One of my favorite artists, Yee Chong, recently posted this adorable little creation, and I decided to try my hand at re-creating it in 3D for this part of the course. I challenged myself to complete this whole part of the course in 1 day… still took pretty much all day, mind you, but now I feel like I have the tools to go faster! Here’s the final image:
I used vertex painting for the colors and used that as the color on the fur as well, great and easy way to get all that lovely color variation! The HDRI and the ground texture are both from Polyhaven.
Here’s Yee’s original artwork, Ella the Fluffy Salmon (He’s art_of_silverfox on IG or silverfox5213 on Twitter if you want to see more of his work!), and my sculpture:
