finished sculpting for now (some details might still follow later, when time allows):
I was lazy and thought to sculpt one finger and the duplicate it a few times. But then I somehow had to combine the fingers with the hand, so I Remeshed and then I got this sort of a mess:
Had the time of my life, trying to fix that!
I'll take a break now (it's sunny at the moment :D) and then I'll start the retopology.
Retopo mostly done, although hands and feet are not the easiest part to retopologize:
1213 Vertices so far.
Taking a break now, but after that I need to at least finish the retopo.
