"The Beast from the Dark Planet !"
( better GIF quality here : https://giphy.com/gifs/space-monster-26wkypNSGIfy0cVkA/fullscreen ) I really wanted to recreate the feel of the old cheesy sci-fi movies from the 50’s &60’s that used stop-motion animation for the monsters and miniature space ship models , so I made this scene in Marmoset with low-poly baked models and animations . Big thanks to Anton Marinov who taught me how to rig and skin in Blender ( seriously - thank you ! :D )
the entire scene is pretty low-poly and rendered in Marmoset toolbag 3
at higher quality here : https://giphy.com/gifs/space-monster-xUNd9ZeL8apQhKwdY4/fullscreen
the creature in Zbrush
texturing the creature in Substance Painter
the initial sketch ( yup, its ugly but it did the job)
for the look of the astronauts i was inspired mainly by the space suits in 2001: A Space Odyssey
initially i wanted to make the scene only in blue/grey colors but i really like the warm color version too :D higher quality here : https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohjV4nTUF4pnGsPp6/fullscreen
initial draft of the terrain from World Machine
