August 9, 2025
Description
This model gave me more grief than any other that I can recall. So many weird issues with normals and crashing blender it was a nightmare and I'm happy to be done with it for now. This is another one from Strixhaven and another pretty large creature.
Similar to the Archaic yesterday. For the process the AI original was a mess (as is usual for ones with multiple arms etc... so I had to do a ton of sculpting to get this correct. I swapped in my evil claw hands for the lumpy hand-like mesh bits, fixed the finger count to 3 and then posed / stiched together the center hand with two thumbs. I did similar work for the horns on its head and teeth. I put a ton of extra folds into the cloth robe as well too. I would really like to get to a point that I'm doing clothing in a separate mesh and having harder/sharper edges but this was really all in one big blob.
Overall I'm pretty happy with the result. The face could be narrower and I could have split the chin spikes out into their own layer as well. I think a higher resolution export specifically for the face (maybe just copying the high res face over) would be good because it seems like a lot of detail goes missing in the final remesh.
If you like this model follow along - I'm working on a quest to make 1000 dnd models in 2025, I'm up to 646 with this model - you can follow my progress via my account here, Printables, Cults3d or see my weekly updates on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/c/Adamnant (as well as get codes for exclusive downloads on cults).
Aside from modelling I've built a website to help GMs / DMs find models for their DND campaigns here: https://gmbuddy.com/ - this website breaks down creatures by section including page references and counts needed then provides links to good models (mostly the legendary MZ4250's work). I've got quite a few campaign lists mostly completed and am working on creating models that don't exist (like this Archaic from Strixhaven).
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Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial