Hello there !
Starting to model something for the gun challenge.
My entry is a hommage to David Cronenberg and his Existenz movie that i saw again not long ago.
I was thinking to go in the direction of the weird gun constructed out of chicken and fishy creatures bones.
I didn't follow exactly the same design as i did it from memory.
Here is the first WIP update, basic zbrush sketching to find the global shape :
Starting doing some light setup tests in parallel when i find a bit of time.
I think i want to go for a weird/surreal light atmosphere, with this greenish tone, to push the impression of paranoia of this guy being sure that his chicken bones are assembling into a gun to fulfill his "mission"
I want to get as well this instagramish/bad quality color tone to the final render, but a good part of it will be color grading in post.
As there is still a bit of time before the deadline, i'm testing to implement a Houdini fluid simulation to add some driping sauce on the gun, to get a more dirty/slimey feeling to it. I'm very new to Houdini, so not sure it i will get a convincing result, for now it looks like disgusting melted cheese, let's see 🙂