Creature time !
So first I saw the last work of Ben Erdt, which inspired me a lot ! I planned to do a creature too, and I fell in love of the Cliffdrake by Alexander Ostrowski. His researchs of that Cliffdrake are amazing and I tried to adapt it in 3D. It was really hard, the most difficult part were the scales, sculpted all by hands. Very challenging, I used Texturing XYZ's maps but it was not a good fit for that creature, then I started the process of sculpting the scales with a basic simple brush.

Finally, I tried to imagine him in an arena fighting against another beast like the "BFL" project of Ben Erdt and Samuel Alicea. It was really fun to combine this 2 ideas !

The rig has been done by my talented friend Karen Thierry who did an awesome work !
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-thierry/

Special thanks :
Karen Thierry, Ben Erdt, Lucas Cuenca, Gael Kerchenbaum, and of course Alexander Ostrowski for his awesome creature concept idea !

Cheers !

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/L3E0vR