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.