Just felt that the serpent could use a more intimidating stare/expression.” The egg is a nice touch for more backstory. Ken Liang: “Great render, great lighting, nice choice of camera angle to accentuate the scale of the serpent and visual story telling. Love the color choice and composition balance.” Ozana Nemčanin: “The Artist has shown some impressive modeling and texturing skills. Very nice storytelling, I love the contrast between cold blue lights illuminating the Serpent and warm candles lights.

Beautiful lighting, clear and interesting composition, really nice colors and atmosphere. His scene composition and directing with light is already very professional.”Įwa Wierbik: “For me, this artwork has everything what great render should have. This was the longest time I’ve spent on a single image, clocking around 170 hours, and was an epic project to top off the year!”Ĭreated using Blender 3.0, Cycles X, Substance Painter and Photoshop.Ĭhristoph Werner: “I promise a successful future for Robert as an artist. Overall, this was an epic challenge, and I’m so glad I participated! I spent quite a bit of time on color grading and post-production in Photoshop, which I hadn’t really done before, but greatly elevated the image. The feathers on the Serpent are distributed using a combination of geometry nodes and Blender’s hair system.

Halfway through the challenge, I considered scrapping the project for a new one due to spending an entire day on the lighting and not getting anywhere, but I am so glad I pushed forward! Shortly after that, I kicked and fractured my toe, but that actually let me work on it more. The first 6 days were spent purely on the idea, story and composition. This was a new asset creation workflow for me, but I found it very effective! Pretty much everything in the scene was modelled, sculpted, retopologized, and then finally textured. I had a ton of fun making this image and learned so much! I sculpted a creature and used Substance Painter for the first time (which was awesome!).

This artwork is based on the Feathered Serpent (In Aztec Mythology), with an original story. ”– As a part of thy initiation into the Beast Bandit Guild, thou must steal the egg of a SERPENT. We’re congratulating Robert Kouts for winning the first place!įollow Robert: ArtStation Robert about his entry:

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