Creature ideation and development

Some creature development for a personal project of mine. Using z-brush as a thumbnail generator allows for many happy accidents:) These Thumbnails were made by using a default model and filling it in black in z-brush, then using the layers changing and pushing and pulling the shapes around, then carry them into photoshop. Focusing mostly on the design and silhouette shapes and not the details. Z-brush master Cesar Decol Jr. is doing a creature design workshop where he goes into detail about this technique. He's a great teacher, I watched a webinar recently that he conducted with Ryan Kingslien of visualarium.com and learned tons. Definately take a look around the site, these guys know thier stuff.

Creature Doodles

Some creature doodles in z-brush and photoshop.

MAKO

A Z-Brush sculpt done during breaks at work and carried into photoshop for some painting. I must have been thinking about the anime, Blue Submarine no.6 at the time. lol