The Character Portrait: Sculpting the Alien Mystic - ZBrush Creature Design: Creating Dynamic Concept Imagery for Film and Games - page 100

The Final Design
The design sculpt is now complete. I chose to offset the head and shoulders to give a sense of attitude and
make the image more interesting before I paint over it in Photoshop. This character represents my interpret-
ation of the design brief, a slightly menacing, highly intelligent alien. This creature has highly developed
chromasensitive wings on his head that translate color wavelengths to sound. This allows him to hear color
and, therefore, combine his superior vision with his ability to hear and locate objects and individuals via
color sound—an interesting take on evolved senses.
We will now move on to another design problem. This chapter has set down many of the basic tenets that
will inform the rest of our decisions in the topic. We will consistently refer back to the concepts and ideas
put into practice in this lesson.
Figure 2-46 shows the final design with color applied and post processing in Photoshop. I have included
the layered PDF files on the DVD or download files for this topic for your reference as well as the ZTools.
We will now move on to a full body character. This next design we will take from sculpt to pose, and all the
way to final painting!
Figure 2-46: The final design sculpt with Photoshop paintover