The Pumpkin King
A little late, but Happy Halloween!
I started this fun little Halloween scene based off a concept I found online a 5-6 years ago, unfortunately I don't know who to credit for it but it's attached to my reference sheet at the bottom! The Pumpkin king, hope you enjoy it.
I didn't exactly have a clear goal when I started this one but I knew I wanted to make a very challenging tree sculpt. I started out in SpeedTree to block out the roots/trunk and brought it into Zbrush to sculpt. I also wanted to learn Rizom UV and this gave me a very, very good excuse too.. Can't say I wanna Uv something like this again. I learned a lot and would probably approach this one a little different a second time around but I had a ton of fun throwing paint at the Canvas.
Everything was made by me with the exception of (some of the foliage I reused from a previous project):
the amazing Skybox from: https://www.fab.com/listings/6fc6c448-9853-4753-9c91-b73618042555
And of course Easy fog from: https://www.fab.com/listings/0a1c0c21-ff23-4fb7-9dc5-7beb6e16ce64
Rendered in SpeedTree
Referenced an old sculpt I did here, Giving me that Darksiders vibe. Shout out to Orb for the inspiration back in the day!
Assortment of Vine prototypes for a pumpkin patch look!
Pumpkin leaves sculpted in Zbrush
Textured in Painter
The kit of pieces
Super fun sculpts, really enjoy making these. Although the melted beads are a little heavy handed
Wanted to add a new gravel, I also made a displacment mesh out of this for some mesh blending in detail. Opted not to displace the terrain
Reimported back into speedtree after sculpt/texturing. The tileable below was used for the smaller branches/roots.
All of the orange in the crevices illustrate where I planned to have Emissive take over
