Description:

I made this model for a game we made for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds during my second semester at Abertay. It was the first time I was making a bird so needless to say this was a valuable learning experience. I greatly benefited from being able to hold actual taxidermized ospreys in my hands and inspect them up close thanks to the McManus museum in Dundee. 

• The brief was to make a model that balanced realism and stylization. Given the importance of the birds accurate representation to the clients, I chose to keep the anatomy as realistic as I could while going more stylized with the texturing to align with the rest of the game

• I sculpted and retopologized the Osprey in Blender, used Marmoset Toolbag 4 for baking and Substance for hand-painting the textures

• This was a hero asset and was seen up-close for the entirety of the game

• The final game asset was just below 40k tries

What I'd do differently:

My second attempt at this would see me making more than one change, but if I were to do one thing completely differently, that would be the feathers.

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