Before I jump into texturing, I thought I'd 3D print a bust of the asset. Last year, I sculpted and printed a bust of Ash from Evil Dead and was lucky enough to get Bruce Campbell to sign it. I doubt I'll have the same luck getting Arnold or James Cameron to sign this one, but one can dream.

Side note: I may delay texturing for a little while, since my current PC specs aren't very compatible with Mari. I've been wanting to upgrade my machine for a while, so this is a good excuse. However, to do so in a well researched, future-proof manner will take time and money. In the meantime, I plan to sculpt some quick models for printing and reel additions, so stay tuned for that.

More test renders.

Testing out displacement maps with some very basic shaders and lighting.

Built a simple arm rig in Maya to pose him out and give him a little more attitude.

Laying out UVs for the shotgun prop on a Thursday night.

Finished modeling Arny's shotgun.

Arny showing off his new face detail with a steely Kubrickian glare.

Finally I get to do some more fun stuff again, after spending the last month doing UVs and re-topo in what free time I can find. Now I get to go back to ZBrush to detail the necrotic flesh!

I hollowed-out and retopologized the body. Now to bring it back into ZBrush to project the detail back onto it and start sculpting the edges properly.

Topo Tuesday! Working on re-topology for the Arnold half. I'm not planning on rigging it (never say never), but I do want a clean surface for texturing.

A picture of my office setup at home.

Endoskeleton UVs done! 6 UDIMs, and I cheated the head to have a bit more texel density than the rest, since I plan on doing some close-up renders of the face. Thankful to be done this chore. I need a beer.

I`ve been playing a lot of the new God of War recently and have become transfixed by Kratos` badass elbows, inspiring me to go back and tweak my sculpt. Gettin`there.

A rough mash-up of the body and skeleton, and a proof of concept for the final product. I`ve yet to detail the edges of the skin and still trying to decide how far I want to go with muscles clinging to the skeleton. Too many muscle bits looks too gory, while not enough makes his skeleton side look weak. We`ll see.

Some Zbrush screencaps of Arny. Still tweeking anatomy. There`s always room for improvement, so I`ve been picking away at this for a little while now. During my recent trip to Italy, I viewed a lot Renaissance art, including the ``David`` in Florence, which inspired me to revisit various components of this sculpt that are lacking, namely the forearms.

UV unwrapping: everybody's favorite! Fortunately, the UV tools in Maya 2017 are pretty good, so it wasn't too tedious, just time consuming given the quantity of parts.

My reference sheet I compiled through combing Google and my DVD collection. I'm going for Arnold, circa late 80s to early 90s, so T2 was my go-to resource here.

Render of Arnold using... Arnold. I'm pretty content with the likeness here, though some of the body anatomy needs work. The next big thing here is to hack away at the left side of the body to reveal the endoskeleton underneath.

Bit by bit I went back and re-beveled each piece of the skeleton, the most challenging part being the skull. I think there's a couple unavoidable triangles in there, but no n-gons. Should make for a clean unwrap.

My original T-800 I modeled and rigged in XSI back in 2013. The topology was pretty garbage and the proportions needed some tweaking, so I've grinded my way through each piece, up-resing and double beveling properly.