Akili the lion (Patreon)

This project was very very daunting and difficult. the final render of this project, I felt, was just awful and I had to tweak it alot in photoshop. his parts and rear had to be shaped by some paint as the overall render made things look flat and just not as defined as I was hoping for. the fur and muscle definition that I tried to achieve also did not look good and most of the fur on the legs had very bad patches and odd angler highlights. the amount of fur I had to render also made things very difficult as I crashed constantly. the face went through the most overpaint as I simply could not capture the subtle fur patterns around the eyes and mouth which ended up making this look fake and flat. I am hoping with the amount of paint over that I did things still look appealing! in the future if I have a go at this character again I am going to redo just about everything and render it with another render engine that does fur better.

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