Started this guy, pre-zb3 release, but it was pretty much inevitable after I played around with it for a few minutes… Loving Zbrush 3
Centaurus Morosus, calling this one done. A rather mysterious creature that owes his name to the mythological Centaur and more commonly known Walking stick insect (Carausius morosus).
Allthough it wasn’t my intent to build a horse body, I’ve been looking mainly at cammels, dogs and horses, and tried to come up with something fresh.
I have tried to bring as much life in to this character without painting or animating him.
Basemesh done in XSI, fleshed out in mudbox, posed, tweaked and detailed in Zbrush3, lit and rendered in XSI. Postwork in Photoshop.
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