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The Sculpting Process—Blending Flesh and Metal
1. Sketching the Base Form
- Using Curvy’s sketch-based modeling, I quickly outlined the twisted anatomy, ensuring the proportions felt unnatural yet disturbingly balanced.
- The soft move tools helped refine the grotesque facial features, making sure the character looked menacing and tortured.
2. Sculpting the Mechanical Horror Elements
- Exposed wires & tubes: Using voxel merge, I sculpted intricate mechanical components, ensuring they looked embedded into the flesh.
- Metallic plating: The warp brushes helped refine the armor-like sections, making them feel like a painful fusion of body and machine.
- Scarred textures: A mix of inflate and deflate brushes added depth to the skin, making it look stretched, scarred, and surgically altered.
3. Painting & Texturing for Maximum Horror
- Dark, muted tones gave the character a cold, lifeless feel, while the glowing accents added an eerie supernatural presence.
- Lightmaps & Specular Highlights: These enhanced the metallic implants, making them stand out against the pale, tortured flesh.
- Subtle shading: Added depth to the background, ensuring the cenobite looked like it was emerging from the shadows of a nightmare realm.
Final Thoughts—Why This Was So Much Fun
Sculpting this evil cenobite in Curvy 3D was an absolute thrill! The combination of sketch-based modeling, adaptive sculpting, and detailed texturing made the process fast, fun, and visually haunting.
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