I wanted to do the whole "A t-rex has short arms so can't do a thing" joke with dressing a tree. Job done right? I intended to do this as a purely 2D piece but was frankly laughably bad at sketching on my Wacom in Photoshop. I probably need a Cintiq eh Santa?
I like:
- How I drew out seven different heads using pen and paper to explore the shape. The tall snout came from this and that was me just trying something that pushed the norm.
- The tree, as it took many attempts to get the fidelity appropriate for the dinosaur. It's got a touch of the monkey puzzle to it which suits with the prehistoric look.
- That I got to create a toon shader material in ZBrush for the end effect to help it be more illustrative.
I dislike:
- That he can still blatantly reach up and down enough to dress another couple of rungs of tree, but I was so pleased with the composition as it is. Creative license.
- His texture's a bit wonky with the triangles, and after lighting and toon shading you can't tell his belly is yellower than the rest of him. I'll push that more next time.
Oh and the inside of the card asks how he put his hat on. A worthy question I'm sure you'll agree!
