"SMALL SOLDIERS | War For The Nekron" Proof of Concept- CROG
Crog was so big we had to put a cutting board on top of the turntable for it to fit in.
The little guy on the back expands it sight with nekron, adding multiple eyes on crog that allows them to be fully aware of their surroundings.
Giulio Marrone did a crazy amount of work detailing the hard shell area on top.
We split thegiant nekron patch in the back, I started doing and area until I felt confortable with how it looked, and then Giulio expanded it through the rest using the same design logic.
It is probably fascinated by the blue light, probably reminds it of the Nekron crater...
It brings peace to my heart.
Model from Zbrush.
Turnaround from Zbrush.
Showcase of the features of the rig. You can see how the cannons contract, how the hand moves, how upper body rotates 360º and also how it deploys the suction vents.
[DISCLAIMER: Small Soldiers War for the Nekron is a Proof of Concept project in which our team was hired by Comadran Studios to create a set of toy characters during some months from 2022-2023. The conclussion of the project was the Proof of Concept trailer that brought those new characters to life. We would like to clarify that our team does not own these characters and we do not know what comes next for them after the this Proof of Concept. Designs and story might not represent the final product as they are subject to change during production.]
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Crog was designed and rigged by me, the modeling was a shared effort with Giulio Marrone.
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The idea for the character was to create a huge cuadruped tank. This cuadruped tank had some challenges to overcome. The first and most obvious one is the sheer size, big thanks to Giulio Marrone for the titanic work he did on expandind through the entire model the detail samples I created for the different sculpt textures.
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The tank is designed to move in all directions seamlessly so the lower body doesn't really have a front or a back, it can rotate the upper half to walk towards any direction.
Additionally this tank has some vents to stick to walls that it can deploy, one on each leg. This maked the huge and slow tank be able to walk on the wall and attack from anywhere.