Now it is time to post my bear model on this page. Yay!

This took me two months to create this and I had a lot of fun designing him. Like with all good models I need some reference images. I gathered sooooo much bear images both real and anthropomorphic, they were on my mind every day and night. It felt like I was starting to become a bear. In fact, as I posted this I was watching a show called The Bear Family and Me. It is a good show: D

The model was created on Maya 2015 with a low poly count of 13315 tris and the high 213155 tris. I had some ups and downs during his creation (which is expected when you use Maya XD) but what I got in the end was a model that I created all by myself. It is the first time I have ever created something like this and I am really happy with the results.

The texturing was done on Substance, which is a software I am currently learning. There is so much you can do on this software; I only started to scratch the surface with it. As my skills improve I will be able to make better quality textures and one day come back to this model and improve him.

This is not the only character I’m planning on making. There is also a velociraptor, wolf and otter that I will create sometime in the future. I have already started on the velociraptor one, but the process is slow due to the other task I have to do at the moment. Come to think of it, when you put all those characters together you got yourself a quite a colourful group picture.

I would to thank  Dj-Rodney ,  -KronexFire- ,  Kuma ,  Lukas_Artair and pcste5fje for their amazing bear images. I used their bears when it came to the referencing and I knew when it comes to bears, nobody draws them better then these guys. They are masters of the bears :D

Can’t wait to post my other models sometime in the future. It is great to see my modelling progress other the years and see how far I have gotten with my skills. I’m happy to see that I’m doing something that I love.