Spawn of Cthulhu, Baby Cthulhu or Little Cutethulhu created as part of @pablander The Extra Mile course.
Little Cthulhu has been through quite the journey since his original sketch. Huge thanks to Pablo for lots of feedback and help along the way, this is definitely on of the most complex and detailed sculpted and rendered artworks I have done I think.
Sculpted in Nomad and Zbrush, textured in Substance and Marmoset, rendered in Blender Cycles and composited in Affinity Photo.
Early Blender setup for rendering.
Initial Marmoset render after Substance texturing
Final Zbrush model with polypaint render
Zbrush sculpt before adding tertiary detyails and polypainting
Retopology work using Zremesher before adding final details
Initial blockout of the main forms
initial concept sketches