He's a big boy...

Here's something I've been working on in my downtime for the last little bit. I know y'all are probably getting tired of me just spamming new models instead of actually making anything with them, so I at least decided to do something interesting with him instead of just sitting on a cube. Gale is always happy to greet a new member... uh, of the team.

I made this fella for three main reasons. Firstly, I wanted to experiment with a slightly higher poly mesh. I realized that I was making my meshes unnecessarily low poly. I'm not creating characters for video games where every tri matters, a few extra polygons here and there aren't going to increase rendering time significantly for me. So I played around with more detail. 

Second, I wanted to experiment with musculature a bit. All my other characters so far have been very 'soft', no real detail anywhere. It was actually very tricky trying to figure out how to model those muscles while keeping the mesh clean, but I think I learned some stuff along the way, which is the main goal really.

Thirdly, I've been doing a lot of stuff involving females lately and I know many of you here aren't into that as much, so I wanted to make another dude. I only have one other 'available' male model if you know what I mean, and while I like the Runo character, I've already come far enough since making him that his model and rigging feels like kind of a mess compared to what i'm making now, hah. Might have to tweak or re-make him at some point.

I also decided to make this guy stupid big while I was at it, because sizeplay is fun. Gale isn't a particularly big guy, but he's not tiny either, this new guy is just fuckin' huge. Somewhere between seven and eight feet. I wanted him to be obviously bigger than any other model I might pair him, and when they're just a few inches taller it can be hard to tell in certain poses, so I just went fuckin' nuts. I also made everything else about him big too, because why not. I felt like being very indulgent with his design for some reason.

Like most of my models, while you're seeing him for the first time he's not quite finished, but he's at a point where I'm feeling confident enough to share. There are some weird looking spots that need adjusting, and I haven't textured his tongue at all yet (forgot, hurr), but I do hope some of y'all like him!

As always, I'd love to know whatcha think. :D