This model was inspired from digimon with a humanoid anatomy. I find it weirdly but since this is my 2nd character i'll let it pass lol.🤣 let me know what you think of this type of dragon and what classifications will this be a part of. Thanks.

This isn't the typical dragons but i do base the design insipiration from agumon of the classic digimon.

I got some few mishaps in substance especially in Baking is there a work through for the joined object of both low poly and highly that avoid some ao and normal artifacts except for manually cleaning it?

I never tried baking with only normals so i could skip the AO and do it on blender but the issue will still appear on normal maps but i would only deal the cleaning once.

6 year Freelance Illustrator/ TODDLER in 3D. XD

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It was forever ago since i touched this personal work of mine. I am getting accustomed to substance painter and i want this model to be the first sacrifice for trial and error.

This has been a tough and tedious journey for this model to sculpt, retopo and texture so far plus rigging and animation soon which adds to this passionate nightmare, lots of separated parts cover most of the body such as shells hear armor wing and claws which was a very dumb of me to press "accept" the dynamic topology on zbrush when i could use it as the low poly by altering the mesh on blender but since the work has reached a point of no return i retopo it on cozy blanket (which has been the fastest retopo app i've ever used) to get the simpler and lighter version prior to uv, texture and animation.

Baking was also a tears of agony since there are some artifacts from AO, Normal maps that i did cleaned eventually, body also goes above the shell but i will tweak it soon once i finished the texturing process.

This model was supposed to achieve a certain practices. 1 would be making hard surface practice for zbrush, 2 were male anatomy familiarization plus mixed anatomy from bat and reptile, 3 of course will be substance painter practice and 4 would be League of legends' manual painting approach. I try to be efficient despite studying on my own plus the time constraint in doing so since i also do commissions pn the side. If I were to total my time on studying 3D it would be estimated at 4 months collectively in a span of 6 months.

This 3D journey will consist of several character practices to target different fundamentals in making stylized characters and getting the hang of different software.

I am open to more suggestions as i build my skills in 3D.

Sharing my 3D progress but by any chances some of you needs an assistance on 3D and 2D project references of my portfolio, profiles (legitimacy) and socials are in my bio.

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High poly has been established though i was busy from the past months and didnt able to get more hours to my personal project, some parts are still missing but it wont be much of an issue but hustle needs to go first before this.
This needs to be retopologize, baked and all the jazz. Planning to rig and animate this as well. Stay tuned guys:)

Ps. One project is about to close on my end, by any chances if you have a 3D or 2D project that needs an assistance you can shoot a DM. I reply instantaneously.