Pilgrimage
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Every 5 years these horned creatures embark on a long and dangerous journey across the mountains outside their valley.They honour
the statue of their ancestor, the God of Nature ( nowadays they resemble very little this ancient deer-like creature) by covering his shrine in flowers that bloom only around this sacred place. In spite of their spiked tails and fearsome look they are herbivores by nature, and their razor-sharp front limbs are equally good at cutting plants and shaping stone into primitive religious and mythological figures.
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I was getting rusty at using UE4 and Zbrush so I decided to recreate this image that I had for a while now in my head .
I played around with different variations of the same very simple setup -Skylight and Directional Light
the creature's Zbrush high-poly
the low-poly inside Painter
I made some assets modular and used Mirror with some manual tweaks for the wooden horns.Later i grabbed some scans of moss alpha and made the fluffy mossy coverage in the final scene in UE4
this is a 3d scan of a rock I found in the nearby park .
another scan that i did of a rock from the same location .Did several LOD's so that the scene can be pretty optimized
the terrain inside WM ( initially i wanted to use this only for the main landscape heightmap, but after that i made a low-poly baked asset that placed as a background
wireframe look of the creature's low-poly asset