Roro Son and Iguana (CLOSED) (CLOSED)

Roro Son is an experimental character who wants to escape from 'being defined' by social class, appearance and any kind of judgeable elements. But classification, definition, organization are enforced in human being's brains naturally. In this situation, not to be defined as a certain 'type' of person, Roro starts to appear with unidentifiable costumes that cannot be interpreted instantly and acts in unconventional ways. Even if her behavior might look weird on the outside, the eventual goal of her eccentricity is to explore how to create myself as an organism, instead of relying on belonging to certain groups that are already defined in the society. Iguana is Roro's little friend.

To express this concept, costumes were designed to not remind people of any strong images. It doesn't seem to have a clear function, and all fashion props are asymmetric. The shapes of patterns on her clothes are irregular and uncertain.

The character was designed by Roda Na from scratch. Hand-drawn 2D illustration that was an initial concept art was transferred to the props and costumes with a model in the real world to formulate realistic references for 3D production. And finally, based on 2D illustration and model shots, final character creation was done in 3D.

Maya, ZBrush, Arnold renderer, Ornatrix, Marvelous Designer, Nuke, Substance 3D Painter, Substance 3D Sampler, and Photoshop were used.




Full Body Shots of Roro Son and Iguana




Wireframes


Front / Sides / Back Views of the Full Body

Concept Development Process
- 2D Character Illustration
- Real Model shots with Costumes Transferred from the 2D Illustration
- Craft-Making Process

Concept Development Process2
- Cinematic Reference Image Making

This is so good!
But if I’m not mistaken this was not made for the challenge. This was made 70+ weeks ago(almost a year).

And if I’m not mistaken the creatures or characters needed to be created just for this.

It’s pretty sick not the less

like here it says 49 w :c

your work is so awesome i can see many art work in this site and i attrectived most. insane iguana skin is crazy!!!wow

Absolutely gorgeous work!

Incredible work and very good presentation, congratulations

Work In Process

ZBrush
(from start to end)

Work In Process

Marvelous Designer
(from start to end)

1st layer


Sleeves add


2nd layer(pants) and socks


1st layer, 2nd layer, and socks


Vest




Ribbon

Work In Process

Substance 3D Painter

-Iguana
(from start to end)

Work In Process

Substance 3D Painter
-Human Skin
: To save the render time, only visible parts were painted. 

Face base color


Face subsurface color



Embroidery pattern design

Work In Process

Maya
-Scene


-Hair Grooming with Ornatrix

Work In Process

Test Renders
(Render trials and errors)




HDRI test

Work In Process

Renderfarm and Nuke

Thumbnail

Thumbnail for contest gallery

Not an original character specifically for this competition.

As mentioned above (your Instagram and i notice that you posted this character sketch on the 11th of March 2023 a year and a half ago).

There was no rule stated that participants have to start all of the process including concept art when the contest starts. Just the application period was for 3 months. I didnt think that this was a 3 months time limit competition until somebody left a reply on my post. My Roro character was properly showcased to the RenderHub contest first. 

And again, my work is new. I shared the renderfarm records to show when this project was prepped to showcase. Modeling was not done last year. I didnt have even costume. This character was what I have always wanted to make. I decided to go through the rest of the progress of this character for this contest, and to showcase this character for this competition since I saw this competition’s advertisement at the Siggraph 2024 in Denver in July. For the last 3 months, I made so much progress. I spent most of time in front of the computer, not sleeping. 

Modeling progress was completely done in September. I did texturing one by one in August when single prop was ready. I finished texturing at the beginning of October. I had to fix models for some parts, and added more props while texturing. I did shader-making in Maya, while texturing at the same time. I started the rendering process in October. I had to fix some shaders, texture maps, and lights at this time. I started making a reel during the end of October. Many of these processes overlapped in time. 

I thought I had to post my work as a complete presentation when it is done. After uploading my stuff, I realized that some people posted progress as it comes. I didnt know that was possible cause I havent seen that kind of posting method. It doesn't mean that my process was done long time ago.

I did my best to meet the qualifications under my understanding.

I feel like you are forcing my hand here, and I want it on the record that I wish this wasn't happening :') I feel horribly awkward and partially like this is not my place, but as someone who put a lot of work into my characters, and know a lot of other people did too, without just using whole characters we had already made, I think it's important in the interest of fairness and integrity to show why so many people are making the same remarks.

Here are the proof shots from your Instagram page @na_roda.

Showing:
Your post from 8 May 2023 of your character cosplay, finished.
Your post from 18 November 2023 of your character modelling, substantially done.
Your post from 18 September 2024 of the character, with the same facial expression, in different textures, used for a flyer that is nothing to do with Renderhub nor this competition, posted prior to you starting this thread on Renderhub, proving the character was finished, rendered, and used for something else entirely before entering here.







And a repost of your thumbnail which I hope will become the main photo again as it is last: