The Ancient Relic "Dawon"

Lastly, i designed the base with some Design patterns and gems. To give a raw look form excavation underground i painted the mud look with dust effect on it.

Final Renders!

Some Detail Shots

This is the complete body design. Here, i tried to merge the concept of a armor look with a feel of Antique with gems on it. Further i added clay dirt generator to give dust effect to it.

The Ancient Relic "Dawon"

I would like to share my project idea for the contest entry in Meetmat-3.

The concept behind this model is a relic which protect the power of purity and virtue, once broken it can unleash the sprit of the great Dawon(the lion of goddess Durga).Before coming to this concept i thought to create a lion with robotic features and traditional alpona design of west bengal, India. Proceeding with it, it took some hard time as the design was not so accurately fitting with the model so i ought to go for a armor style.

In the process i took some references of a armor style statues engraved with jewels. The worn out scratches and the effects of mud created with displacement map helped me to create the felling of the erosion with time and excavation of the relic which is raw and yet to be cleaned.

Moving with the process at the center of the relic i created the blue light with a big break at the middle to show the fault happened in the excavation which broke the center of the relic and so the light emits from the relic and its different parts.

to achieve this idea, the dirt generation gave the efficient look needed to make the model look believable. i tried to explore the different metals like silver, gold and different types of iron. Lastly, the painting of the lion face took sometime as the painting i wanted to create needed to give a look of a suttle sculpture rather than a realistic picture. So, i tried to achieve it as much as possible through drawing and sculpting with displacement map.

To create a design of lotus on the helmet i used displacement map and alpha. Further, added red gem and some indian alpona design.