Hi all,
It's been a long long time since I showed any work on a forum, but I'm coming into this challenge late and without much spare time, so I figured a wip thread would force me to keep putting stuff up.
The bug I've settled on is a grasshopper, mainly because they are so alien, so beautiful, and have enough detail to make the modelling a challenge.
Because of that though, I did find myself very reluctant to mess with the form of the insect too much, so my design (at least for now) is pretty simple.
It's an artillery insect, firing goopy stuff out of its abdomen. Holding the abdomen in place is thick spider webbing. I reckon I'll keep the design as organic as possible whatever direction it goes in.
Anyway, enough blabber... here's the concept and what I have of the high res so far. I think I'll just make the high res true to nature because I think there's a lot to learned from studying it, and then I'll deform and pose it later on.
