Celestial Ram

Real-time 3D Art • Personal • 2023

NAVIGATION TIPS: Desktop: scroll to zoom; right-click to pan; click and drag to rotate. Double-click (or tap, on Mobile) anywhere on the model to center that part and rotate around or zoom in.

FOR
Personal / experimental, 2023

WORK
Design, 3D modeling, hand-painted textures

TOOLS
ZBrush, C4D, RizomUV, Sketchfab, CSP

INFO
Stylized fan-art of a creature from one of my favorite RPG series, The Elder Scrolls. Primarily experimenting with ethereal vfx in real-time 3D, which can be useful for scientific art.

For graphics rendered in real time (e.g. directly in a browser as above), 3D artists use various optimization tricks instead of particles or volumes, which are typically heavy and slow to process. For example, the nebulae above are made of 2D sheets with transparent textures. This is visible via the Model Inspector above (3-layer icon, bottom right) or process screenshots below:

3D sculpture of a stylized, colorful ram surrounded by stars and nebulae. Large top image of the main 3/4 angle of the ram, and three smaller thumbnails below it showing other angles. Real-time 3D art by Olena Shmahalo.

Stills: Celestial ram sculpture from various angles

Quadrant of screenshots showing 4 views of a 3D sculpture of a ram surrounded by nebulae: 1. wireframe, 2. UVs, 3. Opacity maps, 4. Roughness maps. 3D art by Olena Shmahalo

Screenshots from Model Inspector:
1. Web-optimized wireframe, 2. UV maps, 3. Opacity, 4. Roughness

Clay renders: early WIP, different angles of a 3D sculpture of a stylized ram alongside an rough concept sketch. 3D model by Olena Shmahalo
Clay renders: WIP, different angles of a 3D sculpture of a stylized ram. 3D model by Olena Shmahalo

Clay renders:
1. Rough sketch & early sculpting WIP, 2. Final sculpture

Screenshot of Staff Picks on Sketchfab.com, December 2023. The Celestial Ram artwork is in the bottom row, alongside 3D models of pancakes, robots, architecture, and a teapot.

Screenshot:
This artwork was featured as a Staff Pick on Sketchfab.com

© Olena Shmahalo