Gothmog - Lord of Balrogs - WIP 5 - Poster/Wallpaper

HERE IT IS! Finally got to finish that monster. Morgoth's corrupted flame, Gothmog, High Captain of Angband, Lord of the Balrogs! Had so much fun with this project. Now I'm making some quality tests on my Ender 3 to be able to print that thing! Then will be all the optimisation and slicing and everything.... but stilL! Now I had a nice wallpaper/poster to print ;). The original image is 3840 x 2880, but here's the 1920 x 1440 version. Should work well on 16:9, 16:10 and 4:3 

Also had to make a Depth Map version to feed the Lens Blur effect

Sculpted in ZBrush

Rendered in Keyshot

Compositing and photobashing in Photoshop

Gothmog - Lord of Balrogs - WIP 4 - Test render

Render test done in Keyshot 8.1. no textures of anything, just a material and lights.

Full shot, 3840px by 2880px (resized to fit screen)

Cropped parts 1:1 to blogger image viewer

Wanted to see if I could get the vibe of The Fellowship of the Ring.

Sculpted in ZBrush

Rendered in Keyshot

Gothmog - Lord of Balrogs - WIP 3 - Second detailing pass

Second pas of detailing is going well. Added some quick masked-by-cavity polypaint to give it some umpf. I'm getting so hyped about printing this one!

Sculpted in ZBrush

Gothmog - Lord of Balrogs - WIP 2 - First detailing pass

Currently in the first pass of detailing. No alphas used so far, only hand sculpting. I also added the ears and fixed the number of teeth (62 teeth is a lot to deal with @___@)

Sculpted in ZBrush

Gothmog - Lord of Balrogs - WIP 1 - Blocking the main shapes

Well, I've got chickenpox. Not fun at 25 years old. Though I'm keeping myself occupied while I'm getting better, 'cause, you know, I don't have enough project in my queue... This time it's a lesser known Flame of Udun. I want to print that one myself in transparent filament, paint in black the opaque parts and light it up with LEDs.

(Forgot to add perpective on the first sreenshot, so I kept it that way for constance)

Sculpted in ZBrush